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Pokey Segal. Updated on April 27, 2024
Above and beyond r/AskUK, u/anonymous autist I wanted to know about the atmosphere in people’s workplaces.
What is the most ‘office’ thing that has happened in your office?
They added –
“My office manager recently came and said “people always ask me what I do, when they should be asking ‘what I don’t do’ because I do everything”
The second thing was that we had a racket in the office.”
Some of the answers were more in the direction The IT crowd than the officeBut these fit the bill.
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Two people got into an argument about the color of a header in a spreadsheet one day. It gradually escalated until 6 months later one filed a formal complaint against the other, eventually calling various colleagues as “witnesses”.The cover of the electronic sheet will now forever be Departmental Sciences.
Probably around 1921
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I watched a girl send a fax over and over again. I said “you don’t have to keep doing that, you can enter multiple contacts”. She answered “No, it’s one person. I tried many times but the newspaper is still here.”
melijoray
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We held a 2 minute silence for a welder who died. Nam Nam, tears flowed.
On Monday, he came casually down the shop floor to his bay, everyone looked like they’d seen a ghost! … It turns out that the office girl who delivered the message misheard and in fact it was his relative who died.
We couldn’t even laugh about it because the guy was still bereaved, you couldn’t make that shit up!
HornyMidgetsAttack
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At an old job we did a staff satisfaction survey. It was quite a small team, and there was a lot of unrest at the time. We then had a team meeting where the person in charge read a lot of comments, including one who specifically called them “cock”.
They also saved all comments in the shared storage, without anonymity…
lilchunk27
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Someone had a dump on the bathroom floor. not inside a cell; They left their stupidity right in the middle of the bathroom, outside the cubicles.
BaBeBaBeBooby
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I once worked with a strange girl who tried to start an argument with me about cheesecake and got really angry in the process.Later I was invited to her engagement party, where there were two magicians, some kind of karaoke involving the mothers singing a fiddler medley on the roof and one of the fathers dressing up as Elvis.
SchmooveBaby
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hook. One of our doctors does not “do” job titles. Until about 5 seconds later, when he says “By the way, I’m a co-director, just so you know.”
ARedditUsername69
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The best I ever saw was a guy who emailed his pub quiz team, but accidentally sent the entire 800-person office: “The good news is that Chris from the [main competitor] The team is dead, so we have a good chance of winning this week!”
Al_Scott
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A guy got fired up about the possibility of James Bond being recast with a woman in the role. He ended it with…”if things go on like this, there will be nothing left for men”.
ArrakisIsHere
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A manager in our company asked one of the manager’s daughters to make 20 copies of a document. 10 in black and white, 10 in color. She left the room and came back 2 minutes later because he “didn’t say what color to make them”.
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