199 People Who’re Having A Bad Day At Work

February 09, 2022

We’ve all had that very worst day combo. From little things, like keys falling into the road gutter hole to a car engine that goes on vacation and doesn’t start, to pouring salt instead of sugar in your coffee, call them first world problems, but they’re real. And blood-boiling. In fact, we previously rolled up this compilation of pics with people having a day they’d be better off without.

This time, we are taking it a step further with a brand new list of employees having worse days than you. The cases are just vile. Think of a guy dropping a $40,000 pallet worth of glass on his first day or think of how it feels when you’re working from home and hit video instead of audio.

While you feel the hair standing up on your arms, I leave the stage to all the workers who need a big hug, mint tea and a warm blanket as soon as they get home. And if you still think that your workday is not going according to plan, well, think again.

#1 When I Worked At A Dog Daycare (I'd Bring My Dog With Me, Duh) I Once Got Off From Work And Was So Hungry I Left Without Him

My manager sent me this picture about 10 minutes later saying "You forgot something". His expression is perfect.

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#2 Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset

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#3 When You’re Working From Home And You Hit Video Instead Of Audio

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#4 My Girlfriend Got Nailed At Work

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#5 My Friend Works As An Extra In Movies And Does Stock Photography.... Just Saw Him Pictured As A Sex Offender On A Bus In Florida

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#6 So I Started Working As A Beekeeper Last Week

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#7 Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day

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#8 Poor Megan

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#9 Bought 60 Doughnuts For The Office Today To Celebrate My 20th Birthday, Only To Be Told I Need To Self Isolate And Work From Home For The Next Week

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#10 The One Time The Toner Exploded At Work While Switching It Out. You Can See Where I Was At That Exact Moment

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#11 My Friend Got A Surprise Haircut At Work Today. And It Was Free

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#12 They Couldn’t Do It

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#13 This Pillar Was Straight Last Week. This Is The First Floor Of A Seven-Floor Building

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#14 After The Meeting Coworker Let Me Know That I Looked Naked And Frustrated The Whole Time

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#15 It's Always A Pleasure To Realize That Your Coworkers Don't Know How To Close A Box Properly... Right When You're Ready To Go Home

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#16 I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists

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#17 Buckets Of Paint Fell Off A Pallet Being Lifted By A Forklift

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#18 The Windows Where I Work Like To Explode Every Month Or So

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#19 This Was My Dad's Only Christmas Bonus From The Company He's Worked At For Over 20 Years: A $20 Off Coupon For A Frozen Turkey. My Mom Got A Christmas Ornament

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#20 I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence

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#21 My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today... Didn't Go Very Well

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#22 My Compensation For Working Through A Pandemic For The Past 3 Months

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#23 Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work

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#24 What McDonald's Got Us (At Least My Branch Of McDonald's) For Our Work During The Pandemic

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#25 So I Found Out That My Shoes Have A Hole In Them... At The Urinal At Work

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#26 I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans... By Hand

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#27 Actually Had To Put This Sign Up In The Bathroom At My Work

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#28 My Friend Works As A Cleaner Here

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#29 I Cleaned The Cat’s Litter Box And Brought The Bag With Me To Throw Away In My Outdoor Trash Can On The Way To Work. I Also Brought My Lunch

Guess which one got thrown away and which one came to work with me.

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#30 Really Bad Day

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#31 Flew In A Helicopter For The First Time At Work, The Pilot’s Helmet Wasn’t Calming

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#32 Transfer Slab Collapsed As They Were Pouring Concrete In A Highrise Building Near Gallery Square. No Workers Injured As Far As I Know. May 7th 2021

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#33 My Zipper Broke At Work, Right Before A Few Important Meetings

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#34 Keeps Pecking The Window And Shouting At Me While I'm Trying To Work

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#35 My Wife Just Got This Huge Banner For Work. Perfect

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#36 I Have To Untangle This At Work

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#37 I Do Calligraphy. I Misplaced The Circled In Character, Which Is Part Of A 300 Word Scroll That I Almost Finished After 5 Days Of Work, 200 Characters In

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#38 My Boss Is Going To Kill Me

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#39 -41°С And No One To Let Me In To Work

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#40 Ordered A Stamp, Guess The Photo Didn’t Work

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#41 A Fly Managed To Slip Into My Coffee At Work. Fortunately, I Spit Him Out All Over My Keyboard

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#42 Train Taking A Bath

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#43 I'm A Skilled Tradesman Who Is Supposed To Get A $3000 Bonus At The End Of The Year For Making The Company $150,000 In Profit, Per My Contract. This Is What I Received

100% done with this industry.

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#44 Worked With Concrete Without Gloves. Didn't Know It's Corrosive

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#45 I Picked Something Up At Work, All Of A Sudden My Leg Started To Hurt, I Reached Into The Pocket At My Leg And Realised That My Spare Blade Made It Out Of The Case Somehow

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#46 Need To Keep The Light On When I Get Ready For Work

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#47 Accidently Dropped My Work Keys Into The Toilet. When I Got Up To Fish Them Out, It Automatically Flushed Itself

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#48 FedEx Truck Hanging Off The Indiana Toll Road After Hitting Ice In Frigid Conditions. Driver Not Hurt

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#49 Manager Decided To Buy McDonald's Burgers For Black Friday. The Burgers Were Locked Away From The Employees And Nobody Got Any Food For The Entire Day

Here’s the end result. Over 60 burgers and pies wasted.

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#50 Just Slipped On Ice And Tore My Favourite Jeans. Now I Gotta Go A Whole Shift At Work With My Bright Orange Boxers On Show

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#51 My Buddy Got This After Working At His Job For 42 Years. The Sticker Isn't Even On Straight

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#52 Happy Oil Day

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#53 I Work At An Ice Skating Rink And Instead Of Properly Turning In Skates People Started Just Throwing Them Over The Counter

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#54 I Work As A Financial Auditor. When Reviewing Cash Deposits, I Found That One Of Our Employees Accepted This $100 Bill

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#55 Been Waiting 6 Weeks For A Rather Expensive Toilet So We Can Fit It At A Client's House, It Has Finally Arrived

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#56 Someone Drove Into My Work Today

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#57 I Work In An Office And They Told People To Dress Up. I'm The Only One Dressed Up

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#58 Walked To Work In A Thunderstorm, But My Boss Forgot To Tell Me We All Have Today Off

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#59 Got Home From Work Today. Realized I’ve Been Walking Around Meeting Clients With A Giant 6-7in Rip In My Pants That No One Said Anything About

So I figured the internet should also know.

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#60 Just Lost Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Product At Work. Most Likely Getting Fired

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#61 Was Given A Heat Sensitive Mug For A Work Meeting

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#62 Working An Outdoor Vaccine Clinic. Didn't Think About Sunscreen. Now I Have A Mask-Shaped Sunburn, But Only On Half My Face

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#63 After Years In Retail, This Is The Worst Case Scenario

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#64 My Friend Went To Work With A Pair Of Underwear Hanging Out Of Her Pants All Day

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#65 My Spanish Teacher

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#66 The Poor Soul

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#67 I Work As A Valet. Told Him He Had To Park It Himself

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#68 The Ink From My Date Stamp At Work Exploded On My Shirt And The Material Formed The Droplets Into Little Stars

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#69 So I Bring A Pecan Pie To Work. By Noon It Was Missing. Found It A Few Hours Later In My Boss's Office

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#70 Get All The Way To Work, Look Down And This Is What I See. I Work 1.5 Hours From Home, So I Can't Go Home And Change

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#71 The Coolers Were Down For A Few Minutes At The Store I Work At

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#72 Do Not Get Ready For Work In Total Darkness. I Thought I Brought AirPods

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#73 Printer Explosion

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#74 Good Morning Night Shifters

Hope the start of your shift is going better than mine for those wondering, this is dish soap. First post that went viral. Thanks for making me trusted. And thanks to my colleague who dropped this. Couldn’t have done it without you. If you want to send me stuff or even chat, I am fairly new and would love to make friends to pass the lonely night shift

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#75 It Seems I’m The Only One Who Commuted Into The Office Today. Maybe There’s A Memo Out There I Didn’t Receive

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#76 Happened At A Law Firm FYI. At Least It's Friday

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#77 Literally My First Day On The Job, And I Shattered A Customer's Window

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#78 So Glad I’m Working Alone Today

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#79 Poor Jake Misjudged The Oil Trajectory When Draining An Engine Yesterday

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#80 I've Had A Great Day Today. And It's Not Even 11 AM

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#81 When The Employee Doesn't Put The Lid On The Paint Can Properly

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#82 You Walk Into Work And See This Mess, What Would You Do?

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#83 The Prisoner Threw His Lunch On The Guard

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#84 Roughly 600 Plates Broken

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#85 When You Work At A Toilet Paper Factory But They Expect You To Wipe With This

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#86 Someone Forgot To Lower The Dump On The Truck

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#87 My Work Had An Employee Appreciation Lunch For Us

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#88 Coworker Announced That She's Finally Pregnant After Years Of Trying, I Got Her A Box Of Pastries To Celebrate. I Open The Fridge At Work And See This

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#89 When Your April Fools Prank Is To Replace All The Mugs In The Office, But Everyone Works From Home Now

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#90 Another Day Of Road Work

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#91 The Small Business I Worked At Since High School Didn’t Survive The Pandemic

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#92 I Just Found A Photo From When I Worked At McDonald's During High School. My Manager Dropped A 3 Gallon Bag Of Coffee Creamer

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#93 Put Both On This Morning To Get Wife’s Opinion. Forgot To Change Before I Left And Was At Work All Day Like This

She liked the light brown, FYI.

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#94 Boss Told Me I Have To Come Into Work Because They Need Me

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#95 So A Car Crashed Into My Work Today

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#96 Someone Is Having A Bad Day At Work

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#97 My Husbands Buddy At Work Was Having A Bad Day

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#98 Do Not Wear Shirts Custom Made For You 30 Lbs Ago

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#99 A Causality Of The Snowstorm

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#100 In The Warehouse, Right Now

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#101 Bad Day At Work

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#102 A Nearly-Perfect Scalped Truck

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#103 My Boss's Secretary Quit This Morning After Delivering Breakfast

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#104 The Store I Work At Lost Power For 20 Minutes And We Had To Throw Out 1000$+ Of Meat And Cheese Because It Was 3 Degrees Above What We Can Keep

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#105 Backed Up A Little Too Far

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#106 After 16 Consecutive Hours Of Work I Come Home To Find This

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#107 This Grown Man Throwing His Candy Wrappers For Me To Sweep Up During Work

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#108 Meals (1 Per Person) We Get At My Job For Shifts Up To 12 Hours

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#109 I Work At A College Dorm. This Week Is Freshman Move In And I’m Working A 12-Hour Shift. I Was Told Not To Pack A Lunch Because A Free One Is Provided. This Is My Free “Meal”

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#110 Whoever Keeps Doing This To The Doors At My Work, These Things Are Really Super Hard To Remove

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#111 My Shorts Ripped While Cycling To Work. I Live 15km/10miles Away

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#112 I’m A Solar Roofer, And We Are Required To Wear Gloves While We Work... This Is Only May

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#113 I Work Overnight Receiving Trucks For A Grocery Store. This Is How My Truck Showed Up After Being 7 Hours Late

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#114 I Just Spent Over An Hour In Traffic On My Way To Work. Only Then I Looked Down

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#115 Happened At 6:15 This Morning. My Shift Was Scheduled To End At 7. I'm A Night Shift Dairy Clerk

The skid caught on the doorway floor drain and abruptly stopped. I did not finish work at 7

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#116 My Pants Ripped Today While I Was At Work. Almost Threw Up When I Realized How Bad It Was

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#117 Spilled Coffee At Work The Other Day

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#118 This Is How I Was Greeted Coming Into Work

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#119 Either Expired Or Water Damage. Truly A Sad, Sad Sight

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#120 This Uber Driver Contemplating His Existence After A Passenger Threw Up All Over Himself And In The Car

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#121 I'm A Music Teacher. Not Only Did I Trip Over My Laptop Charger And Close Zoom Mid-Lesson, But I Found Some More Collateral Damage. Anyone Got Glue?

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#122 I Set A Large Document To Print And Then Went To Teach. Came Back To 99 Pages Of Wingdings

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#123 5 Minutes Into My 10-Hour Shift At Work

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#124 The Storm Flooded The School Hallways And The Staff Parking Lot

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#125 Someone Burglarized A School In My Area. Did This To Several Classrooms And Broke Some Computers As Well

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#126 Sprained My Pinky Finger At Work. Made A Split Out Of Tape And Straw For The Time Being

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#127 My Availability Has Always Been Strictly Mon-Fri. I Spoke To A Manager When I Saw This Sign And Was Told I Will Be Working That Day, Regardless Of My Availability

The schedule is now up and I have been assigned a full shift that Saturday.

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#128 2 Weeks Of Telling My Boss The Produce In The Warehouse Is Going Bad - Him: Don't Worry About It

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#129 Load Didn't Show Up Yesterday, This Is What I Walked Into Today

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#130 I Work At Walmart And Came Into This Nice Gift, I Guess A Kid Really Had To Go, And Well The Tacos Shells Looked Like A Good Place For That

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#131 At Work I Had These Bottles Of Paint Pretty Well Sorted By Color, Then Bumped The Cart Into Something Moving It

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#132 I Got Transferred To A New Location At Work. This Is My New Break "Room"

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#133 Anybody Else Have To Poop In Open Stalls At Work? No? Okay

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#134 Chief Nursing Officer Brought In This Half Eaten Cake From Her House Party As A “Thanks” To The Nurses Working At The Children’s Hospital

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#135 So I Work In A Movie Theater. Family Of The Year Award Goes To These Guys

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#136 Dropped 10 Pounds Of Beads On The Floor Today At Work. Boss Was Not Happy

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#137 Boss Called Me In Early For Work Today... They Only Took 6 Refurbished Tools

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#138 Someone Broke Into My Car While I Was At Work

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#139 When No One Notices The Cooler Stopped Working

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#140 Having To Throw Out 50k Worth Of Frozen Items At Work

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#141 You Know You're Having A Bad Morning

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#142 Labor Day Fiasco At Home Depot. Someone Is Clearly Not Having A Good Day

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#143 Now I Need To Figure Out Which Pipe Services Which Suite

In a perfect world there would normally be a marking system in place to assist technicians to identify different systems and with fault diagnosis. NOT TODAY

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#144 And You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day

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#145 My Bamboo Mug Split, Spilling Coffee Over My Work Desk

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#146 Here's A Pic From Last Year. Not My Best Day At Work

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#147 Someone Had A Bad Day At Work

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#148 Elderly Lady Tipped Over The Wine Display, Employee Knocked A Few More Over Trying To Save It

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#149 Was Doing Work At A University And Had To Use The Restroom. I Always Open Stall Doors From The Top When Exiting As To Not Touch The Lock

Now my hand is bleeding and I probably need a tetanus shot

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#150 One Of The Coffee Tubes, With 7,7 Pound Coffee, Bursted While My District Manager Was There

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#151 This Burrito At My Job Is $5.54 And We’re Not Allowed To Leave To Get Food

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#152 Love Coming In Monday Morning, Already Stressed, Only To See This Vandalism On My Shop's Window

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#153 Sole Of My Shoe Came Off With No Warning When I Got To Work

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#154 Everyone At Work Got Amazing Heart Felt Gifts For Secret Santa And I Got A Bottle Of Car Detailer As A Joke

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#155 Retail Problems

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#156 Wednesdays Can Be Harder Than Mondays

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#157 It Was Going To Be A Good Day At Work Today

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#158 Houston, We Have A Problem

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#159 Do You Take Your Dog With You To Work? Looks Like Mud Daddy's Team Member - Roxy Will Be Off From Tomorrow. Happy Monday Everybody

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#160 When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse. End Of The Day. Mango Is Everywhere

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#161 No Matter How Positive Of A Person You Are, Or How Much You Love Your Job, Bad Days Happen To The Best Of Us. This Is How I Started My Day Today - A Big PC Disaster

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#162 Absolute Blinder Today, Devastating, Beautiful Venison Stock. All Over The Floor

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#163 Things Happen

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#164 How Could This Happen?

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#165 I’m Working As A Cop Over The Summer And I’m Outside All Day. It’s So Hot Outside That As Soon As I Put My Pen In My Pocket It Exploded

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#166 Employee Managed To Melt The Top Of A Monitor

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#167 This Is What Happened When Employee Spilled Water On His Mac Laptop Then Attempted To Dry Using A Space Heater

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#168 WCGW When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf?

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#169 So You're Not Open Today?

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#170 Ordered Sushi For Delivery. I Got Garagehub Instead. They Said "Sorry For The Inconvenience, Here Is A 20% Discount For Your Next Order. Must Be Used Within 30 Days"

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#171 Somebody Hit The Brakes A Little Too Hard

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#172 Great Start To My Work Week

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#173 My Boss Announced I Had A TV To Mount In The Conference Room. Looks Like We Got Peak 2021 Shipping & Handling Service. Do You Think They'll Notice The Dead Pixels?

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#174 Anyone Else Having A Great Night At Work?

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#175 There Is 40°C Inside The Tiny Room Where I Work At. No Ventilation Or Air Conditioner. I Just Love Summer

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#176 Our Toilet Paper At Work You Can Read Through

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#177 To Someone Who Stole My Work Backpack With Dirty Clothes In It, Hope It’s Worth It

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#178 The Boss Backed Into The Garage Door At Work Today

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#179 Running Late This Morning And Ordered An Egg McMuffin. Got To Work And Opened This Monstrosity

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#180 I Dropped My Peeled Banana On The Floor At Work

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#181 This Is How My Day Started At Work

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#182 Anyone Else Having A Really Bad Day?

I’m not sure what was the initial cause but it seems like the tool changer changed tool ok and then 1 of 2 things happened, either the bolt for the guide roller sheared or the head came down and caused the bolt to shear smashing the changer off! But in theory I would of thought the limit switches would of stopped the head moving as it wasn’t homed