Employees Reveal Their Wildest Stories From Current and Former Jobs

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Oct 24, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

Few common experiences (aside from like, parenthood) change a person like a difficult job. Spending five days a week in an uncomfortable or combative environment is enough to make anybody see the world differently, and usually gives them a few tales to tell as well. I shudder to think of the very worst experiences that I had in previous positions, but I'd like to think they made me stronger in some way. That's one of the delusions I like to live with, anyway.

I can't deny that no matter what negative things I've dealt with in my working history, they aren't as bad as some people's. There are employees out there who have lived through full-blown TV episodes with the wild shenanigans that have happened while they're on the job. Some of the examples below are enough to make any bored corporate drone grateful that their average day is nothing to write home about. It could always be worse.

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    Smile - Pretty Baby @Jadayshaaa Subscribe What's the craziest thing that happened to you while at work ?
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    Font - Drezha Daniels @Dreadpool3.4d Replying to @Jadayshaaa Nearly got into a fist fight working the door at Chuck E Cheese. He was there to pick up his nephew and wouldn't bring his parent with the matching stamp. So all I see is some random guy trying to push past me with a kid he didn't walk in with.
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    Font - main character @SlimmLishaa_ Follow Replying to @Jadayshaaa I got broken up with and fired on the same day. 9
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    Organism - @XrEnee126-4d Replying to @Jadayshaaa A man came to work and before his shift started went up to the roof the hospital and jumped. I went on break for 30 min and came back to chaos M
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    Product - Christine Tyson DeJ... @MsTysonDeJesus Follow Replying to @Jadayshaaa My ex (whom I was still sleeping with) and my current dude (who was both of our boss got into a brawl in front of the job which some may have perceived as my fault... I definitely got fired.
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    Font - Bully Beef Bandit... @Jnrhal 85 Follow Replying to @Jadayshaaa A gun was help less than 5 inches from my face when a robber tried to rob my branch when I worked at the bank.
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    Human body - Kairy I. @kairy_xoxo. 4d Replying to @Jadayshaaa Seeing shadows walking around and inside the restaurant after closing
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    Font - @jennybaybby. 4d Replying to @Jadayshaaa I worked at a fast food joint & it was the late Night Shift, only me & 2 other employees. I was taking an order & they were doing stock in the back.. I see the fry basket flying, replayed the tape back.. there was already rumors about the place being haunted but I was like
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    Font - Brindille @twig_lalaland - 3d Replying to @Jadayshaaa This didn't happen to ME but it's still wild: My job demoted a founder from the company they merged with. He was COO. Y'all. They moved his desk from his office to directly outside the women's restroom. In a hallway. Mind you.... he OWNED THE BUILDING OUR OFFICE WAS IN
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    Font - Tristan @TristanGHill 4d . Replying to @Jadayshaaa when I was preparing a big mac this guy jumped the counter and stole the patty from me
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    Font - Brindille @twig_lalaland 3d Replying to @Jadayshaaa ● A previous job I worked at I left early for the day. My coworker told me the next day a man came in asking for "the girl with the pretty skin". Turns out the guy SAW ME AT OFFICE DEPOT saw my company shirt and came for me. He said he liked my skin that much.
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    Font - Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum Follow I used to regularly get robbed by my co-workers at a store I used to work at. We didn't have lockers just a big room where everyone left their stuff. I didn't mind because I was 19 and everyone else was like 50 and we were all getting paid under 10$ an hour. They needed it.
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    Font - SP @angle3246.3d When I was 16 i volunteered at a nursing home while I was waiting to be certified. I had a pt whose hemorrhoids kept coming out. About a week later I caught her getting back shots from another resident.
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    Organism - LaBEARfana @Sandernista412 .3d Oh I have so many stories from when I worked in placement, but my favorite is when one of the kids told another kid that their birth certificate was an apology letter from a condom company.
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    Font - grinding nemo @MimiSokanyile I worked in HR for a nonprofit that hired people who are legally blind. One day, two employees got into a fight. One was partially sighted, and the other was totally blind. I had four witnesses to the altercation. They were all blind, they couldn't tell me what happened Follow
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    Font - R@sipofrae 3d I worked at whole foods as a cashier. This dude came to my line with a basket full of boxed items like cereals/crackers.. I scanned the cereal box and it was heavy as hell & cold. So I opened it. Why did this man stuff all these boxes with expensive seafood, caviar, and steaks
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    Organism - Princess @themultiplemom .3d When I was a licensed massage therapist a man told me he had cancer and pulled out a stack of hundreds. Said his last wish was to have me kiss him on the forehead. I declined. He died two weeks later.
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    Font - Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn 3d 1. My client didn't think the judge was taking their housing conditions case seriously so they brought bedbugs to court in an envelope (to my surprise). ●
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    Human body - B beththedork @beththedork. 3d My boss got doxxed in the middle of a livestream where my coworkers and I were playing Jackbox with him
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    Font - keith @humbled_ .3d I got a shotgun pulled out on me when I was delivering fedex in rural NC cause it was dark as hell and I pulled down their long driveway. All I heard was the shotgun cock and a "who's that?!". I swear I screamed "FEDEX FEDEX" so hard.
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    Font - Spooky Barbie @CocoaDoe • 3d My husband's baby mama came to my job to harass me, then recorded the interaction and take me to court to get a restraining order against me, only for the judge to tell her that she was the one who was harassing me & stupid for playing the recording.
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    Font - Daquan Wiltshire... ♥ @DAQUANDSG Follow I was working at chick fil a. My manager, a white boy the same age(17), called me "boy". I slapped fire out this ngga with no hesitation. With no immediate retaliation, I'm thinking it's over. 2 months later, I'm at the drive thru window. This ngga comes up behind me and slaps me with a 20lbs bag of frozen French fries in the back of my head. The bag bursts open and fries flew everywhere, even into the customer's car. He called me a b*tch and the n
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    Font - MrsBundrige @MrsBundrige 4d One of many: 2nd week on the job. I'm in the kitchen. Debra walks in a says "I'm going to kill everyone in here except you. I like you". I never saw her again after that day.
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