Stupid CoWorkers

April 20, 2006

At a goodbye lunch for an old and dear co-worker who is leaving the company due to “rightsizing,” our manager spoke up and said, “This is fun. We should have lunch like this more often.” Not another word was spoken. We just looked at each other like deer staring into the headlights of an approaching truck.At a goodbye lunch for an old and dear co-worker who is leaving the company due to “rightsizing,” our manager spoke up and said, “This is fun. We should have lunch like this more often.” Not another word was spoken. We just looked at each other like deer staring into the headlights of an approaching truck.

Stupid CoWorkers

April 15, 2006

The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it is safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged co-worker of mine, when she asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals to blind people when the light is red. She responded, appalled, “What on earth are blind people doing DRIVING???”

Stupid CoWorkers

April 14, 2006

I am a manager at a family amusement facility. We have people of all ages that work for us. One particular employee is let’s say “not all together there”. She has worked for us for about a year(I would like to say, I didn’t hire her). One afternoon while working our 3 story soft play structure she screams at the top of her lungs” Everybody out, he’s got a knife”. As most of the guests and their children exited it was discovered that a small boy at the top of the play structure had a small 1 inch pocket knife cutting through the netting. This in it’s self is not so unusual except that the child was not trying to hurt anyone, just trying to escape. This same employee was involved in 3 car accidents in one week, one totaling her car. It was just learned that she hit a pedestrian at school. Have you ever seen the movie the cable guy…we are living it! We also do Birthday parties in which groups of kids play in our structure. She will place kids in “time out” for not listening to her. One afternoon we discovered 12 9 year old boys in “time out” behind a small wall about the size of a hall closet. She makes my job quite interesting at times but I wonder if we were not kind enough to hire her where would she work? Not a driving job! I hope.

Stupid CoWorkers
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Stupid CoWorkers

April 7, 2006

I used to work at a large department store chain. One day after I had just clocked in, I noticed several of the customers entering the store began coughing violently and the front end manager began complaining of headaches. I paid no mind to any of this and headed to the back of the store. Five minutes later they called for an evacuation of the entire store. Two and a half hours after waiting in the parking lot, one of the firemen explained what had happened. Apparently one of our dumber co-workers, who had obviously had no knowledge of high school chemistry, had dumped ammonia and bleach down the drain of the food court. For those of you want to know, they combine to form cyanide gas. Needless to say, he was terminated shortly afterwards.

Stupid CoWorkers
food court, work