29 of the Dumbest Coworkers People Had the Privilege of Working With

‘He came to work with no pants on…’
29 of the Dumbest Coworkers People Had the Privilege of Working With

There’s dumb, and then there’s “showing up to work without your pants on” dumb, which is what one Redditor says their coworker did when they were working at Walmart. Even more surprisingly, rather than the pantless employee being fired or at least sent home, they were just given new pants and proceeded to work their shift.

I have a few questions. Namely: Did they really forget their pants? Or did that Walmart employee just find a loophole in the pants-buying process? 

While the rest of the stories below are about the dumbest coworkers someone toiled alongside, part of me wonders if this Walmart employee might have secretly been a genius only playing the part of a pantsless fool.

imhermoinegranger 8y ago Had someone new start who had some experience. I spent, literally, months repeating myself about the most basic shit and finally had enough so told her if she has trouble remembering she should write things down...you know, like normal people would. She then proceeded to call me a bitch in pig-Latin to her friend over the phone in earshot of me. I stepped out to call my S/O half laughing because this 44 year old grown ass woman used pig-Latin thinking I, a 25 year old at the time, wouldn't understand what she was saying. Did I
estral23 8y ago Worked at a retail store. One gentleman who had been working there for a few years was working the register. We sold big appliances. A couple comes in to buy a washer and dryer with cash - - $100 bills. My co-worker marks every bill with one of those counterfeit pens. If the bills are fake, it will be a dark color and if they are real they will be yellowish. Well, every one turned black and he called the police. Police came. Turns out my coworker used a permanent marker and not the counterfeit pen to check each $100
ripricky1234 8y ago | used to work with a guy that was told to drain the used fry oil. Instead of using the metal tool to pull the drain, he simply reached into the frier up to his elbow. Не burned himself horrifically and was off of work for the remainder of time that I worked there
AiryNan 8y ago Edited 8y ago We had an invoice that needed to be paid within 120 days, dated a few months back. She pulled up a calendar and started counting days one by one. She looked at me and said are we really about to count to 120? I took the calendar and added up the days in each month, plus the day of the month it currently was. She looked at me wide eyed and very genuinely said wow you're really smart.
theOG_Stan 8y ago Oh man, this freakin girl | worked with was so dumb... we worked at Disney working on a ride, and whenever our fire alarm would go off (which happened a lot...like, way to much) we had to evac everyone from the building and cycle out the ride vehicles that were still out on the track with guests on them (aka have them automatically come back to the station so we could unload the guests). We're supposed to stay calm and tell people that we're having technical difficulties (vary rarely does Disney evac the whole building for technical
Navydoc91 8y ago have no how she even got into the program, we worked in anesthesia. Our supervisor told her she had to get rid of her acrylic nails (for obvious medical reasons, she was told before she started she couldn't have them). To take them off she put nail polish remover in the only cup she could find, which was styrofoam, and put it in the microwave because the heat would make the polish melt faster. Microwave was ruined and she burned all the tips of her fingers. She should not be in a medical field. She also turned
renega88 8y ago Edited 8y ago Russel! It is definitely Russel. I used to run a machine in a plant that made carpet for Toyota and Honda. Russel and I used to get off work and get stoned. One day the boss comes in and says we are having a random drug test the following day. I say ok, no big deal, even though it was. Russel on the other hand yells, Oh,shit! At the top of his lungs from behind the creel. Poor Russel got a drug test the next day.
rem1021 8y ago I'm an engineer. I had to explain how parentheses work (in math), to another engineer. Не never understood it.
TWITCHAY 8y ago I worked with a guy who decided to look for a propane leak on the forklift with a lighter. Didn't work with him after that.
Bobs_my_Uncle_Too 8y ago Summer job during college, working assembly line. My job was to put two screws into each item that came down the line. Everyone else had a similarly mind-numbing task. We'd all have been replaced by robots by now. About once a week someone would bring in a rubber snake or spider and put it into a part coming down the line. When the part made it to Janet, Janet would scream. She would pick out the spider with her fingernails and put it on the line next to the part. Then the line would move and the
madmusicmajor 8y ago One of my old coworkers was using a nail and attempting to kill a wasp with the nail gun. the wasp landed on his hand. take a wild guess where he shot the nail gun.
 8y ago Crashtest Kevin. The guy was amazingly accident prone. I worked with him over the course of nearly 2 years, and it was simply amazing to watch. We were environmental field techs, performing field testing work on landfills. Не dropped his car keys in to a groundwater monitoring well. I don't even know how you do that, but he managed to do it. There is no way to recover your car keys from a 400 foot deep groundwater monitoring well, and to this day, | do not know if the keys would cause the water to come back
MorasEscritoras 8y ago I knew a woman that would disinfect her keyboard every morning. Like spray her computer with a cleaning solution and wipe it down like she was scrubbing a toilet. Not long after, she complained to IT that several of her keys were no longer working.
billbapapa 8y ago Anti-vaxer + flat-earther + saw nothing wrong with trying to hook me up with her 13 year old daughter when I was ~20, had a girlfriend, and didn't want to go to jail
yellowzealot 8y ago Worked at a home improvement warehouse in the garden section. Had a coworker who would routinely hide in the plastic sheds instead of doing the work he was getting paid to do. Customers would from time to time open up the shed he was hiding in and then he would move to a new shed.
rockgoddess72 8y ago I worked at a small collection agency. They hired an HR person and she was interesting. On Veterans Day, she made a poster to celebrate the employees that were former military. It said something like. WE HONER AND SALUTE YOU. | emailed her and let her know the poster had honor misspelled as honer. She went on about how she has a college education and I don't and how dare I. Blah blah blah. Now the email I sent her was to actually help her so she wouldn't be embarrassed. But she was a haughty, I am
sweatycat 8y ago Не came to work with no pants on, when questioned about it, he just said he forgot to put them on. Management went and got him free pants off the shelf and let him work. | work at Walmart.
mr_bots 8y ago Was turning some inspections into the admin who was reading numbers off of an open Excel spreadsheet and adding them on a calculator to get the sum to put into a cell on the same spreadsheet. Jaw hit the floor and I walked away in shock.
LordKilcullen 8y ago BAB They worked in the deli attached to the store | work at and two of my favourite stories were when they (repeatedly) cooked chickens with their plastic wrapping still on them, and when taking a full tray of sausages out of the oven they walked to the hot counter, saw it was rather full and instead of moving stuff around to make space just walked straight to the bin and dumped the whole tray. Didn't understand why that wasn't the right thing to do.
MrCrowley007 8y ago Overheard a conversation between two of my graveyard guys while looking at an OSHA poster. Guy 1: OSHA? Guy 2: ya, I think they protect the ocean or something. Guy 1: make sense. All this while they are literally starting at a poster explaining OSHA and employee rights.
 8y ago When | was in the Navy, my boss told me he wouldn't let his son watch Spongebob because there's proof that it makes your kids turn gay. Не was a dick head in general but that always stuck with me.
xandertarbert 8y ago I was working contract security on midnight shift, and my supervisor tried hiding around employee cars to spy on myself and two other officers. Wearing his reflector vest. Не was being so obvious and suspicious that normal employees were calling us about an individual skulking around their cars.
iliketoastalot 8y ago i had a coworker working register, and she asked me how to make 68 cents, hands me like 3 quarters and some other change, says is this right?. her drawers were off every day. id never let her touch my drawer. also she was going to school to be a teacher.
themadapothecary 8y ago | worked with a pharmacy intern that couldn't figure out how to make a cup of instant coffee. The instructions are right on the label!
Grave_Girl 8y ago Coworker, knowing I had kids, including a youngish toddler, asked me a question about formula. This was a decade or so ago, so I don't remember exactly what it was; like a comparison between brands or something. | told her I couldn't really give her an answer, because I had never used formula. Coworker: Then what did your babies eat?!
NotOriginalAml 8y ago Was managing convenience store. Hired young girl, first shift on her own, she was over $200 short. Talked to her, she couldn't figure out what she did and I couldn't imagine someone stealing on the first shift. Decided to give her another shot but kept an eye on her on camera. Saw that if she made a mistake ringing something up, she would just hit cash and start over. She thought she was just clearing it back to zero....
mjp656 . 8y ago A customer orders 5 chicken sandwiches at the drive thru (Burger King). About 30 minutes later an irate customer comes into the store and throws a bag filled with sandwiches onto the counter. Apparently they got home and not a single sandwich my coworker made had chicken on it. Не literally forgot to add the chicken and just gave them a bun with condiments.
mafknbr 8y ago I didn't work at this store, but one time I was checking out at a store with my friend, and the cashier asked us what number January was.
davestanleylfc 8y ago Managed to email everyone in every corporate office for a multi national company saying I am off tomorrow on anal leave

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