'A month later, there are googly eyes everywhere': 20+ Employees who had memorably weird days at work

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 31, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Some days at work are more memorable than others. Just think about it: there are probably hundreds of days of work, or life in general, that pass by mundanely, never to be remembered again. The human brain just isn't meant to remember every second of every day. But those memorable days at work can really stick with you! The 1,000+ people replying to this person's r/AskReddit question had a few memorably weird work days to share, ranging from oddities to entire days that were completely derailed. 

Having a strange day at work every now and then can kind of boost morale. It gives people something to giggle about---just as the office of people who started a googly-eye war! They were pranking each other by gluing the plastic eyeballs to stuff in the office, and the joke just got entirely out of hand. Instead of having a googly-eye stapler or keyboard, suddenly the whole place was decked out in googly-eye stickers. We should all hope to have a job that is so much fun! Keep scrolling to read a selection of the funniest weird work day stories. 

Next, read about some freshly baked home cooking mistakes, like one person whose cupcakes just disappeared in the oven somehow (?!?!!).

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  • 01
    What's the weirdest thing you've ever seen happen at work?
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    Greystreet21 While working at a supermarket, I was walking through the dairy department and saw a fellow employee over by the eggs. As I got closer I could see him with a carton open and he seemed to be turning each egg. After doing the whole pack, I asked him what he was
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    doing and he responded, "the manager asked me to rotate the eggs." I facepalmed and explained what they actually meant, to which he replied, "that makes a lot more sense."
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    For context, in the grocery world, to rotate means to make sure the earliest dates of expiration are towards the front of the shelf.
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    Ajoc27 In a creche/daycare. One of the moms dropped off her baby & when handing him to one of the staff she kissed the staff member on the face and said "love you" and went off to work. Phoned a couple hours later to say
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    "I've just realised what I did this morning. I'm so sorry, I was half asleep and I guess I'm so used to handing him to my husband" we had a good laugh
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    DeeMountain One guy did a spicy wing challenge at lunch. Later that afternoon he was on the floor of his cubicle moaning and crying and saying so many times (Very loudly) We tried to call an ambulance but he was adamant that he was going to be fine.
    via u/DeeMountain
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    [deleted] One Monday morning, at 8AM, there was a frog in the lobby. Not a small frog, either--a big frog. The front doors were still locked and it was Monday morning, so we had no idea how the little guy got into the lobby. He would've had to have hopped all the way from the back of the building to get to the lobby.
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    jacobk I work in a kindergarden for kids with special needs. One kid kept going for a quiet place few times a day, and we figured he just needed some time alone. This was outside in the playground where there was a little treehouse in the back behind some trees. On the third day of this happening I went to see what's up and encourage him to talk
    via u/jac0bk
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    about why he needed time alone. I found him sitting on the ground eating one big spoon full of sand after the other. We're not just talking baby eating sand here more like a medium - sized kid shoveling sand down his stomach like it was his favourite food. So yeah this little boy probably ate A LOT of sand during those three days. and probably longer.
    via u/jac0bk
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    He's fine now - 2. Grader now - kicked me in the when I saw him in a grocery store a week ago.
    via u/jac0bk
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    StylishSuidae I actually wrote up a whole encounter with my strange russian coworker the other day, but I can't get to tumblr on my work computer. My weirdest counter with him though was I had to go into the lab during lunch and he was in there:
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    • with all the lights off • wearing nothing but an undershirt lifting a single weight ⚫ with Let's Grove by Earth, Wind, and Fire at full volume playing from his computer. Also his desk neighbor has had to make one of his monitors vertical because Igor will change at his desk in the middle of the office.
    via u/StylishSuidae
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    Jaydeeem89 I work in an office and thought it would be funny to put googly eyes on my coworkers desk one day. Everyone had a good laugh over it and a couple weeks I found googly eyes on all my stuff. It became a game of who could arrange googlys on peoples desk in the most creative/funny manner. It was hilarious.. Then one of the adjacent departments caught wind
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    of the good times we were having and started doing the same. Cue a month later and there are googly eyes EVERYWHERE. It was absurd. On the drinking fountains, clocks, vending machines, garbage cans, toilets, you name it, there were googly eyes littered all over the place. The custodians started complaining that they couldnt keep up with the mess. Visiting customers.
    via u/Jaydeeem89
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    would look around at the googly spectacle in disbelief of the unprofessionalism. The head managers had to hold team meetings to talk to all the teams about removing all googly eyes.. and of course since I started it, any time a rogue googly eye popped up months later, I got a stern look from my boss.
    via u/Jaydeeem89
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    The day that I quit there (or get fired, more likely), there will be an unleashing of googly eyes that will be unrivalled. People will be swimming through piles of googly eyes just to get to their completely googly eye covered desks. The vents will be spitting out plastic eyeballs of all shapes and sizes. People will open their lunches they brought from home and gasp in shock as they find nothing but little
    via u/Jaydeeem89
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    beady shaky eyes looking up from their tupperware. There. Will. Be. GOOGLY EYES.
    via u/Jaydeeem89
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    obscureferences I was visiting our warehouse which looked pretty standard as all things go. Tall shelves loaded with pallets, conveyor belts and forklifts going to and fro, burly men and women in high vis attire pottering about. When all of a sudden a song broke out over the PA system and every single person started dancing. Their expressions didn't change, they didn't stop
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    what they were doing or where they were going, they all just danced as they went about their business. A few seconds later the music stopped and they resumed normal existence. It was so bizaare. Like they had been brainwashed to respond to the music and didn't recognise their own conditioning.
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    Turns out that's all part of their ergonomics program. Every so often the music starts up and they're meant to move about as a form of stretching.
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    ostentia It was a really slow day and I kept getting distracted from the Lord of the Rings fanfiction I was reading by the weird squeaky noises I kept hearing behind me. I finally turned around and there was my manager, a 35 year old man, about 3/4 of the way done with making a balloon animal crown for his life-sized
    via u/ostentia
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    Homer Simpson statue. I asked him to make me a doggie when I was done, and he did--a blue one. I kept it until I accidentally popped it, which scared the out of one of my other coworkers.
    via u/ostentia
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    raven_darkseid I worked in a small office. There was a front lobby area with a conference room off to the side. It was separated by a door from the rest of the office. So I'm sitting at my desk, just working, and I hear screaming from the front lobby area, like straight up someone is being murdered screaming.
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    Everyone in the office area is freaking out, assuming there was a robbery or something horrible happening in the front. I hear someone shrieking for help, so I'm like okay this is clearly not a dangerous situation, it must be a medical emergency or something like that. I tell one of my coworkers to call 911. I proceed to open the door quietly and walk towards the lobby. I do not see anyone, even the
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    receptionist, but the screaming is still going on from inside the conference room. I slowly open the door and find about 8 people on top of the table, including the owners of the company and a couple clients. I'm just staring at them, seriously confused about what I just walked into.
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    I look down and see a tiny little field mouse hopping around in circles around the table. I picked the little guy up and became the hero of the day. 911 dispatched a couple of police officers over a tiny mouse. My raise that year was substantially higher than usual.
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    AJandSJ Happened this morning... 2 male coworkers of mine got in a physical altercation over...wasting copy paper.
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    Shadow-Jinkus Today is a contender. I work in a warehouse and we were receiving this big transfer of just a bunch of I lift some boxes and dude, a freakin caterpillar started walking out. We're keeping it in a small box right now and I've given it some pieces of lettuce. My youngin is chillin right now
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    ballerscholar They found a full on big hair braid stuck in the floor drain in the middle of the girls restroom. Like someone just randomly cut off their braid removed the drain lid and stuffed it there. I work at an elementary school.
    via u/ballerscholar
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    cessfate I work at a small fancy chinese restaurant and last night me and my friend went in to go eat/visit some co-workers. We went in at the time where it was slowing down so much that the servers had time to sit and chat. We have a music system that will play CD's quietly over speakers throughout the restaurant.
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    At one point when we had finished eating, me and my friend hear a piano and I think to myself, "Wow these speakers are loud" but only after turning my head to the right to investigate, I see a keyboard. Someone managed to bring an entire keyboard into this restaurant. Me and my friend give each other a
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    confused look only to be followed by the party (taking up half of one of three dining rooms) beginning to sing choir music. Me, my friend, and some co-workers proceed to burst out laughing.
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    beejieboo Once had a guy call 911, and the police responded, because we wouldn't give him anything but ice chips. I work in a hospital and he was having surgery the next morning.
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    HuhWhatQue Two things come to mind from when I worked at department store in - college: A woman came into the store, went through the perfume aisle, took a few bottles into the layaway storage room, and drank them. This was all right before closing, maybe 10 minutes, or so. Watching this on camera was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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    - Some dude came in strumming a banjo as he followed his SO around as she shopped. I, and all of my coworkers, searched for someone with a camera to see if it was some sort of gag, but nope. Dude just walked the aisles with his girl playing the banjo to keep himself occupied.
    via u/HuhWhatQue
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    kw5112 Dude staring directly at his computer screen, lightly tapping in his keyboard pretending to type. Like if you are going through that much effort to look like you are doing your job, just do your job.
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    YisigothTheUndying A dozen full-grown men all singing Taylor Swift's "shake it off" in the shower together. Squad showers have scarred me for life.
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    Maine Coon90 A little kid, like maybe 5, casually walking through the mall unaccompanied. That's not that weird, except he had a gigantic pet snake wrapped around his body and arm kind of just chilling on his shoulder and looking around.
    via u/Maine Coon90
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    MN_Wallflower Someone left a frozen pork chop in the men's room and my co-worker found it.
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    tokyodivine this lady called in that she didn't get her pickle spear in the sandwich she ordered through the drive thru. she said she was going to come back the next day, alas, she got her pickle spears
    via u/tokyodivine

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