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another worker fell over and hit his head on the concrete behind me. while I was checking his pulse, he died. creepiest day ever. and the only thing the company did was take a long lunch due to the EMTs in the work area.
Reminds me of those one punch deaths that result in manslaughter, because damn, the back of the head is pretty fragile.
Construction company we made a few foundation pads and the supervisor who was an asshole, came to check the electrical installation conduit, so he pulls his plan and goes to one conduit end that is supposed to go all the way to the other side, so he yells at one of the workers to blow on the other conduit and wants to listen for air coming out on his end.
Guy on the other end blows, nothing happens on this side, the asshole supervisor yells “Blow Harder” so the construction worker obeys and gives a big strong blow on his end. Well nobody saw this coming, someone had urinated in the pipe so all pee comes out and squirts his face in front of everybody.
Since we hated him we were all laughing our souls out of our bodies. :) The supervisor, didn’t say a word and walked away furious.
I trained a serial killer. Hang on, I’ll link to another comment I made regarding that…
EDIT, found it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/3725228
Another edit, just to clarify: I trained him at the job, not the killing part
Glad you clarified that. I was worried about you.
I mean, anything worth doing is worth doing well, right?
Dexter?
I guess if you’re going to unknowingly interact with a serial killer, being their job trainer is one of the luckiest things you can be. They can’t off you, or else they won’t be able to learn enough to do/keep their job.
Coworker (IT guy) went into a meeting room, turned on the computer, but not the monitor, and then returned to his office. Then he waited for another co-worker to enter the meeting room. The IT guy then remotely connected to the meeting room computer from his desk, logging in as the person in the meeting room - no idea how he got the password. He then made some very strange modifications to seemingly random employees time sheets and left a homophobic email in the drafts of a lesbian co-worker. Then he tried to cover his tracks by erasing some logs, logged out, and went on his merry way.
The changes were noticed the same day and I was asked to investigate. The only reason I looked thoroughly enough to figure it out was because the logs were erased, otherwise I probably would have stopped digging once the CCTV footage and time sheet modification logs matched up. He forgot to wipe the logs of his own machine showing the remote connection to the meeting room PC just before the changes were made. I was digging through his computer’s logs while sitting across from him, it was a bit surreal.
From what I heard, he gave no reason for why he did what he did. I don’t think he really had one.
What an absolute piece of shit. Could of destroyed someone’s life. I wonder if that was the first time.
“Of” never follows could/should/would. Ever.
Should “of” ever follow “would” or “could”?
It could, of course, be done. If you ignored punctuation.
Yeah to be honest I don’t know why I write it like that. I know it’s not right, outlook corrects me almost every day. One of those weird things my brain does, maybe a habit from when I was a kid idk. I do it without realizing.
To extend what TheGreenGolem said, what you have understood as “could of” is actually a contraction of the words “could” and “have” into “could’ve”
Weird.
Also, I thought the whole point of logs is that you can’t delete them yourself. They get written to an external place and then they can’t be edited.
Most users can’t clear their computer logs, but IT techs have a lot more access. I haven’t ever worked somewhere that has any kind of logs that nobody can wipe/delete, IT staff kind of need to be trusted or they can do all sorts of chaos and damage.
You’re thinking of audit logs, few systems are critical enough to warrant that, no system mentioned in the story would typically have audit logs unless we’re talking in the military or similar.
Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.
Well she didn’t put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.
Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.
The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.
I had a similar experience pre-COVID with a middle manager boss I hated.
I was going to be flying in to NY to participate on an advisory group for a very large client, and wanted to fly in early to have dinner with the editor of a trade publication for which social meetups nearly always led to being requested to do a piece, often a cover story.
Well, my middle manager boss wanted to use us as a free case study group for her friend’s team building services, and had me instead fly in late so I could be there for the stupid thing.
The real kicker was she wanted everyone on the team in, including the colleague who was home with a 102° fever. I was not happy at all that someone actively sick was going to be in the office, and even went to HR but was effectively told STFU.
So I spent the day “looking around the room with a magnifying glass to see if you notice anything different” instead of dinner with the editor in chief of our industry’s trade magazine while actively staying as far as fucking possible from my sick colleague and hating my boss with every ounce of my being.
It was nuts how she used to use company resources for her own gain, and my dislike for her eventually got to the point I would get physically ill the limited times she was actually in the offices.
Had it been COVID days, I can’t even imagine how she’d have endangered the whole team.
I caused the loss of multiple millions of dollars in stock of one of the largest manufacturering companies in the world. All because I listened to my boss instead of my instincts. I got fired because the senior foreman “couldn’t stand to look at my face”
Go on… tell us more please.
Long ago at my first job I worked as IT in a warehouse. This story involves two employees, Retired and Pretender.
Retired is a retired U.S. marine, working in shipping, he also had permission from the owner to open carry in the office and warehouse.
Pretender was in sales and is kind of a tool who had to do all the cool things everyone else was. Three of us had motorcycles and would go on day rides. Pretender found out and less than a week later he had a motorcycle and wanted to join us (without a license). He sucked, and there are a few other examples but aren’t the topic of this story.
Pretender overheard me and a coworker talking about the guns we had. Needing to fit in, he said he’d bring his to work tomorrow and wouldn’t answer when we said he didn’t have to and just to tell us the model. Sure enough, next day he wants to show us this obviously new gun that he obviously had no training or common sense for
We played along and then went about our day. Later on, we hear Retired and Pretender in a pretty heated argument as they walk past our cubicles. Then apparently Pretender walked to his car with Retired in tow, and reached into his car and grabbed his gun.
Retired (peacefully) put a stop to it, the owner came out to figure out wtf was going on, fired Pretender on the spot and let him retrieve his belongings before seeing him off. He also called in the non emergency line and had an officer come over to put a police report on file. Unsurprisingly, the officer used an older mugshot to confirm it he had the right character.
What were they arguing about you might wonder? Pretender was telling Retired how to package an order for shipping, Retired worked in shipping for years and was having none of it. A few months later the owner got a call from the state saying Pretender filed for unemployment and to confirm the reason he was laid off, with he had listed as “downsizing”. We had a laugh over that.
TL:DR: moron coworker drew a gun on a retired marine why open carried and fortunately didn’t die, but he did get fired.
I particularly liked the “fortunately” in there. This illustrates the difference between the lemmy community and reddit’s.
Not sure that holier-than-thou attitude is justified.
Well, we lasted a couple hours before reverting back to Reddit.
But, I am. Ordained and everything.
I used to work at a ski resort. The snowmaking system has guns that plug into pedestals that operate at 3 phase 480vac. One night, one of the groomers dropped the grooming tiller blades right onto a pedestal and mangled/shredded the crap out of it. This did not blow the 350a breaker, and it was still arcing the next day.
So once a year there is a bonus pool at around $10.000 which everyone can apply for if you think you have the arguments to convince the bosses.
So one of my coworkers applied but instead of just emailing the boss, she emailed everyone. This was an email mentioning how much better she was than most of the department, and then throwing a few coworkers under the bus, to make her look better.
It’s been a few years. She’s still there. She actually got the bonus. 🤷🏽♂️
That is one way to assert dominance.
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A startup I worked at got acquired, and we went to the parent company Christmas party. We used to go to the local market and get drunk, and this place booked an entire posh hotel with a free bar…so a slight difference.
Anyway, we spoke to a few random people, and ended up meeting one guy who was on his own. He had a few drinks with us, and told us that he’d been with the company for about 8 years as a software engineer.
The crazy part is that he was “unassigned” to a team. He had a manager at director level that worked from another country, who had never had a 1:1 with him and was chasing a VP promotion, but he was a team of one with no direct work. He did about a year of actual work, but got moved teams and no one in HR cared.
Over time, he learned that his only expectation was to go into the office, and to have a yearly review with his director - always cancelled. He came in every day, sat in an empty marketing suite, and played Unreal Tournament. He’d occasionally do his own work, and occasionally help others in the company out if someone needed help (usually helping some marketing person with something stupid like email campaigns), but other than that he’d been there for years, doing nothing, and getting paid well.
I can’t remember his name, and have tried to find him on LinkedIn to see if he’s still there (although not sure he’d have a LinkedIn if he were getting paid for nothing). The company is in insurance, and is a big enough name that he’d probably have a job for life if he could keep the charade up.
Interesting But what fun is it if not being challenged intellectually after all these years? People obviously want to “level up” gradually into other roles with various tasks.
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Which one meme?
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Sounds good. Thanks for sharing what you could.
Omfg! I’m so curious 🫨
Not gunna share the meme?
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Not going to give them the marketing now.
Someone quit by taking a shit on the floor, right out in the open. Fortunately not near where I was, but I commend them for doing what many probably wished about.
That one guy took responsibility for their own fuckup.
I’m sorry, I’m pulling your leg here, we all know this is too crazy to happen.I had to unload a loaded pistol that we found in one of our boxes of potatoes.
Apparently we had to get potatoes from our sister store across town and the GM there had a ccw that he normally kept in his car. But this particular day his car was getting detailed so he brought it into the store and put it in a random box.
I love that on top of all of that, of course it’s loaded.
It wasn’t just loaded. It had a round in the chamber and the hammer was cocked. The only think keeping it from firing was the safety.
I don’t know much about guns or what gun it is but isn’t not pulling the trigger stopping the hammer comming down?
The safety assumedly stops you pulling the trigger or disengages the mechanism.
Yes the trigger is the last stop, and the safety stops the trigger from being pulled, but that’s an absurdly unsafe state for leaving a gun unattended.
At the very very least that gun should not be cocked and the chamber shouldn’t be loaded, but he’s also leaving his gun in a random box so that’s already terrible
