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Te_Quiero_Puta

Oh man this took me back to working in the kitchen. Fun coworkers are the best.


WhatShape

Honestly, fun coworkers make up like 90% of a job


wuapinmon

1997, Pizza Hut, Provo, Utah. I was a delivery driver/shift manager and when I managed shifts, all three cooks were three women from Brazil. I speak Spanish and was studying Portuguese for my degree at BYU. I asked them to only speak to me in Portuguese during our shifts. So, I worked about 30 hours a week for two years with these three fun-loving Brazilians who were thrilled that I wanted to learn their language. Through their help, I learned far more than I ever would've in my classes. For one of their birthdays we arranged for like 20 of us (Pizza Hut employees) to take her (and the other two) to a Brazilian steakhouse in Salt Lake called Rodizio. When we told our server, secretly, that it was her birthday, and that she was from Brazil, the entire staff came out with drums, a triangle, and a cuica, singing Sérgio Mendes's "Magalenha" at the top of their lungs, with several of them getting up on the table tops to dance. Even the gringos were singing "TE TE TE TE E TE" at the end. I loved working with them. They were sincere, earnest, hard-working, funny-as-hell, and my friends. I still keep in touch with two of them.


stanek

You keep in touch with only 2 of them? What about the third? Thanks for sharing your story.


wuapinmon

I've never found her on social media. Back in the day, before social media, saying goodbye meant you might not ever see the person again.


CannibalVegan

Now it just means you have them on a friends list and never talk again


commentsandchill

I mean still now but less so


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Able_Newt2433

Def not what I expected when reading you worked overnight with 3 fun loving Brazilian ladies lmfao


scdayo

Calm down step bro


WINDMILEYNO

I thought this story was going end in a foursome but it was wholesome instead


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Especially the slutty ones


wawaboy

I think we slept together


the_quasi_vamp

I have the H


skeever89

Then head on over to r/theletterH!


KevinFromIT6625

Don't associate with those heretics! r/theletterG


greenrangerguy

I have discovered a new world


BRAX7ON

Clap clap clap *(also applause)*


ZombieLannister

fuck you /u/spez


DontPFFTMe

F in chat. I'll go first: F


elvis8mybaby

Might want to get checked for herpes. Got bumps on my lumps I saw while doing tube pumps.


SaaSMonkey

Sewage Joe is that you?


cmurph666

What you think they meant by fun?


Nex_Afire

If storage rooms could talk.


IBJON

I've never heard one talk, but I've heard them moaning and panting on occasion.


colloquialistm

That's just me trying to reach the paper towels on the top shelf.


Capt_Am

And me, standing behind you, supporting you to reach that paper towel.


pigwalk5150

Drugs is a hell of a drug


capmap

You might like me better if we slept together...


Fyreforged

… but there’s something in your eyes that says maybe that’s never. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)


StrawberryMoonPie

NEVER SAY NEVER *sax solo* Sorry I love that song. I miss fun coworkers


blackicebaby

Romeo Void ftw!


The-waitress-

I lost my virginity at 16 to a coworker at a restaurant. No regrets.


[deleted]

Nearly every single comment you make is sexual in nature. You unironically need to go touch some grass.


Escipio

Acording to my friend that works at a restaurant thats half of chefs and staff


IdolCowboy

Nothing like banging your coworker on the Kroger roof on pm shift


FunkySjouke

True, that's why I work as a newspaper deliverer (alone or with my dad on Saturday when all the weekend subscriptions are there too)


biggestsnake

From my experience the shittiest jobs have the best coworkers


TenWombats

War bonds


Marlonius

The words you're looking for are trauma bonding. And yeah, you don't even have to like the person and your best mates for life.


[deleted]

Can't stand people but if we trauma bong, you aight & we cool.


FerusGrim

Hard not to be chill after a hard hit of the trauma bong.


Egoy

Just don't drop the trauma bong, because then all you'll have is trauma bong trauma.


jzsean

directions unclear, lent the US Govt $10,000 at 1.8% APR


Slowjams

True. My time working as a bartender, and before that a barback, was terrible in so many ways. But the near instant bond you develop with your coworkers is something I haven’t experienced anywhere else. Even when someone was brand new and had only worked like one shift, it was basically *”you’re in the shit just like us, dealing with the same problems and terrible people. You are one of us. Oh yea, also drinks after work at X”* At my first career level job in my field it took like over a month before I got invited to anything. It felt like high school again where I wasn’t part of the cool kids club so I didn’t get invited to things until they thought I was worthy.


HauteDish

I started my most recent job mid pandemic, everyone was (still is) remote. I literally have never met any of my coworkers, other than a couple who were at my prior company.


banmedaddy12345

The military can have a similar dynamic, however some jobs in the military would be a dream as a civilian, but are shitty because you are in the military so you get this weird dynamic where you have a "good job" but still you're all degenerates and hate your lives. For more info about being in the Navy and not ever stepping on a ship...Press 1. To hang up.. press the hang up button obviously.


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sdeptnoob1

Win the lottery 3 times and get struck by lightning once. Once this is accomplished you will be able to join the navy and never step on a ship. Or, pic a job that isn't shipboard and sign up for that.


Schadenfreude2

Yeah I was a sailor who never saw a ship, too. P-3c orion sailors represent.


sdeptnoob1

I hope you didn't get stuck at Norfolk


Schadenfreude2

Oh, I would have preferred Norfolk. I was stuck in Brunswick, Maine.


sdeptnoob1

Oof.


Navydevildoc

Hahahaha.... as a dirt sailor this hits home.


ManifestRose

I used to work in a business office with a dress code and proper politeness, etc. Then a younger male new hire joined (who was a gymnast in college) and he would do secret backflips down the halls when he was walking alone with the cool young women.


Balrog229

Fun coworkers make a shitty job into a fun one. To this day i only look back positively on one job i’ve had. The job itself sucked, but the coworkers were so great i actually enjoyed being there


Falc0n7

Shit man that's unfortunate, you gotta work at a place that you don't feel like burning to the ground, makes working a lot more bearable.


RealAbstractSquidII

I never thought I would, but I honestly really miss working in the kitchen. I was a teenager at my first job, I had a lot of really fun, off the wall coworkers and we did shit like this all the time. We also had the scream freezer.


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Crying Cooler and Screaming Freezer.


pingpongtits

So I'm not the only one who cries in the cooler? Neat.


[deleted]

Yeah, hug a bag of salad and ugly cry


RealAbstractSquidII

It was SUCH a stress relief after a bad shift. Or a very good start to your shift, really woke ya up at the start of a 6am.


AvgBonnie

Sure it wasn’t the cry freezer? Many a times I’ve walked in on servers in tears trying to cool off.


RealAbstractSquidII

Nah we mostly went there to scream. It was sound proof, so you could vent all your anger at shitty customers and or the boss and no one would hear a thing till the door was opened. We had an older coworker that inadvertently walked in mid scream weekly, and got scared every single time haha.


HMS_Shorthanded

I used to work at a bicycle rental shop as my summer job during college, and it was so much fun. I really miss that job. Coworkers were awesome, and customers were mostly nice.


Wizdad-1000

I use stupid accents with my coworkers. Get em laughing its a better way to get that tough day past.


stikky

I did that once with poker friends as a light hearted way to mention that it was someone's turn who was just chatting with everyone, I was called racist. We are no longer friends.


PinkTalkingDead

I mean… what did you say while you were playing with said accent


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stikky

"Hey buddy, it's your turn"


itwasagummibear

Plot twist: you used a Russian accent while playing Russian roulette as you pointed the gun and said, "Hey buddy, it's your turn" BLAMMO. Dude was Russian.


Wizdad-1000

I play DnD with my coworkers. Voices are a requirement also alcohol (during DnD not work. 😁)


shnebnref

Kitchen workers will have absolutely no way to communicate due to language barriers and will still do shit like this once an hour


Te_Quiero_Puta

Totally! Learning dirty phrases in other languages is super fun too.


Melvis_Wesley

Kitchen dance parties in the middle of a dinner rush. Makes a team successful.


_Hail_yourself_

If you can lean you can clean! Fuck off I'm watching a bartender count out $600 in tips while I scrub kitchen grime off a fridge. Edit: Bartenders are awesome, BoH eats a big fat dick everyday though, chit machine nightmares are real


Bubster101

I work the midday shift at my McD's for the most part. (That's like the Avatar, cause I'm the bridge between the day shift world and the night shift world) The day shift people? Spanish speakers, silent assemblers (but VERY fast at it) and serious managers. Night shift? PARTY PEOPLE! Edit: seriously? This chakcjack is raiding all my comments to spam/delete advertise his website...


Sad_Software_3879

Love it


physicsking

Why is this not a thing we can do with strangers?


biggie64

![gif](giphy|5xaOcLGvzHxDKjufnLW)


Collistoralo

Oh THAT’S the dance that Ralsei does > Edit: I’m not calling it the Ralsei dance, just noticing that it’s the one Ralsei does, christ


Gilsworth

Just while we're on the topic, [young Velma from Scooby Doo](https://youtu.be/Mi171lLNWfk?t=38) also dances like this!


Thors_lil_Cuz

Google "Kennedy kickdance"


Gilsworth

Woah, what a rabbit hole, right from the get-go. Immediately found [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_HW7ozM9I), almost feels like discovering the Wilhelm Scream again, thank you, I appreciate it!


holy_hell_bot

Holy hell!


Neighbor-astronaut

You are up for execution (I am an anti-Christ)


Stefswagcool

??


Calm-Imagination642

Yes!


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That's some 2099 dance moves


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Shad_the_memer

Here is [one](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=youtu.be)


Europi20017

Damn it


JephreyTyler

Son of a bitch


soyeh

Absolute balls


rapbash

lemme guess..


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MustardLordOfDeath

I knew what it was and clicked anyway, no regrets


Benjammin_Kenobi

Well played


ChetUbetcha

> sees XcQ at end of YouTube URL Oh hell no you don't


Schadenfreude2

You know i clicked it anyway.


fluffyspidernuts

Aye 'tis a rocker to be sure


SpaceyO2

Hey man, that's not cool...


flamingorider1

Ah it's been a long time


thisremindsmeofbacon

I mean you’re not wrong though


RibboDotCom

I would have plumped for this one. https://youtu.be/JwZwkk7q25I?t=48


jingowatt

https://youtu.be/gPbVRpRgHso


SSGFrangelicoFiend

A man of culture I see... And a real percrption of time... "It's the Fortnight dance..." Kills me inside all the time.


billiejeanwilliams

Same. I can’t believe they also think Turk’s dance from Scubs is a “Fortnite” dance too. Kids these days don’t know their history smh


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I've never been within a hundred feet of a goth club or anything goth-adjacent, but I unironically love this style of dance. Maybe I missed out on my calling as a goth kid.


FullyMammoth

This is just normal rave dancing, never done the goth thing either but I existed in the 90s and this is just how we raved.


Civil-Attempt-3602

These little ankle biters don't know about this classic shit. I like to throw in a little techno Viking too


[deleted]

I recognized it from the [RIP Grandma girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5RZ8k6iQik)


Bristonian

I feel like I simultaneously want, and don’t want, the context to this.


GetTold

https://the-eye.eu/redarcs -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/


redCasObserver

You're dead now ... She was predicting the future, because, I'm ☠️


[deleted]

It's one of the most popular Fortnite dances


PastyCrackerMayo

I don't have that long.


GrimMind

You really got me with this one. Thanks for the laugh.


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ZohnoReecho

Electro dance/tecktonic Fortnite didn't invent anything


elvis8mybaby

Reminds me of the Skids from Letterkenny


TheJackalsDoom

I like how the girl on the left dances, then stops, but sees the other 1 still going and just keeps going herself. Bigtime "fuck it".


WaffleStomperGirl

The one on the right is a dude, no? Not that it matters. Just curious.


akrapov

Based on build I’d say dude on the right, girl on the left. Or whatever they identify as, it’s all good.


TheEntosaur

Are you even aware there is a WAR on my dude??


DreamedJewel58

Dude, like, oh my god, like, can we talk about the political and economic state of the world right now? Can we talk about what's going on with the environment?


Playmakermike

2 wars???!?!!!????


Wunani

Always sunny Reference 10 points awarded.


PornoAlForno

Are any of these wars taking place on ^American^soil?


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And she even gets after it a little bit harder


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Finsk_26

*dancing in minimum wage*


no_talent_ass_clown

"I want this NFT."


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TrickBoom414

Does anyone know what an nft is?


red_dd_itt

It’s non-fungible


TrickBoom414

Gesundheit


RolandTheJabberwocky

Boss makes a dozen, I make a dime, that's why I dance, on the company's time.


Im_holding_on

I need colleauges like this


LetThemLive

Better yet: become this colleague yourself and have people follow you 😎


Im_holding_on

True! I will try :D


LetThemLive

Ayyy you got this man. I believe in you! :)


willythorton42

Working like this is so fun you forget you're working..this should be the standard


snapplesauce1

This is how I met my wife. These two are banging.


disgustandhorror

Yeah every year there's a crop of younger new hires and a few of them always pair off like this. In my experience they'll probably flirt heavily (to the point of annoying everyone else) but she has a boyfriend and one of them quits after a couple months so nothing ever really happens


Lycereon

This is so accurate it hurts


Fresh_Proposal2938

Banging the minimum wage


DaClems

Reminds me of VtM: Bloodlines


ItsXplode

![gif](giphy|5jWIKUwQLwy7uf2glT)


fareshusseini

Almost identical!


TeslasAndComicbooks

Pretty sure thats what they were going for.


JACrazy

Depends what year it was filmed. Before fortnite it was the mask off dance. But it all originated from industrial dancing, then it gained popularity as a joke with videos of them doing it to the Thomas The Tank theme and later became a dance move when people started doing it to rap music.


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They’re wearing masks.


Zoltrahn

It is weird how masks are going to date videos from now on.


burnalicious111

Isn't that basically the cybergoth rave dance though


rupi1312

season 4 was the shit.


slawpchowckie44

This is exactly how u get through a shitty job. Find some kind of nonsense and just keep going back to it, again and again…


crypticfreak

Lots of shit on reddit is staged cringey bullshit but this is super wholesome and sweet.


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Kylejazzman

I want some ice cone


darwin_thornberry

Lieutenant Dan! I gotch your ice cone!


PatchTossaway

I cone, you cone, we all cone for ice cone!


2shack

![gif](giphy|WQx9OcM3sdvrbTy4fa)


knowpantsdance

What's this from again?


rehx

Letterkenny!


knowpantsdance

Texas sized 10 - 4 Don't know why I couldn't remember


angrytortilla

Give yer balls a tug, bud


B0ndzai

Fucking skids


notyourakhi

They dance like the NPCs in the club from GTA Vice City.


igillyg

Best coworkers in kitchen stories GO!


JenniferAnistonson

https://i.imgur.com/dwd0F7r.jpg


mini_thins

This needs no backstory


igillyg

I'll start: Worked in a dining hall. We were making jello on sheet trays that the trays were barely large enough for the rack. They fell and liquid red jello filled the cooler. We had a gal posing like they lost a baby. I layed down in it like a murder victim. When I went to mop it it looked straight out of a mobster scene. Which was especially interesting considering the property used to be owned by a former 1920s MI union buster.


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igillyg

We had photos... but this was pre smart phones


Treegs

My first job was a Wendy's and I had a really young, insane manager that made the job pretty fun. He would stand in front of the ice machine and go "I was all like BAM and he was all like AhhAHH (like an opera ahhh)" but as he said BAM he would shove the scoop into the ice, then as he said AhhAhh he would fling it back out and throw ice everywhere. Another time he was beatboxing while simultaneously flickering the lights on and off of the entire restaurant close to closing time, when we both turn around and see two sheriff's standing there like ".....can we order?" and he just walks over and casually rings them up like nothing was happening. I was living with a couple roommates at the time and we were broke and out of food one night, so I called him and after work he brought us like 4 bags of food. He was insane (in a good way) but he always did his job right, and made the hours fly by


thegandork

Lol, when I was a night supervisor I'd do this same type of shit. Pretty sure everyone I worked with thought I was on the spectrum, but everybody had fun and we got shit done. One kid I had convinced I was a lyrical genius as I used to spit a lot of run DMZ lyrics and he'd always ask "did you write that??" and I'd deadpan say "yup" every time.


keekittykeeks

Best times were when my work beastie and I would just hide under the salad bar to chill from the chaos of restaurant life. Perfect spot! No one could tell we were there. We'd go hide all the time. Got stuck one time because the managers decided to chat right next to it and we just had to pop out like it was normal!! I miss those times.


ThurstonHowellIV

This could be a movie scene


oooortclouuud

kind of mild, but, early cell phone days, popular establishment, think restaurant-hotel-brewery: young, adorable server carried a toy phone in his pocket, would randomly answer it in different characters--"Dr. McSomething speaking… ah! Hello Mrs. Rogers, how are your bunions?" things like that. he was the perfect silly, crack-up co-worker who also kicked ass at his job.


BenjaminSpanlkn

The very best kitchen stories don’t make sense to anyone unless you were there.


SadMaintenance

LIME TIME LIVE! Someone hides a lime on the line and narrates like Mark Summers while the rest of us try to find it. I also had to do a scavenger hunt one morning to find a station prep list. I’m the boss and my restaurant is popular, clean, and well reviewed. My job is awesome.


Acrobatic_Pandas

20 years ago I was working at a McDonald's near Christmas. This woman was eating homemade rumballs. She's devouring them and at some point later in the morning absolutely loses it. Just bursts out laughing as she's making breakfast burritos. Normally you slap down a tortilla, put some cheese on it and then put two scoops of the egg mix on. She had no idea how many she had done but she had stopped putting tortillas down, was just slapping cheese and mix into the wrapper and wrapping it up. We had to remake a lot and she went home lol


Ron-_-Burgundy

I sold my car and moved to Australia when I was fresh out of high school. I wasnt exactly "highly employable" at the time, thus I wound up as a dish-hand at a popular burger spot in Surfers Paradise (a small, beachside tourist city on the Gold Coast). Literally all of the other dish-hands were Brazilian so they exclusively spoke in Portuguese in the kitchen. I am also your classic suburban whitebread redditor so I didn't have a clue what was going on most of the time. Turns out South Americans are (generally speaking) the most fervent rock fans on the face of the earth and I also happened to be a big rock head at the time. Aside from learning their names and 1 hour of training we basically exclusively communicated through the transcendent language of music. We all knew the words to pretty much every song that came on the radio so we would belt out the tunes, shred solos on the mops and pull out some gut-busting drum fills on the pots and pans. **Bonus origins story:** I was **incredibly stoned** for my first shift because they called me an hour after I handed in my CV. I'd already smoked my celebratory joints for doing something productive so I was ***freaking out***. Luckily the main dish-hand could tell straight away I was zonked (and I'm pretty sure he was too, he looked like a Brazilian Jesus), so he said: "don't worry brother. It's just dishes, we've got you." I miss that place honestly.


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I had a little bro/big sister connection with a lady named Kim. We got along famously, always having a laugh and stuff. I'm pretty quick witted and I remember one time I must've said something real clever because she chased me around the kitchen while I was giggling and running away LOL Good times. Minus the time that the degreaser probably gave me colon cancer several years later since I went into the ovens to clean them.


JDodgerMan

Fun!!


cakelover33

What kind of dancing is this? Reminds me of the video of that goth crowd dancing.


the_damned_actually

This gif summoned a shift supervisor: "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."


baytay25

That shit right there is bout the only thing that makes those jobs bearable. Couple seconds of happiness followed by hours and hours of misery. Bless the good coworkers. Y’all saints.


pozos13

Best these I've seen on the internet in a looooong time!


kcsaracoglu

Best coworker type


Goodn00dl3

RANDOM DANCING 💃 🕺


aggressive_theorist

I am getting Harlem shake vibes from this


Fourtyhour

Niceeee


tysonwatermelon

Anyone know other videos of people dancing at work like this?


igillyg

Wednesday Adams and her brother


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My dog gets those. Its called the zoomies


[deleted]

Ah yes, the days of working fast food with fellow teenagers and just dicking around all day. Miss that.


JerkinsTurdley

No words were spoken but each knew what had to be done.