What’s an embarrassing work tantrum you’ve witnessed?

Posted by franki-pinks@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 777 comments

One of my employees is a beer snob. No other way to put it. Its his 30th this weekend and everyone chipped in to buy him a few gifts with one being a case of his favourite beer which they don’t sell in this country anymore so had to get it sent over from Ireland. As a joke though we wrapped a crate of fosters up for him. We give him his gifts and we wrote on the label “we know it’s your favourite”. He opened it and we all kept a straight face. He looked around we all kept a straight face and then he exploded and said we are all wankers and none of us actually know him and he’d never drink that piss etc etc. it went on that long most people started to file away out of embarrassment and then his best work mate said “that was a joke this is what we really got you”. It was like a shit sitcom and no one said anything as he opened it and then we all just went about our day and no one has mentioned it lol.

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foolsgold1@reddit

Guy had first day of new job, but it was at an internal conference abroad (Prague IIRC). He checks into IT team to get onboarded on the systems, but he's annoyed they wouldn't give him the email address of his `nickname@company.com`, as they stated he could only have his real-name `firstname.surname@company.com`. New employee got quite angry and started raising his voice and shouting. Red-headed company boss oversaw the arguing, walked over, and told him that he was fired. He worked for the company for about 7 minutes, and then went straight back the airport. Ironically, I had 2 aliases for my email, `firstname` and `nickname`, and this was allowed... Just the main email address had to be `firstname.surname`. I later found out that the new employee had quite severe autism, and was likely related to that.. sad all around.

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jaysbaddecisions@reddit

fyi there’s no such thing as “severe” or “mild” autism just autism!

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foolsgold1@reddit

Can you share some academic or medical literature which backs this up? As, according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), there are 3 levels of autism: * ASD Level 1: Requiring Support * ASD Level 2: Requiring Substantial Support * ASD Level 3: Requiring Very Substantial Support In the previous release there was 5 levels, but there are now only 3. source: https://theplaceforchildrenwithautism.com/diagnosing-autism/the-three-levels-of-autism Some other interesting reading: * https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/autism-spectrum-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20352928 * https://www.sarahdooleycenter.org/news/the-difference-between-moderate-to-severe-autism/

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jaysbaddecisions@reddit

Not to say the DSM-5 isnt flawed to begin with but i will say that what’s highlighted in it and most of the other sources you shared are about levels of support needs. I’ll add that generally concepts of “severe” or “mild” autism do not exist because these concepts only come out of how autistic people are viewed and impact a neurotypical world- which is bollocks. The idea of an “autism spectrum” is not a spectrum of “least to most autistic” it’s an idea that each trait or characteristic of an individual is a spectrum and each people excel at some things and fall short at others.

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xanthophore@reddit

What does the boss being a redhead have to do with it? Did the employee use "ginger" as an insult or something?

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foolsgold1@reddit

Maybe it's a regional thing, but red-headed in my usage is that they have a tendency to react severely and over-the-top.

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Dimac99@reddit

It's because of the PTSD we get from the childhood bullying for being ginger.

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vaingloriouslunacy@reddit

A blonde would never have fired him?

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Jolly-Minimum-6641@reddit

E-mail addresses at my company match your HR record. Reasonable abbreviations are allowed so long as you go through the HR change process and get it changed officially. For example "Andrew Smith" can be andy[.]smith@mycompany.net

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K11ShtBox@reddit

Moon unit Zebedee war machine is a great band name

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lowkey_404@reddit

Lmao Does he still work there?

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

He does lol

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lowkey_404@reddit

Did he get any more gifts?

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Haha no he did not.

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lowkey_404@reddit

It'll be funny if you got him the cheap beer again and then when he waits for the expensive one everyone's like erm no its that

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

In a past life, I worked for the JobCentre. Not in the job centre rather taking claims over the phone for folk who were looking to claim PIP. I started with a group of people equally split male and female. Every one of the females quit after the first week. And most of the males except me and one other guy, I think his name was Chris. Now Chris was Ex Army, discharged for some dodgy behaviour. And everything but the army was beneath him. He was Ex Army and took every chance to tell you this. He hated the job and came out with all sorts “Us Army men don’t quit!”, “It’s All a State of mind”, “I’ve been to x Warzone, I think I can handle some people shouting on the phones”. Plot twist, he couldn’t handle being shouted at. Someone was clearly giving him grief on the phone, I sat across from him and I could see him getting more and more red, until Mr Army snapped. He stood up not realising his headset cable wasn’t long enough, that forced him to sit down again and rip this thing off of his head. He then proclaimed “I don’t need to take this shit anymore, I am LEAVING”. All whilst trying to throw his keyboard across the floor, presumably not realising it too was attached with a cord and it fell about a foot in front of him. Enraged at the failure of his antics, he then stormed over to the coat stand to put his jacked and scarf on. When flipping the scarf aggress around his neck, he accidentally flipped it in his face. This sent him into and even bigger spiral and he ripped the scarf from his neck and threw it onto the floor. Then proceeded to march out the door and the best part he tried to slam the soft closing door. Failed the first time, tried again, and again, and again until he gave up, gently closed the door and he was never seen again. He was not very good at the phone work, but by golly was he an amazing quitter.

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waste-of-ass000@reddit

> Every one of the females quit after the first week. > > > > And most of the males Just say men and women dude

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twonaq@reddit

This is another one of those situations where the gender doesn’t matter anyway, just say people. Most of the people quit. Done.

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Cold94DFA@reddit

No, it matters. Women are much more likely to be sexually, racially or just in generally aggressively abused while on the phone to strangers, and pointing it out is also a subtle way of bringing attention to it.

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Hallelujah33@reddit

I once had a caller threaten to rape me to death

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Intelligent_Fig920@reddit

I'd be sure to tell them the call recording was being sent to the police

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simmyawardwinner@reddit

fuckin hell, sorry about this. ugh i hate this world sometimes jesus whats wrong with people

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AutomaticInitiative@reddit

Hey I've had that too! Thanks Mr Smith, now I'm not going to help you through unblocking your UC claim. Bye.

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TomatoChomper7@reddit

That’s awful. What was the call originally about?

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Hallelujah33@reddit

Airbnb support. Can't remember if it was a guest or host.

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Vanlibunn@reddit

I had that as a mcdonalds front counter person at least twice that I remember, because I didn't get their burgers fast enough lol

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Hallelujah33@reddit

Horrendous. And for what? *McDonald's?* I hope they get raped to death on cycle in the afterlife.

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LobsterMountain4036@reddit

I once had a caller threaten to fly home from his holiday, take a trip across the country to wherever I was, find my manager and me, and punch me in the face. He didn’t know where I was based. After all of that I decided not to tell him. Another caller told a woman that he hoped her mother died of cancer, her mother was undergoing treatment for cancer.

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Hallelujah33@reddit

Holy shit like do you think his loved ones know he's prone to fantastical violent outbursts? I think we should be able to pick a family member we get to reply the calls to. Like the second caller's mom should hear that, for sure. 🍿

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DelightfulAbsurdity@reddit

He’d have to have a very thin peen to fit through the phone to do it. Self-burn, that one. (What an ass though. I’m sorry you experienced that.)

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Hallelujah33@reddit

I also had a guy who's profile Pic was in his pilot's uniform threaten to fly a plane into HQ

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DelightfulAbsurdity@reddit

I’m grateful that the worst interactions on Tinder that I had were a wannabe pimp trying to convince me to join his girls and a dude who opened with “I’m old enough to be your uncle.”

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Hallelujah33@reddit

Jfc... I didn't even have to go to tinder, customer service career had just wonders to show me.

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DelightfulAbsurdity@reddit

🫠 yes. It truly does.

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NodeZeroNein@reddit

[Here's a few sources](https://invosys.com/hanging-up-on-call-centre-abuse-with-invosys-call-handling-solutions/) [touching on the issue](https://www.callcentrehelper.com/shocking-number-being-sexually-harassed-by-callers-223908.htm) [for those who are struggling](https://www.nwas.nhs.uk/news/uncovering-the-shocking-abuse-call-handlers-face-on-a-daily-basis/) [to accept that women face abuse](https://home.coworker.org/resources/women-speak-out-about-gender-based-harassment-in-call-centers/)

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NibblyPig@reddit

I mean, nobody is doubting that women face abuse, I think there is a bit of a question about whether they're disproportionately on the receiving end. I've worked in a callcentre and most of the nasty abuse I got came from women. Guys were more likely to be dickheads, like 'youre too slow, fuck this' and hang up. Women were more likely to go off on a tirade about how you're useless and a shitty human being. It was a godawful job and I watched grown men get up in tears and go to the bathroom to recover before coming back and continuing, they never complained or said a word about it, they would always try to hide it since it's obviously a sign of weakness for men.

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NodeZeroNein@reddit

I've worked in a call centre also but, politely, our anecdotal experiences aren't enough to make broad generalisations. It's plausible, even likely, that male call handler abuse goes unreported due to unhealthy perceptions of masculinity, but it's a difficult thing to argue either way by its nature. Even then, I suspect that, at minimum, certain types of abuse (e.g. threats of sexual violence) *are* disproportionately aimed at female staff.

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NibblyPig@reddit

I agree, but I don't think anyone is doubting it happens. I'm sure the type of abuse is gendered, threatening to come and kick your ass is probably more male-focused, whereas making sexual comments is more female focused. That said a woman once said I had a lovely voice and I was probably very handsome. The fact I still remember that and felt a bit chuffed about it probably says what I thought about reporting it as sexual violence. My female friend hired at the same time, someone said she sounded hot, she replied without even hesitating that he was right, all 350lbs of her, and the guy quickly hung up and she moved onto the next call without even pausing.

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NodeZeroNein@reddit

I was reacting to a couple of negative comments expressing scepticism at the idea that female call handlers could disproportionately experience abuse. Perhaps it seems that I overreacted, but I wouldn't have commented if it didn't seem that some people do hold that view.

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AnonymousBanana7@reddit

Do you have a source for this?

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NibblyPig@reddit

Women are more oppressed, source: someone that will ruin your life if you don't blindly agree

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AnonymousBanana7@reddit

It's funny because in my experience of working with the public it's the total opposite. People are much quicker to escalate to aggression and then violence when dealing with male staff, to the extent that I tend not to get involved unless someone is already kicking off because it would only escalate things. The stats back it up. Men are the vast majority of victims of violence. But this guy makes a claim without so much as an anecdote to back it up and everyone takes it as fact because they like the narrative.

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NibblyPig@reddit

Indeed, because their narrative exists, guys aren't going to speak up even if bad things happen to them, because they're told their complaints are trivial compared to the suffering of women so shut up and deal with it.

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parachute--account@reddit

that is definitely, definitely a data driven fact, and not something you've just pulled out of your arse

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Cold94DFA@reddit

Oh dear ive gone and offended a man with the truth. What a shame.

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NibblyPig@reddit

An invented truth. No different to if I added, 'to be expected, women do this all the time' and followed it up with 'oh dear I've gone and offended a woman with the truth' when you quite rightly pointed out that I just made that up on the spot.

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BreathSmart@reddit

Woke brigade is out

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waste-of-ass000@reddit

yeah, that's a actually a better point

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chickenandpasta@reddit

It's kind of relevant, there's a good chance the girls/women quit before the boys/men as I would bet girls/women are more likely to suffer nasty sexist or sexual abuse over the phone.

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coconut_mall_cop@reddit

Yeah, "male" and "female" should really only be used as adjectives when talking about human beings, not nouns. "A female gardener" is fine, but "the female is a gardener" just sounds crass. It's a bit dehumanising - it sounds like the language used on a nature documentary to refer to animals.

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chickenandpasta@reddit

It might be a useful descriptor though if there are e.g. 16 year olds and 40 year olds working there, I wouldn't call 16 year olds men/women so males/females are useful words to cover all ages in that case.

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Complex-Honeydew-111@reddit

Boys and girls . Those are the words you're looking for for the 16 year olds. You're welcome.

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davmacbea@reddit

I think the point is if there are both adults and children. Something along the lines of "there were people aged between 10 and 40 - half were female and half male" is easier than saying "there were people aged between 10 and 40, half were girls and women and half boys and men". That however is using "female" and "male" as adjectives rather than nouns. It is using "female and "male" as nouns that people seem to be objecting to.

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spectrumero@reddit

Makes them sound like a Ferengi.

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NibblyPig@reddit

A lot of people I know use male/female, I think it's okay if you want to convey the gender of someone without adding detail about their age. Like if I say there were many females at the cinema, implies that females enjoyed the film. Whereas if I said there were many women at the cinema, it now puts the idea of a certain age demographic in your head. Maybe it's an age thing or a regional thing but a lot of people that I encounter, male and female, use the terms.

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

Using the adjective as the noun is usually the result of omission. It definitely reads weird, but it's usually not poorly-intentioned. These days actual sexists use more insulting terms anyway.

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Chemical-crowmance@reddit

Honestly though, 100%

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gronx050@reddit

Just as an FYI, it‘s quite common for non-natives to do this (I often do, although I‘m trying to stop). When your native language genders nouns, your brain often thinks you have to always indicate the female in English

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waste-of-ass000@reddit

English is not my first language, and in my language (Polish) everything has a gender. Even that stupid crumb stuck to my left foot has a gender.

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TomatoChomper7@reddit

As an English-only speaker, I’m vaguely fascinated by how the every-word-has-a-gender system in foreign languages works. Is there a logic to which words have which gender? If you encounter a new word by itself with no context, how do you know which gender it is?

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waste-of-ass000@reddit

Random i think

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gronx050@reddit

No logic to it at all, you have to learn every word. I.e. Apple is male, Carrot is female, Girl is neutral

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Puzzleheaded_Chip582@reddit

Which word for Girl is actually neutral? I'm pulling a blank here.

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gronx050@reddit

Das Mädchen

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gronx050@reddit

Yeah same in German. So I would say Kollegin (female colleague) and Kollege (male coworker), and then somehow my brain in English will often go and say female coworker, although it‘s completely unnecessary in the convo

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

Just use the German word endings while speaking English and never draw attention to it. For the record, you can gender most "occupation" nouns in English by replacing -er with -ess: see "actor/actress". Some words have lost their male counterpart, eg "temptress". You can legitimately construct new female-specific nouns out of non-gendered words, eg "coworkess", although it'd come across as weird.

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MartyDonovan@reddit

Surely men can still be tempters?

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Academic_Pen369@reddit

Albeit an uncommon word, but you could yeah. Although adding gendered endings to occupational nouns in English is generally seen as weird by younger native speaking generations. I'm sure plenty enough people still do, but I rarely if ever hear specific gender distinctions from people my age (30) and below when talking about job titles etc. Someone who acts is an actor, a steward is just a steward, saying "male nurse" sounds bizarre so it's just nurse. It's kind of redundant when our language doesn't use gender like this, and comes across like you're trying to single out someone for their being a woman in a typically male dominated role for e.g.

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wolfman86@reddit

Do you think that’s due to negative association with a certain type of character?

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MartyDonovan@reddit

I am English, but no worries, mine was just a light-hearted comment. Thanks for the detailed response! It's definitely seen as 'not the done thing' any more, and with good reason. By contrast in some gendered languages like German, I have heard that it is seen as empowering to create (if nonexistent) and use a gendered occupational noun, especially in a male dominated field, presumably because the other word is specifically gendered, and the grammatical rules are quite clear, so doing this claims it for the sake of equality in the field. For example, Angela Merkel being the first 'Kanzlerin'. Whereas in English the opposite is true because the 'default' word is not actually gendered and there's no grammatical reason forcing it to be used only for men, only societal bias, so it's better to reclaim that word for everyone and do away with the gendered distinction. Just thought that was interesting.

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wolfman86@reddit

I only know of “temptress” being used as an insult…

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CandidLiterature@reddit

Reading your post has made me realise the poster above you have the right idea. It’s at a minimum rude and probably actively derogatory to use many terms as nouns instead of adjectives to describe people. So you’ve said “non-natives” which would have most people assuming you’re a racist using coded language. However, saying “non-native speakers” is completely fine. I’m not having a go, obviously your intention is clear but I thought it might help to understand the issue extends well past genders.

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

Yep, the point has been taken and as I’ve said to the other comments, I truthfully did not mean any offence by it. I was trying to be factually correct to my memory of the situation. Lesson learned the hard way.

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

Point taken. I had not wanted to cause any upset. I was just trying to be as factually correct as my wee brain would allow.

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Ravenser_Odd@reddit

There's nothing wrong with using male and female. It's only a problem when people start talking about 'men and *females'* in that very pointed way.

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Icy_Obligation4293@reddit

Yeah that was weird. Maybe he thinks of people like participants in an experiment? Also, it had literally nothing to do with the story.

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glitterswirl@reddit

Why are you incapable of using the word “women”?

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

Not incapable of using the term women. I just wanted to be as factually correct as my memory would allow. I genuinely did not mean to cause any upset by it.

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davmacbea@reddit

Nobody should be upset by you using those terms as you clearly were not being sexist at all. "Female" and "male" have been used as nouns to describe women and men for at least 600 years. The reason people are criticising you for using the terms is because horrible men started using "females" in a condescending and sexist way when talking about women. Some people therefore now associate using "females" with those attitudes and they think it's best to avoid using the word to describe women. So they've got a valid point, and you also didn't do anything wrong.

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Mr_Emile_heskey@reddit

Eh don't stress about it. Anyone upset about it needs to step outside and touch some grass.

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glitterswirl@reddit

And using the words “men and women”, in a story where the number of staff of each gender wasn’t even a pertinent detail, would have made it factually incorrect?

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WernerHerzogEatsShoe@reddit

It's not that deep. Who cares.

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pinnnsfittts@reddit

Innit. Man and Woman are synonyms of Male and Female. People are always trying to assign malicious intent when there clearly wasn't any. Says more about them then anyone else.

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WernerHerzogEatsShoe@reddit

Literally going out their way to be offended. Putting actual effort in to being upset. It's funny.

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sithren@reddit

what if the females werent women and the males werent men?

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glitterswirl@reddit

To my knowledge the Jobcentre doesn’t employ children or animals.

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Chemical-crowmance@reddit

Your ingrained misogyny seemed to really shine at the start of this post, using the word 'females' and mentioning that all the women quit when it's of no relevance to a story about a man that had a tantrum, but had to have a solid dig at the women first didn't ya? Love that for you

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TenaStelin@reddit

thinks he's tough because he's been in a few warzones. a day in customer service will knock those misgivings right out of a man.

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RedditWanderers@reddit

Says he’s not a quitter *turns out to be an amazing quitter*

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emilicia@reddit

The last part reads like a sitcom lmao

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Jumpy_Succotash_241@reddit

This is hilarious 😂

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Paracosm26@reddit

When you mentioned him getting enraged at his failure, it made me think that'd make good lyrics for a Kate Bush song.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

I used to work in a warehouse were it was really physical work (loading truck tyres to lorries) and the ex army agency staff were famous for quitting after a day

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postvolta@reddit

To be fair, I'm a pretty patient person and after a year on the phones taking shit from people I had a fair few tantrums before I quit. That is a job I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Whittles you down.

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

Oh aye, it’s a shite job. My contract wasn’t renewed and I’m reasonably certain part of that was refusing to ask a woman who was claiming because she had just had a still birth if she was pregnant. I wouldn’t wish that job on anyone.

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Reasonable-Lunch-698@reddit

Your actions here mean I consider you an ally of women. Thank you standing strong and remaining human within a system seemingly designed to strip humanity. Whilst I agree that the word ‘female’ has unfortunately become contentious, it’s very clear you didn’t use it in a derogatory way and intent is key! Until recently it was a neutral, factually descriptive word! When the new context was explained though, you were gracious and accepting. You’re a good un!

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Scoobs2929@reddit

‘Marched out of the door’ I see what you did there!

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Busy_Mortgage4556@reddit

I've got a Monty Python/John Cleese sketch in my head

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

I promise you, that was completely unintentional.

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ExplorerLow289@reddit

Did he leave the scarf behind?

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LearningToShootFilm@reddit

Scarf was left behind. It looked so sad just laying there strewn over the floor.

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

A guy in my office accused me of using his protein shaker, I didn’t but he was a bit weird in general, and he got his wife to come in and argue with me about it 😂 this adult man was silently stood in the background whilst his wife screamed at me over it

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UseNew2249@reddit

How old was he and how old were you? 🤣

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

I was about 25 at the time roughly and he must have been about 30, though he was about 5 foot tall

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UseNew2249@reddit

Yeah that sounds about right, I imagined him being older and somewhat insecure to act like that 😭 sounds like when my older fellow female coworker complained and got the manager to have a go at me for eating one of the sweets she bought in for everyone to eat. Turns out she just didn’t want me eating them and told my manager I gobbled down the whole packet 😭😭 she was insecure and hated me for no reason. So odd.

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kemichard@reddit

Lol. Closest I’ve seen is a guy accusing someone of stealing his lunch and printing off passive-aggressive signs for the fridge. Turns out he left it in his car. In july.

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tangles3@reddit

Not too related but this reminds me of when I grown man in his 40s accidentally made a big mess in the office kitchen when his coffee exploded and went all over the units, ceiling etc. He got his wife to come in that evening to clean it up for him

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aStrange_quark@reddit

Jesus H. what a melt

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thujaplicata84@reddit

No idea what that means but I like it and want to use the term.

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aStrange_quark@reddit

What, a melt? I'd say it's just below a muppet, but worse than a tool. Two shades less than a weapon.

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NutAli@reddit

And she actually did it?

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Ready_Perspective_95@reddit

Did his wife also work there? Or did she just randomly walk in and start shouting out you?? 😂 So many questions lol.

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

She did but no one knew it was his wife and she worked in a random room in a different part of the building Girls in our office said he messaged them asking for photos of them in low-cut tops and wearing nothing but dungarees 😂 used to have many “characters” in the office that led to multiple stories like this

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parachute--account@reddit

Was this a workplace where dungarees are a reasonable choice of clothing, or just him being weird?

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

Entirely the latter

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lnm1969@reddit

Don't mind the odd dungaree setup but _asking_ for it like its a fuckin menu item ? 🧐

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Capable_Dog9293@reddit

Being married and asking girls for sexy pics is the real mess tbh

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

Did he at least offer to buy the dungarees, or did he expect them to already own some?

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wolfman86@reddit

Whatever, it’s weird.

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WhoYaTalkinTo@reddit

OP was talking about when he worked as a mechanic in Texas in the 50s

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Fenrir-The-Wolf@reddit

Where the bloody hell are dungarees a reasonable choice of clothing? Dungaree related anecdote, from the ages of 3 to about 6 I exclusively wore dungarees and would throw a massive paddy if I wasn't allowed to for whatever reason. I think it stemmed from my obsession with Bob the Builder. I've never worn dungarees since.

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parachute--account@reddit

Oklahoma in the 1930s? Idk

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coalpatch@reddit

Maybe it was a farming kink!

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spacey_kitty@reddit

A guy I worked with regularly phoned his wife's employer to argue with them about any small thing at work she wasn't happy about. He would do this ON WORK TIME in an open office. He was a twat in a countless number of ways tbf and it sounded like his wife did all the housework too in addition to having a job.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

One of my employees is 43 and still gets his mum to ring in for him when he’s ill.

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MuddyHiPo@reddit

My partner generally called in for me when I was ill, but it's slightly different as when I'm ill, I'm laid out. He knew when I was ill as he couldn't wake me up until lunchtime or if I did wake up, I'd talk gibberish or couldn't talk at all. I have chronic fatigue syndrome, so brain fog hits, and if I let my energy deplete too much, I forget how to read until I've had a few hours sleep to rejuvenate again.

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aliceinlondon@reddit

You have too many of these stories. Where do you work?

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’ve owned the place for over ten years and got over 100 employees, there’s plenty of stories lol

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yesthenshaggers@reddit

I'm a bit of a character, can I have a job 80k+ car please. I can guarantee you at least 2 stories a week.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

The jobs yours!

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peelyon85@reddit

Seriously though. Any jobs going?

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Got a couple of engineer jobs going.

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Enax98@reddit

Where can I apply

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Human-Expression-652@reddit

What does your company do?

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ChimpFingeredFreak@reddit

Bet he drinks his own piss as well.

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batty_61@reddit

Made me think of a lovely scene in one of the Dennis the Menace cartoons where his wife is writing a letter to his boss. "Dear Dennis's dad's boss, Dennis's dad won't be able to come to work this week. Love, Dennis's mum. xxx"

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Agarwaen323@reddit

Does he still live with his mum? Or when he's ill does he phone his mum, tell her he's ill, and then she phones you?

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Educational-Farmer28@reddit

My best mate is 54 and gets her boyfriend to ring in for her. And she calls me the ‘pappy’ one.

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chriscringlesmother@reddit

Christ, I had a bloke have his wife write a letter disputing the issues I raised in an appraisal. Offered no counter to the documented incidents and issues with times, dates and incident #’s just “I don’t agree with it”….it went nowhere, I offered him HR’s help to file a grievance and his answer “no thanks, I’ve said my peace” so he got a shitty review and his dispute was noted.

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Aggravating-Top-7976@reddit

Should have farted in it after that

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mrmidas2k@reddit

I hope "Protein Shaker" isn't innuendo.

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Dizzy-Range6561@reddit

A 56 year old man had his wife come in to the roughest factory I ever worked in. Had a real yell at 4 of us for putting stickers on his back. I was 19. I remember my mate having to hold me up I was laughing so hard.

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Old_Dealer_7002@reddit

well, she always wins when \*he\* argues with her, so he figured…

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Excellent-Ad-2443@reddit

oh hes so brave getting his wife to fight his battles what a tool! When i worked at a trucking firm years ago a guy rung up for a job, you could tell his wife was in the background yelling at him and telling him what to say because he clearly couldnt talk for himself. She also typed out his CV and sent into us, we threw it in the bin

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ohnobobbins@reddit

This is fantastically weird!! What did you say?

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BuffaloPancakes11@reddit

Not a lot outside of demonstrating it was my own protein shaker, I quickly left because it was becoming a very loud and embarrassing scene I did not want to be a part of!

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ohnobobbins@reddit

Oh my god, so it wasn’t even his? Did he ever acknowledge the mistake or apologise? That is mental 😂

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Humble_Event3115@reddit

I was on a squadron in the RAF with a Flight Commander, second in command of the squadron, who was a total wanker. No one liked him. No one wanted to fly with him. One day the Ops Clerk told him his jet was busted and he went off on the young lad. He was ranting away and basically blaming this young airman for just about everything that went wrong in the last week. From a senior officer it was highly embarrassing andwe all felt for the Ops Clerk as he was a good lad. I was about to defend the Ops Clerk when he just smacked him down verbally. It was beautiful. This Flight Commander was very short on stature, we often joked about how he was The Milky Bar kid, so we were all smiling when the Ops Clerk looked around and said "Has anyone lost a small child ?? .. Anyone ?? .. Anyone lost a small angry child ??". This made the Flight Commander worse, he kicked his pathetic rant up a gear by threatening to charge and jail the Ops Clerk. The Ops Clerk kept calm, looked him in the eye and said "Now Now Sir, you're not getting an ice cream with that attitude". Greatest take down I have ever seen and the young lad cemented his reputation that day. Flight Commander was taken aside by the Boss and given a one way verbal post mortem on his unacceptable behaviour.

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Unthunkable@reddit

This was a very weird one. About 10 years ago I was temping on reception for a building company. They had a VERY old-school senior guy who didn't have a computer because he couldn't use it. Instead reception had access to his emails and I had to print them out and put them in his pigeon hole. He's come and collect them at various times and then write a reply by hand which I had to then type back up and send for him. He also had to work on physical drawings so everything had to be printed on the correct size paper etc. if he had notes about drawings I had to mark them up and send electronically. He retired on a Tuesday. They had a big do for him. They presented him a golden engraved watch and gave him gift vouchers for experience days and other expensive gifts. Everyone said goodbye and he left mid afternoon. That was his last day. The next day, he came back into the office and carried on working. The MD had to go and tell him to leave because he didn't work there anymore. He hadn't forgotten and come in on auto pilot - he knew he had retired, he just wanted to come back and carry on working. He didn't take being asked to leave well. He said a lot of angry things and gave back all his gifts... He was a very peculiar man.

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

Can companies actually make you retire when you hit retirement age though? It sounds like a pain in the arse having to print everything out for this one guy that can't be bothered to learn to use a computer though.

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Unthunkable@reddit

He retired though. I'm pretty sure that once you retire you're no longer under employment contract with the company and so they have no requirement to pay you and I'd assume there's potentially some insurance issues around non employees being on site. Either way, he was a liability

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

That’s weird and also sad. I know someone who’s a postman and one of the old men there retired and had done the job since the day he left school and had been on pretty much the same route for the last 30 years with the odd change to it. A month after he retired he came back and asked if he could work for free sorting the mail in the morning and then walking around the route with the new person on it. They said no obviously but he would still stand at the gate every morning trying to talk to his former colleagues and even started wearing his uniform as he walked the same streets he used to. Sad really.

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Working-Hat4932@reddit

A chap who worked in our service team (probably in his 50's) was proven wrong by the apprentice who had just started, he blew up shouting 'Thats it im going home! I'm phoning the mrs and telling her to put the kettle on because im going home, F\*ck the lot of you'. 20 minutes later he was back at his desk working like nothing had happened

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Top-Weakness-9316@reddit

‘Wonderful Derek, bloody marvellous idea, why not quit your job before we’ve finished paying the sodding mortgage off, just because you’ve got the arseache.’

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kemichard@reddit

This reminds me of a guy we had in logistics who once shouted “I’m done with this circus” and stormed out. And came back 15 mins later haha

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Aggravating-Top-7976@reddit

I've seen this happen so many times not as extreme but when did people lose the ability to take constructive criticism in the workplace?

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vinylrain@reddit

This has a real "Screw you guys, I'm going home" Eric Cartman energy to it. I love it.

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batty_61@reddit

I could hear that!

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lnm1969@reddit

Brilliant.

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Lady_of_Lomond@reddit

I bet his Missus gave him an earful and told him not to be such a prannet.

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PompousTart@reddit

Ha, ha! I haven't heard "prannet" for ages!

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DiscothequeHooligan@reddit

TIL prannet is a word! And it's great! I'm gonna use it!!

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LikeEveryoneSheKnows@reddit

>I'm phoning the mrs and telling her to put the kettle on because im going home. OK but that has me creased, fucking brilliant. The most childishly British tantrum.

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sellis80@reddit

I honestly read that line as Glenn from The Thick of It! “I am a man!”. 😂

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mawarup@reddit

he’s gone Glenntal!

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gloom-juice@reddit

He's gone Glenntal!

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RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit

He's gone glental.

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

He's not a joke!

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sellis80@reddit

I’m due a binge watch!

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

Get on the sub as well! :)

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sellis80@reddit

I joined years back!

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

Nice! I just tell anybody that will listen.

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sellis80@reddit

Keep doing the Lord’s work!!

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

It's not a job, but it's honest work... Or something.

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sellis80@reddit

Made me chuckle that

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Bug_Parking@reddit

Fuck tinky winky

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

There's a website for that. Probably.

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colei_canis@reddit

At least he’s Hugh’s Glenn, you’re Ben’s Glenn!

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SinHarvestz@reddit

>Thats it im going home! I'm phoning the mrs and telling her to put the kettle on because im going home, F\*ck the lot of you Sebastian Vettel vibes from this hahaha

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razor5cl@reddit

Yknow that was 15 years ago last week...

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TrendyGame@reddit

> 20 minutes later he was back at his desk working like nothing had happened That's the Larry David/George Costanza move.

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coocoomberz@reddit

Unappreciated comedy genius right there

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coocoomberz@reddit

Unappreciated comedy genius right there

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TheDawiWhisperer@reddit

this happened at a place i worked, a guy had an absolute meltdown...stomped out of the office making a massive show of it, saying we could all fuck off and he was going home. quietly slid back to his desk about 30 mins later.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Haha I love seeing that happen. Seeing them come back and try to act normally is hilarious.

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

Fosters is absolute piss, I'm really not a fan but if i was gifted it by anyone, I'm thanking them and acting very grateful. Then I'm giving it away later or putting it in the cupboard for one of those days you realise you're out of beer and the shop has shut, better than nowt!

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GettingRichQuick420@reddit

Exactly. My response would have been ‘thanks for getting me something I’ll be willing to share with y’all’.

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earthworm_express@reddit

Fosters is great festival beer. You can drink it warm, you can drink it all day, the brightly coloured can is easy to find in the dark and you’re not sad if you lose it.

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

There are a few beers i will drink warmer than intended, some bitters or real ale is actually better. Fosters is not one of them! Also, why would i lose my beer? Hold until gone, get a new one from the back or box i am clutching tightly haha.

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Traditional-Tour37@reddit

It's served cold because it kills the taste of it

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

This is why nearly all alcohol is served cold tbh, but people lie to themselves

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Traditional-Tour37@reddit

I put a bottle of wine in the freezer recently and it was a slushie by the time I remembered about it. I couldn't work out if I was enjoying it so much because it was frozen or because I liked the taste of the wine.

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TheMightyTRex@reddit

I put a 2l bottle of coke into an under counter fridge. it was too close to the back and I had just moved in and didn't notice the temperature was low

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TheMightyTRex@reddit

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Traditional-Tour37@reddit

Wow! That did explode. My sister did similar but tried to open the coke over the sink. I just remember her head snapping back and coke spraying the ceiling. It's such a pain to clean too

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TheMightyTRex@reddit

the bottle had not been opened. it was everywhere. scared the shit out of me. reminded me of bombs going off in Northern Ireland growing up.

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TheMightyTRex@reddit

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Mukatsukuz@reddit

And if you leave it unattended then someone pisses in it, you'll not notice

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frankie_baby@reddit

Cider enters the chat…

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earthworm_express@reddit

In late to the cider game, but see now it is a clear winner!

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SucculentVariations@reddit

If you garden, a cup of beer is great slug bait. They're lured in by the smell and fall in and drown. Just make sure to toss it regularly, rot slug soup stinks

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DeadBallDescendant@reddit

My sister bought me 365 cans of Carling for my birthday last year. I took that approach to it.

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razor5cl@reddit

I'd be making a lot more beer battered fish and chips or onion rings at that rate!

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sideone@reddit

I think I'd prefer nothing than Fosters, there's always water in the tap

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frankie_baby@reddit

Got more alcohol content and tastes better imo

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boudicas_shield@reddit

There are several good recipes you can make that require beer, but of course you don’t want to use anything decent for cooking. So it could also be used for that!

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mistakes-were-mad-e@reddit

I visit the back of the cupboard often enough that it's usually empty. Cold Fosters shandy in the garden would be fine.

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Deadened_ghosts@reddit

Fosters does make a decent shandy, so much so, they even sell shandy now

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

Exactly, but the cupboard is empty because i like the drinks I've put in there. If it was a crate of Fosters, it would be sitting there until I'm really out of options and wanting to keep the night going lol. If i get home from work and see all that is left is Fosters, I'd probably just have a glass of water or a cuppa lol.

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PrinceFan72@reddit

Worked with a guy in an open plan room, in a team of about 12. This bloke was a bit of an opinionated idiot but did his work, etc. I can't remember why but he felt slighted by another member of the team and it seemed to have been his final straw. She was at lunch and he ranted for a good five minutes about how he was sick of her attitude towards him and he was going to have it out with her once and for all. He was going to do it in front of us all to show her and us that he can't be pushed around. She came back from lunch and sat at her desk. We all waited. And we waited. Furtive glances from us between him and her were exchanged. It got very quiet as we waited for this promised explosion. After about 10 minutes, she had a call come in and went off to talk to the user. The room remained quiet for a minute or so, before our boss quietly said, "You really told her, didn't you mate?". Bless him, he laughed with us at his own stupidity and realisation that it wasn't all that serious after all.

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kemichard@reddit

I had a guy in my old office that talked all morning about how he was gonna confront our manager in the team meeting. Meeting came, we all braced for impact… and he just sat there nodding like a puppy.

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Chemical-crowmance@reddit

Classic of the 'tough guy' to not be able to deal with working with woman and telling everyone he'll tell her when she's out the room, atleast he had a laugh when he was called out I just hope there wasn't anyone at home he was taking that anger out on after.

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PrinceFan72@reddit

Very perceptive. He often called in late on Mondays, as he’d just been released from jail for fighting Sunday night. His divorce was messy too

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Capable_Dog9293@reddit

Sounds like he has some trouble expressing himself poor pooh

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Tasty-Ad8258@reddit

That’s brilliant, the buildup, the silence, then the boss’s line? Absolute sitcom moment. At least he took it on the chin, not everyone would’ve!

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PrinceFan72@reddit

It was brilliant, I agree. During the silence, he was visibly bracing for the ribbing he was about to get.

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Due_Cauliflower_7786@reddit

That’s hilarious and kinda wholesome in the end. Dude went full “final boss monologue” and then just… fizzled out. At least he had the self-awareness to laugh it off!

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Greedy-Sherbet3916@reddit

I am also this guy, more than I care to admit lol

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NotRealWater@reddit

I'm the junior with but with the managers comment

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StrangeAffect7278@reddit

This one had me laughing! I had a colleague like that but I actually yelled at them to get back to work instead.

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Narradisall@reddit

Top banter from that guy.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Haha I love seeing stuff like that. It was good of him to own it as well.

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Alternative-Ad-4977@reddit

Oh dear. I actually cackled at this.

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Artistic_Bug_7223@reddit

Used to work in an open plan office with a particularly stroppy twat. He lost his rag over something once and stormed out. The storminess was diminished somewhat by his attempt to slam a door with a soft closer, which was stronger than him.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I wish I could say I haven’t done this but I have lol.

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kiradax@reddit

I've done it with a soft close kitchen cupboard 😅

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Tricky_Judge_6026@reddit

Hey

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universe_from_above@reddit

Ikea used to have a TV add with that! A moody teenager throwing a tantrum while the parents are just chill because all the cabinets are soft-closing.

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TheMightyTRex@reddit

thays fantastic

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Eckieflump@reddit

Trust me, you can beat those. You can beat a fair few door ones as well with enough gusto. I speak from many, many years of experience. Unfortunately, I'm one of those who goes up like a rocket and down as fast before I hit the "Right, let's sort this out" point about 30 seconds later. Paddy done and moved on to, usually, very effective problem solving. But those first 30 seconds can be annoying.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

You're proper scary

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KiwiNo2638@reddit

My daughter did that by ripping the cupboard door off. I'd be impressed if someone did that with a soft close office door.

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justrobbo_istaken@reddit

...And then caught my pocket on the handle.... yeah, been there.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Haha yes I’ve also done that.

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henrymyers0@reddit

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Not_a_real_ghost@reddit

What made you so angry at work that you needed to slam the door?

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

People trying to slam soft close doors at the climax of a work strop always cracks me up

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_Dreamer_Deceiver_@reddit

The trick is to slam it open not closed, slam it right into the plasterboard office walls

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Calm_Doughnut_3398@reddit

lol ive dont this too

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ConstantCandy8696@reddit

Please check out your dm ☺️

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PlatformFeeling8451@reddit

Not work-related at all, but my dad once stormed off from a family argument and walked straight into a glass door. Stood up, said some final cutting line, turned, half a step forward, WHAM. Somehow, he maintained his composure and walked out of the room. But all semblance of authority had deserted him.

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stanleywozere@reddit

When me and my two siblings were being particularly obnoxious my Mum finally snapped. She marched into the bathroom where we were all fighting over God knows what with a massive wooden spoon. “RIGHT. I’VE. HAD. ENOUGH! FROM. NOW. ON. BAD. BEHAVIOUR. GETS. THIS! ” Each word punctuated with a massive crack of the wooden spoon on the side of the bath. On the final crack it snapped in half to gales of laughter My poor mum

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NutAli@reddit

The bath or the spoon?

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Fit_Organization_824@reddit

This is crazy but, I managed to time it so my mother slapped the spoon on a hardcover Harry Potter book and it cracked in half. My twin and I lost it.

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Adyj2024@reddit

The spoon or the book?

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Fit_Organization_824@reddit

The spoon was broken, my bad.

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jinglesan@reddit

"Spoonicus bafoonicus!"

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Itchbatchi@reddit

Good old syllable slaps. Those sentences seems to go on forever lol

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Tanto207064@reddit

My mum used to get the wooden spoon on me and my brother so once we hid them all and wound her up and she ran to the drawer to get them and they were gone. It was hilarious

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hopefulrefuse1974@reddit

My dad used to do this. Only my butt was the bath... Fun times.

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dervish666@reddit

I had almost exactly this happen to me, Mum was raging, got a wooden spoon and smacked it against the step, breaking it. I lost it, got into much bigger trouble for taunting my Mum saying how is she going to wallop me now. I found out.

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TroublemakingB@reddit

Shades of my mom chasing me up the stairs, whacking me with a yardstick until it broke into pieces too small to use. She was a sweet and patient woman so whatever it was I did I certainly deserved her ire.

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lickmyscrotes@reddit

I received a second flogging because my mother broke the wooden spoon giving me the first flogging….

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CyndersParadigm@reddit

We had something similar in school. The class had been particularly badly behaved, and the teacher started banging her fist on the overhead projector while shouting I! WILL! NOT! The next word was going to be "tolerate," but the glass on the OHP smashed on the first syllable. Cue shocked silence before the teacher walked out of the room

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Goldencol@reddit

Love an embarrassing dad tale. I bet he still has that one going through his head!! I remember my dad storming into my room when I'd been particularly bad as a teenager. He shouted " That's it! You're gated !!" " Um I think you mean grounded?" " YES!" still makes me laugh now.

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GaryNerfenberger@reddit

Gated was definitely an older term used in parts of the UK, I experienced the same situation but was just confused by it, eventually figured it out from context clues. In fairness, the Black country has some colourful terminology so you'd get used to not understanding what older people were saying.

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NutAli@reddit

That's going to confuse the Americans, the Black country! Lol

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RFRMT@reddit

Black Country also has some colourful chips, as I understand it!

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

It comes from Oxford and Cambridge,back in the day if you misbehaved you were locked in the outer walls of college. Imagine them doing that at universities now. Explains it's use in the Midlands as well.

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ilikewatch10@reddit

I think "gated" was the British term, and "grounded" was the US term, which has since taken over.

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jflb96@reddit

‘Gated’ is the boarding school equivalent of grounded

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NutAli@reddit

I've never heard of that. We got 'LOPs' - loss of privileges!

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lnm1969@reddit

Then his admission made his position so much worse....

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clungebob69@reddit

I used to get gated many years ago at Hogwarts, when I was naughty.

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Quinn_27@reddit

Sticking your wand where it wasn’t supposed to be?

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OttovonShriek@reddit

Am British, have never ever heard gated. I've always been of the impression grounding as a concept was a US thing that made its way over here, but I may be wrong on that.

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PuzzleheadedDog562@reddit

I remember my Dad being angry with my brother & me about how untidy the living room was. He picked up a Kays catalogue from the floor, tried & failed to tear it in half & then his trousers fell down! Also, if anything ever went wrong with something electrical, he'd threaten to "Fuck it through Curry's window."

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MillyAndTheDream@reddit

I love your Zippy icon 💖

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mattjimf@reddit

My wife did something similar, stormed off towards a door, and did the opposite of what was needed to open the door, then had to walk in front of us all the way to the car because she didn't have any other way to get home.

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coldhands-warm-heart@reddit

Reminds me of when me and my fiancé argued at his work do and I stormed off but slipped on a chip that had fallen off the buffet and onto the laminate floor and almost hit the deck. Was very hard to stay mad after that

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Wiseblood1978@reddit

I drove my wife to a vaccination centre for her Covid jab and we had a row on the way, so when we got there she jumped out of the car without saying goodbye and marched off towards the place. Except she went in the wrong direction so I had the pleasure of winding the window down and shouting "it's that way, love". Luckily she saw the funny side and it completely diffused the drama.

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Clean_Impression_327@reddit

Happened to me once on holiday: had been sunbathing & fallen asleep(so was very burnt/colour of a lobster). My sister threw a bucket of water over me to wake me up (exactly what I’d have done to her in the same situation tbf) and after shrieking I stormed off round the corner and crashed into a glass door hard enough to shatter it. Needless to say I’ll never ever be allowed to live that down again

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Throwawaylife1984@reddit

My neighbour was telling at us kids playing in the garden because we were playing IT, and she didn't like her precious wickle baby not being it every time, she stormed towards us, right thru a glass patio door. Cost us a fortune to replace and she refused to even help as if we hadn't been absolute wee shite to her spoiled brat, it wouldn't have happened. He was a horrible kid. We used to play hide and seek, let him hide, then go off and play somewhere else.

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Alyssa9876@reddit

Was once on a works do and we were having a few drinks in a local bar beforehand. One of those new modern wine bar type all glass all around. One of the younger lads and two middle age guys set off before us from work and dashed into a local old fashioned pub to throw a couple of cheap pints down their necks before meeting up with the rest of us. So the guys come up to where we are sat behind glass and two walked in the gap where the door was and the young lad on the end of the row completely misjudged stuff and slammed full tilt into a glass pane. The whole wall shook there was a big bang and lad was on the floor. Never laughed so much, lad was ok and didn’t pay for another drink all night lol. Those glass doors with no edges can be so dangerous especially when people have had a drink.

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mattjimf@reddit

My wife did something similar, in that she stormed off and walked straight into a door, then had to be followed by us back to the car, as she had no other way home.

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mattjimf@reddit

My wife did something similar, stormed off towards a door, and did the opposite of what was needed to open the door, then had to walk in front of us all the way to the car because she didn't have any other way to get home.

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YehiaBasuiony@reddit

That's crazy

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GromitWallace@reddit

Lol when we got new carpet I got thicker underlay so that my misses couldn't slam doors anymore as I CBF to move them all down a few mm 🤣 that shit was so funny every time

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superflick_x@reddit

I worked with an Italian vet who tried to slam paper to the floor. It was one sheet of a4 and it floated gently down when “thrown”. Its incooperation did not improve her mood.

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No_External_417@reddit

I can see this lol 😂

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Geistzeit@reddit

American here. Thanks for introducing me to the word "stroppy" (had to look it up). I'm a bit curious as to is origin; dictionary only has "perhaps by shortening & alteration from *obstreperous*"

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howlinatthesun86@reddit

Never seen or heard obstreperous before the slang has fully taken over for far too long in England. Not many would know it. But I'm using it now.

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Dazzling_One_4335@reddit

I tried to storm out of the house after a big argument with my partner, only for my rucksack strap to get caught in the door handle. I looked like an absolute knob flailing about trying to free myself. It defused the whole situation and neither of us could do anything but laugh.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

James Hetfield does this on the Some Kind of Monster documentary

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Artistic_Bug_7223@reddit

To be fair I'd be doing the same after hearing the snare drum on St Anger

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

I secretly quite like that snare. Lars needs to be told to stfu regularly though

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ddan_13@reddit

I’ve been the person doing this. Has to give it a really hard pull!

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Vivaelpueblo@reddit

My GF's teenage daughter stormed off in a huff and swung the kitchen door wide open so it would bang loudly against the kitchen worktop. Unbeknownst to her I'd just fitted a doorstop as I'd noticed my GF's kitchen worktop and door were getting dented (she was renting so I was worried she'd lose some of her deposit), it was one of those springy ones. So as the teenager was in mid meltdown, glaring at her mum and triumphantly flinging the door open wide, it merely made a muted "bedooiinnggg" as it hit the springy doorstop. I struggled to hide my mirth as the teenage darling daughter stomped off.

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herwiththepurplehair@reddit

We had them specifically fitted to stop a former colleague doing this, he then threatened to report me to the properties manager for putting automatic closers on the doors….🤦🏼‍♀️

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jjsvanlife@reddit

Did we work together?

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DryAd296@reddit

Lmao there’s nothing funnier than someone trying to make a dramatic exit and the door just gently hissing shut behind them. Total power loss.

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_veil_of_lyra@reddit

The door refusing to cooperate really sealed the performance - more of a gentle whoosh than a dramatic exit.

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Pothany@reddit

AI comment/profile

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Artistic_Bug_7223@reddit

A barely discernable hiss, not dissimilar to a dog breaking wind

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JP198364839@reddit

There is no way I’m naming him but someone now famous (on the TV) did that when I worked with him in an office.

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fieldsofanfieldroad@reddit

Bill Oddie?

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ScottChegg81@reddit

What's rude about a B. Oddie?

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fieldsofanfieldroad@reddit

Tits?

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ScottChegg81@reddit

That is the correct answer.

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wasdice@reddit

Was it Jimmy Carr?

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lnm1969@reddit

Angela Ripon

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Cyb3rd31ic_Citiz3n@reddit

You can say James Cordon. No one likes him.

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Altaredboy@reddit

Hahaha, I've seen this at work too. Guy misinterpreted something written on the job board called the management cunts tried to slam the door then started walking home cos he was on a suspension for drink driving & his wife wouldn't be able to pick him up for 3 hours. Manager just sighed & asked me to take one of the work cars to bring him back. Don't know how he wasn't fired over it as he was on thin ice for losing his licence already.

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Rhythm_Killer@reddit

I don’t remember any soft closers but this might have been me, sorry.

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ohnobobbins@reddit

Overheard my colleague and I thought good friend openly slagging off her secret santa gift - a hand embossed leather bound notebook. She said ‘I mean everyone who knows me would know it isn’t me at all… it’s so ugly!’ to our whole team :( The buyer of that secret santa was… me! The notepad cost quite a lot and was really beautiful. I should have asked for it back!

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AprilBelle08@reddit

I think that sounds like a beautiful gift, what a poor show by her

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Darkhumor4u@reddit

One of my jobs, had a policy, that gifts could be swapped around, with other colleages

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Mukatsukuz@reddit

Everyone just buys what they want for themselves in the hope they can exchange their gift for what they bought :D until you get the one person who didn't know about this and doesn't want to exchange

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lousyarm@reddit

Jesus I would’ve LOVED that. I would’ve been gushing to everyone about it.

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mellonians@reddit

My ex girlfriend got me a wallet hand embossed with my initials. I love it and won't give it up. It's so nice my wife likes it too.

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GarethGore@reddit

honestly, my handwriting is trash so I rarely write, I use phone/laptop for everything, but I know a LOOOOOT of people who'd love that, I've plenty of friends who love writing notes and stuff. Would be an ideal gift for them tbh. definitely should have taken it back, said it cost a lot, but here is your present instead, fished out 5-10 quid and given it to her and just walked off

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Swimming-Emotion-923@reddit

For me I worked in IT, and the company I worked for about Year 3 in decided to hire about 10 people from Romania and bring them to the UK (now the Boss was known as somebody who promised all manner of stuff to employees and didnt live up to his promises) Any Id got this task that was important to the companies future direction , one day this Romanian girl who had joined about 6 months in ask to speak to the Boss and My manager in a meeting room. All a sudden she started to cry her eyes out and asking them why I got this task and not her and how it was unfair etc. It was so cringe , cus our workplace was a small building and the meeting room was downstairs and you could hear every single word (especially since the meeting rooms are next to the little staff kitchen and toilets so you couldnt avoid overhearing)

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Common_Man7669@reddit

Hate this sort of thing. Used to work with a women (a fellow nurse) who threw a fit when a colleague got offered a promotion ahead of her following an interview. Started ranting and raving before walking out of the shift leaving me in the shit as I was in charge. Absoutely pathetic, self centred, chidlish behaviour. In her late 50s at the time as well. Lost all respect for her after that, couldn't even look at her. Not the most interesting story but topical for me at the moment. Guess who's just been offered the job as my new manager 🤣 Shit does seem to float to the top in the NHS sometimes.

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aragornsgirlfriend@reddit

sounfs like someone inknow tbh i’m curious

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

This is actually quite common. The amount of over 50s that just coasted along all their life and think their age or how long they've worked somewhere entitles them to special treatment.. Never been told 'no' all of their life and have a worse attitude about them than new starters fresh out of school.

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Rsparkes1@reddit

I once couldn't find my flat keys as I was about to leave for work one morning. I became frantic and panicked as I searched and I had a teenage tantrum, tears of rage and frustration. I rang up work and said I couldn't come in that day. Later found the keys underneath my bed pillow. No one ever knew about it.

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LandofGreenGinger62@reddit

Literally just watched one of these go off a couple of weeks back. Not at my work but at an art gallery café my daughter and I were at. We inadvertently caused it, in fact... We'd ordered food and it hadn't come — and there was almost noone in the place, no queue or anything. After 25 mins I went and asked the two women at the counter if it would be much longer? The woman in charge said "OMG, you haven't got it??" and looked absolutely *appalled* — I didn't know why **such** a reaction, not at first. Then she went hesitantly up to this older guy back at the prep counter and told him. And he immediately absolutely went OFF on her. "Well, I haven't got the f-cking ticket!! **You** didn't put the ticket in the right place! why does **no one** here know what they're doing, why am I surrounded by incompetence, no you f-cking **DIDN'T** put it there!!" Etc. etc., screaming and swearing at her, flinging utensils around, slamming cupboard doors, the whole nine yards. The poor woman tried to argue back but he just shouted over her, until she left, in tears We just stood there mouths agape... Then I turned to the other woman at the till — who looked equally appalled, turns out she was an agency worker and it was her first day! — and asked if actually we could just cancel our order, because I didn't want anything made by that psycho. She couldn't do that, it had to be approved by someone more senior etc... Which did eventually happen, but in the meantime he came out and started blustering to **us**, about sorry & all but *he* couldn't do his job if other people didn't do theirs and so on. So I got to tell him off, which was satisfying at least — told him crisply that if he thought doing his job should consist of screaming and swearing at colleagues half his age in the *awful* fashion I'd just heard, he shouldn't **be** doing it anyway, his behaviour was utterly unacceptable and he should be ashamed of himself. And then while he was gaping at me, the more senior person came down to process our refund and I clyped on him to her too. And she said a heartfelt thank you, so I hope she did something...

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jr0061006@reddit

Haven’t heard “clype” in decades! Well done for tearing a strip off this eejit.

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SkomerIsland@reddit

Which region is that one from?

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jr0061006@reddit

It’s a Scottish word for snitch or grass.

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SpoopySpydoge@reddit

It wasn't til you wrote clype that I recognised that word!

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KombuchaBot@reddit

I also enjoyed the use of "clype", and also "prannet" from another contributor (which was a new one on me, but what a great word)

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

Oh God was this at Ferens?

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LandofGreenGinger62@reddit

No..? What's Ferens..? Is there s story there? This was an art gallery in Oxford...

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Eastern-Start-813@reddit

Not so much as a strop from an employee but from the customer. Around 1998 I was working at an unamed Premier League stadium as a young 16 year old in my first little job on a Saturday serving customers. One of the men in the queue placed an order of six burger meals and deserts. The employee was on their first shift in the role so wasn’t up to speed with it yet and took quite a while to get the order together. Anyway to the juicy part. What pissed the customer off was that the employee had decided to put all six meals into one bag which was filled to the top, this for some reason disgusted and tipped the customer over the edge. All of a sudden the customer then reaches over the counter pointing right in the employee’s face and prodding his head saying you my son need a big fucking rocket up your arsehole. The employee then delivers the strongest backhand and right hook combination I’ve ever seen, nocks the customer back and then he jumps over the counter and floors the guy again. Customer got a stadium ban for life and the employee was deemed to have acted in self defence.

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Dobbesaurous@reddit

One of my co workers isn’t a huge fan of me Whilst driving around we always wave at eachother, but this co worker never waves at me One time he accidentally waved at me as I was in another vehicle and proceeded to go back to the warehouse and was so upset by the ordeal he was shouting and slamming things

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nickgardia@reddit

In the first place I worked at I got involved with a colleague who worked in the same large open plan office as me. It all got very awkward when I broke it off. She got a job elsewhere and let go with all cannons at me at her work leaving do, floods of tears and all, with all of our colleagues and bosses in attendance. Did I deserve that? For sure, I was young, inconsiderate, ghosted her and was very immature in the way I ended things.

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Gyratetojackjarvis@reddit

Someone kept stealing my coworkers lunch + tupperware so I bought something called "psycho drops" on amazon ( a v spicy chemical) and gave them to him and he added half of the bottle to the chilli con carne he brought for lunch. Cue 30 mins before lunch time, a middle aged woman appears from the accounts payable department (literally the person I would least expect to be stealing lunches). She was shouting and balling about having been poisoned and that she must have lifted the wrong lunch accidentally. She also grabbed an almond milk out of the fridge to ease the spice and someone started arguing with her over that. Rumour has it she left in an ambulance that day but I fortunately never seen her again as this was a few weeks before the covid lock downs. Genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen live in person although at the time I was reasonably scared I'd played a part in killing this lady.

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BestMathematician752@reddit

Two guys estate i used to work hated each other. Malcolm and Richard. One day, Malcolm went in the sandwich run and ‘forgot’ Rich’s sandwich. “MALCOLM YOU C**T!” was shouted across the department, and Rich started walking towards him looking like he wanted a fight. Only problem was that he tripped over on the way and injured himself.

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bubbybaby67@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Subject_Sandwich_897@reddit

My own, just before I left on burnout. I am so embarrassed by the memories of myself in the lead-up. The employer, and some managers, contributed significantly, nevertheless it wasn’t cool, it definitely impacted my colleagues and I was absolutely ‘that colleague’ for a while

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MKnapKnap@reddit

Went to the pub after work with a group of colleagues Said person went to the toilet and the bar staff asked if they could take their empty glass away (the pint had about half a mouthful left in it) we said yes. The member of staff came back and asked where their pint was and then rushed to the bar, calling this bar staff every name under the sun and demanding a free pint as it still had something in it. The whole pub was looking at us, I felt so embarrassed that all I could do was just laugh.

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Frosty-Growth-2664@reddit

One guy lost his temper and stormed out of the office. Leapt into his brand new company car. May have forgotten he now had an automatic as he floored the accelerator in anger. Car shot across the car park and came to rest in the middle of a small ornamental lake. With half the staff now looking out the office windows, he had to climb out the driver's window and wade back out of the lake. This was 30 years ago, but no one has forgotten it.

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kdjac@reddit

Someone angrily tried to throw a box of A4 paper, it went about 2 feet.

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LimeMortar@reddit

As a youngster I worked in an internal bar for our organisation. All the sprogs did a week each and they came around about once a quarter. Friday nights were dreaded as most of the organisation (about 50-80) would come down and whoever was serving would be run off their feet as they had to serve and collect empties as well as all the other stuff a bar person does. One Friday evening I was legging it around collecting empties and grabbed one of the big bosses mostly empty glass - vodka and tonic, about half a cm depth of drink left. He called after me, but I didn’t hear and carried on back to the bar. He calls again, but by now I was behind the bar and taking another drinks order. His next escalation was to whistle at me so loudly the entire room stopped talking. He yells at me to bring his drink back as he hadn’t finished it. I told him I’d already emptied his glass into the slop bucket, but would grab him another one when I’d finished serving the current person. He went absolutely fucking mental and flipped the table in front of him, luckily freshly cleared of empty glasses, completely over into the floor. I assume this wasn’t dramatic enough for him, as he immediately flipped the next table along too, sending their drinks everywhere and then came storming over to me threatening to fire me. I didn’t have a clue what to do and just froze. Luckily a couple of other bosses grabbed him and took him outside to calm him down. I ended up working an extra hour or so just clear up his mess. No happy ending, he never apologised, I did bar duty at least twice more. That said, I look back on the experience and cringe for him, I can only imagine how pathetically his tantrum must have been viewed by others there.

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Interesting_Ask4406@reddit

Work related. I was in school for a job and this dude lost his shit in the middle of a test. Started yelling about how it’s too hard and stormed out of the class. It was dramatic. That was in second year.

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Trunkface90@reddit

Worked in an electronics factory one summer as a student. Saw two grandmothers have a full blown fist fight over a swivel chair

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Crochetqueenextra@reddit

I used to teach aqua aerobics and had to get in the pool and break up a slap fight between 2 little old ladies. Shockingly funny but obviously I couldn't laugh.

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justanotherjtad@reddit

I used to manage gyms/leisure centers and I've had countless times where I've had to tell off adults in there 50's ans 60's like children from squabbling over spin bikes, spots in classes, or two who just kept winding each other up in the pool and kept "accidently" kicking each other, it was very pathetic, and one of them came up after and said they wanted to make a complaint against the other woman and wanted her membership cancelled , I very firmly told her that of one goes so does the other, and I told her to stop acting like a child and get out before i just ban her anyway, she was mid 60's

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Humble-Ad-3845@reddit

I ran a choir and during one of the intros in the concert, one of the sopranos took umbrage with the way that her neighbour was dancing along to the beat - it lead to a full-on fist fight.

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pienofilling@reddit

My Mum's Mother's Union had been run by the Vicar's wife for well over a decade. Vicar retires, new Vicar is appointed and his wife takes over running the Mother's Union. Obviously she wants to do things a bit differently, not least because she's 30 years younger. Cue an almighty screaming match as most of the room divides into two factions, with all the middle aged and younger women on one side being verbally attacked by the older women. It was enough of a dingdong that the blokes who'd been doing the books at the other end of the building came down and cautiously peaked around the door!

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Crochetqueenextra@reddit

Risky

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michaelisnotginger@reddit

Sounds about right for aqua aerobics. Memories of supervising that...

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’ve had two women in theirs 30s at my work have a fist fight over K Pop.

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Living-Pea-8857@reddit

The factory wasn’t in Mid Wales was it!? 😅

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Nimble_Natu177@reddit

Man, I wish I had an answer too this! In the last two years, I've missed three unexpected firings in my open plan office while I was on the bog...I'm told they were all belters.

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TenaStelin@reddit

hope the orgasm was worth it

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Adyj2024@reddit

Check one wasn’t yours for too many loo breaks! 🚽

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Mynewadventures@reddit

It's reading paragraphs like this that make me wish I lived in England. I would love to be on the bog witnessing belters! Instead, I'm stuck here in America just sitting on nothing boglike and seeing nothing belt worthy.

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roidweiser@reddit

But on the plus side, in an American cubical you can see the world through the huge gaps

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Mynewadventures@reddit

Ah, our famous toilet stalls. You call them cubicals? That's what we call our little mini "offices" at work. Both are perfect for shitting I guess.

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leekpunch@reddit

Scared to ask, but how long were you in there?

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Haribokart@reddit

Two years.

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Nimble_Natu177@reddit

Not that long, usually just bad timing honestly!

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chat5251@reddit

Not long at all, just the usual 2 hour session!

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Willing-Major5528@reddit

Two years clearly

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viking_tech@reddit

I somehow schedule my annual leave for the same days they throw big all hands meetings. It’s been 6 years now and I don’t know if I’m thankful or feel like I miss out 😆

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Alternative_Dot_1026@reddit

At least you seem to be dedicated to "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I always poop on company's time"

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Nimble_Natu177@reddit

I use the Homer philosophy, you don't strike, you just go in every day and do it really half arsed.

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anomalous_cowherd@reddit

Quiet quitting

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Interesting_Try8375@reddit

What quiet quitting should actually be rather than what HR drones want you to think it is

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BrightonBaby@reddit

Quiet shitting

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Randy_The_Guppy@reddit

Years ago I had to sack someone after a long protracted disciplinary process. Finally after months came the day of the meeting and he heard the outcome. As he came back to the office to clear out his things the fire alarm went off and it wasn't a drill. Had to stand beside him outside for 20 minutes as they checked the building before we all went back inside and he got his things before leaving.

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Narradisall@reddit

Now I imagine whenever you go for a shit people in the office start worrying that the latest round of redundancies are coming.

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Narradisall@reddit

Now I imagine whenever you go for a shit people in the office start worrying that the latest round of redundancies are coming.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’m the owner so miss a lot but not for shit related reasons lol

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’m the owner so I normally miss the tantrums but not for shit related reasons lol.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’m the owner so I normally miss the tantrums but not for shit related reasons lol.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I’m the owner so I normally miss the tantrums but not for shit related reasons lol.

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NebCrushrr@reddit

I used to spend so much time in there my colleagues called it my office

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Flashy_Alfalfa3479@reddit

You are the calming presence in the office. Soon as you're off shitting, it all goes to shit.

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Skoodledoo@reddit

At this point ha e you never conte plated that its intentional timing?

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_veil_of_lyra@reddit

Somewhere in HR, there’s probably a note that says never fire anyone while Nimble’s in the loo - too much collateral peace.

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No_Seesaw1503@reddit

I witnessed a mature female member of staff run out the mess room crying because she copped the same shit shift three days running and the managers refused to accommodate her request to stitch up one of her fellow colleagues with a shift swap. I like her she's a nice lady, but damn the fact the she tried to palm her shit onto others and the sight of her Disney princess meltdown was eyebrow raising. You have to take the rough with the smooth.

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FinalInitiative4@reddit

Our managing director used to use the work garage for his own personal car storage. (Really ugly tacky mid life crisis car). It was an old warehouse type building with old single glazed windows that pushed open but they were all way out of reach of anyone. They'd swing open in the wind sometimes if the weather was bad. He came in shouting at people about touching the windows even though there's no way anyone could have reached them. He would always explode and shout at people about the tiniest things, maybe fancied himself a bit of a Gordon Ramsey. Total prick. During the night shift I went out for some fresh air and saw a couple of big fat wood pigeons in the garage sitting in the rafters. Must have come in the window to get out of the rain. Every time I moved they panicked a bit and flew around to a different position. I made them move until they were perched directly above the car. They spent all night shitting all over the car. And I mean it was covered by the morning. All my colleagues found it hilarious except for one that thought I was out of order. He ran to tell the managing director first thing in the morning, to which we all heard him reply screaming: "So you saw all this SHIT on my car and just left it!?" He ordered this boy to clean it off and the silly fucker actually did it lol.

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Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit

Started my career as an apprentice in a factory environment and saw plenty full blown adult tantrums over the 4 years I was in there. The section I worked in were pure first class wind up merchants and some people who'd come in from other departments really couldn't take it. It was such a regular occurrence that we had a baby's dummy on a big loop of electrical wire, so while someone's busy throwing a wobbly you'd see someone else sneak up with this dummy and drop it over their head. The rules were that if that happened then you had to wear it for the rest of the shift so every one knows you'd spat your dummy out, otherwise if you took it off you had to get the sarnies in for the team next day.

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freetacorrective@reddit

I’ve worked in a few factories and that sounds fantastic.

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jr0061006@reddit

We need more stories from this place.

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Putrid_Promotion_841@reddit

That's bloody brilliant

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Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit

Oh I've seen some spanners and coffee mugs getting launched across the shop floor by guys who couldn't hack it 😂

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amused_peruse@reddit

I used to work for a small team in the health sector with a manager who would go from very chill to condescending to raving mad. he happened to be working from home and there was a query nobody quite knew how to handle so in a scenario like that, a responsible employee would defer to the manager. unfortunately he believed that made us incredibly incompetent in our jobs and the next day he called a team meeting. Bear in mind he would only call those meetings to yell at us over some grievance he had. He got progressively mad, yelling about behaviours he had never brought up before, such as eating at our desks, having our feet on the desks and listening to music with our earphones. I mean honestly fairs to call them out, but it was obvious he had seen these things before and held onto it for a moment like this. All because we had asked the man a question. He started banging his fist on a metal cabinet and stamping his foot and since the office space was tiny, in the moment it was quite unsettling and really loud. I was both horrified and amused, especially when he started screaming and stamping his foot cus hes like 5 foot nothing and it reminded me of Rumpelstiltskin.

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HippoNumerous2269@reddit

Early career, my apprentice colleague had his competence portfolio rejected right before he intended to go to university. When the assessor left he started crying and punched the office table so hard he broke his wrist.

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spanners101@reddit

Our boss (a major twat) once stood there screaming at us over something ridiculous then stormed out of the office door slamming it behind him. There was few seconds of silence as we all stared at each other, then a little knock on the door and a peevish “I’ve locked myself out”.

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Delicious-Foot9811@reddit

Been laughing over this one for 5 minutes now. It's the "peevish" that is killing me.

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definitely48@reddit

This is the funniest of all!

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KombuchaBot@reddit

Like something out of The Office

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GoatHerderFromAzad@reddit

This happened years ago - and I was the perp.... Had a boss, lets call him Tim (because that was his actual name). A true example of why you shouldn't let talented engineers manage people. Utter cockwomble. Remember the evian plastic bottles that had a flip top with a "nipple" to drink from? He used one of those as a refillable water bottle and would leave it on his desk each night. One late evening when I was working and he'd gone home, that sticky out nipple bit went into a place on my anatomy that drinking bottle spouts are not meant to go if we're speaking hygiene. Not sorry - loved watching him sip from it for weeks afterwards.

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useless_beetlejuice@reddit

Me. It was me. I'm usually the person who will avoid conflict at all costs even above my own comfort and needs. I was going through the menopause (age 26) and had left an awful job where I was bullied out of the place (I adored it there and was good at my job and had lots of friends but my boss hated me for some reason). I got a job in a high street fashion store and also loved it there. One day my hormones took over when a security guard from the shopping centre asked to speak to my manager. I said I'd go and find her and the store is 4 stories. I was up and down the stairs and lifts and looking everywhere. My boss didn't have a headset on and she was the manager who was SO ANAL about everyone else wearing theirs and tbf it was unlike her not to wear it. When I found her I let loose swearing at her about not wearing a headset while she moaned at us all the time to wear ours. I reeealllyy went to town. No reason at all except my hormones. Not an excuse that's just why. I stormed off fully expecting to be sacked then and there on the spot. She made me a brew and got my flowers which made it even more embarrassing.

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space_coyote_86@reddit

Totally understandable reaction to being gifted Fosters.

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drewlake@reddit

We used to say drinking it was like making love in a canoe, it's fucking too close to water.

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markandspark@reddit

Yeah, honestly I don't know why someone wouldn't interrupt and say it's a joke in that situation, to save them some dignity

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wowsomuchempty@reddit

Restrained, if anything.

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pm_me_boobs_pictures@reddit

We used to get 3.5 pint jugs for a fiver and still had the same reaction

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DOAHJ@reddit

I didn't witness as such just the aftermath a colleague was a stickler for rules protocols etc. She managed a very specific part of patient billing this was for infertility. The patient was attending the unit as an emergency, we required the notes to look at what drug regime how many follicles what the growth pattern was like. She refused to tell me where the notes were. I found them no thanks to her and she starred screeching that I couldn't take them she hadn't done the invoice etc. I responded that a patent emergency trumps her finances she didn't like that and then proceeded to apparently smash a load of crockery in the bathroom as she was furious with me.taki g the notes as I wasn't following protocol well no because the patient was in pain and bleeding and actually had ohssa potentially fatal syndrome

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StuartHunt@reddit

Once had a guy storm off from the worksite because he didn't want to work in the rain, bear in mind that he was working on repairing burst water mains, so was going to get wet anyway. He had a tantrum and walked 3 miles back to the yard, only to discover that he'd left his car key and phone in the van, so ended up walking back and sheepishly asking me to open the van for him to get his gear. He was quite lucky that I was still there, because I was about 5 minutes from going to the next job.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

😂😂 I can imagine how pissed off he must’ve been once he got back to the yard and realised.

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StuartHunt@reddit

The sheepish look on his face when he got back and had to ask me to open the van for him was absolutely priceless 🤣

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englishsummer@reddit

Guy I used to work with threw a hissy fit when his idea of gifting clients pens was dismissed as lousy. He ranted, had a row with a colleague and ended up storming out. When he came back to the office the next day his name on teams had been changed from Nick Bennett to Bic Nennet.

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

Yup, it was a lousy idea. Even the daytime TV will-writing adverts aimed at pensioners have upped their game to Amazon gift cards now. >next day his name on teams had been changed from Nick Bennett to Bic Nennet.

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DosneyProncess@reddit

This is magnificent.

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MrsWaltonGoggins@reddit

This reminds me of Mark going mad at Jeremy in the Peep Show Christmas episode when he pretends he hadn’t got the turkey. “No turkey?! You fucking idiot Jeremy! You total fucking idiot!”

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Uuuurrrrgggghhhh@reddit

To be fair to Mark, and I hate being fair to Mark… not getting a Turkey is SO Jermey

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ImColinDentHowzTrix@reddit

'It was a joke, Mark. A Christmas joke.'

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K11ShtBox@reddit

Oh, I see. Oh.

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

That wasn’t very Christmassy.

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HeadProof1085@reddit

This is my own fault. The office often left any leftover food out on plates in the kitchen if it was ordered for a meeting. One day there was some pizza on the same plates in the kitchen, so I grabbed a couple of slices and walked back to my desk. Even told some of my colleagues that there was Pizza to grab. After my first bite, someone started shouting "Who's taken my pizza!?" I had to wolf it down and pretend not to know anything about it... My colleagues never let me forget.

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Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit

We did a secret santa. Someone bought a much older bald colleague a bottle of hair growth shampoo/sirum stuff. He laghed along outwardly, but went bright red with rage and the let loose later. Anyway, we fired him not long after (for non-baldness related reasons).

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Mundane_personn@reddit

Shitty behaviour from the buyer and a justified tantrum.

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Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit

For real? I don't think being bald is a protected characteristic 🤪 just a little silly jape. Calm down baldy.

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

Oh [it is now](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/calling-a-man-bald-is-sexual-harassment-employment-tribunal-rules) apparently. Maybe this was your colleague? 😂

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Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit

"Commenting on a man’s baldness is equivalent to remarking on the size of a woman’s breasts, the finding suggests" 🧐🧐🧐 really??

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

>🧐🧐🧐 really?? I know, right. We've collectively gone very sensitive as a nation.

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Mundane_personn@reddit

Imagine being an adult and thinking it's fine to shit on people's appearance (especially something they can't control?!) 😂 showing your true character, and it's grosssssss

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Poo_Poo_La_Foo@reddit

🤷🏼‍♀️ wasn't me who did it...I personally find laughing at myself fun, but appreciate other might be more sensitive beans.

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pinkrynnn@reddit

It’s ok poo poo la foo you can admit baldy was a liability

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AdAfter2061@reddit

I had a full grown man throw a hissy fit because I asked him to do an extra collection on his round (he’s a driver). The collection was 3 minutes off of the road he drives on on his way home. He finishes that round about 3 hours early, so a six hour day, to which he gets paid his full nine hours. Half an hour of crying and moaning in a full office for 10 minutes of work.

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SilkSTG@reddit

I mean... I'm tempted to ask if he's the same numpty I used to know a while back with that tirade... Either way, that must have been absolutely awkward!

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Floppy_Caulk@reddit

Took place in LA, but involves a British actor. It's the first series of a new sci-fi show in the 80s. This actor is a well regarded Shakespearian thespian and is leading an ensemble cast of US TV actors. The attitude on set is pretty care free as it's not expected to go very far. The US TV actors are all pissing about right up until the cameras go on. Exasperated, the lead actor gathers everyone into a room and gives them all a massive bollocking about how unprofessional they're being. This one actress, who only lasted the first season, say "We're only having a bit of fun" The actor explodes "WE ARE NOT HERE TO HAVE FUN!" The room deteriorates into hoots of laughter. The actor eventually gets over it and by all accounts gets up to some pretty major mischief himself.

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SchemeSquare2152@reddit

Patrick Stewart?

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Marsmanic@reddit

At an old job at a relatively large company, CEO was an old school bully type. Basically a couple of people left and on their exit interviews said that the atmosphere was bad. This got back to the CEO, his response was to call a meeting with everyone from the office (around 150 - 200 at this HQ), and started banging his fists on the table shouting that "there shall be no discontent". About 10 people handed in their notice the same week.

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Putrid_Promotion_841@reddit

Reminds me of a story told to me by a colleague from his old firm. I order to improve sales the manager had devised a cunning scheme; Each month the lowest performing salesman would be put on a months notice to "focus" them on getting more sales. 3 people resigned on the spot. This didn't clue him in to a bad idea though.

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SchemeSquare2152@reddit

Canada here. One of our billionaires, Jimmy Pattison, when he was building his fortune, fired a salesman every week. Whoever had the lowest sales. He is living example of karma not working.

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Taken_Abroad_Book@reddit

The Microsoft way

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SidewaysAntelope@reddit

Username checks out.

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phatboi23@reddit

> and started banging his fists on the table shouting that "there shall be no discontent". aka > the beatings will continue until morale improves!

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wildwing@reddit

I need a shirt for work which says “this place puts the FU in FUN!”

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lcb1972@reddit

Do you work for First Utility perchance

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TravellingBear4@reddit

Did he read Dwight Schrute’s Mussolini speech?

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pienofilling@reddit

My Dad worked in a civil service department with an arsehole like that as department head. At the annual meeting for the entire department, this bloke starts into how much sick time has been taken off and the appallingly high level of absences. This was true and a good deal of it was due to staff having mental breakdowns! My Dad was quietly furious because, as he put it, "That room was full of people who have been to hell and back, and he stands up there and says that!" If the Northern Iteland civil service in the 80s and 90s hadn't had such a good pension I can think of at least one department that would have been a lot emptier.

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Taken_Abroad_Book@reddit

While not the civil service, I'm in a government admin job in NI with a shitty reputation. Loads of my colleagues are doing 20+ hours a week unpaid tO gEt ThE jOb DoNe whereas I work when I'm paid and I'm out the door bang on time. "oh Taken_Abroad_Book I don't know how you get away with that I just have too much to do in 37.5h". Yeah, me too. So it can pile up it's not my problem if its not completed. As long as I document everything I'm gold. Yeah there's plenty of arsehole managers like that but most fold like a house of cards when you laugh at them.

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FormABruteSquad@reddit

*Now is the disco of our malcontent*

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Klutzy_Security_9206@reddit

[Gentleman. You can’t fight in here this is the war room](https://youtu.be/UAeqVGP-GPM)

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DiscoMonkeyz@reddit

Blood alone moves the wheels of history!

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Acrobatic-Pudding-87@reddit

If I ever run into old colleagues from my previous company, we always end up talking about “the notorious meeting”. Basically, we’d got a new VP of our department and she wanted to gauge morale so she sent out an anonymous survey. The problem was she was able to figure out who wrote what based on the details in the comments and the turn of phrase used. She realized that the team I was in was bloody miserable and we all hated our manager, so she called the manager in for a chat about it and told her to sort it out. The manager did as she was told, only not exactly: instead of working on all the things we complained about and improving her management performance, she called all of us into a meeting that lasted about three hours in which she went through every single anonymous comment trying to find out who said it and then telling us why we were wrong to think the way we did. We all sat there in shocked silence, absolutely stunned at how badly she had missed the point of the new VP telling her to get her house in order.

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jr0061006@reddit

Did this ever get back to the new VP?

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Acrobatic-Pudding-87@reddit

If I recall, there was a follow-up survey about a month after the first one and we took the chance to subtly let the VP now how things had been handled, and if I remember rightly our manager was spoken to, not that it stopped her being an awful boss. The problem was she was skilled at managing up. She knew how to flatter her superiors and give them the impression she was on the ball, which is how she'd got promotions in the first place. She had allies above the VP.

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Excellent-Ad-2443@reddit

what did he mean by no discontent? if 10 people left there is obviously an issue... at a workplace a friend works at theyve had major health and safety complaints, instead of trying to rectify it management have been investigating who made the complaints and finger pointing, useless

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Eastern-Move549@reddit

You will all be happy wether you like it or not!

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rostofer73@reddit

I had a micro manager boss shout at me in the middle of service at a christmas party night. It was just after covid so we were both wearing masks. All I could hear was mumble mumble F**k mumble mumble for about a minute, so when he was finished I pulled down my mask, leaned in and said “Pardon”. I think he actually levitated for a bit. Was never mentioned again!

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Goldencol@reddit

Used to work abroad with a fella who said he'd lost his wife to cancer and son to a drink driver. He'd regularly have PTSD melt downs , screaming and trying to intimidate people in the work place. He was also a top tier bullshitter who told people he was : a black belt, a gangster, violet krays godson, suffering from cancer himself and would die any minute now, had a building company which he had sold for 100s of 1000s ...etc etc. The truth came out a few years down the line when someone forwarded a newspaper article from back home with the guys picture front and center . Turned out he had racked up a load of debt and done a runner, faking his death and leaving his poor ( and still alive and well ) wife having to pay the lot. And the son never existed. He disappeared when it came out and has probably moved on to peddle his bullshit elsewhere.

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forgetmenotjimmy@reddit

Wasn't the canoe guy was it?

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reo_reborn@reddit

A co worker (female) swung at another co worker (male), walk around the backroom (it was a clothes shop) SCREAMING and calling everybody the c word. She slumped in a chair sobbing and her son had to come in and collect her. She never apologized and kept her job. All of this was because he (the guy she swung at) was talking to another co worker about a autobiography (I think it was Tony Blairs) and said "Theres not once ounce of truth in that f\*\*king book and people believe every word just because it's on paper". Just then the above lady walked into the staff room and swung at him punching him full in the face. For some reason she thought he was talking about the bible...

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TangerineOld8429@reddit

Sort of the opposite and I am still embarrassed today when I think of it. On my leaving do for an infinitely better job I was rat arsed in a pub and told my bosses depute he was nothing but a servile running dog lackey for a useless piece of shit that shouldn't be allowed to clean hamster cages for the hamsters sakes. Next day, the same guy stands up and gives a speech about how it was great working with me. He'd also done a whip around and bought all my favourite things and got a lovely card. I was mortified, apologised profusely and slunk out as soon as I could. Carrying all my thoughtful pressies mind.

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RadioDorothy@reddit

Oooof I think all my organs just cringed.

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mdzmdz@reddit

Bit risky having your leaving do before your last day.

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Langasaurus@reddit

The adjective you were looking for is "fartcatcher".

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_WakeDaFukUp_@reddit

burn those bridges baby! Wildfire lol

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EntrepreneurAway419@reddit

Oh fucko, fair play to the guy for still doing the speech.

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michaelisnotginger@reddit

😬😬😬😬🫣🫣🫣🫣

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Icy-Astronomer-8202@reddit

I bet you weren't wrong though

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phatboi23@reddit

was drunk you correct though?

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pip_goes_pop@reddit

Ouch I just shrank into my chair reading that!

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TheHalfwayBeast@reddit

Was he a servile running-dog lackey to a useless piece of shit, though?

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madjackslam@reddit

We were all brought together to be told there would be redundancies, and this would be the process. One woman, one of the quietest people in the office, got up, ranted about how this was an unfair way to go about things, and then stamped her foot. I had never seen someone do that in real life before, and was so shocked I spent the rest of the meeting trying to keep my laugh in, and well, pretty much forgot about the redundancy thing, so I suppose it was helpful.

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

Children will sometimes stamp their feet. My brother used to do it when he was a kid

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Danny_P_UK@reddit

My kids do it, they have also thrown themselves on the floor and hit the floor with their fists. Proper funny. It's like it's out of a cartoon.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

people are always stamping their foot angrily in books and i just have no concept of how it's actually done. Do they time it to the last word or what?

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Undrcovrcloakndaggr@reddit

If I ever see someone genuinely foot-stamp in an office environment, no-way am I even going to try to stifle the laugh; I'll be pointing at them and laughing loud.

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TangerineOld8429@reddit

We went out on the Thursday as most of the infrastructure guys were working Friday till 10pm. I used to like Thursday nights out, it felt like a naughty Friday and you could leave early on the Friday if you weren't on a proper shift pattern and hair of the dog it as needed.

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ChokedPanda@reddit

I encountered one of our field guys who is normally really mild mannered and lovely have an epic meltdown. Screaming, swearing, threats of violence etc on a call to his boss (lol). So out of character. Turned out he was Type 1 diabetic and he had been receiving treatment because his sugars were crazy. So, probably not a “real” tantrum just a (usually) lovely bloke going a bit OTT due to his health. First time I properly understood how badly diabetes can fuck with mood and emotions. (Diabetics, please don’t come for me. I don’t mean this rudely!)

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Bashmore83@reddit

A woman was leaving (taking vol redundancy). We went out as a team for a leaving lunch. As we came back, she hung back, and walked out the exit in a huff because we didn’t do enough to recognise her leaving despite the fact we had her leaving present and cards with us at her desk to continue the farewells. Plank

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Budget_Ambition_8939@reddit

How entitled. When I took voluntary redundancy I bought everyone on the team a few bottles of beer or a bottle of wine when I left.

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Current_Case7806@reddit

We had similar....someone went on two back to back maternities, took extended leave and then left after being double furloughed. We had a collection but hardly anyone knew who she was (she hadn't worked there for years). She then complained the gift wasn't substantial enough to facebook and tagged everyone in the company.

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AccomplishedRange671@reddit

I took a redundancy, it was quite a lump sum, we used to call our job squid game, due to the workload, the main manger putting us against each other, and the senior manager looked like Kim Jong il, me and five others had to pick the short straw in a bag. I’m not even joking, we all lined up, in the midday because he told someone in the morning, 3 people have to take a redundancy today. And that caused a near enough mutiny, and a lot of people were pissed off, including myself. We all took the pieces of paper, so the manager couldn’t make someone redundant, without prejudice. Me and 2 others got the short straw, and we kept laughing hysterically, and walked off with the biggest smiles on our faces.

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Yung_Cheebzy@reddit

“NO TURKEY?!??! YOU’RE A FUCKHEAD JEREMY, A REAL SHITHEAD!”

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

It was a joke. A Christmas joke.

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One_Housing_3652@reddit

I didn’t witness the event but saw the security footage later. This guy - let’s call him Darren - was never work shy per se but he was a cherry picker. He always wanted to work on late shifts but always seemed aggrieved when people asked him to do anything. Ended up being told by his line manager he didn’t get the end of year rating he wanted. He then went into the office in the back and grabbed a cake the manager had brought in smashed it and the plate it was on the wall and jumped on it before grabbing his bag and walking out covered in cake! Darren was not sacked, honestly think the manager felt sorry for him, but they let him quit and serve his notice at home on the understanding he would not be allowed anywhere near the building again… He wasn’t a bad lad but if I had seen him stroppy and covered in cake I don’t think I would have been able to keep a straight face.

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Aggravating-Top-7976@reddit

Also working a high pressure job on Nightshift I've seen some massive tantrums and also had a few over completely mundane stupid shit that would never warrant a tantrum if it wasn't 3 in the morning, always end up with the tail between the legs apologising the next night lol

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ChimpFingeredFreak@reddit

Any video clips?

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simmyawardwinner@reddit

lmaooooooooo shit. sadly i have to witness like one per week at least as my team at work are middle aged men who have the emotional intelligence of 5 year olds

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Nupton@reddit

A guy in my office completely lost it because ‘i was typing too loudly’. He threw his keyboard across the room and started to shout at me for being too distracting.

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ReporterOk4531@reddit

In the 11 years that I've been at my job I have somehow avoided seeing large scale tantrums from my coworkers, we will ignore the customers... However I did once have a 40 something year old coworker in tears next to me because she thought her schedule had too much time on the phone. While I do think we had a lot of pressure at the time I did contemplate perhaps reminding her that we were working in a call center, and that being on the phone was kind of our entire job. I believe she now works for the national railway and she is much happier! I also had a coworker slam his keyboard against the wall before walking out, he never came back. Not sure what happened but he was a bit of an unusual guy to begin with so I don't think he needed much..

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ajb001a@reddit

Large open plan office with push button door entry system. Joiners had been repairing the door. One of my colleagues made a sign saying 'door now voice activated, speak clearly', sign was obviously fake, there was no speaker unit etc. The obnoxious bully sales manager who sold security and maintenance services, when leaving the office, stood at the door, initially clearly said "open door', as he became more annoyed, he started shouting 'open', each time a bit louder. The louder he got, the more people stopped work to observe and enjoy his utter frustration, lots of swearing, lots of threats to sack all the joiners etc, because why the fuck could they not even fit a door entry system properly. Started getting very red in the face, had a giant tantrum, went on for a couple of minutes, funny as fuck. Finally shoved the door so hard he damaged the door frame. Because he was such a horrible arse, nobody let him in the joke. As soon as he got through the door, the team descended into giggles, which he must have heard.

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messesz@reddit

My boss's boss had IT put a Hello Kitty sticker on his new MacBook as a prank. Out workplace in tech teams had a fairly aggressive prank culture and unlocked machine emails could get quite embarrassing. Anyhow boss comes back to desk to do morning meeting and notices sticker. He immediately asks "Who did that?". When no one answered, he trouped us into our meeting with one item on the agenda. He was completely serious and trying to keep it professional while slowly losing his cool Who did that? You need to tell me? Tries to get junior members to fees up. We stayed silent, until the big boss sent out the email to the tech org with the picture of the laptop and we suggested he could check that. Complete loss of humour failure. It was hilarious to watch.

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iveseenthelight@reddit

If I was that employee I think I'd die of embarrassment and just resign and hope no one ever saw me again hahaha

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Drath101@reddit

I'm a retail manager, does the tantrum have to be a coworker or just within the workplace? Assuming it's a coworker I worked with an incredibly angry man. At some stage he decided to hurl a plastic tote against a wall. A chunk of it smashed off and hit him in the eye, which caused even more raging and yelling

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phatboi23@reddit

> A chunk of it smashed off and hit him in the eye, which caused even more raging and yelling i'd have been laughing my box off.

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Drath101@reddit

I was, whilst also asking if he needed first aid, not my best bedside manner moment

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wildwing@reddit

If he said d yes, a perfect response would have been “for your eye or your ego?”

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Ollie-North@reddit

Share some others just from the workplace pls there's no rules here. Bet you have some juicy ones.

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Drath101@reddit

A good one was the pregnant woman who had to be escorted out of the shop crying by police at 2am (we closed at 10). Reason she wouldn't leave? We'd recently been ordered to only sell 10 scratch cards to somebody, which is the rule from the new (at the time) lottery company. She gave me a gobful of abuse, then spent a while sat on the floor wordlessly screaming about it. Eventually just sat refusing to leave. I wasn't going to get hands on and neither was security, because of the pregnant thing

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Dimac99@reddit

That is just desperately sad all around.

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Drath101@reddit

Most of retail is. At least I've always worked in very rough areas and you see the full range of addiction, destitution and mental illness all the time. I think you sort of tune it out in order to do your job

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DoctorWhofan789eywim@reddit

If a guy did that at our work we'd be taking the good beer home with us, he can have his pissy beer and be thankful for it.

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stoufferthecat@reddit

"Let's have a look at what you would have won..."

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Calm_Supermarket_470@reddit

Same. Have your tantrum. Have the crap beer.

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BlueCode6@reddit

I had 2 colleagues that due to their job had to cooperate all the time. 2 months into working together, they were done with eachother. One went to the boss shouting "we can't work together because we are not compatible due to our zodiac sign, this is never going to work". Boss laugher at her, she resigned in the spot

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Ok_Analyst_5640@reddit

A boss once hired a lad who was a self-confessed reformed drug addict who'd cleaned himself up. The story went that he'd only lost his last job because his girlfriend had kicked him out and his former boss had seen him sleeping rough under a bush. Anyway, he was over all that now and back on with the gf and trying to work to afford a flat to rent. The boss took him on because although he could be somewhat Dickensian at times (would go into rants about people on the dole and workhouses..) he did want to give the lad a chance. Anyway, this lad kept wanting subs. Not little subs either, like hundreds of pounds every other day. He kept insisting it was to pay for this flat he was going to rent off the social housing but the amounts kept changing and he kept needing more.. (you can see where this is going). The boss did sub him a few times, I think he was up to a month's salary nearly though he'd only been there a couple of weeks. Everyday he'd come back to the yard and start getting irate at how the boss wasn't giving him enough. During work time he'd be on the phone to his gf and they'd have heated arguments every time even though they were supposedly back together and doing great. He'd then kick the shit out of some piece of equipment or whatever was nearby. Anyway, eventually the boss stopped subbing him wages and he kicked off. Threatened to burn the place down and come in at night and nick all the equipment. The boss stood there amused as this guy had a meltdown and then promptly sacked him. Then the guy started crying but that was that and he was gone. Everyone there liked him enough and were giving him a chance even though he did still act a bit *off*. If he hadn't have thrown all the temper tantrums and threatened the boss he'd still have had a job. It's pretty obvious he was still on drugs and that's what all the subs were for. His old boss probably sacked him because they saw him passed out high somewhere or just because the guy is a nutter.

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Current_Case7806@reddit

Worked in a fruit factory. There was a guy who was convinced he was in management despite being paid just above minimum wage like the rest of us - but he would always insert himself into chats by the actual line leaders, trying to organise staff and boss folk around. One day he pushed the emergency stop and requested everyone headed into the canteen. He then made a big speech about being unhappy with his utilisation, how he didn't feel he was getting the respect he deserves and how he was off. We all sort of shrugged and headed back to work as he stood there talking about his key skills he brings to the team. Think he came back a week later to ask for his job back and they declined.

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Simple_Pirate@reddit

Deputy CTO had a full blown child tantrum in the middle of our open plan office where he threw a new iPhone on the floor because it was black and he NEEDED a white one to match his new white Range Rover Vogue...

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Tanto207064@reddit

Oh that sounds hilarious haha good one

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OrganizationFun2140@reddit

Office Secret Santa, joke presents pretty common. One guy without hair (one of several in the office) was gifted shampoo and conditioner. He didn’t see the funny side and walked out in a strop; made it sooo much funnier for the rest of us.

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DryJackfruit6610@reddit

Ow this one's so mean, he was probably really sad and self conscious

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OrganizationFun2140@reddit

See edit - was it a little mean? Maybe. Was it deserved? Absolutely!

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DryJackfruit6610@reddit

I totally get it now 😅

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baddude1337@reddit

Didn't see it but know of it. During covid most people worked from home. Our company has 2 head offices, and during covid one was closed down and moved to a different building. Furniture and the like were moved over but nothing really labelled as personal. We had one guy come in after 2 years of not being in the office and threw a chair at someone because he "didn't have HIS chair".

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Bendanarama@reddit

I once saw someone go into an all day sulk because someone told him his "naughty america" t-shirt was inappropriate for the office. In the same job, we once had a round of redundancies where the call centre department got gutted, and one 'colleague' from Back Office sat their smugly saying it was good to see so much wasted money going out the door. Well, the next round of redundancies, it was Back Offices turn, and this same 'colleague' stood and loudly proclaimed that it was unfair thst Back office was being targeted, and that all departments should be considered because 'we're all in this together.'

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gymgirl1999-@reddit

Used to work with an English woman who was working in Northern Ireland supermarket and the cultural difference is shocking despite being a 30 minute flight from her hometown. (No hate to anyone on here btw, she was just a different breed), she used to take this job soooooo seriously like it weren’t a shitty supermarket cafe that done so bad (rhymes with ainsburys) one day it was extremely busy and she was cooking so she begun flinging the ingredients about everywhere, beans, cheese, lettuce, proper strop in the middle of the kitchen. It was like a princess who didn’t get her shiny new car on her 17th birthday is the best way to describe it, I was on the dishes and was watching it like evening entertainment

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youtossershad1job2do@reddit

I had a big presentation to a customer, and at the last minute the project manager had cut out nearly a third of my slides that were the evidence of why we had to move forward in a particular direction. I was furious as it made me look like a complete twat as everything I was building up to made it look like a hunch rather than my backed up engineering opinion. We got into a row in a service station on the way home, managers were pissed off with both of us. We got back in the next day to a debrief meeting/ dressing down, I should not have reacted at the service station and apparently my body language made it clear I was annoyed to the customers which was almost certainly true, but he shouldn't have cut my presentation. He had 20 years on me, but I was the expert in that area, he made a big ultimatum "It's him or me, but someone needs to go". I was asked if they felt the same way to which I replied "I don't make ultimatums" which was possibly the wisest thing I could say at that point as the MD responded with "Good, I won't be given ultimatums by employees" Cue storming out, slamming doors. Never saw the bloke again.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Was it a purposeful sabotage do you think?

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youtossershad1job2do@reddit

Nah, he **loved** to give presentations, he just wanted more time to show how he would manage the transition into the new way of producing their products, he didn't see it relevant why, as he thought they would put all their trust in him. But as another engineering company we were subcontracting for it was clear they wanted to know the technical reasons we wanted to change the manufacturing process.

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The5ftGiraffe@reddit

We hired a guy in his early seventies who unfortunately perpetuated the stereotype that certain generations can't use technology. He was experienced and knowledgeable (I assume that's why he was hired) but couldn't get on with our systems. A couple of them were web-browser based. He'd click the favourites button for System 1, and instead of opening a new tab, he would just click the favourites button for System 2, effectively closing System 1. Every morning someone explained tabs to him so he could have both systems at once but he just couldn't retain the information. He'd regularly throw a literal tantrum - fists balled up, growling in frustration, swearing and stamping his feet. He was sacked eventually for his behaviour, but it was really embarrassing watching a grown man past retirement age behave like a toddler.

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Hotlush@reddit

Lad who worked with us a fair few years ago threw an absolute fit upon finding the Lord of the Rings movies wouldn't have Tom Bombadil in them. Ended up with him calling the bosses who were away on a work trip begging to be allowed to go home for the day.

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Dimac99@reddit

Whereas I cheered. Tom Fucking Bombadil. What a waste of ink.

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kwakimaki@reddit

Was doing a bit of transportation work for a film crew, heard one guy go fucking full blown toddler tantrum over getting a vegetarian meal instead of a chicken meal. His coworker offered to swap but no, tantrum continued.

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4oclockinthemorning@reddit

Is this the Clarkson story?

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Jolly-Minimum-6641@reddit

I have heard anecdotally that the producer Clarkson allegedly thumped was a total twat in his own right.

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erroneousbosh@reddit

Yes-ish, but the whole thing was staged anyway. It was all pretend. Everyone made out like bandits from it.

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Unique_Agency_4543@reddit

What on earth is the point of staging that? Staged is a ridiculous word for the specials. It's TV, obviously a lot of it is pre-planned but that's not the same as staged. Are you saying they didn't actually do what they're shown as doing on TV?

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erroneousbosh@reddit

I don't know the business ins-and-outs of it, but it was something to do with the BBC contract coming to an end, and TG not wanting any possibility of being renewed under the new contract terms especially since Amazon was already prepared to give them a lot more money for TGT. Stage a punch-up which just happens to be in front of a sufficient number of tabloid journalists, get it in all the trashy red-tops, Oh Dear Can't Have This Sort Of Thing On The Beeb, contract is ripped up, TGT comes out (and Clarkson's Farm, and Our Man In... and so on).

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Dimac99@reddit

If this punch up was caught on camera by "a sufficient number of tabloid journalists" then you'll be able to cite your sources. You'll be able to provide photographic evidence, at least.

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kh250b1@reddit

Or i dunno, just dont sign a new contract? 😂

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erroneousbosh@reddit

Yeah, it's not as simple as that. Quite often there's a clause along the lines of "We can renew your contract or not, and you just have to like it and shut up."

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Unique_Agency_4543@reddit

Utter nonsense. It's not enforceable to keep someone in employment against their will.

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Unique_Agency_4543@reddit

You said it yourself their contracts were coming to an end anyway, the presenters could have just chosen not to renew them and gone straight to Amazon. No need to damage Jeremy's reputation and one of the film crew's face in the process. This sounds like a conspiracy theory that you've heard somewhere and only half remembered.

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erroneousbosh@reddit

You haven't had a contract with the BBC, have you?

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Unique_Agency_4543@reddit

When a contract is up it's up, it doesn't matter who it's with. But if you want to continue acting like you're right without explaining your point of view then you're just gonna farm downvotes, up to you.

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stanleywozere@reddit

You think it was all made up? Really?

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erroneousbosh@reddit

Yeah, it definitely was. Why were there journalists and video cameras? I mean, that's not the only thing, but that ought to have been enough for the general public right?

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stanleywozere@reddit

There weren’t any journalists or video cameras. It happened late at night in a remote hotel in Yorkshire in total isolation It’s a cute conspiracy theory but you need to let this one go

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stanleywozere@reddit

I don’t know where you heard that, but I was part of that team and was good mates with the guy that Clarkson went mad with, and it’s total bollobks. He was/is a lovely and popular guy and the whole team was on his side

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realmccoyredbus@reddit

😂🤣👍

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kwakimaki@reddit

lol, close but no. Was random film crew guy.

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AlertMacaroon8493@reddit

In our open plan office me and another girl decorated this snobby girls desk with loads of balloons for her 30th birthday. It was so tacky looking. She was off on her actual birthday but her husband who also worked with us must have warned her. She came in the next morning with a face like thunder, pin in hand and burst all the balloons. It was still quite early in the morning but I looked up and everyone who was in was peering over the top of their cubicle to see what the noise was and cringing. I made an excuse with another girl to show her where my parking space was for her to borrow it and we both ran off to laugh.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

What a horrible person.

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dantownsend88@reddit

I caught a guy farting on a colleagues telephone (honestly). In the middle of me telling him how that isn't normal behaviour he punched a filing cabinet and broke his hand

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Benreh@reddit

Many moons ago working at a hot desk call center, sat down to start work at a random empty desk to be greeted with an angry manlet storming across the room to tell me at volume that this empty desk was "his" In the interest of shiggles I wound him up for a few minutes by asking some questions about the concept of ownership in a post capitalist world and how ownership was a opressing term before he flipped out and offered to meet me outside for a fight, it was 8:49am on a Tuesday.

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CorpusCalossum@reddit

Who won the fight?

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Benreh@reddit

There was no fight, I moved.

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Taken_Abroad_Book@reddit

Chicken

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Benreh@reddit

Cluck, cluck, cluck,

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Plane-Geek-88@reddit

lol - “manlet”

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

And if you think that term makes them angry, just wait for the reaction when they are termed a Person McNugget

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SoupremeLeader@reddit

Not gonna lie this is pretty cringe, did everyone clap afterwards?

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Benreh@reddit

No mate it was the 2000s and call center work didn't allow for clapping, that comes to close to fun.

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Hot_Strawberry8374@reddit

When I worked as a chef in a restaurant at a popular UK gym chain, I got one of the other chefs fired. He had no qualifications, was hired cause his brother was head chef, and had the IQ of a toothpick. One day some food got returned as it was raw, his response was to send a pan flying through the pass at our 'mother-hen' floor staff member... who was about 70, and just working for fun. Immediately notified HR. He found out it was me who reported him, from another chef. He storms in, all big-man style, marches up to me and straight up attempts to punch me in the face. His head chef, big brother, calmed him down, but he was let go. Imagine my surprise when they re-hire him after I leave... and he still didn't have any qualifications.

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SnooSuggestions9830@reddit

Coworker sending a passive aggressive who dunit email around the office after someone at her yoghurt ONE time. Followed by another one later in the day escalating it. It turned out it was me and a very honest mistake as we both had the same brand yoghurt in fridge. But it was literally one time. I could understand it if it was someone doing it daily for weeks on purpose. One time should be obvious it was an innocent mistake not stealing on purpose. I didn't reply to the email as I didn't even realise and left it till the second one.

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SadieBelle85@reddit

One person, who thankfully doesn't work here now, threatened to sue my boss because they got injured on a work night out. Nothing to do with them being a drunk idiot and falling over their own feet, leading to a trip to A&E and stitches. Same person also had a go at my boss because they wouldn't be paid before a bank holiday, and they needed the money. Proclaiming that it was illegal to be paid after a bank holiday. They also went home in a huff because we'd ran out of coffee (funnily enough it was their turn to replenish). Charming person, glad to see the back of them.

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Finger-Painter@reddit

https://youtube.com/shorts/lKqk4h9mmi8?si=r0UFC61qaiLU1Hed

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Sounds like a nightmare. I’ve had a few employees like that who think they know they know all the laws and loopholes.

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Low-Outlandishness14@reddit

I thought if there was a bank Holiday then everyone got paid earlier? (You do seem better of without them)

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FlossieAnn@reddit

Usually only if the BH falls on the normal payday. If its just that a BH happens to be the day before your regular pay day, then no, no payroll team is paying early then,

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AnonymousBanana7@reddit

Even worse, when there was a bank holiday for the last Jubilee or whatever they didn't pay us until a week late. Which is fucked when you're paid weekly.

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SadieBelle85@reddit

Usually we would, but I think this was the May Day one which fell early ish and payday was falling on the Tuesday after so they lost it 🙄

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Bozzaholic@reddit

My old office did secret santa one year and one staff member got the other a golden Stagg Christmas decoration (I looked it up, it was worth more than the £10 budget). The receiver threw a tantrum and complained that she wasn't ever doing it again because she always gets shit gifts Every year there after we did a 'Golden Stagg award' for worst or most inappropriate secret santa gift. The worst thing was, weeks later I worked out that she was my secret santa and all she'd got me was a small Panettone (I didn't complain as I love the stuff but it wasn't like she went mental with it)

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tobeFRANK_uk@reddit

Office secret Santa’s are literally torture. I voluntarily opt out straight away and stay the hell away. I had one women pissed because I bought here chocolate liquors and she doesn’t like them. I barely knew her! Just shut up and regift it, Sarah. The limit was £5 what did you expect.

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DiscothequeHooligan@reddit

Yeah Sarah, shut it!

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theloniousmick@reddit

I never understood people who moan about secret Santa being shit. What are they expecting for £5 (£10 if your being generous). The shitness of it is what I enjoy about it.

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GarethGore@reddit

chocolate or regular panettone though? regular is fine, chocolate is gods gift to man

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Bozzaholic@reddit

Regular but I have since diversified my panettone habits… salted caramel, chocolate… I’m sure there will be a pistachio one this Christmas that will sell out in Marks & Spencer, I’ll have to try that too

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VictoriaRose1618@reddit

Lemoncello one is amazing

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Bozzaholic@reddit

I'll have to keep an eye out for it. In the summer I like to try and find the best mojito I can get, Finding the best new Panettone flavour may become my new Christmas tradition

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CharlieTecho@reddit

We had a guy who outright refused to be part of it (the only one) so we wrapped a tin of beans from the cupboard for him.. he loved it!

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SeahorseQueen1985@reddit

We had one guy who was always off sick. His secret santa giftee gave him the A-Z of pulling a sickie. Of course it was the day the big manager came to spend time with us in our meeting. Then he broke his leg playing a game of footie with his mates when he was away with his friends. Then he said he wasn't travelling back with a broken leg. Never saw him again.

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darybrain@reddit

Manager wasn't micromanaging but was telling everyone what to do in the daily morning call. Unfortunately he had put a bunch of information that hadn't been clean yet in a queue to be processed so it was pointed out that multiple issues would occur. He said he thought those problems had been resolved but clearly he knew they hadn't as it had been previously mentioned multiple times. Someone suggested to sort it out to help the team to be able to do their work, but it would mean that person's assigned work for the morning wouldn't get the rest of the team might have issues as they pick up items that haven't been cleaned and therefore might have to wait for them and do them again therefore doubling some work. manager started pounding his desk saying he'd sort it out himself and for that person to do as they were told. I understand the outburst was from the guy being overly stressed with too much on his plate but he was openly stopping someone helping him out to make it easier for everyone. There were other similar incidents and I lost a lot of respect for the bellend.

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EastOfArcheron@reddit

We had a rather strange guy at work, late 50s, had done a ton of drugs in his life and he could be quite moody. Anyway, he was having a disciplinary in a room with one of the managers and he lost the plot, got up and threw his chair at her. He then stormed through to my office (I was alone and unaware of what had just happened) and screamed at me that he was going to come back with his tartan army and fuck us all. I was absolutely bewildered, I'd always got on quite well with him really.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

You could have just said he was scottish, the drugs would have been taken as a given

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EastOfArcheron@reddit

Hahaha! Cheeky cunt

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Willing-Major5528@reddit

Freedom!

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strongbowblade@reddit

I had an embarrassing work tantrum once while working retail. I was promoted to team leader and transferred to a small petrol station that was struggling, mostly due to an incompetent store manager and outdated systems. There was a lot of downtime in the evenings so I used the time to catch up on admin tasks and do things like inventory, setting up promotional displays, rearranging shelves etc. Unfortunately, a lot of that work was in the back office or the warehouse, so eventually the cashiers started complaining that I wasn't doing any work. As far as the cashiers were concerned the only thing that needed doing in the evenings was facing shelves and serving the odd customer. After a little while I started getting nasty comments and people refusing to do what I asked them to do. It culminated in someone planting stolen money on me and then taking scratchcards out of the safe and hiding them in the warehouse. I faced a disciplinary meeting with the possibility of dismissal for that as I had signed for them. Luckily for me there was no evidence to support the allegation and the investigation was handled poorly, so no action was taken. After that I was transferred back to my old store and I had a little tantrum in front of the store manager as she believed I was responsible for the scratchcards incident and I only got away with it because of a technicality.

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WhoYaTalkinTo@reddit

Jesus, what an ungrateful piece of shit

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Narradisall@reddit

I once heard two women in the office get into an argument over some shelf space. I caught the very tail end of it as I’d been on a call. One of them later pitched an absolute fit at me because I got asked by HR what happened and I stated these two were having an arguement. Turns out one of them was the head of HR and she *screamed* at me in the office “I was the *victim* there!” Looking back on it I think I was just so taken aback by the reaction by this supposed top level professional that I didn’t think how ridiculous she was. She escalated the whole thing to absurdity. I instantly lost all respect for her but thankfully rarely cross paths. I just can’t take her serious as a professional watching her throw a fit like a 5 year old.

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StubbingtonVillage@reddit

Sounds like a classic HR person. Used to using authority to get their own way, immediately turns to aggression when questioned

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thecheesycheeselover@reddit

I once worked in an open plan office, with about a hundred people on the floor. As it is with some companies, some of the desk chairs were better than others, some were crap and a handful were really good. In general people were quite good about keeping the chair that was at their desk when they started the job, switching it out for a better one if someone left. But there were no rules. One of my colleagues got her hands on one of the decent chairs, used it daily for a while until one day she couldn’t find it; someone had swapped it out for a crappy one. She was pissed. She started coming in early most days to seek out the chair and make sure she had it. She couldn’t always find it. She wrote her name on it in tippex, but it kept going missing (I suspect at this point somebody was doing it to wind her up). She ended up sending out a really pissy, pretty lengthy, company-wide email telling off whoever stole her chair, which the head of the UK&Ireland division Replied All to, clarifying that chairs aren’t assigned to specific people. It was pretty scathing, and we all thought that would be that. She found the chair again the following week, reclaimed it, and started duct-taping it to her desk at the end of each day. It was just strange.

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Sly1969@reddit

Should've duct taped it to the ceiling after she'd gone.

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Imaginary-Hornet-397@reddit

The head should have just bought the same chairs for everyone and junked the rest.

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thecheesycheeselover@reddit

They definitely should have. It was one of those departments in weird flux, where it’s part of a huge global corporation yet each office somehow feels like a separate ecosystem with no organisational consistency or standards. That’s probably changed since I left, which was years ago.

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JoeBagadonut@reddit

I work in an office and witnessed a guy have a full-on shouting match with his manager in front of everyone. The point of contention was a supply cupboard full of old software discs (back when software came in big boxes of discs). The manager had asked him to clear out the cupboard and he flat-out refused to do this. He said it wasn’t his job (it was) and that the cupboard wasn’t even that full. Eventually, he gave up and angrily shouted “fine, I’ll do it!”. He opened the cupboard and, in Looney Tunes style, loads of software boxes immediately spilled out and fell on him. Everyone in the office burst out laughing and he stormed out, never to be seen again. Turns out he’d been sacked for making threats to his manager, which is the less funny part of the story.

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CJR33D@reddit

We had a girl throw a tantrum at our boss because she wasn't allowed her phone behind the till because she was on it too often, so she phoned her mother, who came in to yell at our boss and took her home, and they never came back

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

We had a girl who quit because we have a no photo or video policy at work and she kept saying “it doesn’t matter” or “it’s not that serious” when she was caught taking snaps. She didn’t last two days.

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CJR33D@reddit

Oh nice :P our girl was with us for a few months but was generally a bad fit, she didn't interact with people, clearly didn't want to be there and just generally sat on her phone when she's meant to be working, either on tills or on the floor. Our store has an app for our product inventory so we're allowed our phones but not if we're stopping work to browse social media or message people constantly

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CJR33D@reddit

Oh nice :P our girl was with us for a few months but was generally a bad fit, she didn't interact with people, clearly didn't want to be there and just generally sat on her phone when she's meant to be working, either on tills or on the floor. Our store has an app for our product inventory so we're allowed our phones but not if we're stopping work to browse social media

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Temporary-Zebra97@reddit

Had a manager who if you fucked up you were named and shamed by you having the "shame donkey" on your desk for a week. It was just a plush donkey with a dopey look on its face someone had brought back from a work trip. One sales guy on being awarded the shame donkey for the third week in a row, finally flipped announced the manager was a useless cunt and went to drop kick the poor donkey across the room, failed and kicked his desk, howled in pain and hobbled off and attempted the slamming of the soft close door.

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Accomplished_Log1822@reddit

I witnessed a lady walk up to the fridge, look inside and slam it shut as someone kept eating her lunch. she was yelling and screaming. It was pretty funny but also the person who was eating it got caught lol

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TheToolman04@reddit

I don't know if this counts but on my leaving day, everyone had chipped in and bought me some stuff. I was asked to do a speech and everyone knew I hated speeches (I was also depressed at the time and didn't want any fuss/attention). Anyway, I sat there and said it had been a pleasure working there, some of the people were great, others not so much. Suffice to say, the boss let me off the rest of the day lol I saw him in a supermarket a few years later and he couldn't get away from me quickly enough. I still cringe about it but fuck it, they were a bunch of arseholes anyway passing me over for new roles because of their clique-iness.

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Contoured-Topography@reddit

This does read like an episode of the office

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

He’s cringier than Brent.

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moonbucket@reddit

Someone needs to tell this humourless David Brent that liking craft/artisan beers is not a replacement for a personality. One-trick bores are the worst.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

He makes it his personality unfortunately.

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AlShapone@reddit

Peep Show turkey vibes. 😂

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

It was a Christmas joke

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Significant_Oil_3204@reddit

What was the beer?

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Can’t remember I’ll ask and let you know.

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Own_Art_2465@reddit

Leave copies of viz around the place, open on the Real Ale Twats strip.

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

We keep all of our teabags and milk over the road in other offices. We grab a carton, box and bag of sugar pretty much whenever we need it. Our previous manager (he actually got sacked over this) HATED going over the road to fill up as he didn’t like the staff over there and tbh they didn’t like him. We work in a department of 6 other people and this manager was the eldest by at least 15 years. None of us would go over to get tea supplies is he specifically asked, you’re a grown ass man swallow your pride and get the goddamn sugar. One day he just popped as he hadn’t had a cup of tea and none of us would go over to get supplies or him, and by popped I mean shouting his head off, trashing our kitchen area, breaking a coffee pod machine and a teapot I bought as it looked cute. A lad who works in our department doesn’t like confrontation so he started to get a panic attack oj top of him trashing the kitchen. When he cooled off he was called into the office and was sacked on the spot. Bye Felicia 👋

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Accurate_Till_4474@reddit

The tea/coffee making supplies caused an almighty row where I worked years ago. We had to provide our own, so we‘d all chip in a pound once a week and send the apprentice off to the shop. Problems started when we had one of the head office staff (A), who visited us once a week. At first the apprentices would include him when they made the drinks. One lunchtime an apprentice was on refreshment duty, and a colleague noticed an extra cup. “Who’s the extra drink for?”. “It’s for A, he’s in the office”. “Has he paid into the tea fund?”. “No, but he’s just visiting”. So he got no tea, and one of us drank the extra cup. A came in later in the afternoon, and said to the apprentice “You missed my drink at lunchtime”. A voice shouted across the workshop “That’s because you haven’t paid for it”. So A went and made himself a drink. On his next weekly visit, he went to make a drink, only to find that the milk had been hidden. So he made himself black tea. The following week someone had put a padlock on the locker containing the tea, sugar and cups. The week after he brought his own cup, milk and teabags only to find the lead for the electric kettle was now in the locked cupboard. He came in the next week with a kettle lead, only to find in the afternoon that the power socket wasn’t working. The fuse and holder had joined the kettle lead in the locked cupboard. At this point he complained when he returned to head office. The managing director came down, and basically yelled at us all for ten minutes. 3 months later a hot drinks dispensing machine was delivered. The guy who came to service and repair the machine once commented it didn’t get much use. Of course not, we made our own. The machine was essentially just for A, three or four drinks, once a week.

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_WakeDaFukUp_@reddit

Being petty bout a tea bag is the lowest of low. Herd mentality at its best here. Removing the fuse from a plug socket? Really lol

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UltimateGammer@reddit

Equally petty just not providing tea for staff.

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_WakeDaFukUp_@reddit

Agree - I worked at a lucrative bank once based in Canary Wharf. They had the audacity to provide free tea and coffee on some floors compared to nothing for some other floors. The cheek! If you work for a catering company, take note, ta

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Cheesy_Wotsit@reddit

That's hilarious and just the mentality of where I used to work.

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Substantial-Tea7419@reddit

I know panic attacks aren’t funny but the poor lad having a panic attack is really the icing on the cake here

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

Lmao it’s how I first figured out something was going on, I was in a different building at the time saw this poor lad run outside and crouch, I came out saw he was hyperventilating got him in another room with a drink until he calmed and briefly confronted the knob destroying the kitchen

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EntrepreneurAway419@reddit

Makes you wonder what these dickheads are like at home

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

He definitely liked his drink and definitely smoked too many joints. He was a pretty chill manager for a long time but just around Covid time he became a full on conspiracy nut, like reptile people are among us, aliens built the pyramids, the vaccine had a government microchip to control us. Dude became paranoid and more temperamental. Sad tbh

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Jesus that’s a bit excessive over a cuppa!

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

Yeh just a bit lmao Just sad that a dude in his 40’s wouldn’t enter the other building just to get teabags because he was holding petty grudges

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Imaginary-Hornet-397@reddit

Bizarre that they're in a different building in the first place.

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OverTheCandlestik@reddit

Well she’s the boss and buys all the milk/tea/coffee and just keeps it in her office as tbf she doesn’t have the time to personally deliver it all to us. It’s not a massive business park so it’s literally just another building, less than a minute to grab it

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Mrs_B-@reddit

Not sure if this counts..... It was my birthday and in front of everyone I was given a joke gift of a sex toy. I was the youngest in the team - that seemed to be the only reason someone did it. I immediately threw it in the bin and said "grow up", before walking away to a stunned silence. I was later told my behaviour was embarrassing for the team. This was in the early 2000's - would never happen today.

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RUMPOLEofthebailey87@reddit

I was working on a site where there was an agency joiner in and the guy he had to work under used to work under him, so they’re dynamic had shifted a bit. Any way joiner have loads of tools and I mean loads, several power tools and tool boxes and bags etc. I don’t know what happened but I heard shouting and this agency joiner had kicked off, told the contractor to ram his job and he was a cowboy etc etc. The funny thing was he had about 30mins of packing to do and half a dozen trips back and forward to get his stuff to the van, so he had to kind of maintain this indignation and keep that energy, but the pièce de résistance was “The you’ll never see me again, let me tell you” before he had to return later and grab some tools he forgot 😂

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RUMPOLEofthebailey87@reddit

Why am I thinking of this [Peep Show](https://youtu.be/KJ38jTQcO1k?si=H3Q8n_T0g1fZNvE4)

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Illustrious-Log-3142@reddit

Raised a grievance about my old manager who was a lying bully. When he found out he stormed into the CEOs office and demanded to open a grievance against me for daring to raise one about him. Grievance had multiple recommendations including basic training for him that he never completed.

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mkaibear@reddit

Colleague got disciplined at work for some mistake he'd made (again, it was like the fifth time, and this was a place where when one chap accidentally rewrote the entire password database for all clients with "Iamafish" we just laughed at him and made him fix it, so not exactly a high disciplinary place). Anyway, for some reason this ticked him off so he stropped out of the building to his car, slammed it into reverse and turned it straight into the new gate mechanism for the carpark, spiking the car thoroughly, shredding its side - and breaking the gate. So he was trapped inside the car park. With all of us watching through the windows of the office. He waited about half an hour before coming in, and we all carefully said nothing while he waited for the breakdown recovery people and we all waited for the engineer to come and fix the gates.

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urb0icill@reddit

As an Irish person, I apologise on behalf of this absolute bellend.

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agentsquirrel1666@reddit

Not work but my daughter when she was a teenager throwing a tantrum because me and her dad were going to a gig and she wasn’t. Storms out and I said she’ll be back in two minutes because she’s forgotten to put her shoes on…

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CaptH3inzB3anz@reddit

Years ago a team leader in my department had a full on melf down in the office in front of everyone, because he believed a memeber of staff was on their phone, he was not. I got so bad that a senior manager had to drag him away and have a stern talk to him. He left soon after, I think the stress of the job was a bit too much for him to handle.

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OceanSquab@reddit

We had a new senior partner join the law firm I work for at the start of the year, and I noticed he acted very strangely towards me from the beginning. He would ignore me when I said good morning or goodbye, and he was very curt and often rude to me. I just ignored it as I assumed he was like that with everyone, and the last thing I want is workplace drama. I ignored it until a couple of months ago when he came into the office and there was an issue with the monitors at his desk. He rang IT for assistance, and he was slamming doors, tutting and sighing, and I could hear him saying passive aggressive things like "if only people sat where they are assigned then we wouldn't have these problems" and "I usually have no problems but there's some random junior at my desk". I realised he was talking about me. I was sitting in the same desk I've always sat at, which I was assigned months before this guy even joined the company. He must've also been assigned the same seat for some reason, and instead of politely asking me to move, he decided to throw a passive aggressive tantrum and got IT/HR to contact me about the seat allocations. I have no attachment to that desk whatsoever so I would've happily moved had he asked once. Seeing a senior partner in his mid-50s throwing a tantrum like that over a desk encouraged me to not take corporate office culture so seriously.

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TechnoWellieBobs@reddit

This is giving “No turkey!?!? You are a F*HEAD!!!”

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My_Sparkling_Summer@reddit

Work in HR, every payday is an embarrassing work tantrum. The amount of money/bonus/pension/annual leave/sick pay that I, personally and intentionally, have stolen and hoarded for myself is criminal /s

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Glozboy@reddit

I was editor for an industry magazine a few years ago. The designer got into a habit of using spreads from a previous issue and running new text in, often accidentally including material from the old issue which meant the article came out as gibberish. I called him up on it several times and he would get really angry at me. Eventually the managers called him into a meeting. Immediately after, he came back into the office, drained his mug of coffee, loudly said "fuck this shit" and walked out. Never saw him again.

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doomscrolling420@reddit

Had a co-worker bin her secret santa in the work place, the gift imo was thoughtful it was stuff she likes, bath bombs and other things like that. What she didn't like was they weren't from the company Lush, her complaint was that the bath bombs were to hard, and threw them away in the works bin, I personally think she should have took it home and binned it if that was the case, but I kept taking it back out the bin for weeks, and putting it back above her locker.

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stowgood@reddit

haha it's like the turkey for peep show. I hope you've meme'd the hell out of this moment.

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SR-Neptune@reddit

I had a moment like this that left everyone slack jawed. I was working at a hospital and one of the rules was that we weren’t allowed to have chairs in the ward reception area because it looked „messy“ but that led to people sitting on cabinets and other things to do their paperwork. Apparently this annoyed the manager because it looked „messy“. She was one of those. One day she came in, everyone calmly doing their paperwork after a night shift and playing catch up after 6am rounds. One of the doctors was sitting on the fluids cabinet (where IV fluids were kept) and she came in, saw him and immediately stood up on said cabinet to have a rant. She then proceeded to jump off the cabinet, grab his ear and stand him up, all whilst continuing to chew this poor doctor out for innocently doing his paperwork. You could collectively feel the room think „what the actual fuck, you’re assaulting that guy“. She then proceeded to have a meltdown, cry and act like she was the victim in all of it. The worst part was, some people went to comfort her, rather than the doctor who was visibly taken aback. Chairs were allowed in common areas after that, but she didn’t even get reprimanded which really bothered me.

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JJGOTHA@reddit

It was a joke. A Christmas joke. Of course I got a turkey.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

😂😂😂

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robfuscate@reddit

I once had a guy working for me; big guy and they called him ‘Big Bird’. I assumed it was because of his size until he was asked to do a job that he didn’t approve of and started flapping his arms up and down like a flamingo trying to take off. Turned out that he did it a lot, hence his name.

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DeadBallDescendant@reddit

Used to work with a very odd lad. After he joined us, for some reason he'd phone his mum at the end of each day to let her know how his day had been. He'd give his day a score out of ten. One day things weren't going so well for him. He seemed to start simmering in the early afternoon but about 4pm he stood up, shouted "WELL THIS HAS BEEN A FUCKING *ONE*" and walked out, never to be seen again.

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Accomplished-Kale-77@reddit

Definitely gives off autistic vibes

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Metazolid@reddit

Good on him for having a nice relationship to his mum.

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MachinePlanetZero@reddit

Being berated angrily in front of everyone by a software dev that I had misnamed an updated batch of sequenced files , and he had supposedly just wasted an hour manually renaming them. There were 20 in total, and even manually renaming via the file system - for me (if he had asked, ehich he didnt) - would have been a 60 second job. As a software dev, he supposedly had no concept that a tool to automatically rename them might exist, because he was a complete fucking idiot, and fundamentally crap at his job. I was genuinely unsure if he'd also spent 60 seconds renaming them and 59 minutes bitching to everyone before bollocking me, or it really had taken him an hour to do something so basic. He was simultaneously full of shit, but also quite useless. Years later he was fired for slapping someone else in the office after a stupid argument, in which he was definitely still being a moron.

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phaatjack@reddit

Two blokes in their early twenties having a full on scrap in the car park outside over a chair, of all things. One was full-time whilst the other was part-time whilst he did his video editing side hustle (which has actually taken off for him now, good for him). Not even 8:30 in the morning, both of them being pretty built guys, the part-timer an ex kick-boxer, are having a full on argument over this one particular chair that the full-time guy has robbed from the part-timer because “he’s here more often”. This argument has boiled up all day, even to the point that I caught the full-time guy outside in his car who proceeded to tell me he wants to kick part-timers head in. Ok mate, course you do. 5 o’clock hits, they’ve been taking small digs at each other all day, everyone’s pretty concerned it’s going to kick off but surely not right? Not at work? I shit you not, as part-timer is leaving, full-timer has SPRINTED down the stairs after him and confronted him in the car park outside. Part-timer has instantly swung for him and got a pretty good punch off on full-timer who then tackled him to the ground and started laying into him. Everyone from the office is now outside, 95% of people watching it unfold whilst me and a few others are trying to separate them. I hook my arms under full-timers’ and as I’m trying to pull him off of part-timer, he swings his leg and kicks him straight in the head. I’ve genuinely never seen anything like it, over a fucking chair of all things. Both were fired, no charges or anything. Both egomaniacs if I’m entirely honest. I don’t think anything as exciting is going to happen at work for me again, honestly.

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Opposite_Signal_2002@reddit

I worked in a particularly toxic office at one point and there were a few. A fellow colleague accused all of us (particularly me) of hiding a sponsorship form - ironically for a sponsored silence - he went full on ballistic, said some pretty outrageous things, only to find it in his work bag. Boss of the same company had some legendary meltdowns. Every door had a hole in it where he'd kicked/punched it, and he once threw a monitor out of a second story window because his pc didn't do what he wanted it to. He had a similar meltdown, couldn't find a job bag, spent an hour in an absolute rage, came into the studio and took every job bag off the shelf (it was a binder sheet with docs, relevant backup disks in it) and threw them across the room, said we needed a better system and we couldn't file for s**t - stuff like that. It was on his desk the whole time. I also had to witness two grown men have a stand up shouting match that almost came to blows, because one got a new workstation and the other didn't. The starter of that argument, once wore bicycle clips for a month as he was convinced the office was infested with fleas. I walked in on that same employee one morning with his head on the desk, in floods of tears. When I asked if he was ok, his response was "I CANT LIFT MY HEAD OFF THE TABLE!" I endured seven years there 😂

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Glad-Introduction833@reddit

In a large open plan financial planning office, me and two colleagues hid this woman’s monster munch multipack. She ate em all day, loud chewing and they stunk. We thought she’d laugh like “Come on who’s had it? You lot are so funny” She kicked off like I’ve never seen, yelling “which one of you CUNTS has stolen my FUCKING MONSTER MUNCH”. She was spitting, yelling and threw her keyboard on the floor. When this kicked off me and the two colleagues darent say we’d hidden it and someone found it in the filing room. At home I was telling my friend about it and my children overheard. My son was dancing round singing “monster munch CUNTS” for weeks afterwards, which is why I remember it so well.

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Royal_IDunno@reddit

Ungrateful petty bastard is what he is.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Same. I appreciate a “happy birthday”. I always give my staff a paid day off on their birthday as well

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Electronic-Goal-8141@reddit

That's pretty a good idea, I've seen some companies advertise it on the list of perks on Indeed. I have always tried to get a holiday for my birthday as I would find going to work in any job I've been at , mostly minimum wage, a downer. This year is my 40th birthday, and I am awaiting the start date of my new job. I informed them at the interview, I had planned to take a couple of days off then. Current job , couldn't get a look in on a holiday for the date , tried in January, they are always trying to say they short staffed "too many people off" etc but it wouldn't have made any difference to my particular job so would probably have pulled a sickie as it falls on a Friday and a payday thankfully.

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Oceansoul119@reddit

One I caused rather than witnessed: Leaving do and on my way to the pub a mate texts and asks what I want from the bar so I place my order seeing as to how I'm less than a minute away. Get there and as my booze is outside with the person smoking a fag I obviously stay outdside and chat. Other people turn up and as we're already outside they get their drinks and come to join us. People who were already inside either come out to have a fag see us and stay/wonder what's taking so long and come out to check/see someone at the bar getting drinks and follow them out. Eventually we've taken over all the outside seating and in addition the wall once space at the tables ran out. Much alcohol is consumed, shite is talked, and fun is had. The day afterwards the boss has a go at everyone for abandoning him inside with his cronies. Somehow his being a complete fucking gobshite and unable to comprehend the idea of joining the people outside is the fault of the staff not him. Also of course my leaving do should centre on the obnoxious fuckwit who was the cause of my quitting which in turn was why another half-dozen quit within the week. If the useless cunt didn't want to feel excluded maybe he should have made an effort to join in. On the other hand it was better that he didn't because everyone thinks he's a useless obnoxious cunt and his presence would have ruined our fun.

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Electronic-Goal-8141@reddit

Although you were leaving anyway, it's probably just as well he didn't start this rant at the leaving do itself when a few pints were consumed , or someone might have chinned him for his obnoxious attitude

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RP2209@reddit

There was a guy at work who was given a "Mr Grumpy" mug for his secret Santa gift. It was actually a very appropriate gift, but he wasn't impressed. He threw it on the floor and walked out of the office. After that, there was no more secret Santa.

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Electronic-Goal-8141@reddit

Thus proving how appropriate it was 😁

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KombuchaBot@reddit

The Grinch destroyed Christmas

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HummusFingies@reddit

Not at work but an interview at a café with a potential candidate. Interview goes great and guy goes to leave. I'm seriously considering bringing this guy on. When he gets to the door, he pulls it and it doesn't open. This is a door that you push from the inside, and I tell him this. He looks back at me and says it goes both ways, he was here yesterday. I watched as this man proceeds to pull the door with all his might, breaking it as he finally pulls it open. There is spittle on his lip from the effort at this point, and he says "See? Hope to hear from you soon!" He did not hear from me.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Fucking weird guy. Telling someone who works there how the door works.

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matt_smith_keele@reddit

Sounds like he's buying the first round every Thursday after work until his next birthday...

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

I think he’ll be too embarrassed to turn up lol.

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joesus-christ@reddit

We were all in the office when X drove into / through-ish the wall. A lot of us were there but I was the only one who legitimately saw it, the rest saw it after, in the reaction moment. Nobody got hurt. He was crying his eyes out. He said he thought he was in reverse (he usually parked with the nose of his car precisely where he drove through the wall). To this day people still think he had a little mistake and insurance covered everything. I saw him ram the wall on purpose - the CEO had pushed him a bit far that day. He knows I know and it's horribly awkward.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Bloody hell that’s an extreme reaction!

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AccomplishedRange671@reddit

A really great had a severe allergy that could kill him, this new colleague threw said item at him in his words as a ‘joke’. Myself and my friend gave him a massive bollocking. A couple of weeks later, he pulls the same stunt again, I noticed him and told him off, after about 5 minutes. He walks out of the job and tries to kill me with a nail gun, tries to attack me because apparently I ruined his life. I ended up fighting him off with a broomstick.

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Jesus! He sounds like a psycho.

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hornblower817@reddit

Worked on an Australian carrot farm during a gap yur. Owner was this huge outback Australian farmer who had such a temper any small thing would tip him over the edge and start screaming. Once the carrots had been picked you’d be working the sorting machine. Carrots go through the machine to get washed and come out on a conveyer belt and you’d sort by size, shape and throwing away any bad ones etc… (Was an organic carrot farm so a lot ended up half eaten or rotten). One day the owner came in to inspect what had already been sorted and started going absolutely mental… top of his voice screaming “these carrots are no fucking good” whilst throwing them at the walls and out the boxes. Complete carrot pandemonium 🥕🥕🥕🥕. Very hard not to keep a straight face in the sea of orange destruction

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franki-pinks@reddit (OP)

Carrot pandemonium is a great band name lol.

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Apprehensive_Ad4172@reddit

I work with an absolute nut job. I borrowed the department paper trimmer from his room one day and he went MENTAL! I was on a zoom call at the time, and my friend on the other end of the call heard everything. There was a vein popping on his forehead, he was slamming bits of paper down, and his face had gone puce.

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SkillKitchen8941@reddit

Is there a better descriptive of the colour of anger than 'puce'. If there is, i havent found it.

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KombuchaBot@reddit

vermilion?

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scientits69@reddit

One of my coworkers was terminated earlier this year for having a tantrum over someone who interviewed to be our new boss. He didn’t like her, made it clear to the rest of us at the office, and then started telling colleagues outside of our organization that we were hiring her and they should “get ready” for her to be the new head. His primary issue? She was in a parallel role to his in a different area, and he took it personally that she was interviewed when he didn’t even bother applying. She was never going to be hired (he wouldn’t have gotten the job either had he tried), and his loudmouth got him fired too lmao good riddance

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cyborgninja42@reddit

Worked in a factory environment that had had issues with people wearing clothes with pictures/phrases that were intentionally offensive or would stir the pot. Factory made the rule that you wore company attire (which they gave you) or solid colors of your own choosing. Ole boy came in with a hoodie on with a print on it, not an offensive one, but a print none the less. A supervisor came by, saw the print, and very discreetly asked him to go take the hoodie off so that he would be in dress code. The guy flipped his lid and started screaming at the supervisor about being singled out, and how unfair, blah blah blah, all the whole stomping around and raking stuff off workstations. Well, supervisor has to call the plant manager in to deal with this (this was the night shift and the plant manager was at home). When the plant manager gets there he is feeling lenient and decides to let him off with a write up since it was the first time he had been in trouble. This ticket the guy off so much that he stormed out by kicking the manager's door open, shattering the glass, ripping the auto closer off and breaking the opener. The plant manager then decided that not only did he need to be fired, but also charges brought against him. That was the wildest shift I had the whole time I was there.

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bellj1210@reddit

no matter the work gift you receive say thank you and move on. this sort of tantrum will hurt your career.

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Fickle_Hope2574@reddit

Nurse I worked with was a alcoholic. Eventually he made so many mistakes the manager couldn't ignore it so pulled him. Windows smashed, computers broken, staff punched. He was not a nice drunk.

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petit_cochon@reddit

That'll show 'em.

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wowsomuchempty@reddit

How did he react to being sacked?

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StructurePlane9195@reddit

Probably got promoted to management, NHS management loves that sort of thing.

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Fickle_Hope2574@reddit

Nope private care home

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Common_Man7669@reddit

That's a relief, thought you were talking about me there (before I got my shit together).

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Fickle_Hope2574@reddit

Haha second paragraph

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Management organised a pizza party for lunch. The MD came down stropping because the Office Manager ordered a load of Thin and Crispy pizzas. Cue the MD saying "does anyone here actually like thin and crispy raise your hand", to absolutely no hands going up in complete awe at the tantrum being thrown.

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stvvrover@reddit

A man at work once tipped the rubbish out of a bin, put it on his head and was screaming and banging it. Dead now so…..never forgotten

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hannarrzed@reddit

A previous manager of mine often acted like a petulant child when she didn't get her way. A particularly hilarious time was when the Director told her that her team had to attend a department meeting, rather than help her to get an urgent task done, meaning she would have to manage on her own. Her response was to bang her head on the desk several times, in the middle of an open plan office. I genuinely didn't know how to respond other than to laugh 🤪

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Underwood229@reddit

What a twat

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The_Banned_Account@reddit

Had a chap come in the office absolutely furious his brand new wagon he was given didn’t work called us all the names under the sun. Called us useless and went round us individually to berate and abuse us. I said something along the lines of “okay let’s go take a look and see what we can do”. I got in it out my foot on the brake and hit the start button and bam she started right up. Turns out he wasn’t putting his foot on the brake. He was “let go” the following week

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moab_in@reddit

We had a new sales manager appointed by the owner because of some golf bollocks, but was a raging alcoholic. He soon went to an early morning business breakfast networking meeting, but had been out all night on a bender and was still pissed. Tried to crack on to some lady there whispering in her ear but obvious to all in the room. Somebody eventually stood up and said mate I think you need to leave. He took a big flounce and stormed out slamming the door behind him.. except he'd exited a door into a broom cupboard. A minute of assorted thrashing noises later, he made it out (slam) then staggered across to the the real exit (bigger slam). Everybody erupted in absolute tears of laughter.

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tingod1999@reddit

A good few years ago, I was having a stressful day in the office and the computer /radio system was playing up, making my job more stressful. At one point, I'd had enough and shouted "You cunt!" at my comptuer...just as a Senior Manager and local MP walked through the doors of the office. Surprisingly, I wasn't bollocked, and the MP presumably left with a better understanding of the stressful nature of the role! :D

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ChattyNeptune53@reddit

The MP is probably used to people shouting that at him.

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MillionStudiesReveal@reddit

I worked with a Susan but you would call her Karen. She opens the door at the office one day and yells towards me "When the management hears about this, heads are going to roll!" and slams the door. She wasn't there the rest of the day. Next day, she comes in and doesn't mention anything. I have no idea at all what she was talking about . Everybody assumed I did something to her or her car.

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SonicBlue82@reddit

Years ago in a call centre, a young lad had his managers as friends on Facebook. He called in sick one day but lots of photos all over Facebook showing he'd been out the night before. He was hungover. He was agency staff too. Walked in a couple of days later and not too long into the shift was frog-marched out by a manager and a security guard. There were a bank of desks with unused computers, he swiped and knocked down every monitor on the way passed. Got downstairs and went to punch the fire alarm, only, he didn't trigger it the first time, or the second time, took 3 attempts to trigger it. At which point, although knowing it was a false alarm, we had to all get up and leave. Manager came back in and nearly pissed themselves laughing.

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Sinhika@reddit

Why would you get fired for calling out sick while hungover? Do they really want someone with a migraine-grade headache and queasy stomach working with customers that day?

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ChattyNeptune53@reddit

It's their responsibility not to drink to such an excess that they make themselves sick the next day.

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FireFairy666@reddit

My old manager, absolutely this time last ywsr. He aaid something I didn't like, I walked away, told someone I aas leaving cause of what he'd said..... he followed me and stood behind me and went off it that I told them. He literally flipped at me (was pretty scary tbh) but then ran down a very public corridor, that had a LOT of people screaming for his manager "manager, manager, they're doing it again! " He no longer works there.

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hunsnet457@reddit

I once worked at a call centre where a guy was booking upgrades for customers without their permission so he could get a 50p bonus for each upgrade. This was actually a huge deal because it could lead to *massive* fines for both him and the company, a prison sentence and potentially being banned from ever working in a regulated environment ever again. When he got found out they could never prove it without a doubt so he just got a slap on the wrist, but he went on a rampage when they tried to talk to him about it, knocking over equipment, smashing up his computer and pulling people off calls trying to interrogate them on whether they were the one who reported him… Eventually we all had to leave the building because we couldn’t get him out and he got arrested. The weirdest part is he was told he wasn’t being fired or even facing any real consequences, then he ended up being arrested and billed for damages that were way more than he ever stole in bonuses. And the whole time the person who actually reported him was his workplace bestie.

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foggy2765@reddit

Weird how all these examples seem to be men…

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milkychaii@reddit

My notice was in at my full time desk job at my gym as I was leaving to become a Personal Trainer (they knew I would be leaving once I qualified, and they knew when I passed my final practical exam. They had four weeks notice to get someone new in, and it’s not exactly a hard role to fill) Pictures this, one of the managers turned on me for handing in my notice despite knowing from the start I would only be around for about 6 months. We’re on an open together. It’s 5:30am. I arrive and clock in and he says good morning. I say good morning back. He has his back to me, headphones still on and is turning on the coffee machine (noisy shooting steam and stuff) so he doesn’t hear me. Flips out, calls me disrespectful for ignoring him. When I tell him I did say good morning but he didn’t hear, tells me I’m talking back. I just sit and take it, as I’ve taken enough shit from him at this job despite going above and beyond and the other managers singing my praises on a daily basis. Bear in mind, he’s a bloke and I’m a small woman, and he’s 20 years older than me. There’s no one else in the gym, it’s scary. Keeps raging on about disrespect and how he’s in charge, how I can’t ignore him and it’s ridiculous that I’m leaving a job that he knew was only temporary for me from the start. I point out his headphones are on so he didn’t hear me. He goes quiet and at this point I just want to get on with the day and open up the gym as per. Tries being overly nice to me the rest of the morning. Showing me photos of his kids, asking about my life. I just crack on and be polite but short.

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akajondoe@reddit

I worked in a small office of around 20 people. We would go to lunch for somebody's birthday if we were available. One lady complained all the way up the ladder that we didn't go to a nice place for her birthday and not as many people showed up to celebrate. We had to stop celebrating birthdays at the office.

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lnm1969@reddit

Worked at a major airport once. iT stuff way, way behind the scenes. A quite senior architecture manager right next to me shouted to a PM "for fucks sake Mike, what do you want me to do; your job for you?" Was particularly startling because the conversation prior to this had been completely civil, chatty, side of desk, how was tour weekend... Not sure what the outcome was but so out of order even if Mike was a sycophantic, useless bellend 😆

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Current-Ad1688@reddit

You were lampooning me. It was a simple lampoon.

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Krakshotz@reddit

My team organises booking staff onto external training courses. Occasionally some staff break process and book themselves onto stuff before telling us and we have to pick it up. This one bloke booked himself on and told the provider that someone would be in touch (it took a while for someone to notify us). Eventually in his correspondence with the provider he went on a rant about how useless and slow we were (despite us only just get. Unfortunately for him, the email chain was forwarded to us by the provider due to his unprofessional attitude. His boss (who is a nice bloke), apologised profusely to us and gave him a right bollocking over it.

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pinkrynnn@reddit

this is hilarious as someone who works for a training provider… you would be surprised at what sends someone over the edge haha

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Left_Set_5916@reddit

A young lass thumbing lockers because anger mentioned seeing her out while pulling a sickie wasn't being used as a threat just polite be careful

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Smooth-Purchase1175@reddit

In my last workplace, I was responsible for archiving classified documents and taking large wheelie bins full of said documents to the shredder (with occasional interpreter duties for an Italian couple who barely spoke English). One day, I got called in by my boss regarding some social... miscues. Apparently, a female co-worker had reported me, saying that I had been trying to make a move on her and other women, which I countered, saying that I was trying to build up some kind of social network, and trying to befriend workers of both genders - I was not deliberately going after women (I had made a few friends in the building - mostly dudes, which I'm still in contact with). I then later discovered that the main cause for her report was because I offered her (and other people) a Jelly Baby (I had an addiction to them in my youth). Armed with this newfound knowledge, I decided to confront this woman directly, asking her why she didn't come to me first-hand, and she went off on a tangent about how most women in the department were married and/or had busy home lives, and didn't have time to mingle with "an Aspie dago". I told her it wasn't personal, and she later got a reprimand, while I refused to take out her rubbish bin from that point onwards. In the end, I got sick of being treated like a 5th wheel by pretty much everyone that I handed in my notice and was asked to hand over my ID badge ... which I did by throwing it into the manager's office via an open window (similar to the ending of the original Dirty Harry movie). I only said goodbye to the receptionist and the few guys I trusted, and then left silently.

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michaelisnotginger@reddit

Che schifo "Aspie dago" did make me snort laugh though

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Affectionate_Day7543@reddit

Not a colleague tantrum but a client threw a fit over a small mistake we’d made. Rather than just letting us fix it then and there he proceeded to rant and yell and make physical threats. Police called, changed his tune and started apologising but too late. Next thing we know another police car turns up and they’re shoving things into a huge evidence bag from his car. Eventually gets arrested and car towed away. If he’d just been calm then he’d have gotten away with whatever dodgy shit he was up to. Gave us all a good giggle watching from the windows though

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InfectedWashington@reddit

I wasn’t the receptionist, but I was based in the back of reception, while my team were in various other offices. But being on reception I was next to all the staff photos. They were displayed on the wall opposite the staircase from the staff only area. I altered my coworkers staff photo slightly over a few months. Minor things, making his smile a little Wallace and Grommity, but not obvious. Then I’d tighten his tie in the pic, make him ever so slightly redder in the face, maybe moving the eyebrows subtly to look more like a helpless frown. Anyway, I get back from 2 weeks in Istanbul, to hearing gossip that he had been walking down the stairway with his cup of tea, and as he descended he noticed the pic for the first time. He ripped the photo wall down, stormed into the IT guy’s office (who he has had previous beef with) and launched into a tirade against the dude. Told him to sort it out. Management had to get involved, mediation, etc. I had to go find him and admit it was me. He was mortified.

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FumbleMyEndzone@reddit

A contractor who was weirdly defensive about everything - claimed the term “contract resource” was discriminatory, told someone innocently asking what he’d got up to at the weekend that it was “none of his fucking business”, was incapable of answering any tech questions without being a condescending prick etc. He’d tried for months to get the other contractors to band together in a group to force the company into a better rate, and had appointed himself as their spokesperson. The project they were working on got shelved (they all had 3-6 months left on their contracts), and they were being reallocated to higher priority bit of work. He threw his toys out of the pram when he was told the news, and stormed out of the meeting saying he expected he wouldn’t be the only one to quit. The others sat silently. Our boss asked if anyone wanted to say anything then after a few moments silence one pipes up “just to be clear, I have no problem being moved. As long as you pay my day rate, I’ll wash the fucking windows if you want me to”. It cut perfectly through the atmosphere and our boss was crying from laughing

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Electronic-Living665@reddit

It’s Fosters, to be fair.

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NegativeSn@reddit

Last week at an event which we hold every few months, the admin/reception team were very upset because they were told to move around their seating plan. They then happened to take it out on everyone. I tried to move my seat, which I've done many events before as I take the photographs for the event and my seating is dependant on the layout, and they kept shouting at me that I need someone senior to move my name to another chair, which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I ended up having to drag down the event lead to help me move a laminated piece of paper with my name onto another seat that took 5 seconds. They also proceeded to scream at me to move my important PPE uniform bag needed for the event from behind the reception area because it was blocking the space where they want to put their handbags and backpacks. They ended up stuffing me into a cupboard with it and made me get changed there. The bag needed to be behind there as it needs to be somewhere safe due to the nature of the ppe. They also bitched about my colleague to her face without knowing who she was. I've never seen such pettiness and ended up crying before the event and had to hide my face with my helmet visor.

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Imaginary-Hornet-397@reddit

Report it to HR.

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NegativeSn@reddit

At the time I brushed it off and said I didn't want any repercussions as I thought I was childish for crying over being told to move my bag/seat however after speaking to some colleagues, I've realised their attitude was uncalled for and I should probably say something, I'm just not one to complain and I'm generally well liked. Even more senior officials felt disrespected by them. The same team have also been recently suspended for similar issues. It writes itself.

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WobblySith@reddit

Some guy who was known for losing his shit at the slightest inconvenience had an IT issue so did the most rational thing imaginable, phoned Microsoft and lost his shit at the first unfortunate person to answer the phone that ended with him screaming “I WANT TO SPEAK TO BILL GATES!!! GET BILL GATES ON THE PHONE RIGHT NOW!!!”. He was dead serious, keep in mind this man is a chartered mechanical engineer.

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National-Base-323@reddit

I’m a paramedic and we had a new starter join in a September. She was in her late 30’s with young kids and had just qualified as a paramedic. She got her rota and looked straight at Christmas week for that year and absolutely hit the roof because she was down to work Christmas Day. She had a very public tantrum about how she has young kids and does not want to work Christmas. As you can imagine, she didn’t get much sympathy from the rest of us in the room, most of whom had young kids, and were rostered to work Christmas Day…

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Excellent-Ad-2443@reddit

one of the owners of the company asked me where Employer X was, i said sorry i didnt know. He completely blew up at me, saying i should know where all staff are at all times, i was shocked and asked was i supposed to follow everyone around with a clipboard? I got again screamed at for not showing any interest, i explained id never followed any male around in my 30 years of life and wasnt about to start, he then told me that was why i didnt have a partner i have never been so livid in all my life, worst thing was everyone just stood around and said nothing while this was all happening

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StillGotTheBlues1@reddit

Once watched a guy in a shared office try and log onto a computer, but someone else had left themselves signed on then locked it and went away somewhere. He absolutely lost his shit, started shouting and swearing about how it was a “fucking joke” and threw an absolute temper tantrum, slamming stuff about the place and then stormed out in a huff. Was extremely funny. He was known for having a terrible temper and it wasn’t the first time he’d done something like this.

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Ok-Chest-7932@reddit

Guy threatened to quit if his boss wasn't removed from the project he worked on. In fairness, it worked.

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WizBiz92@reddit

Our office is very cold, so during the winter we use a space heater. The owner knows about it, is fine with it, uses it himself. We have a maintenance man who had been trying to chase down why some of the lights out front weren't coming on some nights, and his hypothesis was that the office circuit was causing the short. He went on this crusade against anyone having space heaters, personal laptops, anything plugged in in the office, even though it was incredibly obvious to even those of us with no electrical experience at all that we were on separate breakers and not the issue. Owner called in some pro electricians to check it out and they immediately demonstrated to him it was not our heater, but he just HAD BEEF with this space heater for some reason and went off on both them and my other desk colleague who was working that day. At one point he took the heater (didn't belong to him, was someone's personal heater) home to "open it up and check it out." I just kept bringing more and bigger heaters. Then he called everyone who had had separate conversations about this and told them all different versions of what had gone down to cover his ass, saying everyone ELSE had been blaming the heaters and laptops and he's been trying to tell us all different. It was long, drawn out, very obvious to everyone what was going on, ended with some fireworks, and he was counseled for his behavior.

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Throw-away17465@reddit

Dunno if this counts but Two managers got into a fistfight IN the office over something work related. I was not there to see it. They were both gone for a week and one quit a few months later.

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Key-Environment-4910@reddit

Used to work with a twat who loved to try put me down, I bought munchies for the team meeting, she questioned why they weren’t fresh but packaged, I put my hand up and said STOP.. I’d been out shopping on top of my normal work.. and she did stop. Not so much a tantrum but me stopping her in tracks (about pastries!!) with her nasty comments

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rd3160@reddit

Watched our normally mild mannered service driver at a BMW dealership grab an apprentice by the neck and pin him against the wall for jokingly saying "Alright, shagger?" when he walked past. He barked "DO NOT CALL ME THAT" and let go. Baffling overreaction for what is a fairly common term. Somehow he kept his job and was still there when I left.

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Ok_Chemistry9742@reddit

Work with a woman who seems to be in constant tantrum mode. Suggest to her to find another job, “I shouldn’t have to do that.”

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QuiGonGypsyFleps@reddit

There’s been too many which is quite funny. One of my favourites was a creep who hated rejection, we worked a call centre, & any time he got rejected he threw a full blown hissy fit & had to get moved floors. The final straw was a girl ghosted him then walked onto his floor one day & he punched the screen & walked out. (Thankfully got the sack)

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NorthernMunkey8@reddit

Grown man, working in a a school, the cafe we use that delivers ours and the kids dinners didn’t put gravy on his dinner like he had asked for. Full blown hissy fit, having a go at our colleague who orders the dinners, in front of the kids with SEMH/trauma. Stomping through the building and letting everyone know about it. More toddler is less unreasonable when she’s not getting her own way.

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Ellee001@reddit

I work in an open plan office, where different teams work. A female from another team had a full breakdown on a Teams call to her manager, disagreeing with comments on her yearly review. There are numerous private meeting rooms around the building she could have taken this discussion to, but chose not to. She had the call on loud speaker for the duration of the call (20ish mins), despite having a headset which has 2 earphones & a mic, so everyone on the floor could hear. When the call ended, she proceeded to cry for almost 2 hours. One of her team members tried to calm her down but this only encouraged her...she's a known attention seeker. She's 31 years old.

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Prestigious_Leg7821@reddit

Witnessed a guy storm out of a meeting once as no one else had his “vision” It was a remote meeting He was in his own bedroom And he was on crutches Honestly looking back it’s hilarious, at the time I wasn’t quite paying attention as the meeting had moved on from my points, and I happened to glance up as the conversation stopped……I said out loud “oh god has he just stormed out” (note to self, this should have been an internal monologue)

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clarice_loves_geese@reddit

One man tear another man's shirt fighting over who got to sit on a chair. The loser stormed next door to complain to the Ops Manager who thank God wasn't in

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shyshyoctopi@reddit

This is basically the turkey skit from that Peep Show xmas ep

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Moleander@reddit

I know you want to hear other people's shitshows but honestly... this is one you made yourself. How people keep thinking that ridiculing a person's passion is somehow funny is heartbreaking. A whole new level of ignorance.

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cintapixl@reddit

Someone in our team, in the middle of an open plan office sat at her desk one morning and noticed that her screens had been moved. She absolutely lost it. Started crying and carrying on. Grabbed her stuff and walked out and went home. Trouble at home and this was the last straw I guess.

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shell-84@reddit

Not really a tantrum but pre COVID worked in an open plan nice office with a fair number of people. Weekly meetings on what could be improved, like plants, air purifiers etc. one guy really wanted a phone box so that he can take private calls in the open plan office. I mean I don't know, first world problems etc

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chasingkaty@reddit

I have two, but one I heard and the other one I saw. Both were the same woman. First: I worked in an office in a different town from the main office but I regularly had to call the main office to speak to the team. I was on one such call when in the background I heard what I could only describe as a banshee shrieking and a thud. The guy I was speaking to whispered “got to go” and hung up the phone. What happened was, one woman in the office (A) hated one of the guys (B) - long story going back years but it basically hit the point where they couldn’t even communicate politely, they just ignored each other. Until A got it in her head that B was going after her (he wasn’t, it was in her head). So on this day she lost her shit at some perceived slight and started yelling across the office at him. Then she picked up her keyboard and tried to throw it at him BUT it was in the times before wireless keyboards so it didn’t go anywhere. So she grabbed the next thing on her desk, a dictionary and launched that at him. It hit the wall next to his head (that was the thud). She was screaming and yelling the whole time. Second: A once again was upset at B. I worked in the main office by this point. A was dealing with something work related (can’t specify, annoying but privacy). B was on a call to a VIP and mentioned the work related thing A was dealing with (not overstepping just talking about it as it was a point of interest that day). A overhears and while B is on the call with the VIP stomps over and starts screaming at him about how she was dealing with it and how dare he. I sat between where A and B were so I was caught literally in the middle. B, to his credit, politely ended the call with the VIP, put the phone down and lost his shit at the boss telling her she needed to do something about A, blah blah. A never got fired, she got time off for mental health and a few years later took voluntary redundancy. B retired around a similar time. A never apologised to any of us. The keyboard survived.

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Xylophone1904@reddit

fine, I’ll browse the ellesse website even though I hadn’t thought about their kit in 300 years. I guess the tnt sponsorship is working.

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shinjuo@reddit

We had a new employee get hired around October and I shared a cubicle with him. Two weeks after he started we were discussing the office Thanksgiving plans because around the holidays it was hard to find a time to do a big potluck lunch where everyone could attend. It was a month away and someone suggested we move it one week closer because there was something going on the next week. This dude sent back a pretty rude email to everyone in the office about how we cant change it because we had already set the date and he had already started preparing. We did move it anyways because, fuck that, but when he did bring his food in it was awful. He was fired a couple weeks for just being a shitty employee

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Jefoss75@reddit

I once made a sales donut cry because I told him he was no good at his job. He had a front bumper in his hands and was trying to tell everyone it was the correct one and the garage was wrong, this was his second attempt at ordering it for the garage, both wrong, he threw it on the floor stormed out the warehouse, later was in the managers office ( windows all around it and no blinds so we could all see) crying, complaining I was upsetting him, (by telling the truth) he quit that day, god bless you jimmy, wherever you are now.

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Intrepid_Sir_2555@reddit

What beer was it? Hop house 13?

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Takoto@reddit

Worked in the office with the CEO of a small company (less than 30 employees). Myself and someone else were sat in the room while he was on a work call, can't remember what it was about but it wasn't anything majorly important, but he went on mute (I assume) and started fist-pounding the desk because he was so angry about something. Proper beating the shit out of the desk/table for several seconds straight. Later found out it was because the audio in his headset kept cutting out.

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Outrageous_Diamond58@reddit

Ah, now I understand the technology rage. I’m pretty easy going about most things, but a phone or computer intermittently being a complete bastard useless piece of shit does wind me up a bit.

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EdmundTheInsulter@reddit

Well that was an ill-starred joke. Those sorts of jokes aren't funny and especially not at work. Especially not if the person takes themselves seriously, I mean some people have to.

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Either-Equivalent314@reddit

Working In mortgage advisory and new younger lady joined, was great at her job from what we saw and was an exemplary colleague about a week later she is marched out of the building and next day her mother comes down to cause a fuss asking why her daughter has been sacked she has only been in the job a week and had not missed a day and this is a disgrace etc… Her daughter was wanted for major financial crimes in her home country and had a interpol notice for her arrest out.. never saw her again but I don’t believe she was actually extradited and one can only assume the mother was none the wiser until this all came out, it was totally bizarre as this younger lady seemed so normal and obviously knew what she was doing regarding her job, don’t know why she got involved in the illegal side of things or if she even had a choice in the matter

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CakeOnly1513@reddit

We were handing out secret santa gifts at work, someone got this guy a my little pony toy, said guy lost his shit, stormed out shouting something about how we all think he was gay. Firstly Paul, we all got shit presents, secondly, no one would bat an eye if you were. Still think about him, hope he turned out ok

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Putrid_Promotion_841@reddit

So did he get a care bear the next year?

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CakeOnly1513@reddit

Some say he's still running to this day, screaming about ponies and sexual orientation

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

It was a case of I admit I made a mistake but the way I was treated was probably disproportionate. I worked for Smyth's Toys for a while, I worked on the software department (video games basically) , on that department was also where small item click and collects would go. One day a little kids bike is in there for some reason (bikes were usually in the other click and collect area which was in the stockroom) and so the customer comes in, collects it and they go on their way. Then one of my coworkers comes over to me and gets incredibly pissed off at me for letting said bike out because bikes needed a safety check, like yelling at me on the shop floor level pissed off. Ok fair enough I messed up but also I didn't work on the bike section and hadn't received any training about bikes because it wasn't deemed important as it wasn't my department so how was I meant to know? Like no one even gave me a heads up like 'Oh btw there's a bike down here, if someone comes and gets it call someone from the outdoor section over' He was generally a bit of a prick anyway, he was one of these 'lad' types who would 'banter' and thought he was the best thing ever. He managed to sent one of my coworkers into a meltdown because he thought it was a good idea to say to her something about 'you look like you want to kill yourself' and she was dealing with some pretty intense mental health issues at the time.

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

I've seen this story elsewhere on Reddit recently. Did you post it elsewhere or did you nick it? :)

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Yeah I've posted the story before

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tiorzol@reddit

Who would steal that

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ManInTheDarkSuit@reddit

Fuck knows. I just remember reading that same story on another thread, and Reddit can be really weird!

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Tricky-Reporter-5246@reddit

Should've banged him out

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T-Roll-@reddit

My manager had a melt down at 9am because the dishwasher had not been emptied. Bear in mind there was only 2 of us in the building. I had to deconstruct his argument and point out how ridiculous he was. He started to cry and said he’d received some bad news this morning? Then sat there whilst I was still pissed off asking if we can move on from it? Weirdo

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Putrid_Promotion_841@reddit

To be fair it depends what that news was. People can react strangely in times of grief for example and from what you wrote it seems that he calmed / broke down and asked if you could both move on from the situation. Calling him a weirdo seems unnecessary.

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T-Roll-@reddit

He broke up with his boyfriend that lived in another country. That’s what his bad news was.

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Putrid_Promotion_841@reddit

Not exactly trivial then but admittedly not the worst news. Clearly was affecting him and the dishwasher was the final trigger for the tantrum.

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T-Roll-@reddit

The embarrassing part was that he had just turned up to work late too. Then accused me and my colleague of not doing it. It was 9am. We had all just started work. I don’t use the dishwasher.

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tingod1999@reddit

A good few years ago, I was having a stressful day in the office and the computer /radio system was playing up, making my job more stressful. At one point, I'd had enough and shouted "You cunt!" at my computer, just as a Senior Manager and local MP walked through the doors of the office. Surprisingly, I wasn't bollocked, and the MP presumably left with a better understanding of the stressful nature of the role! :D

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NoBadPizza00@reddit

1999: a colleague went to see the eagerly-anticipated Phantom Menace a day before any of us (who were all looking forward to seeing it) He conveyed to us that it was a tremendous disappointment at work the next day (without spoilers) and a colleague blew his top, saying he’d ruined it for him and he’d been looking forward to it for two years, etc. He finally burst into tears and stormed off. We all had a good laugh after a brief stunned silence. We found out about a year later that he’d just found out he was infertile in the weeks leading up to the PM release and it was the only thing that had kept him going, knowing he had that to look forward to. We felt so bad. I guess I learned that day that when people react badly to something, or had a tantrum, it’s not necessarily *that* thing that’s set them off. Big life lesson in humility for me. He and his wife ended up adopting, so it all got better for him. Haven’t seen him in 15 years but that day stayed with me.

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NoBadPizza00@reddit

1999: a colleague went to see the eagerly-anticipated Phantom Menace a day before any of us (who were all looking forward to seeing it) He conveyed to us that it was a tremendous disappointment at work the next day (without spoilers) and a colleague blew his top, saying he’d ruined it for him and he’d been looking forward to it for two years, etc. He finally burst into tears and stormed off. We all had a good laugh after a brief stunned silence. We found out about a year later that he’d just found out he was infertile in the weeks leading up to the PM release and it was the only thing that had kept him going, knowing he had that to look forward to. We felt so bad. I guess I learned that day that when people react badly to something, or had a tantrum, it’s not necessarily *that* thing that’s set them off. Big life lesson in humility for me. He and his wife ended up adopting, so it all got better for him. Haven’t seen him in 15 years but that day stayed with me.

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gloomfilter@reddit

I saw a guy on his first day in a computer programming job throw a cup of lemonade over a colleague in an argument about the use of semicolons in javascript (he thought it was ok to not use them). He was fired immediately. It wasn't even lunchtime at that point.

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10b0b@reddit

I misquoted something from the Richey Edward’s razor incident while chatting to a fanatical Manic Street Preachers fan, which resulted in a biographical rant about Edward’s and him being asked to go home and cool off.

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Engausta@reddit

I work in a ship yard and know a story where one of the team leaders got in a huff with a sparky, it ended with the team leader picking up the spark by his neck. From what I understand, sparky got neck injuries or back injuries and team leader got the sack. Sparky also never returned to shipyard.

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Jolly-Minimum-6641@reddit

This is both a) assault and b) a fairly epic H&S problem.

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BiscuitCrumbsInBed@reddit

Oh thats terrible. I hope he cringed himself into a tiny hole. Never been anything too crazy at work. Just the ward WhatsApp getting bit heated at times. A small handful of staff like to take every comment as a personal attack so have to rapidly message about how xyz isn't their fault. Then it normally turns into nurses vs HCA, how one does everything/doesn't do anything. While everyone else quietly rolls their eyes in the background. All will go quiet .... until the next week and the next misunderstood comment/complaint kicks it off again.

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CatFoodBeerAndGlue@reddit

Oh man. I'm also a wanky beer snob and I've had my fair share of questionable beer gifts but I've never shown anything but gratitude, especially to work colleagues who really have no obligation to buy you any gift at all.

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Pengtingcalledme@reddit

Wow

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No_Eye_8432@reddit

Someone at work was trying to get hold of another worker using one of the radios we use to communicate across site (as many as 60 people have personal radios). But the person they were calling was not answering. This someone was getting more and more irate, until the central controller pointed on the open air that they were on channel 1 and not channel 2, giving 50% of the workforce a right chuckle. Unfortunately, that someone was me

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ManLikeMack@reddit

At my old job, one of our bosses was a bit of Hitler. Small man syndrome. He regularly picked on of his junior staff, but one day this lad had enough and flipped. He called him a c\*\*\* and to shove his job up his arse, storming off the sales floor. He returned ten minutes later as he'd forgotten his car keys. He was the colour of beetroot as he was escorted out of the building

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jlelvidge@reddit

Unfortunately, I did this. Was called to a room with the GM, the AM, head of maintenance and his assistant. Whereupon the GM, walked around the room criticizing everything even down to the bed spread (which she had insisted on being put on the bed) in a sort of tantrum of her own. She brought up all maintenance issues but the whole time, the general remarks were clearly being aimed at me as HH, demanding to know why I hadn’t reported it etc. She had had a complaint from a guest and was basically making me the scapegoat but when she turned and said “its not very clean either” I hit the roof. We had had one of the worse Summers ever with basic staff cover throughout so low at times, I went home exhausted and just crashed. We were never thanked or appreciated throughout. I turned and shouted “I honestly don’t know what has brought on this systematic attack on Housekeeping or perhaps its personally at me, and in front of witnesses too. Any half decent Manager never insults a member of staff in front of their colleagues but you wouldn’t know about that, being the crappiest one that I’ve ever come across. You insisted on that bed cover even though I told you it wasn’t suitable so have you been setting me up for this?” I then removed my keys from my waist band and threw them on the bed and said “here are my keys, please do shove them up that fat arse thats squeezed into those ‘too young for you’ looking pants!” I then walked out. I went to my office and put my coat on and got my bag and sat wondering how I was going to get home as it was 10 miles from my house and no bus due. Both the AM and Head of Maintenance came to talk me out of going but I was adamant. I rang a taxi and while I waited, smarting at the £19 fare, she came in and apologised.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

On a night shift, me and one other guy working. Security guard comes on the floor to do his rounds, starts chatting to me, other guy goes to the toilet. Guy comes back shortly after, security still chatting to me. Security departs to finish checking the floor, and shortly comes back accusing other guy of pishing all over the floor, Other guy absolutely kicks off, saying it wasn't him. We were the only 3 in the building at the time, and security had checked the toilet before coming to where we were sitting and chatting with me, the only person unaccounted for at the time was the guy who went to pish. Was a proper screaming match from him claiming he couldn't have possibly pissed all over the floor. An email sent to the whole office the next day saying to be respectful of building staff and of the toilets when using them.

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Witty-Insurance-1995@reddit

Employee mad that I asked him to put his *illegal* knife away because he was making another employee uncomfortable playing with it. Full blown mantrum. B/c why does she even care?

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Bigglez1995@reddit

Dunno if this counts, but I had a colleague who called up a customer and started asking them for help because they're mentally drained after breaking up with their partner. It was very awkward

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rocketship_potter@reddit

Was it a customer they had a good relationship with, or someone in a counselling/therapy field?

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Bigglez1995@reddit

I'm not sure, as it was just someone that my colleague supported as part of the job.

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Plane-Geek-88@reddit

I confess I had a moment when I ran a flying school and we were struggling with a shortage of flyable planes (b****ds kept breaking them). I asked management if we could lease a plane to take the pressure off and it was met with a straight nope. No discussion, just a dismissal like I was some schoolgirl asking for an extension on my essay deadline rather than a concern that we were actually losing money and customers for lack of planes. Anyway, I stormed out and yelled “what’s the point of having a f****g flying school if we don’t have any f****g planes to fly”. I might have even thrown the phone across the room….

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R-ohdear@reddit

I worked for an insurance company a few years ago and we had one colleague who after a bad phone call would snap his pencil, throw it at the computer and storm off. This would be a regular occurrence so became oblivious to it. He then went and upped his game. After a particularly bad telephone call he leapt up out of his chair and stormed off through a door followed by a loud bang. On later inspection he’d punched a hole in the wall which maintenance filled in and was still there as a memorial at least 10 years later.

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hednizm@reddit

Two women were having an argument at work at a place I used to work. One of them was a slightly large build - lets call her Jane. The other, who wasnt - lets call her Paula. Anyways, it had been going on for a few minutes and started getting a bit personal...We all know that once that boundary has been crossed it normally gets a bit messy so it was a case of 'not if, when' and who was going to take it down one level. The slimmer of the two was obviously getting bored and says 'Oh fuck off humpty dumpty..' What followed was the strangest tension I think Ive ever experienced. A mixture of people wanting to piss themselves laughing, those who were just outright shocked..a few looked like they were going to start crying, and others who were just bewildered by what they had just heard. Jane, continued to argue her point but Paula had obviously grown tired possibly bored and while making her way back to her own area sang the humpty dumpty song. Fucking nuts but one of the best 4 minute segments of hilarity for all the wrong reasons.

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dimesdan@reddit

What was the beer? I'm guessing it was something like Kilkenny, Smithwicks, one of the Franciscan Well or Wicklow Wolf, but could easily be Hop House 13 as that got discontinued over here during the Pandemic.

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kwakcheese@reddit

NO FUCKING TURKEY

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StructurePlane9195@reddit

Years ago I was onsite shadowing another IT guy and we need to install a printer at a clients office. We ask a couple of members of staff where it should go and they say it can go on this little table at the end of some desks. I'm just plugging it in and the office manager who was nowhere to be seen comes in and throws a massive wobbler for at least 5 minutes about how unsafe it is etc. You know rather than just saying "guys that's not safe you need to put that somewhere else" while this is going on I'm just waiting for them to stfu and all the members of staff are side eyeing each other in a "here they go again" manner. This would have at worst been a trip hazard for maybe 3 people and we were going to put rubber trunking down anyway so it wouldn't have been an issue other than looking a bit shit, but it was a scruffy office with servers in a cupboard that would overheat because the adjoining office got cold and staff turned the AC off lol.

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SparrowTavern@reddit

Not witnesed but my other half did, we had christmas temps and one christmas temp was so confident he would be one of the 4 kept on afterwards decided to quit their other secure job ahed of time. When they didn't get hired they legit acted like you said no to a child in the sweet aisle and had a tantrum infront of customers. They blamed the manager why their soon to be family (their partner was expecting in a few months) would be struggling after christmas and pouted for their final 2 weeks. The person in question was around 35

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PhilsomeFour@reddit

Work in an open office. 18 months ago the sister of the PA to the chairman, yes that kind of PA 👀, started in our accounts team. She'd previously been unemployed for 9 months after being made redundant and the previous 4 years before that worked remotely because of COVID. She spent a good 5 months of her 18 month employment off sick with an ear infection, and was very upset when she got told she had to return to work after her sick note had expired/run out. She then spent the rest of her employment time, probably 6 months, very audibly complaining that she was being treated unfairly and she would take the company to an employment tribunal for "forcing" her to come back to work. Another member of the team went off sick in March this year, genuinely sick, had to have her appendix removed. And the complainer went absolutely ballistic and started being really shitty around the office, slamming drawers shut, leaving rubbish lying around, bad mouthing everyone in management, leaving her desk a mess with food crumbs everywhere and bits of rubbish. One day she "fainted" in the bathroom and hasn't been seen since. She handed her notice in 2 months ago and it was accepted on the spot

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Effective_Crazy6307@reddit

I used to work at a digital marketing agency. There was a team of about 6 developers. At the time, I was about 3 weeks into my months long internship. Anyway, one of the developers was asking another developer to QC some code he'd written. The one doing the quality trying kept trying to explain what he'd written was wrong and wouldn't work. Although the other guy was adamant, he was wrong. Anyway, he yelled very aggressively, pulled his keyboard out of his desktop and threw it across the room. I was like "WTF have i walked into"

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Mikon_Youji@reddit

Someone I used to work with several years ago got fired because she wasn't allowed to welcome very important board members into a meeting. She essentially lost it and started screaming at our boss that she wasn't ever allowed to do anything and that the job sucked. Then she stormed out and went home.

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txteva@reddit

We did a simular thing to a chocoholic for Secret Santa - her Santa had wrapped up a Tesco extra value cooking chocolate as her 1st present and then asked me to give her the second. Well, I did the first part... and then continued to give the rest of the gifts out. She was clearly fuming and looking around to see if she could work out who it was and he was giving me pointed eye stares and looking at the extra gift - he deserved a bit of a wind up as well. Luckily, Santa "found" an extra present for her and she was very happy with the Hotel Chocolat box at the end and everyone had a good giggle.

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Up2HiDoe@reddit

Similar to poster: brattish workmate who did f-all. Due to loads of team sickness I ended up being responsible for organising a gift for her 30th birthday. Bought an incredibly cool bottle of highly-rated tequila as that was her drink of choice. She opened it and threw a strop because she assumed it was gin. Did not improve my opinion of her.

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Educational-Angle717@reddit

Blimey that guy needs to lighten up- we get nothing at our work at all. Even its poor beer ots something!

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phatboi23@reddit

the order of best tasting beer is this: Free Cold The one you like.

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rhysisreddit@reddit

We had a brand new sales manager quit because the MD wouldn't let him re-arrange all of the desks in the office. (He thought the desks he and his team had were in an inferior position and not befitting of sales people).

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ClarkyCat97@reddit

This is pretty funny tbh

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buy_me_a_pint@reddit

I brought the wrong the wrong shape packets of crisps from the shops, I was on placement running errands, if you wanted something you should have gone and get it yourself, you managed without a placement person before , and the owner of the company would have made you gone to get it yourself as you are allowed 5 minutes away from the office

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vegan_voorhees@reddit

A guy I used to work with was a bit sloppy with his commitments, but a nice guy and very knowledgeable. He just didn't like being 'managed'. Management decided they wanted him out and, when he just failed to turn up one day or call in (later phoning and claiming he didn't wake up until after 5pm) he was called into 'the office' the next morning. Emerged 45 minutes later and pushed a load of files off of tabletops and cabinets as he went out the door.

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RedHeadRedemption93@reddit

What an absolute dry lunch.

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Decent-Chipmunk-5437@reddit

*Ahem*. I don't think your coworker was actually upset about the beer. Maybe ask him what's really going on.

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Xylophone1904@reddit

That wasn’t very Christmassy, Mark.

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question

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Huge-Brick-3495@reddit

Cauliflower is not traditional dad.

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4naans_jeremy@reddit

It was a joke. A birthday joke.

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TurboAssRipper@reddit

This is going to happen occasionally with all the jokes and bants. It's the price of admission, once in awhile someone will chimp out

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Abwettar@reddit

My manager becoming irate and making a personal dig at me in response to me trying to raise a concern over staff safety 🫢

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Redditor_Koeln@reddit

You know that’s when they’ve got no argument to make at all.

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Topaz_UK@reddit

Ad hominem, when someone can’t attack your argument do they try to attack your character instead

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PrettyWeb5569@reddit

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SuburbanBushwacker@reddit

that must have been hilarious

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painful_butterflies@reddit

Oh fair enough, if you won't drink that piss, I will! I mean it's fosters, so I wont enjoy it, but I also won't waste it.

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