Funny work stories?

[sandyd]

Anyone wanna share funny stores of what happened at their workplace?



Employee at work was having problem with his sound card.
I went, picked up the computer and everything, and moved it over to my office.
Forgetting that his computer was one of the older ones, and the older ones give a really loud beep while undergoing post, I plugged my headphones into the computer...

and when the POST Beep came off, I jumped like a foot into the air lol. :) :D
Turned out to be a problem with the drivers...

[GeoPrude]

Anyone wanna share funny stores of what happened at their workplace?

Didn't you say you had cancer?

[koleoptero]

didn't you say you had cancer?

wtf?

[hansdown]

Quote: Anyone wanna share funny stores of what happened at their workplace?

My workplace just implemented an anti-harrassement policy.

It seems, that group hugs are no longer allowed.

Kind of glad, 'cause my co-workers are all the same sex.:D

[sandyd]

Didn't you say you had cancer?


wtf?

hey guys.... im baaaaaackkkk!!!!!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8757726

[hansdown]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8757726

I love happy endings!

[ndefontenay]

In my previous job, I was in charge of loading customer's list coming from partners.

We are in Thailand and said partners are not really good with set requirements. So pretty much all the time we would get a new file format which would screw up the whole thing.

To counter that we use inflexibility: 1) Business development team get a signed document with the decided format 2) Partner send their data in the said format 3) If format not matching, data is sent back to Business developer team.

One morning the data comes and you bet, it was not in the proper format. it's a csv file so I open it with excel to have a quick look and indeed there's an extra column (just for the heck of it). Indeed it wasn't. I send it back to Business development. And it comes back to me in a record 10 minutes. I open the excel file and indeed, the extra column is gone. I try loading again but it still fails. I open the file in notepad and there is the extra column. The people in the business development team thought they could just hide the column and the problem would be fixed.

Note: I was not laughing when I was trying to figure out what the heck is happening but now I think it's pretty funny.

[themarker0]

Here is one. I work part time as an assistant IT tech, at a health unit. During H1N1 We did all the clinics. Our main IT guy who manages the servers left. I am the only one who knows how to vi something, or how to set permissions in the windows server in under 30 minutes. So at one point, our boss, sent an email that was supposed to go to "admin" group in the webmail. She sent it to "all staff" instead. Some promotion stuff, i dunnoThen the It person with no background in computers (Was given the job because she could use dreamweaver, not kidding) said "hey you can do a recall on outlook webmail." She is right you can. But she did it wrong. So it sent an email saying, "please do not read the previous email." Yea. Like that would work right? So then the second it guy is like "Hey, i think i saw (insertnameofgooditpersonhere with a password list. Lets logonto everyones account and delete it." Good idea. except we have two webmails. So me not able to access the outlook webmail from the clinic, got it on the legacy squirrelmail, that still works. Did i forget to mention we have a second building that also uses that are the primary email? Oops. So after he goes into the accounts of everyone, the guy got into work. Everyone was gossiping, obviously, and they went into his account and deleted it. Sad part is, after all of that, they called the good it guy. We have a 5 minute failsafe recall, that he wrote. If they called him, he could've done it. So at the end of the day, you have two senior IT staff, who look like idiots, and two laughing there heads off, and the guy supposed to get the promotion never got the email. i lol'd hard when i got back and was told this.

Sorry for the long story.

[ndefontenay]

Wow. This kind of story re-assure me that I still have a future hahaha.

[Khakilang]

Those days of floppy disk. I got one customer saying he had problem reading the floppy disk and he couldn't explain and he say he is going to leave a a note for me and you know what, he staple the note on the floppy disk which rendered it useless.

[bobin]

http://debugmadhouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-now-famous-bloopers-by-engineering.html
http://debugmadhouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-now-famous-bloopers-by-engineering_18.html

[bobin]

http://debugmadhouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-now-famous-bloopers-by-engineering.html
http://debugmadhouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-now-famous-bloopers-by-engineering_18.html

[derekeverett]

A guy I worked with.. who is useless with computers but loves music went and bought himself an ipod.

When he asked a group of us how to put his CD's onto it we discovered that he did not have a computer. He decided to go buy one.

He returned with a brand new mac book pro.

A little surprised that he spent that kind of money considering his sole purpose was to run itunes we asked what made him decide to buy that particular machine? His response...

"It had the same pac-man logo on it that ipod had so I figured it was the right one."

[RabbitWho]

My boss, who thought all women were out to get him, and I somehow got talking about the pain of childbirth and how much pain his wife had been in.
His final comment was "What goes around comes around."


He withdrew it after I questioned it but It made me physically ill; still I think one day I'll find it hilarious. I decided I should try not to question this guy when he said horrible things, because he was obviously (from this and many other things) a sociopath and might stab me. (Beleive me, with the way he treated his wife if what went around came around he would be the one giving birth)





"It had the same pac-man logo on it that ipod had so I figured it was the right one." ha ha, that's great, I bet that's why most people buy Macs. It's funny because he's spent like 2000 euro now on an mp3 player.

[sandyd]

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[Groucho Marxist]

I work at a radio station and recently gave away an iTouch on St. Patrick's Day that was donated to us by one of our underwriters. When we called up the winner, I pretended to be a salesman from Apple informing him that he should not break open his forthcoming device "In order to find the candy inside, as there is no candy. We've had complaints from some of our older users who thought our product was a candy cell phone and attempted to extract the chocolate inside."

After a minute or so, I revealed that he was the winner and received a round of laughter :D

[beercz]

Here we go again .... (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1019203&postcount=45)

[sandyd]

Here we go again .... (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1019203&postcount=45)
holy...

[sandyd]

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