Interesting Stories From Work

[manwithnoname]

I thought this would be a cool new thread since we all spend a lot of time at work. Everybody has to have at least one interesting work story.

It can be something involving you or a story someone else told you.

Gotta go get ready for work, but I'll post mine tomorrow.

[AaronB]

I thought this would be a cool new thread since we all spend a lot of time at work. Everybody has to have at least one interesting work story.

It can be something involving you or a story someone else told you.

Gotta go get ready for work, but I'll post mine tomorrow.

Well being that I work out of a one person office, I don't have too many interesting stories. I did however whip up a top 10 reasons why working alone stinks which people may find interesting.

[Jan]

Those are fun, thanks.

I work in a hotel accounting office and we get calls from people questioning charges on their credit cards. There are two types of call that we enjoy in a warped sort of way.

The first is from somebody who calls all irate about what they think is a 'double charge' on their card from the hotel and they launch into several kinds of abuse right off the bat. We try every way to find the particular charge they're talking about and it simply doesn't work and they get louder and more abusive the longer it takes. Finally we ask them to read to us, exactly what the merchant name is on their statement and we point out to them...gently...politely...calmly that the charge is for their Disney Tickets (or some other attraction) that they bought at a concierge desk in the lobby not from the hotel.. We very seldom get apologies from that sort.

The second one is from people who were charged for a "no-show"-a guaranteed reservation that they never cancelled and never arrived for. There are many and varied reasons and excuses that we accept and reverse the charges for with no problem but every once in a while we take great delight in teaching a flat-out liar a lesson. On in particularly delicious one, the 'guest' kept calling and talking to different people trying to get credit. At various times she claimed that:
-she never made the reservation
-that she made the reservation but the agent made it for the wrong date
-that she'd made the reservation but didn't intend for it to be guaranteed
-that she'd never given us her credit card number in the first place
-that she couldn't come because she had had gall bladder surgery
-that she couldn't come because she had a relapse of breast cancer
-that she couldn't come because of a death in the family
She kept trying for three months and never understood that we documented each call and each different excuse so *anybody* who picked up her call would deny her the credit. She finally tried to dispute the charge through here credit card company and we sent them the documentation of all of her excuses. We won the case.

Ah, customer service....

Jan

[Dr Maturin]

Uh...eight years ago I had sex in the shower at work.

[Radhil]

I've got a few idiot stories aplenty. Most of them involving my former boss, now evading the law under fraud charges. But here's an odd one.

I'm at my datacenter right now. I work in the Ops office, a little room of plastic glass in the middle of bunches o' racks. Mostly sealed room, AC and fan noise blaring, usual tech stuff. Last kinda place you expect suprised.

I just had a bird wing my head, go flying into the plastic windows over and over, and finally settle for pecking at the network wires. Looked like some kind of robin.

[phazedout]

Not a work story but a related bird story.

Came downstairs one morning to my front room, and looked in the fireplace (not lit in like, 2 months) to find a blacbbird sitting casually in the grate staring at me, must have wokred it's way down my (very narrow at the top) chimnet. I made my way into the hall and opened the connecting door and front door, then went to fireplace and took the wire mesh fireguard out of the way. Bird flew around the room twice, then shot ou the two doors and into the tree outside the house.
Wierd thin got see with a hangover.
Phaze
on the "birdbrain" ID

[OmahaStar]

Uh...eight years ago I had sex in the shower at work.

You bastard! You promised you wouldn't tell anybody what we did!


*goes into hiding*

[Dr Maturin]

I didn't say who. Now you've let the cat out of the bag.

[manwithnoname]

Uh...eight years ago I had sex in the shower at work.

Does [email protected][email protected]!0n count as sex?

<*g*>

[manwithnoname]

Okay, I work for the USPS. I also worked at the Oregon State Hospital of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" fame.

I have to get ready for work right now (11:30pm - 8am). I'll let everybody think about that for a day. I promised a story today, but I chose to catch up on sleep. So, I got online late.

Bye.

[Dr Maturin]

Does [email protected][email protected]!0n count as sex?

<*g*>

I think almost everybody has given himself an "outsider's edge" under the desk...

[manwithnoname]

Uh...eight years ago I had sex in the shower at work.

Actually, I was referring to your post.
<*g*>



(A friend stopped by to hang, so I called in sick for work. I'm still lurking around.)

[Spoo Junky]

I'm a secretary at an engineering company. I have the usual stories about my boss' clients from hell. Occassionally, though, I get to see interesting things on sites.

We have been involved in some high profile projects around Toronto, one of them being the Air Canada Centre where the Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors play. During the excavations for the project, some of Toronto's history was revealed.

During the course of the last 150 years or so, fill has been dumped along the Lake Ontario shoreline to reclaim the land. When the ACC foundations were dug, a wharf structure built sometime before 1834 was revealed. After the historians had their look-see, they began to take apart the wood. I had an opportunity to get a close look at the wharf. What was really amazing was that after being buried for more than a century, I could still smell the pine from the logs, as if they had only been buried yesterday. People can often go to a museum to see artifacts, but rarely does one get a chance to get a whiff of history.

Anyway, that's my interesting story. Okay, maybe only to me, but it was still kind of cool.

[Stunning_in_Purple]

Kiss and Tell

I work at a in patient rehabilitation center for juveniles and I work with some pretty interesting, pretty stupid individuals (my co-workers, not the kids, I won't even go there). I was working on the unit with the youngest kids in the facility (10-12) and they had gone to recreational therapy in the gym. I noticed that a lot of them were staring out the window and giggling. I look out and one of my co-workers is in the parking lot with his girlfriend, hugging and kissing. My reaction is to herd the kids away from the window and tell them to ignore it. I later reported it to one of the nurses who filed a report. He got suspended for 5 days.

This is the great part. A week or so after he comes back from suspension, I'm working with the 13-15 year olds whose unit window looks out onto the parking lot. Guess what? The idiot is laying in the grass making out with his girlfriend in full sight of everyone. One of my supervisors tears out of the building, rips the guy a new one and he gets suspended again. Of course when he's supposed to get back, they call him and tell him not to bother.

[rallytbk]

Sorry I am late in posting to this thread (I think this was a wonderful idea, lol), so here goes.

I work as a field telephone technician for a major companyà I go from site to site troubleshooting small, medium and large problems. From time to time I come across some really misguided dumb people and wonder how the hell they got their job.

Jan (trying to get on her good side) in your post you didnÆt mention the phone bills, how certain people (business guests) get a $200 phone bill from their hotel fax line (They try to cheat the system by disconnecting the fax machine in their room to make outgoing calls) thinking they could make a two hour voice call and have it charge as a per page fax call (which should be cheaper), but they neglect to rewire the machine. So when itÆs check out time and I am sent in to see what this person has doneà I inform our concierge of the rewiring and bill him for the minutes he used. Call accounting is Kewl. They get embarrassed when we present them with proof of the calls and my statement, lol.