Dumbest Thing You've Ever Gotten in Trouble for at Work

Best one so far. I laughed hard

Funny!

Francis L wrote:

Always Sunny in Philly; Curb your Enthusiasm. solid recent comedies.

I don't disagree with these two, but where is the quote on this topic? Sometimes, the more dated quote is the most appropriate.

I got a negative performance evaluation once because the supervisor, a trainee, said I had arrived only two minutes before work started one morning when there had been a train delay due to an accident. I had still arrived before the official start of the work day, started work on time, and had correctly filled in the paperwork documenting that there had been a train delay, which according to the official published work rules meant I was completely in the clear. He told me, "You should be budgeting more time for your commute in case there is a train delay," and when I asked him if this was a change in the published procedures and work rules proceeded to give me the negative evaluation which resulted in me not getting a raise.

C'Mon, Really!?! wrote:

So, I told the kids to empty their ice bags in the grass.

What is someone walking on the grass slips on the ice and gets hurt?

Got lit up as an intern for sending out a few invitations to a company meeting that had microscopic ink blotches in the upper left corner. It was funny because it was my friend's dad's company and my friend had come in to help out and had passed them through without issue. You would have thought we'd started World War III from the chewing-out we received.

I said "booger" on the air.

geo wrote:

I got a negative performance evaluation once because the supervisor, a trainee, said I had arrived only two minutes before work started one morning when there had been a train delay due to an accident. I had still arrived before the official start of the work day, started work on time, and had correctly filled in the paperwork documenting that there had been a train delay, which according to the official published work rules meant I was completely in the clear. He told me, "You should be budgeting more time for your commute in case there is a train delay," and when I asked him if this was a change in the published procedures and work rules proceeded to give me the negative evaluation which resulted in me not getting a raise.

I don't get it. You arrived BEFORE work was supposed to start, and yet you still had to fill out paperwork documenting your excuse? Did your contract say you were expected to arrive 10 minutes early or something?

I took a moment out of work to get on "carepages" where my wife has a web site.

These type sites are used so that people can know how you or a loved one are doing.

My wife has glioblastoma multiforme.

She's doing Ok, and after one year there has been no recurrence according to the scans at MD Anderson.

Anyway, I wrote in the log that my wife was doing great and that I was at the moment writing cards to thank some people for being instrumental in my wife being alive after one year.

Suddenly, my phone rings and my boss calls me back to the office.

He swings the monitor around and says..

"Do you see this? People subscribe to this site and each time that you put something in there, EVERYBODY sees it!

I immediately began to sweat, because IT WAS embarrassing and no I really had not thought of it in that way.

He says "Now EVERYBODY knows that you are going to write a thank you card to people while you are working!"

It still embarrasses me..man, I felt small after leaving his office.

Needless to say, I am more careful now.

Amateur Eater wrote:

I was fired for proposing to my girlfriend, we worked in the same office. Now this is the shitty part. She was my boss's mistress and I had no idea. I dated her for 14 months and proposed only to find out she was banging my boss, and then I got fired for proposing to her because there weren't supposed to be office relationships.

I assume that you sued his ass. Wrongful firing for sure. Or you should have at least blackmailed him.

Jesus Christ, where do you people work???

Amateur Eater wrote:

I was fired for proposing to my girlfriend, we worked in the same office. Now this is the shitty part. She was my boss's mistress and I had no idea. I dated her for 14 months and proposed only to find out she was banging my boss, and then I got fired for proposing to her because there weren't supposed to be office relationships.

So was this the incident that caused you to shift your anger toward some teenagers and break their car windows with a baseball bat after they spit at you?

Did you bust out the bosses windows with your trusty bat?

Who was first in, you or the boss? Maybe he was really ticked off because he knew that inadvertently you both had your mouths on each other's.........

Yes do you work for Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants or something?

Johann Gambleputty wrote:

I don't get it. You arrived BEFORE work was supposed to start, and yet you still had to fill out paperwork documenting your excuse? Did your contract say you were expected to arrive 10 minutes early or something?

This kind of stuff cracks me up. If you want me to be someplace 10 minutes before my actual start time, just make 10 till the start time. Similar to the "flair" thing in Office Space.

viewfromlane9.blogspot.com wrote:

Yes do you work for Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants or something?

Johann Gambleputty wrote:

I don't get it. You arrived BEFORE work was supposed to start, and yet you still had to fill out paperwork documenting your excuse? Did your contract say you were expected to arrive 10 minutes early or something?

Francis L wrote:

chubb wrote:

Well played!

Not really. At this point, any reference to Seinfeld is a) dated, and b) just plain played out. Har har, we've all seen it a million times. Do yourself a favor and quote a more recent comedy.

Oh yeah? Well the Jerk Store called and they said they were all out of you!

We used to eat everyday in the conference room . We usually bought sandwiches and chips from a deli. Every day was high pressure cold calling on the phone for health insurance to companies. Whenever we ate lunch my boss would walk in and take some of my chips and he always had dirty fingers and hands from working on his recreational truck the night before. Many times I had asked him not to do it but he always did. One day, a very stressful day, he walked in grabbed some of my chips and he said "f*** you" as he took them. Right away, without time to even think, instinct took over and I swung around in my chair and threw a punch that connected, he much to my surprise threw one back but missed and we had to be seperated. Nobody ever messed with my food again but somehow I got the nickname B.A. for bad attitude.

job interviewer guy:I see you were fired from you last job for punching you boss in the face.

me :Yup but to be fair he was choking me at the time.

( I guess they actually check my references)

iamnotconvinced wrote:

Wrongful firing for sure.

No.

I did about 1 hour of real, tangible work per day for over a 2 year period. The rest of my time was spent trying to find ways to not work, yet still maintain a veneer of productivity. For some reason my motivation to maintain even this mirage disappeared, and I got into trouble, was audited and was fired.