Having a terrible day at work can be frustrating, overwhelming, and even demoralizing. Whether it's a challenging project, an annoying colleague, or just a series of misfortunes, sadly, there are plenty of reasons you might feel like you're a failure.
But as Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon sang, "It's just a bad day / Not a bad life." And one of the ways to recover is by venting online. So we at Bored Panda decided to remind ourselves that the universe hasn't conspired against any of us. From time to time, everyone runs into some (undeserved) adversity.
Continue scrolling to see all the messed-up nonsense people have had to deal with on the job! And when you're done, see more fails previously posted here.
#1 Sorry Class, My Dog Ate Everyone's Homework
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#2 I Work As A Valet And Make $3.85/Hour And I Received This As A Tip
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#3 Absolutely Shattered
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#4 Two Teams Of Builders Was Building A Bike Lane "On The Right-Hand Side" (Mariupol, Ukraine)
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#5 New Guy Tried To Empty The Fryer Grease Into A Plastic Bucket
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#6 If You're A Parent And Let Your Kids Make A Mess Like This
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#7 Two Domino's Workers After Their Shift In San Antonio, Texas Today. All Food Gone In 4 Hours
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#8 Colleague Definitely Drew The Short Straw On Email Naming Conventions
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#9 Sgt. Vanderheiden Got His Suspenders Stuck In A Chair Yesterday, But Some Helpful Friends Came To The Rescue
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#10 At The End Of Shifts, We Split The Tips Evenly. We Had More Than 50$ Of Tips And My Coworker Had To Leave About 10 Minutes Early She Ended Up Taking All But 2.50$
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#11 Got Fired For “Telling The Boss How To Do His Job” When All I Did Was Say “We Can’t Obstruct A Fire Escape”
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#12 2 Hours Into A 10-Hour Shift When A Passenger Asks If I Know About The Stowaway On My Bus
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#13 I'm A Night Custodian At A High School. This Is What The First Day Of School Looks Like
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#14 Stayed At Work For The Storm. This Is The Road I Take Home
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#15 I Work In Mosquito Control. Everyday I Go Into Vacant Lots, Holding Ponds Swamps, Low Areas, Woodlands And On To Residence Properties. This It's Typical Of What I Find
I've lost my faith in humanity. What we do defines us and this is what we do. We are not stewards of the land or caretakers. We are a blight. We are just vultures picking at the carcass of a dying world.
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#16 As A Practical Joke, Some Coworkers Wrapped My Office In Foil. In The Process, My 30" LCD Monitor Was Accidentally Turned On, And It Boiled Itself
Here's what it looked like when I unwrapped it.
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#17 5 Minutes Into My Maintenance Shift I Get Called Up To The Public Bathroom, This Is What I Found
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#18 First Day On The Job As A Pool Attendant And Some Lady Thought It Was A Good Idea To Dump An Entire Chocolate Fountain Into The Sink
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#19 Coworker Found A Surprise At The Bottom Of Their Cup This Morning
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#20 Consequences Of Working In A -10°C Lab Where I Have To Wash My Hands 40 Times A Day
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#21 The Gift That Keeps On Giving
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#22 Colleague Stepping On A Wet Concrete
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#23 Something Went Wrong With The Line Painting
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#24 Key Broke Off Inside The Lock To A Very Important Work Door. Wonder How Much Trouble I Am In
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#25 Can't Get Into Work This Morning Because The Closer Didn't Realize They Took Home The Core To The Door Lock
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#26 I Live In A Tiny Town (Less Than 10,000) And There's Only One Road In And Out. Whenever There's An Accident, Traffic Gets Jammed. It's My First Day At My New Job
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#27 Guy At Work Dropped So Much Oil We Got Invaded By The US Government
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#28 Bought Myself A Little Chair For When I Have To Program Robots For Long Hours At A Time At Work. Someone Over Capacity Borrowed It On The Off Shift
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#29 When You Have A Long, Active Day Surrounded By People, Then Get Home, Take Off Your Work Pants, And Just Stare At The 6" Tear Straight Down Your Back End
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#30 Testing Out Our New Printer. Left The Room For 5 Minutes And Came Back To This
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#31 Last Night Someone Tried To Steal A Car From The Dealership I Work At
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#32 A Colleague Tipped Over 7 Crates Full Of Wine Bottles
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#33 They Can't Pay A Living Wage But I'll Waste Hundreds On Food Waste
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#34 Got Laid Off Today With Zero Notice, Found All My Stuff Already In A Box When I Got To Work
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#35 Over 2,000 Pounds Of Fresh Pork Being Rejected By The Walmart Distribution Center Because The Sell By Dates Occur When Their Stores Are Closed For Thanksgiving
This product will still be safe to eat for the next 15 days but they won't even attempt to sell it. This will end up in a dumpster today.
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#36 When You've Had A Bad Day At Work, Just Remember Someone Else's Work Day Is Probably Much Worse
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#37 This Is The "Black" Coffee I Just Ordered From The Vending Machine At My Work. Good Morning To Me
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#38 Cleaned My Glasses Too Hard. I Am At Work, Don't Have A Spare Pair
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#39 On My First Day As A Janitor Assigned To This Area Of My School, The Rain Flooded Everything
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#40 Coworker Drove A Forklift Over A Can Of Oil
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#41 When The Boss Thinks He's A Comedian
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#42 My Car Exploded On My Way To Work
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#43 Spilled Half A Pot Of Hollandaise On The Floor At Work. The Majority Of It Went Underneath The Cooler
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#44 I Finished Rolling My Silverware After An Eleven-Hour Shift, Only To Have The Drawer I Loaded It In The Break And Fall To The Floor. I'm So Done With Today
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#45 My First Day As A Delivery Guy At Domino's
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#46 Finding This First Thing In The Morning As A Start To Your Work Day
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#47 Starbucks Is Over An Hour Late On The First Red Cup Day. These Are All Abandoned Drinks
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#48 Dropped My Ravioli Taking It Out The Microwave At Work
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#49 OMG I Won I Won I Won
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#50 I Work In A Mall With An Indigo Book Store And Found This Yesterday, It Really Pissed Me Off
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#51 This Happened On My First Day On The Job
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#52 My Coworker Put Straight Printer Ink In One Of My Gloves At Work. This Will Take A Week Or Two Minimum To Come Off
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#53 Girlfriend Works At A Local Target And Had A Family Stroll In And Do All This
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#54 Fresh Refurb At The Pub I Work At And Someone Decided To Write A Review Of The Paint Job
"You didn't sand or undercoat these doors!"
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#55 I Literally Just Got Home From My First Day Of Work
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#56 The Button Of My Trousers Fell In Toilet, While At Work
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#57 5th Day Into My New Work At Home Job, And My Chair Breaks Like This
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#58 Shoelace Got Caught On Something At Work
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#59 Amazon Employees Who Worked Over 10 Hours On Easter Sunday Were 'Lucky Enough' To Potentially Win A $2 Snack Pack
"Thank you all for coming in on Easter Sunday! We are going to run a contest for P2. Anyone picking over a 310 rate will be entered in a raffle for a snack pack (water/soda and a candy or bag of chips of your choice). Good Luck everyone and THANK YOU!!!"
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#60 So I Was Heading To A Job Interview And Accidentally Spilled Coffee All Over Me Just Before Interview. Not The Best First Impression I Suppose
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#61 Coworker Accidentally Breaks 40+ Plates
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#62 Coworker Came Out Of Work Yesterday To Find This On His Car
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#63 Paint Truck Breaks Long-Standing Speed Record - Hits 88 MpH
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#64 Well This Happened At Work Last Night
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#65 I'm A Videographer And Today I'm Working At A Women's Conference. As There Are Only Women Here They Converted The Men's Bathroom Into A Second Women's Bathroom
The only problem is that there is one guy here. Me. And I really need to pee.
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#66 Coworker Opened Pressurized Milk Line, Blew His Hat And Hairnet Off
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#67 Had A Wardrobe Malfunction While At Work (Retail), Had To Improvise A Solution
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#68 I’m Never Pooping At My Job Ever Again
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#69 Got This Wonderful Error 10 Minutes Before Starting My New Remote Job
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#70 Hell Of A Way To Start Off My Graveyard Shift Last Night
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#71 My Work Only Has Small Gloves
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#72 I Came Into Work Today To Find One Of Our Office Shelves Collapsed
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#73 I Collect Carts At Walmart. Please Stop Being Lazy And Return Your Cart To Where It Belongs
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#74 Was Washing A (Very Sharp) Greasy Piping Tip At Work. Slipped Right Onto My Finger Before I Could Stop It
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#75 Paint Disaster At Home Depot
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#76 Dumped 17 Buckets Of Drywall Screws (25 Lbs Buckets) From About Fifteen Feet In The Air. I Was Told By My Coworkers It Looked Like Black Hail When It Fell
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#77 The Bathroom Ceiling At My Work That Nobody Can Fix Till Tuesday
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#78 My Work Doesn’t Allow You To Use A Toilet As A Toilet
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#79 I Just Walked In As A Taco Bell Cleaning Captain. Apparently, An Employee Brought In Her Kids On The Night Shift And Made A Mess
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#80 We Were Supposed To Get Our Annual Raise But This Is What They Gave Us Instead - PB&J Day
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#81 My Friend Went To Get Into His Work Truck This Morning And Found That Someone Drilled A Hole In The Gas Tank And Stole All Of His Gas
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#82 Last Year Our Work Holiday Party Was Pushed Back Until The Last Day Of January On Zoom. Guess Who Was The Only One To Dress Up For The Costume Contest?
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#83 At Work Wondering Why I Felt A Draft Down There. My Favorite Jeans Have Given Up The Ghost
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#84 Came Into Work To Find That Someone Had Broken Into The Pizza Hut I Work At Last Night
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#85 Drove To Work Only To Discover My Suit Was Dead. Drove Back To Change
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#86 This Happened When I Tried To Leave My Office
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#87 Amazon Driver Left This Big Tote With Our Packages In It On Our Porch
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#88 When You Take The Wrong Leftovers Container To Work And All You Have For Lunch Is Baked Beans
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#89 School Has A Serious Leaking Problem, My Teacher Lives In The Fear That The Plastic Will Break And Spill On Her
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#90 2-Hour-Old Brand New Off The Shelf Red Wing Boots Disintegrated. Cost My Friend A Day Of Work
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#91 60-Liter Oil Canister Exploded, At The Right Is A Freshly Painted Truck
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#92 Complaining About A Place That Makes Donuts Smell Like Donuts. Has To Be The Work Of A Karen
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#93 Getting Dressed In The Dark Only To Look Down Upon Getting To Work
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#94 The Sink At My Work Randomly Exploded And Almost Killed One Of My Coworkers
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#95 Broke My Finger At Work, Got Fired After The Drug Test. All At The End Of A 12-Hour Night Shift
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#96 Made An Enemy On My First Day Of Work
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#97 I've Been At Work For About 10 Hours And I Haven't Eaten Anything Since I Got There, I Finally Got A Chance To Order Some Fries From A Nearby BBQ Shop... And I Dropped It
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#98 Coworker Left A Couple Shop Rags In The Engine Valley When Doing Intake Gaskets. Now He Gets To Replace The Engine
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#99 My Boss Screwed The Only Window At Our Office Shut, So Now It’s Impossible To Get Fresh Air. I’m Boiling At Work
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#100 Coworkers Make Each Other Valentine's Day Cards And I’m The Only One In My 12-Person Office That Didn’t Have One Made For Them. Some People Even Have Multiple… Awkward
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#101 Up Late Working. My Cat Jumped Up On My Desk, Vomited On The Calculator I Need To Use, Then Jumped Back Down
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#102 Someone Ate My Food At Work So I Put It In The Middle Of The Lunch Room Table And Wrote In 3 Languages To Send My Message
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#103 Had A Pen In My Pocket At Work, Looked Down To This
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#104 Trying To Finish Up A Last Minute Job. Don’t Forget To Latch Your Screw Boxes People
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#105 Today At Work, A Coworker Crashed A Trolley Full Of Plates Needed For A Function
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#106 Stop Putting These Stupid Stickers On My Pumps! I Don't Get Paid Enough To Remove Them
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#107 A New Vet Clinic Opened In My Town And Today His Parrot Escaped And He Tried To Bribe Her Down For 40+ Minutes
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#108 Someone Had A Bad Day At Work
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#109 Someone Incorrectly Assembled The Shelves At The Store I Work In, And Now I'm Lost In The Sauce
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#110 A Conveyor Belt Failed
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#111 On Today's Episode Of Why I Wanna Quit My Job
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#112 Started My Birthday Out By Spilling Two Gallons Of Unblended Soup Inside A Refrigerator Ten Minutes Into My Shift
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#113 This Just Happened
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#114 Day 3 Of Starting My New Job, I Managed To Slice My Hand Open With A Box Cutter Somehow
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#115 Coworker Was Driving Pizza Sauce To Another Store And Someone Cut Him Off
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#116 It Was My Girlfriend's Limited Edition "Starlight" Flavor Coke
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#117 My Coworker Came Out Of The Back Room Saying "Hey I Made A Dumb Mistake"
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#118 My Work Giving Us Now 2-Day-Old Hotdogs Instead Of Bonus Pay For Working 4th Of July And 4th Of July Weekend
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#119 Dropped My Pocket Knife At Work And The Grate Is Welded And Bolted Down
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#120 Someone Tried On All These Shoes And Left Them On The Floor
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#121 My Coworker Waited Weeks For A Used Transmission For A Hybrid Tahoe. It Finally Showed Up And He Tipped It Up And Water Ran Out Of It For A Solid 60 Seconds
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#122 I Work At A School. On My Lunch, A Parent Told Me That A Pine Cone Had Fallen From A Tree And Shattered Someone’s Windshield. That Someone Is Me
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#123 My Tooth Crown Fell Out While I Was Taking A Call At Work
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#124 I Baked A Cake For My Work Colleagues For My Birthday, And Nobody Took Any
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#125 What Happened On Your Worst Day In Trucking?
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#126 The Order My Manager Made Me Make After I Clocked Out. I Missed My Bus
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#127 My Coworker Dropped A Pallet Of Eggs, And I Got Assigned To Go Trough Every Single Egg Box And Inspect Every Single Egg To Ensure They're Not Broken
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#128 My Boss's Dog, Which Doesn't Belong At Work To Begin With, Tore Up My Mango Plant, That I Grew From A Mango I Had Eaten
Boss wasn't present for this, so I texted him to let him know, and all he had to say was "How much do I owe you?"
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#129 My Shirts For Work Finally Came In… Spelled Wrong. My Name Is Carter
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#130 My Wife’s Coworker’s Phone Caught On Fire While Teaching
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#131 Some Jerks Threw An Entire Jar Of Queso On The Menu Board At My Work And I Had To Scrape It Off With A Chisel
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#132 When A Coworker Forgets To Deal With Pizza Dough He Made
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#133 My Bike Got Stolen While I Was At Work
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#134 My Lunch For 12-Hour Shift
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#135 My Manager Made This Mess And Made Me Pick It Up. Meanwhile, She Was Sitting On A Counter Facetiming Someone And Blasting Music
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#136 How I Found My Bike When Leaving Work Today (I Only Have One U-Lock)
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#137 Rats Ate Their Way Into Our Work Fridge Over The Weekend
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#138 Manager Glued The Volume Button On The Phone So We Can’t Change It
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#139 That Person Must Be Having A Very Bad Day
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#140 The Office Provided My Favorite Expensive Mexican Food For Lunch. I Dumped It All Over Myself
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#141 Here's My Night Shift Dinner For Work At 2 AM. I Was Hungry, But I Guess The Floor Was Hungrier. 5 Second Rule?
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#142 My Coworker’s Breakfast Today
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#143 I Got My Box Filled With Ketchup At Work Today
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