What is the strangest/weirdest thing to happen at your workplace?

[Shiro Kame]

After reading all the crazy stories of what goes on at Walmart and the McDonald's Playplace, I decided to put this forum up, curious of what kind of responses would come up.

Seriously, has anything cool and/or funny come up?

[CaliperCat]

I wasn't working at the time, but apparently two weeks ago some guy climbed up the outside of the dining hall building to reach the second floor balcony so that he could sneak in for free (meal check is downstairs)... And then, when caught, claimed that he was inspecting the patio furniture. In the rain.

[IndigoErth]

Sadly I think when I was working retail there were more annoying/frustrating things than strange, cool, or funny.

Off the top of my head...

The women with the big, highly teased hair and heavy make-up. Enough so that I some time later asked a coworker in a neighboring department if she'd seen the clown and she knew exactly who I meant.

We were once informed that the store/mall was expecting shoppers who were European tourists from a cruise ship... and I guess for some reason their bus was stopping at our mall to shop. I know the mall is conveniently near I-95 and all that, but ok, a little random. I guess no sales tax is appealing even to international tourists. And maybe our prices were better? Either way, didn't see too many, but a couple people went home with new jeans.

Then there was the lady who held up a couple of the cashiers. Which itself is bad of course, but she'd been seen around the store wearing this rather odd blue veil over her face. If she was trying to pull that off as a religious/cultural thing, she was doing a terrible job at it. No only was it an odd blue you normally would not see, but the rest of her attire was entirely casual and kinda sloppy. She got away unfortunately, but I'd thought that I bet if she tries it at another store she'll likewise wear an odd veil, OR be stupid enough to wear the same one -- she DID. And got caught that time.

[Leo656]

That I'm aware of? Having sex with my wife there way after closing. That was at two of my jobs. I kinda doubt anything stranger than that ever happened at either of those places.

[Jephael]

I believe there was some fooling around at Wendy's, though I never witnessed any, and sadly was never really a part of. Actually, now that I think about it, I remember this one Mexican kid was asking me if I wanted to get high, so I thought I'd humor him by doing my impression of the Towlie character from South Park. Unfortunately, the manager on duty didn't find it amusing. Then again, most of the managers there could've used a g*d-d*mn chill pill.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Well this was several years ago, but when I worked at a Papa Johns, I got a phone order from a guy at the dorms of the local college, for a half pepperoni and half hamburger pizza. Being that there were onky three of us in the store, I just made it myself while the manager was busy with other things, and the other employee(my hubby) was cleaning. I cut and boxed it, and sent it out with the first driver to arrive.

A half hour later I get a call from the SAME guy saying it was made wrong. I asked him what was wrong with it, and he said he had ordered half pepperoni half hamburger, but GOT hakf hamburger and half pepperoni! I was so flabbergasted that I had to put him on hold for a moment, and then laughed my butt off while I had him on hold. The manager and my other half asked what was so funny, so I told them. Then I asked what he wanted me to do. He took the call himself, and told the guy to turn it around and see if that fixed it. It did. Turns out, the guy had been high as a kite when he ordered and when it got there. We all had a good laugh over that one, and we STILL talk about the "backwards pizza"!!

[Kanon]

I heard from a friend (who was working at Mc D´s) a very awesome story.

Late at night:
A guy ordered a cheeseburger at the drive in, drove to the pay desk and suddenly a guy in a monkey costume jumped out of the dark, stole the paperbag and ran away.
(It was Halloween, but it´s pretty weird cause it´s very unpopular here)

[ProactiveMan]

We were all evacuated one day because someone saw a car pull up outside the building, a guy got out, chained a suitcase to an under-croft grating and then got back in the car and drove off.

The cops came and inspected the case and when they opened it, it was full of clothes and shoes etc. Turns out, it belonged to a homeless guy who had some business to take care of somewhere, so he chained his personal effects to our building to keep them safe.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Well this was several years ago, but when I worked at a Papa Johns, I got a phone order from a guy at the dorms of the local college, for a half pepperoni and half hamburger pizza. Being that there were onky three of us in the store, I just made it myself while the manager was busy with other things, and the other employee(my hubby) was cleaning. I cut and boxed it, and sent it out with the first driver to arrive.

A half hour later I get a call from the SAME guy saying it was made wrong. I asked him what was wrong with it, and he said he had ordered half pepperoni half hamburger, but GOT hakf hamburger and half pepperoni! I was so flabbergasted that I had to put him on hold for a moment, and then laughed my butt off while I had him on hold. The manager and my other half asked what was so funny, so I told them. Then I asked what he wanted me to do. He took the call himself, and told the guy to turn it around and see if that fixed it. It did. Turns out, the guy had been high as a kite when he ordered and when it got there. We all had a good laugh over that one, and we STILL talk about the "backwards pizza"!!

Would it be okay if I put that in a book I'm writing? That just cracks me up.

[PangolinFeets]

My workplace almost got raided by police because someone reported that a building in our complex was involved in a prostitution ring.

For the record, we aren't, but that was amusing.

[Jester]

One of my co-workers, since we work late nights and the manager leaves at 5:00 PM, would wear shorts under his jeans and shed the jeans around 6-7 pm. One night, while he was out of the room I took his pants and hid them under the floor tiles in a trough where they run the cabling for the servers and everything we have on hand. He didn't notice they were gone for a month, and then only because I got "greedy" and took a 2nd pair and hid them as well. And at one point his personal keyboard he felt he had to bring with him to use....but that got resolved because he went to our manager and my supervisor denied knowledge but told me to "un-hide" it.

Did I mention he used to prank people all the time? Put scotch tape on the bottom of mice so they didn't work. Unplugged peoples PC while they were working. Same with mice and keyboards. All sorts of little annoying things. He was asking for it.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Jephael

Would it be okay if I put that in a book I'm writing? That just cracks me up.

Sure just remember to credit me!

[senpai]

I have too many to list as I work at a public library and we get all the crazies. Seriously, we deal with lunatics on a regular basis. We had to call the cops on this lady who wouldn't leave the elevator and by the time they came she was sprawled out on the ground screaming some prayer.

Another time when this homeless lady with a beard started asking me to look up books that I knew didn't exist but I tried to help her anyway since she insisted. She had a sleeping bag on her back and she carried a children's doll. When I couldn't help her anymore, she went into the kid's corner and started to read to the doll. Then the doll fell over and she slammed the book down like "You don't like this!?" then called it quits.

Another time the library was closed and me and another part-timer had to check in the book drop books and it was just us too in the entire building and out of nowhere we heard a huge slam. It was fitting because we had just finished telling creepy ghost stories to each other--she believes in them. She had a really crazy experience. So when that happened, she turned to me eyes wide then we quickly wrapped up what we were doing and went home lol. She's like we gots to get **** out! Oh, and our library was built on an old funeral home too. Apparently some child's spirit lives in the library.

I have a bunch more but I've already written too much.

[Peanut]

Grocery stores are pretty much made for weird sh*t, so I saw a ton when I worked there as a teenager.

One day a dude actually sh*t his pants and walked all over the store with the sh*t running down his legs onto the floor. The best part of this was the reaction from my manager, who ended up being the one to clean it up, because it was so early in the morning that there weren't any stock kids to handle it.

I worked as a scan-coordinator for nearly my entire time there, which basically meant I spent my days writing raps about this forum and playing PSP games at all types of ungodly hours. I'd often be the only one in the store, or sometimes the (absolutely insane) night crew and/or opening managers would be around. The night crew was full of dirt bags, which led to an insane amount of off the wall bullsh*t, including dudes dumping entire skids of product down the trash chute to avoid work, selling indian cigarettes (a huge crime in Canada) out the back loading bay, shooting potato canons at passing cars in the parking lot, and even letting a squirrel into the store to try and get the place shut down on health code violations.

I pretty much made my hours as I saw fit, so nobody ever knew when I'd be around and my office often turned into a kind of hangout or hideaway when I wasn't there. I was supposed to lock it, but I told a few people I was friends with/liked that I hide a key in the locker room. This meant I walked in on some real weird sh*t, including a few of the younger cashiers involved in various sexual acts, one of the produce guys sleeping under my desk and once I walked in on a friend of mine (also in produce and was incredibly f*cking weird) wrapping wires from the server rack AROUND HIS BALLS and jerking off into a cup.

I'll also always remember one of the produce managers (produce has the best people for some reason) getting to work super early and deciding to take a nap in an empty watermelon bin. He made me put the lid on it so he wouldn't get caught if the manager came in early. I totally forgot he was in there a few hours later, when the store was open, and when I went upstairs his opening part-timer had wheeled the bin out onto the floor. I remember scrambling to tell him to return it to the back room while I distracted the manager with some bullsh*t. Dude didn't get caught and bought me a coffee every morning we worked together after that.

The kid who kicked his shoe at one of the grouchy old customers. The old man who tried to return what looked like composted fruit. The weird kid who tried to "Prince of Persia" the stairwell wall and absolutely f*cked himself up. The time the roof caved in on the managers head in the office. The old lady who tried to shoplift almost every single day. The whacked out cookie reps who got in a brawl over designated shelf space. The amount of homeless/psychotic people who wandered in off the street and needed to be forced out by police. I could probably go on with this ****, but I'll stop there.

[Wingnut]

I worked at a Mexican restaurant when I was 16 and one our line cooks was moonlighting as a meth cook...Which led to a DEA bust in the parking lot. That was "entertaining" to say the least. Kind of a "Welcome to the real world, kid" moment.

Sold shoes to a legitimate pimp at Foot Locker.

Some nuclear pissed off woman set her ex-husband's car on fire in the parking lot, also Foot Locker.

Every Air Jordan release during my tenure at, you guessed it, Foot Locker.

Mall jobs (like grocery stores) are total bullsh*t magnets just from the sheer number of people.

[Shiro Kame]

(I kinda wanna put this stuff in a "Top 10" on Youtube LOL)

Nothing happened to me because I don't have a job yet, but I'll never forget the story Dad told me when he had a repair job with his friend, Bob. Bob had went up into the "attic" to help with the repairs, while Dad went into the bathroom. A few minutes later, Bob went crashing through the roof and lands right in the sink! With Bob in pain and possibly hurt bad, Dad has the audacity to state:

"You're too old to learn how to fly, Bob."

[Katie]

One time when I was a baby at my job working in a bank branch one of my coworkers accidentally triggered the silent alarm and then hung up on security when they called to check on us.

One of the tellers noticed police cars surrounding the building and when I went to stand up and look, I turned to face the business end of a semiautomatic rifle and a cop in swat gear.

There was a lot of explaining that had to be done.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Heh, another one of my former jobs, I was doing graveyard shift in a gas station convenience store, and about 4 AM, I got "robbed" by a guy who in retrospect must've been f***ed up on crack. HUGE black guy (6'6+, about 325 lbs maybe) comes in, says nothing, and puts a sucker on the counter with some change for me to ring up. When the drawer opens, he tries to shove his huge ham-hands in the register to grab the cash. So I tried to slam the drawer closed on him (didn't work- he barely even blinked).

So I grab the "attitude adjuster" from under the counter (A sawed-off shovel handle I'd found in the parking lot a few weeks earlier) and proceeded to hit him over the arms and chest with it. He just pulls out a small screwdriver and holds it up threateningly. Against my bigger stick and the fact that I'm only 5' and 100lbs but going Medieval on him already.... I look at his "weapon" as if he's nuts, and right about then it dawns on him that I'm NOT scared, just really pissed, so he just grabs a handful of cash and runs out.

I called the cops, my boss, and my hubby, in that order, and wait for them to show. All showed up about the same time, and I went through the usual round of answering questions, describing the guy, and dealing with finding out how much he got. The cops came back the next night and showed me some mug shots, and I ID'ed him almost instantly, due to the fact he had the same dazed, dumb look on his face in the photos. My hubby was there when the cops came the second night, and they asked him what he was doing there, so he told them he was keeping me company in case anything happened again. He was there all night, but nothing ever happened. So I ened up with a blurb in the newspaper about "hitting the robber with a wooden handle". I hated graveyard after that.....

[Katie]

If you've been in branch banks for long enough you'll be robbed. I've been in three real ones and the above fire drill fake one. Note passers were the majority but we did have a couple of kids run in and shout for everyone to get down and pray as they waved what turned out to be paintball guns around in our busy lobby.

They were bored and had watched some movie. They got caught cause one of them left their actual drivers license in their abandoned get away car a couple of blocks away.

That was the only really scary robbery I'd ever been in. I left that branch that afternoon and never worked grunt jobs again. Too much stress.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Heh, that wasn't the FIRST time we'd been "robbed", but most of the others were just teenagers grabbing beer cases and running out. And I've dealt with plenty of crazy customers, too. After a while, you just shrug it off, and laugh about it when it happens. Seen too many weirdos doing stupid crap to be fazed by it anymore. Like the guy who decided to steal a life-sized Jar-Jar statue that was being given away for a promotion when Phantom Menace first came out. He came in at night when there were only a couple of people in the entire store, barring the night stockers, and used bolt-cutters to cut the chain keeping it locked up to the display area. Took off with it, and was later caught, but WHY would anyone steal Jar-Jar?