Please share your profession and event you witnessed you would consider the worst and never wants to see again
What’s The Worst Shocking Thing You Have Seen in Your Line of Work?
Aerith-Waifu on 02/07/2025 - 14:14
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So like a defective taser or a mundane news headline.
I saw someone photocopy a piece of paper. I was not shocked at all.
Colleague who isn't working, but everyone seems to think she is always working.
jv is right.
It's worstest.
ha
Please share your profession
Hippotherapist…
edit: I'm just horsing around with you…
Car detailer- MG4 Essence covered in Star Wars stickers.
LMAO
Thats a feature not a bug.
Tow Truck Driver - turned up at a crash, driver of damaged car refused tow.
How did that end up?
so many towie vultures that not blindly accepting the first offer is a reasonable approach
I don't know what's up with these tow trucks full graphic painted in Monster Truck Decor that makes me think "Yeah, I'll trust this guy not to scam me, over the RAA truck that my membership literally pays for"
If you're in Perth (don't know about elsewhere), that's the recommended course of action. They've tightened the regulations a little, but bullying tactics from towies still goes on.
how is that shocking? tow trucks are vultures, and charge crazy fees for tows, its better to refuse them most times
Timely question for the childcare staff in the south western suburbs of Melbourne.
Sounds like nobody was looking, to me.
Terrible
That situation is so messed up - I can't even begin to imagine what those families are going through
Good choice. Its truly a thing of nightmares for any parent or sane person.
Manager - employee told me that their favourite hobby was "SLEEPING"!
This could be read in multiple ways. Probably the employee hasn't continued the sentence, "with many people".
Yeap that’s me! Proudly say it again lol
I guess you were not paying them enough to want to wake up
It’s fun and cheap.
As a parent I can understand that choice
Why is this shocking?
I hate this culture where we all have to pretend to be some stereotypical comic book superhero to our work colleagues - it's like the acceptable range of hobbies are running marathons, sports, the great outdoors, and travelling.
People should just be able to just be themselves, so long as they fulfil their work responsibilities - if someone loves sleeping, why is that any more shocking than someone who loves mountain biking (or whatever)?
All of Rolts comments on here are pulling the piss out of threads that OP has made.
Nothing wrong with that. I wanted to grow up and be paid to sleep.
I wanted to be Batman.
Nothing wrong with that at all, that was my favourite hobby as well when I had a 3 month old. Sleeping and sleeping on the job are two completely different things. Our hobbies don't have to be gardening, tennis or swimming. Some people struggle to get 8hrs and that is a very healthy hobby to chase those 8hrs of sleep.
Someone once left the office toilet in quite a state
is that happened almost everywhere ?
I know someone working in a Government department told me if there was some sort of unfavourite announcements or bad news going around, then there would likely feces smear on the toilet walls that day.
Speaking their mind out: It’s likely that the person told you was the culprit.
It's crazy to see how filthy people can leave the toilets. You don't appreciate this because busy places like shopping centres & airports have cleaners that come in multiple times a day, otherwise it would be an absolute pig sty. Considering that a third of the guys don't use soap and a quarter of them don't even bother to wash their hands at all after using the toilet, cleaners are essential to keep things hygienic.
You are obviously from Gen Glen 20.
How does someone not washing their hands after peeing cause "filthy" toilets?
In terms of the WFH debate, commuting is high on the list of reasons not to go to the office, but not having to use office toilets is right up there. Some people are disgusting.
Mechanic - damaged Tesla Y suspension from being driven over a kerb.
Let me guess based on the line of changing professions, you're now a Car salesman?
curb? kerb?
cerb!
carb
A kebab
Also didn’t happen
Another time someone packed knives facing upwards in the dishwasher cutlery basket and a fragile manager got hurt. An email had to be sent
Wow
Another time
🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/29/kirstyscott
A 31-year-old woman has died after slipping and falling on to a knife that was lying upright in a dishwasher.
Ok. Once, ever. Not worth worrying about.
My wife does this occasionally to surprise me.
An interstate colleague wrote a very poorly written Requirement Document which was only two pages long and lacked any meaningful detail.
A bikie who got shot asked if i could revive him after he had 7 holes in his body. i was first on scene.
i told him, for his safety its prob better if he died.So you're a plasterer?
Mortician
Does the 7 holes include the existing holes?
The scars had covered them over
how is it better if he died? that makes no sense
less bikies the better
lmaooo
For his safety. Noone will try and kill him if he's already dead, so he's safe from being killed.
Did he die on the job? aka another ozbargain poll?
In a restaurant staff saw cockroaches and did not care
Was in a pretty famous restaurant and was fascinated watching a mouse sneaking out stealing bread crumbs off one of the boards. Found the mouse less offensive than the smokers.
Had an UPDATE statement run in a production environment without a WHERE clause. Had nightmares about it for weeks.
I always do a TOP (1) when targeting a single record so that even if the WHERE is incorrect the damage is contained to only 1 record
No transactions support? Why directly in prod? How’d you recover? So many questions
Plus one. It was a while ago, used audit table to recover.
Plus two. A colleague did similar just about a year ago, sat there white faced for a while, I helped with the audit table thing again.
Edit: I almost forgot a related incident. A colleague ran a query with begin transaction and no end transaction. After that he promptly disappeared for lunch. The database became unresponsive and I ended up cleaning up the mess, which was pretty simple once the problem was found.
I'd be sued if I told you, even unanimously on here.
unanimouslyanonymously
:)
He knew what he was saying.
And all the voices in his head agreed with him.
Car aligner - Tesla that couldn't deal with curves.
body aligner - Elsa that had unfixable curves!
One worker used the office microwave to dry his socks. His logic? “It’s just like the sun but faster.” Needless to say, lunch breaks were never the same
Just trying to get rid of the microwaved tuna smell.
Work microwave caught fire.
Some dude decided to see what would happen if he microwaved a metal fork.
For some reason, this reminds me of my younger years with the lads, where we would microwave toilet rolls for a bit of fun.
Give it about 2.5 minutes and full power, and stick it outside, and watch it slowly combust over the next 30 minutes. Best done on a slightly breezy day.
Now smells like Doritos.
One employee got fed up with their lunch constantly being stolen. So they laced it with laxatives—not to eat, just to catch the thief. The culprit spent two hours in the bathroom and then threatened to sue…
threatened to sue or threatened the loo?!?
Lawyer to judge: "Your honour, my client seeks damages for excessive diarrhoea after stealing and consuming the defendant's lunch."
Judge: 🤔There's legal precedent. Don't be so quick to judge.
Was a case about negligence and causation.
Might have been "person's in control of a dangerous thing". One of the negligence provisions in that area, anyway. s289? Qld Criminal Code, for example.Jackson and Hodgetts (QCCA)
Homeless dude used to dig through bins at back of butcher shop.Two butchers filled an empty coke can with preservative and left it out in the alley for the homeless dude to find.
They meant no harm, thought it was a prank.
Homeless dude drank the preservative and died.
=> butchers convicted of manslaughter and preservative becomes a "dangerous thing".
It would not be unreasonable for a non fatal result from a different irritant be transferred to civil negligence claims.
You can't go around attempting to poison people or cause them harm or discomfort.
drank the preservative and died
Unfortunately in this case the contents did the opposite of what it says on the tin.
If storing lunch at work, just put a sign on it saying you have Hep C or Syphillus or something like that.
That will kill your chances with Rebecca from HR….
LOL!
Although, if Rebecca thinks you have Syph, at least she thinks you're a player.
And maybe your wife won't mind if Rebecca is discouraged.
Ok, how about a sign saying:
There are two sandwiches here. I've put laxatives in one of them. Do you know which one?
*I have no idea if there would be any legal or employment complications if you did something like this so seek professional advice before trying. I am not qualified in any way to even suggest that this might be a good idea.
@Muppet Detector: "My lunch is my lunch. Ppl eating my lunch gives me the shits. Ppl eating my lunch may also give them the shits."
I don't believe this on the account that I don't believe you work.
Does being electrocuted count as the most shocking thing?
So the least shocking thing, or the most ???
The worst shocking would be something that 'fails' to shock…