Posted on 02/18/2005 7:36:30 AM PST by TXBSAFH
What is the funniest or wierdest thing you ever saw or heard at work?
For me it happened about 9 years ago. I worked construction in my 20's. I had several crafts, on this job I was employed as a pipefitter. I was stand next to my foreman when the General foreman come on the radio with a message to him. This was heard by all the foreman and others. This was a large job with maybe 50 with radios. (A bit of pertainent information, a section of pipe is callled a jiont of pipe.) He said, "Bob I just dropped off an 8 inch, 40 foot joint on the west side of the unit. Get on it is a smokin' hot job."
Some of the retorts on the radio were. "That is on heck of a marley."
"Talk about an employee incentive program."
"Can we have OT on that too?"
HAVE FUN!!!
:^)
ROFL!
That story made me laugh pretty hard!
What did you do with the other 13 minutes of your coffeebreak?
HAH!
Ouch! Zing'd!
O_o Same time post
Hasn't happened yet. < |:(~
Argh is Canadian......easy mark...........
Not yet.
You're calling ME easy?
LOL........ I've been trying to think of something funny that ever happened at work........ since I worked for three CPA's I can't even remember smiling......... ;^)
I spent 20 years in the Navy, and remember some of the names of people that I met:
Interior Communications Technician second class (IC2) Butts
BT1 Vernon Dale Isom...wanted everyone to call him V.D.
a Seaman Seaman and a Petty Officer Petty
And the most memorable, a Marine pilot named 1stLt Richard Head.
No lie, these were real!!
Another time, I worked for a Senior Chief who, if you believed his stories, had done it all more and better than anybody else. When we had morning quarters, this SCPO always asked of the group if anyone had any info to put out. One Petty Officer, on his last day in the Navy, said that he did, and proceeded up in front of the group. When he got next to the Senior Chief, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a green rock on a string and quickly slipped it over the Senior Chief's head, stating, "There! You're no longer Superman!!"
They paid you, that had to be fairly hilarious.
OK, that brings a story to mind.
When I was in law school I interned for a US District Court judge.
Closer to graduation I got a call from the clerk for another USDC judge down the hall. That (Carter-appointee) judge just happened to be under investigation at the time for disclosing a Federal wiretap to one of his cronies*.
The clerk, who was a nice enough, sharp gal, said, "The judge is looking for a clerk for after I leave and was interested in talking with you about it."
We went back and forth for a few minutres about how great it was to work in his chambers, and what a nice guy he was, etc., etc., until I asked the obvious: "If it's such a great gig, why are you leaving?"
It was painful to hear her hem and haw for a credible answer.
*(his name is easy enough to turn up via Google search)
Almost every Friday starting at 8 am, time seems to stand still for 8 hours. Then after the 8 hour period ends, it accelerates for 48 hours. Weird.
I did basic at Ft Leonard WoodS in Missiouri. We had privates with the following names in our company:
PVT. Dicks
PVT. Cox
PVT. Ball
Pvt. Butts
Just imagine the fun the drill sargents had with those 4.
1) Halloween '99 I was working at a pet store in a mall. The store owner stood at the front of the store handing out candy-while having a live 11ft albino burmese python wrapped around him. And you know, most of the kids didn't mind the snake at all, the snake sat quietly as they petted him and they got their candy.
2) Meeting the WWE wrestler known as the Undertaker at a Louisville KY Bigg's store I worked at in March 97. He was doing a promo for a WWE music CD. Working up the nerve to talk to him was hell (he's 6'10", weighs about 310lbs, heavily tattooed and looks like a Harley biker, which he is out of the ring...) but once I did I found he was a really nice guy. The WWE reps were sorely pissed cause they wanted him to sign only the CDs and he ended up signing everything handed to him.
The best story I can think of from my husband's service in the Navy would be a tossup between the whale that followed their submarine during a training underway (they nicknamed him Virus) or the time he watched a handful of his shipmates snort pixie sticks and the hilarity that ensued.
I had a college co-ed client that was an athlete and also very beautiful. One day she decided to bring her unneutered tomcat to the vet to get it neutered because he had been spraying her apartment. She left her house with the cat loose in her car wearing just short white shorts and a thin white T-shirt, no bra. Apparently, Tom got excited and jumped into her lap and urinated all over her shirt from her neck to her waist. She brought the cat into the exam room holding him by the scruff of the neck very upset. OK, here is a young college co-ed looking like someone competing in a wet T shirt contest smelling like a tomcat. Yikes. The situation could not have been more of a paradox. I took the cat and made a mental note of the situation as she left the room heading to her home.
You wouldn't happen to be a former St. Louis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, would you? I know two who were caught doing just that - in a very small red sports car, from what I hear.
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