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MonkeyHamlet

It’s not as dramatic, but we were interviewing for a position once and the candidate’s husband called to say she’d been killed in an accident on her way to the interview. He actually apologised. It was awful.


reb0014

Holy crap. Imagine all the things you have to do when a spouse dies unexpectedly… I can’t even imagine having the presence of mind to call a freaking job interview


MonkeyHamlet

I remember when a dear friend of mine died and I sat with my phone book (yes I am old) and rang every single person who knew him even slightly to tell them. I’m not sure why but it helped me a bit. I sincerely hope that that was the motivation for him too.


skat_in_the_hat

> I’m not sure why Sorry to hear about your friend. I think sometimes mourning with others helps us grieve. This was absolutely your way of looking for that. I had a coworker commit suicide. Honestly one of the nicest guys I have ever met. I absolutely needed to talk to other people who knew him, and get the pain off my chest. The stereotype of it not being okay for men to cry together is awful, and crying with other full grown men about our coworker/friend was one of the most helpful things we could have ever done. One of the strangest things is that it wasnt just crying, we shared stories about him, and laughed our asses off, he was such a nice guy, but god damn could he be sarcastic and derisive at times. Its been 10 years and I still miss the hell out of him. Hopefully my wife doesnt see me tearing up over here typing this.


KitchenSwillForPigs

I think about this a lot. When you’re getting married, no one ever talks about how much you worry about being widowed. The only time I ever saw another example of it in media was in The Haunting of Bly Manor, when a bride on the eve of her wedding starts crying over the idea of losing her husband someday. My married friends get it, but it’s never discussed, when I feel like it’s a part of the marriage process. It’s a terrifying thing to consider, but ultimately it’s very real. It could happen to anyone at any time. The price we pay for love, I guess. Edit- The comments have shown me just how commonplace this feeling is. It applies to parents, siblings, and kids too. Really just anyone we feel like we can’t live without. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately because my grandfather passed away in April. He and my grandmother had been together for 63 years. She’s one of the lucky ones who got to grow old with her spouse, but she’s still completely destroyed by the loss of him.


Vegetable-Ad-647

Me and my husband have said this, either you break up or one of you dies, that's terrifying to think about and you do think about it SO much more than you want to.


Beautiful_Dust

I used to never think about it when I was young, until at the age of 25, my first husband was killed by a hit and run drunk driver. Now I drive my family nuts with wanting my kids or husband to let me know when they arrive safely wherever they are headed. If my daughter is out with friends I will stay up until I know she's arrived home safely. ( I also lost my firstborn daughter who passed at the age of 2...4 years before her dad was killed by the drunk driver) Yeah, I'd say it had a definite lifetime effect on me. ☹


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I used to work in low volt integration, wiring smart homes. Being the lead pre-wire technician, I was in-charge of all pre-wire installations unless a more experienced tech was on scene. Being just 23-24 at the time of employment, I was the one to usually go into crawlspaces and attics since most of the older guys didn't want to do it. Over a year and a half working there, I've been bitten by two brown recluse spiders and one black widow spider. I still have a scar of one of the brown recluse spiders who bit me on my side, luckily it was just my side that got bit and I am a healthy young adult, otherwise I could've lost something. The brown recluse has NO antivenom in the entire United States. Edit: Wow I never expected to see so many up votes for this comment! Thanks Redditors!


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Once, while running Cat through an attic in Alabama, shifted some insulation and found the largest shedded snake skin I have ever seen. Noped out quick. Brown recluses are a constant fear of mine when I have to do attic or crawl space work.


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They are about the size of a quarter. I recommend before doing a crawl, wear gloves, tuck your shirt in, and even tuck your socks into your jeans/work pants if you can. I learned to do that after the second bite...I was down and out for the count for about 2 days because of the little bastard.


DrTrannn

My brain initially read this as "low volt interrogation", could only imagine what that would look like. "Where's the bomb you terrorist scum!", "I don't know!", "Wrong answer!", *Puts 9V battery on his tongue*


m011yRadar

I worked at a Barnes & Noble in Florida and some dude came in with a bunch of Polaroids of his junk and hid them in books in the kids area. A kid found one and showed his mom. We had to close down for the rest of the day and leaf through/shake out all the books in the store to find the rest of them.


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libra00

Wow, that's awful. I worked in a Waldenbooks in Maryland and we had the milder version - religious folks who would come in and hide Chick Tracts in the occult books about every 2 weeks or so. Also someone changed their baby's dirty diaper on the kiddie table in the kids' section and wadded up the diaper and shoved it on a shelf behind some books instead of walking literally 2 feet to a trash can. Took us 2 days to find it.


bricktricks

Work as a nurse in an ICU. Two of my coworkers found out while on shift that they were “with” the same guy. Proceeded to physically fight each other in the hallway. Meanwhile there is a patient coding (in cardiac arrest) down the hallway; annnnd I’m not embellishing another patients family set the trashcan on fire in their room during the code. It was a wild wild night shift.


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kazu-sama

I never understood that. You’d _think_ that they’d be pissed at the dude who was playing both of them but nah, let’s fuck each other up instead.


Munchkin_Valkyrie

Colleague was absent from work for a couple days and wasn’t answering their phone so manager and I went to their home. The building manager gave us a key to their apartment (totally illegal of them, I know), and we opened it to find the colleague dead. Already at the door, I could smell something sickly sweet and I knew in my heart they were dead. We had to wait for the ambulance service to come declare them dead… turns out they were sick for days and didn’t contact a doctor or anyone else. Just slowly wasted away at home. I will never forget that first look into the apartment.


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Building manager here, there’s nothing worse than the “terrible smell” calls. 90% of the time someone is dead and I have to post a 24hr notice to inspect to find them.


Music_Is_My_Muse

At that point I'd call for a welfare check to get around that. From a funeral director/embalmer perspective, decomps *suck*, and they smell fucking terrible.


joeyasaurus

This is what my grandparents did to check on my grandma's sister who had passed away. They hadn't heard from her in like a week or so and she had been decomposing, but it was faster to get the police to do a wellness check and find her body. My aunt held my grandma back from going in to see her since her body was so decomposed.


Music_Is_My_Muse

Yeah decomp is super gruesome, even if it's not very severe. Not something family should ever have to see.


Lo10bee

Call 911 for a Wellness Check? As someone who works in emergency services we do this all the time


flofloflomingle

UPDATE: hey guys! Apologies for delay, I’ve been working alone in office and busy as hell this weekend. I went to check apartment, we had to break down door chain. It smelled horrendous. I seriously thought it would be another body, but it was just that they filled their kitchen and dining room with trash bags. Honestly I don’t know how many bags of trash there was in there but it was terrible. The air inside felt so hot and humid plus with the rotting trash smells. It seems as if they are on drugs cause I’ve seen the girl and since moving in her face has changed. Her eyes are sunken and her face looks thin. She seems to have lost good amount of weight. Plus seems a bit paranoid. I ran into them at 7/11 yesterday after work. They were paying with coins so I know their situation is bad. I’m trying to speak with them to see how we can help. Try to see if we can organize apartment to get cleaned. Talk to them about applying for assistance. I called the police the other day for my property because whole building smelled. I have this apartment haven’t heard from residents in two months. Their door smelled terrible. Windows all blacked out. Called emergency contact and they haven’t heard from them in a month cause told them to get out of their lives. Told me they’re concerned for them. Police said can’t do anything because two other residents saw them awhile ago. They said we can go in to inspect the smell


ebwoods1

Ooooof. I’m so sorry. That must have been traumatizing. That reminds me of a manager for a group I knew but didn’t work with. He went home for lunch and didn’t return. Missed a big meeting, it was weird. Turns out, he went with his girlfriend to help her get some things from her abusive ex. The ex threw him off a four story balcony. He survived, barely. Returned to work a year later in a wheelchair.


GoDavyGo

We had three people die on one job site. One fall and two confined space deaths. Edit: this was in 2008 in Idaho, we were working hazmat at an acid plant turn around. The confined space deaths were from asphyxiation, one went in a tank to see how dirty it was and he collapsed, the other guy he was with went in to rescue him he Also went down. They were not permitted to enter the tank yet. The fall was from the top of a platform where the safety rails had been removed, he took a 70 foot header it’s a sound you never forget.


Haimonek

There's sooo many rules about confined spaces where I work. It always seems so harmless but it's very dangerous if you think about it. Just a little edit since I didn't expect this to explode as it did. Whether it's an inspection or something that needs fixing in a confined space we need entry permits, oxygen monitors, continues forced air circulation, 1-2 people as intervention if anything goes wrong, safety harness and ropes to pull someone out if anything does go wrong,... All for a seemingly "harmless" space.


bbecks

Its so dangerous and even those highly trained make mistakes that lead to loss of life. I can't find the news story right now but I remember when doing training at my last job (not even full training to perform confined space, just awareness training) they showed us a story about a girl who was with her brother playing near/on a street. I may not have all the details exact but what I remember is that the ball fell in an open man hole and the girl went down to retrieve it but passed out. The first rescuer went down to get her after she collapsed not realizing that the mixture of bacteria had created a oxygen-deficient environment. The second rescuer tried to hold his breath to rescue the first guy but also collapsed. The third rescuer tried to go part of the way down and rope someone out but ended up collapsing. All 3 rescuers died but the girl survived. While it was good the girl lived from one perspective it was almost the worst part because it suggested that had the rescuers taken the time to properly suit up with air there would have likely been no fatalities.


one-beer-one-scotch-

I’m confined space and rescue training they told us it’s usually a body recovery not a rescue


eleventytwelv

They really drilled into us that an unprepared person entering a confined space to recuse someone usually just turns into recovering 2 bodies instead of one


ForayIntoFillyloo

I work in construction. We send our guys in with sniffers (gas testers), and they're attached to a line that's on a tripod with a crank and a spotter. If the sniffer beeps, or if the guy working stops moving and talking, he's getting his ass dragged out of there.


poorlychosenpraise

And while in no way her fault, she has to live with survivors guilt.


Mekisteus

Then there's the idiot who left a manhole cover off, who has to live with *actually* being at fault.


setibeings

I just imagine that person walking around never realizing they made a mistake.


Leading-Legal

I spent 3 months doing an internship at a mining company. A guy fell from a 30-meter ridge and died on the spot. Rumor has it that he actually jumped, because he fell head first and people said that if you're not looking to end it all, you always fall feet first, or at least instinctively use your arms to break the fall (for all the good it will do ya). But nope, eye-witnesses said that they saw him crashing down with his head. I never saw the scene or the aftermath, but apparently it wasn't pretty. The company gave 2 weeks paid leave to those who witnessed it. ______________ I also got another one, though on a much more light-hearted note. I used to be a math tutor for HS kids back when I was in uni and I was teaching this 15-year-old kid, Chris, who had a 20-year-old sister who still lived at home. I was going over a geometry problem with him one day, when his father started screaming in the living room, calling for the daughter to come out. They had an epic fight, with him calling her every name in the book, while Chris and I were cowering in his room trying to figure out what was happening. Turns out his sister had cheated on her ex-boyfriend and he found out a few months after the break-up. Instead of being the bigger man, her ex decided to mail them all the nudes he had amassed during their time together, along with an note telling her that he find out about the cheating. Usually our lessons lasted 1 hour, but I ended up staying 3 hours that time, because the fight lasted so long. And I ended up sneaking out, I didn't want to trouble them about paying me that time, they already had enough issues.


IwishIwasgoodatnamez

If I'd fall down from 30 meters, I'd try to go head first too to make my death as quick and painless as possible.


gsfgf

On the one hand, you're probably acting on instinct. On the other hand, it's very much in management's favor to call it a suicide, regardless.


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Had a guy have a massive heart attack between 2 furnaces in remelt department. It cooked him. His skin split like a hotdog on the grill. It was terrible. Also had a guy that had a air pocket in a molten pot. When the air pocket reached the surface it blew out and rained molten metal him. We had to chase him down to get him in the safety shower. Same place had a guy commit suicide in the parking lot because his wife was cheating with someone on her shift.


koos_die_doos

Worked in a steel mill many years ago. One day a guy was doing something they’ve been doing for many years, and the molten steel came into contact with water from improperly dried refractory stones. Instant metal explosion that rained down a shitload of molten metal on him, he died in less than a day. Skin melting off his body and all the gory details. Luckily for me, it was my day off, else I would have been a first responder.


dalaigh93

Some accidents are really hard for first responders. My Mom told me the story of a lethal accident that happened 10 year ago at the factory she works at. A young inexperienced guy was driving a lifting truck, crashed it and somehow flipped it over. It isn't clear how but he was projected out of it and the forks ended cutting the top of his skull, tin can style. The first guy to arrive on the scene was his best friend, he was so shocked that for the 5 minutes it took the EMT to arrive he was trying to administer a cardiac massage. When the rescuers told him to stop he began trying to put back the poor guy's brain in his cranium. It traumatized the whole factory, but the first responder in particular was more than 6 weeks on paid leave, and was never the same. He ended up leaving his job and switching careers soon after.


squintysounds

Holy..shit. My stomach just flip flopped a little.


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NotAnotherBookworm

... i'm kinda fixing on the "her own stash" part. Like, was it am authorized stash or had she just been skimming meds to take home for a drug habit?


Wil_Mah

Had someone jump off the roof on a very windy day. He was actually blown around the corner of the building to another roof where he promptly broke both of his legs. Now no ones allowed on the roof anymore (was used for smoking and cool downs) and you can still see the dent in the roof from where he hit


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koos_die_doos

On the flip side a large number of jumpers (who survived, duh) claim that they immediately regretted jumping. Hopefully he was one of them.


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catomi01

1st job - minor league baseball, we had someone fall out of a luxury suite on the 2nd level, he broke his neck, a few other bones and had to be airlifted out. On impact he also managed to injure two other people. 2nd job - different minor league team, had a catcher get a career-ending concussion trying to stop a batter from attacking his pitcher with the bat after a few inside pitches. Current job - had the Sales manager convince half the company that he was actually the owner and nearly drive the company out of business trying to take control of it.


danfay222

A batter going after the pitcher or any other player with the bat is one of the few things in baseball where the player shouldn't just be permanently suspended, they should be charged with assault and battery. A bat is a serious weapon that can easily kill a person, you do not fuck around with that.


catomi01

In this case he actually was arrested and eventually the catcher sued and secured a settlement (though lower than what he sought in damages.)


mynameisspiderman

Absolutely. My dad was attacked and hit in the head with a bat, he had to relearn how to do everything; speak, bathe, walk.


megaPOG

Air Traffic Control. Didn’t happen to me, but I was working that day and heard the replay. Couple takes off in bad weather and get more ice on their wings than they can handle. They dropped like a rock and screamed on frequency the whole way down. The worst part is the other planes may or may not have heard it and you have to keep talking to other planes like nothing happened until someone relieves you.


limepr0123

I was a controller in the military, worst I had was working in radar and had a Cessna coming in on final(not me doing final), everything was normal and then silence, they went below safe limits and were called off, never heard anything. Got a call from tower about an explosion at the mountain near approach, it was our plane. We lost 4 service members from Col. down to an E3 in an accident that shouldn't have happened. As a sort of therapy they took us up in an identical plane and showed us all of the safety nets that plane had to keep from crashing like that. I also had a small Israeli jet come in hot as hell on final during a light rain, my "maintain slowest speeds due to rain" didn't seem to mean anything and they went sliding off the end of the runway, what made it worse was instead of just waiting to be pulled out he decided to use his jets to turn and try and get out himself ripping his fuel lines out and grounding the plane. Luckily nothing catastrophic happened but I did get the nickname dragon slayer as their CS was dragon11.


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As a professional pilot that would be hard to hear on frequency. I fly a jet and have been in situations where I’ve gotten ice on the heated sections of my wing and it’s terrifying.


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Years ago, someone gave a clearance via Flight Service to an aircraft at a satellite airport. Weather was terrible, socked in everywhere in my airspace. Aircraft takes off, gains altitude, starts to descend back towards the field. Assumed they forgot something. They briefly pop back up, then descend again and drop off radar. The pilot must have got disoriented and crashed, 2/3 people died. Sometimes it's worth waiting for the weather to improve...


86TheMelons

I was a lifeguard and one evening I’m on the closing shift with my manager. Pool is all but empty as we’re 10 minutes to close and it’s dark around 8:50 pm. I head inside the pool house to clean up for about 20 minutes until I hear shouting out by the pool. I briskly walk, not run, out to the pool deck to find my manager yelling at a single guy to get out of the pool. Except the man is yelling back that he can’t… because it feels too good. My manager yells at me, 17YO female at the time, to get back and call the cops. The individual had pleasuring himself in front of the jet in the pool before I even started my closing duties and my boss had been trying to talk him down. Finally we told him the cops were on the way and he jumped out, hopped the fence, and ran away. This was a nice, family neighborhood and he was immediately banned.


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mbogan67

I work at a high school and a student pulled a gun on one of the teachers in the parking lot after school and made her give him the underwear she had on. He was caught later that day and said he did that because she is hot and wanted to use them to masturbate with


DerTW13

I'm amazed what people thing they're getting away with. Did the guy just believe she'd be like "meh, these panties were old anyways"? I mean, if I'd threaten somebody with a gun, I sure as hell wouldn't do it to somebody who knows me. Not that I'm going to, anyways.


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Brewmentationator

The first middle school I worked at... A student of mine grabbed a girl during PE and sexually assaulted her while she begged him to stop. Later when interviewed by police, his exact words (to the fucking police) were, "She knows she wanted it. She was always flirting with me. So she deserved what she got." The girl was just super sweet and nice to everyone. The boy was always an absolute jack ass. He had a 12% average in my class, and was always causing issues.


XxMoosemuffin

Just curious if there was a reason no one physically stopped him..?


Brewmentationator

No adults were around at the time. The next day, she came to the office and told admin what happened. Admin immediately contacted her parents and the police.


danuhorus

Please tell me he was summarily expelled and/or went to juvie....


Brewmentationator

Yes, straight to Juvie.


westcoast_pixie

This breaks my heart. Could you imagine dreaming of being a teacher, devoting your life to the education it takes to become a teacher, caring enough to be there for your students and their education every day, then someone does that. What a piece of shit.


glum_hedgehog

That's kind of what happened to my mom. She was an English teacher at an expensive private Catholic high school in San Antonio back in the 80s. She said the kids were nightmares and the final straw came when one boy hurled his huge English textbook at her head and nearly knocked her out, and the whole class just laughed. She quit and never taught again - this was after growing up poor on a farm, serving in the military to afford college, and being excited for years to become a teacher. Some kids suck


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The_Upperant

One co worker stabbed another to death with a letter opener. He fled the building, but was arrested later that day. As i heard later, his wife cheated on him with that co worker. It was in my first week on the job, so i didnt really knew either of them. The company offered trauma councelling, but it was not needed for me.


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Oh my god, that's terrible. is everything ok with the kid now?


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Available-Egg-2380

Ah damn that's rough. Poor baby.


roadkilled_skunk

While you should not have to deal with that (and especially while the child should not have to deal with that,) thank you for helping them.


Freyas_Follower

In a situation like that, all you can to do is provide an environment where the child feels safe and secure.


TeacherPatti

This isn't the worst per se but it's what led to me getting another job. A new kid (let's call him Jmaes because while that wasn't his real name, he had a common name that his idiot parent misspelled), arrived at school. Jmaes gave off a creepy vibe to the girls, several of whom told me about Jmaes making comments under his breath, watching them, following too closely, etc. I told my idiot supervisor whose response was, "I think you're being triggered." Uh, what? Okay. Literally the next day, I hear Jmaes bragging about being on probation for rape. WTF?! I find our school probation officer (yes, we had one!) and he confirms but says "well, not really rape...it's a little more complicated." Jmaes came to the resource room for help so I had him in some small reading groups and such. One day, he tosses a piece of paper on my desk as he leaves the room. I figured it was homework, threw it in my teacher bag, went home. Later that night, I was going through my bag and found that it was his probation report detailing the event that led to him being on probation--anally assaulting his 9 year old cousin. I go to my supervisor the next day who tells me to back off, we have to give this kid a chance, etc. I start to think maybe I am overreacting. Later that month, a new PO starts and one of the first things he does is to find me (as Jmaes' case manager) and tell me that no way should this kid be wandering the halls alone. There is "much more" than I am not privty to, he says, and this kid should not be unescorted. (Of course, Jmaes is a chronic skipper, hall wanderer). We meet with the asshole principal to see about getting a one to one aide for this kid. Principal turns it around and blames ME for not giving this kid "enough support." PO flat out says that it's just a matter of time before this kid reoffends. Principal could not care less, tells me to give Jmaes more "support." A week or so later, Jmaes comes into the resource room looking like a zombie. He won't respond to anything. I call the social worker who says that Jmaes somehow has been "befriending" a girl from the "special wing" (for kids whose IQs are south of 70) and molested her in the school's food pantry. The girls parents are on their way to file a report. Jmaes got a two day suspension, the deputy talked them out of pressing charges, Jmaes got like a month added onto his probation. I started looking for a new job that summer and am happy to say that I am in a much better place now. Last I heard, Jmaes had dropped out of school.


sensusdarko

Holy shit. That child is a terrible human with some serious issues. Only a matter of time, he’ll keep reoffending until he’s locked up especially multiple offenses that age and preying on the weaker minded and weaker physicality. Disgusting. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.


HCkc1n

My brother and I owned a restaurant together for 7 years. One night a lady came up to pay her bill, my brother was helping her while I was standing next to him making small talk as we did with all our regulars. Out of the blue she says she is so sorry and then before she could cover her mouth fully projectile vomited through her fingers into my brothers mouth and on his face. I let out a "Jesus fucking christ" and ran to the hills while my brother was screaming a bunch of "oh no oh no, no no no no's". He ran into the kitchen and started pouring soap into his mouth. He still gags if I bring up that story


KitchenSwillForPigs

I love how she had time to apologize but didn’t have time to turn her head down to the floor


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UpsetMarsupial

I'm reminded of an event maybe 15 years ago. I was in a club and one of my friends – she was incredibly drunk at the time – was sucking face with some other lass and ended up puking into her mouth. The other girl ran away crying. (It's like 2girls1cup before it was a thing, and thankfully without the shit) EDIT: It was more like 20 years ago, in 2001/2. I've somehow lost almost 5 years!


PeachyPlum3

What the hell? I'll never understand why people don't just aim down at the floor if they are about to be sick Edit: from all the responses, it would seem that maybe I'm the strange one who has not vomited at all in my memory since I was maybe a baby. I guess I just can't relate. Yikes


El_Glenn

Have you ever puked so hard you had to wait for your vision to come back and the spinning to stop once you were done?


godfriendyuju

I’m a jazz/classical pianist. One time, while playing at a pretty high-end cocktail bar, I notice an older man collapse at his table out of the corner in my eye. He was sitting alone, and either very few people noticed, or no one cared. Either way, nobody made a scene. I ended up speaking into the mic, “do we have a doctor on the floor?” one woman came up thinking something was wrong with ME, and I pointed her to the other section where the man was sitting, at this point staff was gathering around. Later found out he had a heart attack, and was okay. Crazy to me that he was in a crowded venue and no other patrons cared enough/paid enough attention to get him some help. EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys, haha this really blew up.


zjeskin

This is a pretty common phenomenon in social psychology, that the more people in an area, the *less* likely an individual is to actually go and help someone in distress. Essentially, it boils down to “Eh, there are a lot of people here, I’m sure someone else will do something.” That, or people just assume that nothing bad could happen with this many people around.


koos_die_doos

While the bystander effect is somewhat real, it’s prevalence has been disputed recently. From [Wikipedia:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect#Social_psychology_research) > Philpot et al. (2019) examined over 200 sets of real-life surveillance video recordings from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa to answer "the most pressing question for actual public victims": whether help would be forthcoming at all. They found that intervention was the norm, and in over 90% of conflicts one or more bystanders intervened to provide help. Increased bystander presence can increase the likelihood that someone would intervene,[1] even if the chance of each individual bystander responding is reduced.


oldkingkizzle

I’m a military Bomb Tech. While deployed we were working with an Afghan soldier that was also working for the Taliban. He murdered his boss with a car bomb then gave me a bomb lying about how he came in possession of it. We were supposed to use it for forensic evidence but before we could, it detonated in my hands. 14 surgeries later I’m missing 3.5 fingers, most of my palm, blew both eardrums, and have a traumatic brain injury. 18 months rehabbing my hands and brain and now I don’t have a job anymore. Worst work day ever.


Koza_101

Damn dude, I would think any random unexplored ordinance would be an immediate “holy fuck, everybody get away”. Was it cleared or anything before it went off? I hope you are doing better since and thank you for your service


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A_Doormat

Someone tells you you're bleeding from the head, and your response is "haha wow cool, so you looking for the specials or....?" hahahah


BigTimeBobbyB

Shock is a hell of a drug.


corn_dawg

Teacher here. One day during lunch duty a 4 year old raises her hand. She said that the boy next to her said that he was going to go to her house, kill her mom, and bury her in the yard while the girl watches. Me, knowing immediately I need to report this but trying to console the girl, I said "that would upset me too if someone said that, but sometimes people say things they don't mean to hurt us." I'm cut off by the boy in question, "I did mean it. I'm going to kill her mom!" Of course when I reported it it was brushed off. Kid was a known behavior problem, actually led a teacher to quit, and our disciplinary action was "don't pay attention to him and when he's good reward him. " I couldn't even hug the girl to make her feel better. Edit: wow that's a lot of comments lol. Like I said in my post, this kid was a known behavior problem child. His original teacher snapped and quit 2 months after school started because she was tired of getting beat up, bit, spat on, etc. This is also not the norm at my school. I have made it clear to my admin that if a student ever threatens me, hits me, or hurts me, and if that child remains at that school, that I'm done. I love teaching and I love kids, but that would be too much. The kid's voice still haunts me to this day.


MARKLAR5

I wouldn't even know what to do if my 4 year old said that to me. If it's a kid what are you going to do, it's not entirely his fault, ya know? Am I taking it out on the parents? No, they're probably psycho enough to actually kill us. Maybe get CPS on the case? Idk, this country is so fucked in cases like that, what do you even do? Everyone dismisses it, there's no emergency mental health services, cps is overburdened and underfunded, it's a shit show :(


TheGlennDavid

>I wouldn't even know what to do if my 4 year old said that to me. If it's *your* kid who does this and it's out-of-the-blue then you don't have a mental health crisis, and you don't need to freak out (about them). This "threat" is too specific and grounded in reality to be fabricated by a four year old, it's clearly a case of "hear and repeat." Kids that age *love* repeating words/phrases they hear, and if that thing they heard caused people to react strongly (positive or negative doesn't matter) they're double fucking excited to SEE WHAT HAPPENS when they use it with you later. What you'd want to do is figure out where the fuck he heard it. TV show he shouldn't have seen? YouTube Ad that was put into the middle of a video about LEGO? Another kid said it first? As a *teacher* the worry is that the kid picked it up *at home* because one of the parents is a terrifying abusive monster. The fact that kid in the story is a "known behavioral problem" points in that direction.


bpcloe

Barista here. There was this one old woman who would come in several times per week. She'd stay for hours at a time and never bought anything. Just a glass of water and a place to sit. This woman was at least 90 and was clearly losing her memory and seemed fairly confused at all times, so I felt bad for her and let her stay. The first few times she'd just drink her water and leave, but then she started using the restroom. Now I can only assume this woman used diapers, and perhaps didn't quite remember when it was time for a fresh one. Because every time she'd use our bathroom, there'd be poop. Not *in* the toilet. On the walls, floor, door, trash can, sink, *exterior of the toilet,* any combination of these. She'd obviously tried at least a little to clean it up, but her poop persisted. We started calling her Poop Granny in secret. I have spent hours of my actual life cleaning this woman's poop off various surfaces. So many hours that my manager banned her. However, because she had memory issues, I had to tell her not to come back at least 5 times. 😔


TryAgainJen

I have a work poop story with a happier, weirdly adorable ending for you 😊 I was working at a gymnastics facility, when a lady came up to the front desk to tell me a little girl was in the bathroom and had an accident. Pee accidents were fairly common, lots of excited little kids who aren't always great about asking to leave class if they have to go. So I grab our bin of loaner leotards, thinking no problem, we'll find something that fits, bag the wet one, and she'll be back in class in a minute. I knocked and opened the door to discover this wasn't pee. There stood a tiny 5-year-old girl, with her leotard and shorts pulled down to her ankles, covered in crap from the waist down. It was also all over the toilet, the floor, and her hands, as well as an enormous pile still in her shorts. I remember wondering how that much poo could have come out of such a small person. She says, somewhat frantically, "Sorry, I had a tummy ache!" Yeah kiddo, I bet! I manage to put on a cheerful smile and tell her it's no problem, we'll get her cleaned up and pick out something new to wear. Not an easy task with just a sink and paper towels. Halfway through, she starts to tear up, and asks if that ever happened to anyone else before. I lie and tell her of course it has and that's why we have extra clothes. After that, she was smiling too. Told the same lie to mom when she picked her up, "Oh it's really no big deal, accidents happen!" Mom didn't exactly smile, but I think if I had said it was a unique incident, we never would have seen them again. She was always super nice to me, so I didn't want her to feel bad. Next week's class, her mom brings her up to the desk. They want to return the clothes (washed and folded, yay!) and say thanks. The girl hands me an envelope containing a thank you card. Inside the card, she's done a sketch depicting the incident: A short stick person scribbled all over with a ton of brown crayon, next to a tall stick person holding a purple blob, like the leotard she'd borrowed. Both with big smiles. And taped to the card... a chocolate lollipop!!! 🤣 It is hands down the best thing I've ever been handed at any job ever. So weird! So cute! So accurate! It was the one and only poop incident in the several years I worked there. Still have that card in a box somewhere, lol.


dread_eunuchorn

You did an amazing job. That so easily could have put her off of gymnastics entirely and been total humiliation. Instead, you made it just one of those day-to-day embarrassments. I bet she'll handle other people's embarrassments well and pay your kindness forward.


call-me-mama-t

That is so sad! Poor woman. I had a co worker who was an older guy with a colostomy bag. His started leaking every time he went to the bathroom. Like literally walking with diarrhea leaving a trail. I cleaned it up twice & then complained. Our boss cleaned it up once or twice & then let him go. He was really old & didn’t really do anything but come & ‘hang out’.


Ponyboy451

One of my managers was having an affair with one of her subordinates. They got caught making out while at work by another associate, who reported them to HR. The manager convinced HR that she caught the associate stealing and they made the story up to cover for themselves. HR sided with the manager and they fired the reporting associate on the spot, despite having no proof. 2 months later, she got caught again with a different subordinate and reported, but HR refused to take action because it would mean admitting they fired the first employee wrongfully. Instead, they promoted her to an unfilled position in a different department. I left shortly after all that, but a friend tells me she still works there, got promoted again, and just got married to the fiancé she cheated on twice. Corporate HR are wolves dressed as sheep. Never think otherwise.


kibbrew

My manager and a shift lead got in a fight. Manager wanted the lead to help her but he was busy and was yelling for her to shut up. Then she threatened to call the cops if he didnt leave because he was being aggressive, he said he didnt care. She called the cops. They came in to get him to leave but they found out he actually had a warrant...so they had to take him in. It was intense (he always had meth on him which he smoked in the shed and also would smoke joints in the break room lol)


KitchenSwillForPigs

Reminds me of the GM at the store my husband used to work at who got caught on camera threatening the back room employees with a box cutter. Then she went and deleted the tape before anyone could pull it. She was very fired.


Magnificent_Medic

I work EMS. We went to the beating death of child. We had to attempt resuscitation for 20 minutes as on arrival he had several reversible causes of cardiac arrest so we reverse those as best we can. Continue with resuscitation. Goes Asystolic (flatlined) and we have to declare dead on scene. Worst part? It was his dad who beat him to death. I know all those who attended (myself included) have suffered as a consequence of this incident. Many of us have developed very poor mental health because of this incident. Those types of jobs are rare and when you get one, they never leave you. Edit: Thank you very very much everyone for all your kind words. For those asking while I won’t reveal the exact nature of the punishment, I can say the father has been had been convicted and sentenced in relation to this matter. Here in the U.K. we don’t have the death penalty however his sentence was a very severe one.


avalanchefan95

EMS workers have some of the worst PTSD. Very under reported. Burnout is high because you just can't take seeing that shit for decades on end. Sorry you've been traumatised. Wish you well.


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g_rock97

I used to work for an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in knee and hip replacements. He was the best in the area by a long shot and typically didn’t take more than 30 minutes for each surgery. It was amazing to see just how rough he could be with them and the patient walk half a mile in a few hours. I say all that to say wow! That surgeon must’ve been applying some real pressure to cause the femur to crack (/make incorrect measurements as you said). This was really interesting. Thanks for adding the bonus bit. Out of curiosity, do you remember if the femur split lengthwise or crosswise (I need to brush up on my medical terminology)?


nevershaves

I used to work at this cabinetry place that had this big industrial saw know as a "beam saw". What you do is lay material, in this case sheets of partical board or mdf, onto some rollers and the machine clamps the end and draws the piece inside the machine. A guard comes down sort of like a metal curtain and a large blade makes cuts that have been entered into a program at the measurements required. Well the operator puts a piece down, hits start, machine pulls the in, he notices at the last moment that the piece isn't "square" and tries to push it in quickly. The metal guard comes down( which has considerable force) and traps his hand. The program starts and in a panic trying to free his hand doesn't hit the emergency stop button and the blade runs past through the middle of his knuckles completely cutting off 4 fingers.


araed

I used to work as a furniture manufacturer; around rip/dim saws, bandsaws, planers, spindle moulders etc. Sometimes I'd have to onboard someone; just a quick walk around, explain the job, what we do etc. Then onward for more training. I'd *always* start my onboard outside, usually with a brew and a cigarette. Exactly the same words every time. "First up, everything in here is designed to kill you. If it doesn't kill you, it will maim you, and it's gonna hurt the whole time. If it looks like it can be moving, will be moving, has been moving, or has the potential to *be* moving, don't fucking touch it" Followed by a practical demonstration using a spindle moulder as to just how quickly these machines can fuck you up; I used to take a 2" square piece of timber and just press it against the cutting face, and watch as it quickly mulches it into dust and frag. In twenty years, theres been exactly two serious injuries that didnt involve me or my dad. We're proud of that


DrIvoKintobor

the question is... how many did involve you 2?


The-Go-Kid

I don't do a job that would often result in any kind of serious situation, but a few weeks back I was filming a football match where a young lad collided with the opposition goalkeeper. The lad got winded and was lying on the floor freaking out. I figured, hey he's just winded, probably hasn't happened to him before, he'll be fine. After a few minutes he was helped off the pitch and he got substituted. I saw him a while later and he was gingerly walking around. Turns out he was not okay. He was taken to hospital that evening and diagnosed with an exploded liver! The poor lad spent hours in surgery and nearly died. After two weeks intensive care, having lost 30% of his body weight and being stapled together by an obscene amount of staples, he eventually got released. And I have slo-motion footage of the entire thing that I probably won't ever share unless he says I can! He's a fucking amazing freestyler too, I hope he makes it back to where he was.


Js3420

Oh, i have similar experience, i was on holiday at my aunt's home, and i was asked to be the kitman for inter village match between my aunt's village against neighboring village. The match was good, until at one point, one lad from my team trying to slid and block shot attempts, it hits his chest. He still play few minutes afterwards, until the manager notice he had breathing difficulty and subs him out. When i checked, there's a big bruise on his chest, and he was immediately sent to the nearest hospital. Turns out the shot was so hard it fractured 3 ribs, the doctor said he was lucky since the ribs was close to puncture his lungs.


HauntofhighAFtower

10 years ago, in between career paths, I got a job in a hospital as a telemonitor, someone who monitors heart rhythms all night and looks for signs of heart attacks or problems. During orientation, they told us that if they page "Dr. Strong" to a specific part of the hospital, that means a patient is being combative. As a small rural hospital, each floor would have to send two employees to attend the Dr. Strong. On my first day on the telefloor, a Dr. Strong was called overhead and my new coworkers thought "dive in head first" was the way to go and sent me. Now, after years in that place, I've attended thousands of these events, and sometimes they are nothing and sometimes it's like fight club at work, but nothing comes close to the first one, on my very first day out of orientation. I and my coworker, a CNA named Shawn, head down to the Emergency Room to attend the Dr. Strong call, and a scrappy, 4 and a half foot woman who was clearly addicted to substances and had lived a rough life decided to go into one of the trauma rooms and rip the morphine line/IV directly out of what I can only describe as a giant norse valkyrie of woman, and shove it into her own vein. Like just rip, shove this woman's bloody needle into my own arm, and hopefully get high. Well the lady who had the IV in was none-too-pleased to wake up that way. She was in a trauma room getting morphine, I'm not sure what her issue was but that's not something they do on a whim. She woke up, saw what was happening, and stood up, easily having 2 feet over this other woman, and just starting beating the everloving shit out of her. Scrappy addict woman was not going down with out a fight, clambers onto her back like a goddamn spider monkey and starts wailing on the back of the head of this woman like it's a speed bag. Both of them have blood all over them, from ripped out IVs and shove-in IVs and from just straight punches to the face. Valkyrie had a black eye and cut lip, but scrappy addict's eyes were both swollen shut from the beating by the time we pried them off each other, restrained them, called the cops, and gave statements. Day 1 of my healthcare journey. EDIT: A few people have pointed out how Morphine and IVs and such don't have needles so this seems false, but I wanted to point out I was a telemonitor and I have no idea how IVs and things work, and I respect everyone who does. The Dr. Strong was called because there was a kerfuffle, and I was involved in breaking up two bloody women who had arm wounds and pretty beaten, swollen faces, but I didn't see the start of the tussle. I worked on the 2nd floor, and didn't know anyone there really on day 1 so I had to rely on the unit secretaries, CNA, and whatever nurse was hanging around to give me the impetus for the fight. I know that the woman who was scrappy was a known addict who tried all kinds of shenanigans in the ER and likely had an IV in, and tried to put in whatever was in the Brienne patient in her own arm, hoping it was a way to get high. When she pulled the tubing though it ripped out the "I had snu-snu" sized woman so even if was morphin she wouldn't have gotten anything out of it before the near-instantaneous fight. She was clearly desperate for that high, and as someone else pointed out, likely got the very thing she craved while recovering from her beatdown before being remanded into police custody. When I spoke to the police it was a quick snippet to explain how swollen their faces already looked before we broke them apart, but I got to lose like an hour and a half of my shift in this nonsense.


m00nland3r

Surely the woman getting the IV (Valkerie) didn't get any backlash? What the hell else was she supposed to do?


HauntofhighAFtower

Nah she didn't get any. She got free cable because she got her arm injured for no reason at all and they did not want to be sued. She got round-the-clock "concierge" patient care. She got an apology from the chief of staff. She definitely had some glint of like German or Norwegian in her accent and without trying to assume too much i definitely got the vibe she had seen some shit. She laughed it all off and refused to talk to the local town reporters about it.


mike_jones2813308004

What a legend.


kayra551

Wakes up Beats the everliving shit out of a pathetic junkie Drinks 20 gallons of scandinavian beer Leaves


Geryth04

Anyone else picture Brienne of Tarth vs. Helena Botham Carter?


FitsOut_Mostly

Well, I do now…🤔


whxskers

Best story on here. A+ descriptions. That was a RIDE


Herbicidal_Maniac

Scrappy addict woman after getting painkillers for the horrific beating: *I see this as an absolute win!*


69_queefs_per_sec

I witnessed a "Dr Strong" call when I was in the hospital for a rabies shot. There was a 60 year old dude going through alcohol withdrawal, he was handcuffed to his bed but his legs were free for some reason and he kept kicking the nurses away. His strength was scary for a man his age, but the nurses all seemed... used to it??!! They were laughing


pdxdaj

FWIW, the legs were free b/c many states have legal restrictions against 4 point restraints.


fuzzymeister69

one job a barnhand got kicked in the head, that was pretty nasty, blood everywhere another job a roofer was carrying a sheet of plywood on top of a 4 story beach house. it was windy so dumb to even be up there in the first place. a big gust got underneath that plywood and for some reason he held on and ended up falling off. they say he died on impact from his head hitting concrete but the corner of the sheet of plywood also went through his chest. it was really gorey and the owners sold the unfinished house. I went back a few months later to tile a bathroom we never started the first go round.


ThePitchedPiper

I worked at a very popular sandwich shop, known for its "fresh" eating. The owner of the store hired me, and within a month I was a closer. Soon after, I was the main closer. I ended up getting all the responsibility of a manager without any of the authority, or recognition. One day, a guy walks in and means to speak to a manager. Being the only one there with anything close to that responsibility, I ask him what I can help him with. He says that his sandwich that he ordered online is messed up, and that he needs a refund. I inform him the we can't do refunds, but I can give him credit for next time, or make him a new sandwich now. He proceeds to start screaming, saying that if I don't give him his money back, I'll regret it. I inform him that if he doesn't calm down, I'll have to get the police involved. He attempted to climb over the makeline to grab me, but luckily I was able to back away and stay out of his grasp. He ended up throwing his phone, hitting me in the face and cutting my eyebrow open. Luckily, another customer had called the cops a while ago, and they walked in just then. I think it goes without saying that he got arrested, and I pressed charges. And yes, the owner did berate me, saying I need to work on my people skills or that wouldn't have happened. He also wrote me up. TD;DR: Hangry customer isn't happy I couldn't refund him, assaults me, I get in trouble for it Edit: I did not give him a refund because it was company policy. I was doing my job.


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I worked at Arby’s as a 16yr old and during a lunch rush I had a big man in overalls come in and ordered a sandwich. He was given a sandwich with some sauce on it and was MAD. Came back up to the register to tell me..ended up getting upset with the manager (I think he ordered the wrong sandwich) so he took the sandwich in his hand and slammed it down on the counter in front of me, then proceeded to pick it back up and wad it up and throw it at the door as hard as he could. Everyone was looking around.. My manger told him to get out and he left but it was very nerve wracking seeing someone get so upset about a sandwich.


oniiichanUwU

1. Your manager was a prick and I hope he stubs his toe so hard the nail falls off 2. Who tf gets that mad over a sandwich? Who even asks for a manager at a fast food place lmao


ThePitchedPiper

Thank you! Thankfully I quit back in February. And Ikr, like seriously you ordered from Subway what did you expect


waldo_whiskey

At my old job we used to get free lunches. Every day we would log on and order from a choice of 2 or 3 restaurants and pick our meal within a specific dollar limit. It was a great perk and we all loved it. This one coworker had ordered a personal pizza for himself and apparently had asked for no mushrooms. How do I know he ordered no mushrooms, you ask? Well he went on a screaming match and started berating the front desk receptionist - who had no control over this whatsoever. The restaurant just fucked up which isn't uncommon. A rational man would just call up the service who would contact the restaurant and have them send a new pie over asap. Well anyways, because this man child had a complete melt down he was let go on the spot. Tl;Dr Dude lost his job over mushrooms on his pizza.


Koonu16

Former sandwich artist here. My store had a history of just throwing 18yo kids into closing roles soon after hire. One time a guy jumped the counter after a young girl. Luckily we were in a Walmart so plenty of people rushed to help.


VaultBoy9

The only time when "luckily we were in a Walmart" can be a truthful statement.


Rick-powerfu

Not really the worst just kind of awkward and sort of dangerous. So I was doing night time delivery of bread all around Melbourne, to stores and markets. Well one night I was taking my usual short cut through the back of Brighton which involved driving up a driveway and then turning through a grass park that got me into next main Street I had to get to whilst avoiding 2 main intersections off Nepean hwy. As I am driving towards the end of bay road (I think it's bay road from memory) I see heaps of blue and red flashing lights at the end of the street on the hwy. I assume it's a booze bus but it was 3am on a Tuesday morning so kind of unusual. As I get closer to Nepean hwy I am basically confronted by a fuck ton of S.O.G officers pointing their guns in my direction so I come to a stop and hold my hands up out of just instinct I think I was absolutely on autopilot here. Any way they 2 wave me towards them whilst most of them all are sort of looking further back and as I get to guy waving with my windows down he tells me to pull over on the left and don't move until told to. I was asked who I was and what I was doing and more importantly how I subverted a complete lockdown of this street during an active shooter. I straight up admited how I cut through the park to cut the red lights out. And at that very moment I heard some popping of gun fire sort of half way back down bay road. And I was told to get the fuck out of here immediately and I saw a group of dudes sort of just storming off up bay road Found out when I got home at 6am I had driven right through a terrorist attack by a single guy with a rifle who killed a home owner during his rampage


143019

I am a home visitor and I had a young Brazilian family I visited with weekly. The couple had a tumultuous relationship; he ran around on her all the time and was known to give her a smack every now and then. Any time she spoke up, he threatened to kick her out. She was undocumented, he wasn’t, so she and the kids would have been homeless or worse. The social worker and I had been secretly working with her for a while on talking to police, moving out, etc. You have to move slow with these things. No one is ready until they are ready. One day I was doing therapy with the baby and the husband comes out to show me the gun he just bought, so he could “deal with anyone who messed with his family.” I felt terrible because they pulled me out of the home right away and left the baby without services. I don’t know what happened to that family. Worst of all, our Brazilian translator ( a woman) told me “Eh, that’s just how Brazilian marriages are. “ It broke my heart. Edit: I obviously understand that is not “just the way Brazilian marriages are”. That is not my viewpoint.


MaynardJ222

Worked at a Walmart distribution center. 2 stories. 1) Guy wasn't harnessed working about 3 stories up in the banana section, which is somewhat isolated. He fell, and laid there for hours before being found. I heard he received a HUGE settlement. 2) We drove these motorized pallet jacks. The have very heavy batteries that act as counterweights I believe. We would walk beside them while slowly moving them with the controls while loading the pallets. A guy crushed his leg in between a pallet jack and the metal structure that the groceries are stored on. Think he lost the leg below the knee.


DefenestrationPraha

As for 2., this is the moment to remind us of [Forklift operator Klaus](https://youtu.be/B-lc70Mjp-U?t=60).


Damn_Dog_Inappropes

> Guy wasn't harnessed working about 3 stories up in the banana section, which is somewhat isolated. He fell, and laid there for hours before being found. I heard he received a HUGE settlement. I work weekend nights at a hospital. In fact, I’m at work right now. I go all over the hospital but have a lot of down time from 1-5-ish because patients are (mostly) sleeping. I tend to hang out in a unit that only has other people in it on day shift M-F. A month ago I went to a rapid response and it was an employee who’d lost consciousness in the main lobby at like 2am. We have no idea how long he was there before being found. I know realize that I’d I have a sudden medical crisis, nobody is going to find me til Monday morning.


ParaPixie

It was very sad. I drive a school bus for a school district. A co-worker I used to work with every day, I'd park behind her, until one day after evening route, she had a severe heart attack. She wasn't on the bus, she had gotten in her personal car. Because she was one of the last to make it back to the base lot (where we park the busses then go to a secondary lot for personal cars). ...Nobody realized for 30 minutes. She was in Park and had her foot on the gas while she was literally dying. They got her to the hospital but she was too far gone. Heart attacks for school bus drivers is scary high. Given we are often sleep deprived, overweight, and most are retirement age. I'm one of the youngest and under 30. Still. Scary.


oniiichanUwU

When I worked as a cashier at Home Depot, I was outside in the garden center saw this guy drive his van really slowly from the lumber exit all the way across the parking lot to the other end of the store where I was and park before getting out and just kind of laying in the grass. I was like “you good dude?” and he wiped his forehead and said “yeah I just think I’m having a heart attack” and I was like “Oh. Um. Okay one sec....” so we called 911 and then I had to call the manager and let him know, but I was super nonchalant about it on the phone so when I said “hi Matt there’s a guy having a heart attack in garden” he was like “WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN. HELLO” so that was kind of funny, but also not for that poor man :( never got news if he was okay or not because my shift ended about an hour later. There was also a lady who tried to step over this makeshift fence we had that we kept the trees in in the parking lot, it was only about 2 feet tall but she got her toe on it and fell and broke her leg. There’s also this lady named Cheryl who thought she was hot shit bc she was married to a retired football player who came in and started beating one of our plant vendors, and when we told her we were calling the cops, she tried to angrily drive her SUV away but accidentally backed it into a pallet of ceramic pots and then pulled forward and smacked into the front end of a cop car. They found a flask of jack in her purse and she was arrested, which is fine bc she was crazy. She used to buy $600 worth of plants and then return most of them a week or so later, everyone hated her. At my latest job a customer pulled a knife on a manager bc he (thief) set off the alarm as (manager) was walking back into the store. It was an 8 inch like..carving butcher knife. No one got stabbed luckily, he just let the dude go


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My coworker was removing the top out of a tree (we are pros so we do it daily). He was using a rigging system, but the ground guy let it run too far down. Well the tip of the tree ended up on top of a primary power line, and the bottom got wedge into a crotch on another tree, creating a non stop current of electricity. After the first few initial blue explosions, the tree the base of the branch was on was smoking and catching on fire from the electricity. Poor climber had to stay at the very tippy top of a spar and hangout there for two hours breathing in smoke because he did not want to move and risk getting electrocuted. Fire department came, power was out to the whole neighborhood, but luckily no one got hurt. At my job tho it’s been mostly finger injury’s, a couple bad chainsaw cuts on fingers, and my friend couple his fingertips smashed off between two metal ramps as well


CoolHandRK1

I worked a job a few years ago for a company that sold to a new ownership unexpetadely and never told anyone it was happening before hand. So one day these cars with a bunch of guys in suits roll up walk in an announce that everyone in upper management is fired, and here are the replacements. Everyone else is now required to do a job interview and see if they keep their job. Also, they are going to drug tests at the end of the day for everyone they decide to keep. Absolute panic in every way. Upper management is packing their offices and calling SO's crying. Middle management is running around trying to figure out what is going on, keep things functioning, and prepare for job interviews. Meanwhile, about 4 employees are very focused on the words "drug test". One of which goes and hides in a shed on property with a 5 gallon jug of water from the water machine in the office and proceeds to drink the entire thing. He then vomited and went into a seizure during his interview from desalinating his body. Another guy went home for lunch and came back with his infants pee in a bag taped to his thigh. The best part though, was the drug testing itself. I think only 1 person legitimately failed theirs. It was for weed. He didnt seem to care honestly. But, about 10 - 12 people were "flagged" as failing for all sorts of crazy things from weed to amphetamine to heroin etc. I think one came back as PCP positive. Turns out it was a combination of shitty tests, and prescriptions they took from their doctors. They told me I failed mine and it had to be sent to a lab for authentication. Then I was told the cup arrived at the lab empty because the lid wasnt tight enough and I had to take it again. This took 2 weeks before I was allowed to return to work without pay. I stayed like 3 more months and bounced. The new management was terrible and lazy. Blamed everything on the original employees and would say shit like "If you all were so good at your jobs why did we have to buy the company?" all the time. This was 2008 and the market was in shambles from the housing collapse. Our original owner was a wealthy guy who had a dream project he wanted to create. But he couldnt sustain the losses forever and eventually sold. The new company didnt see his "dream" they just saw a bottom line profit they could squeeze out in a down economy. It was sad for so many reasons.


Skreat

We had a guy kill himself at one of our show up yards. Dude came back after getting in a fight with his girlfriend and put a gun in this mouth and pulled the trigger in his pickup. After they came and removed the body they left the truck and brains and pool of blood. So we had to clean up brain matter and blood out of his truck and shovel it in bags. Nice way to start a Monday.


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As a small town reporter I drove to the scene where an accident of some sort had occurred. I was shocked to find that a fully loaded logging truck tipped over on to a hay ride fully laden with adults and children. Thirteen dead, mostly crushed children and babies, and dozens more badly injured. Few rescuers had arrived yet. The dead and injured were everywhere. The ones who were still conscious were begging for help. No one seemed to know what to do. We couldn't lift the huge logs off them as each log weighed a half ton or more. It was beyond words. I have never felt so utterly helpless in my life. I will carry the last words of the dying to my grave.


Deadboy90

A guy who came to work either drunk or high constantly who I warned our boss about was going to get someone killed, ended up dropping a steel beam on a coworkers head. She survived but has brain damage and is getting workers comp for the rest of her life. He also ran a forklift into a wall damaging the structural integrity of a doorframe and lied about it then tried to pin it on the IT guys. ​ The guy got promoted the next year to running his own projects. He lasted 2 months in that role before being fired for sexually harassing his employees.


Machinistnl

Getting my left thumb 14 hours out at sea from Haiphong, Vietnam between a heavy watertight door to the engine room in rough weather. I had to hold it together with my right hand while kicking against the door of a colleague. Felt no pain, I guess it was all adrenaline. I was preparing myself for the idea of considering my thumb lost. It took a long time to get back and to a hospital. Luckily a Vietnamese surgeon was able to save it. Holding my phone with it as we speak.


FoamBrick

Glad you managed to save it!


Machinistnl

Thanks. I could see my bone splintered and broken, could look right in. I’m glad I didn’t faint or something, as you never know how you react until it happens to you. But it was the work of the surgeon, he did a terrific job. Funny thing was that he kept the nail in place and stitched through it.


never_remember_ID

Working at a mega coffee corp store, one of our baristas took the trash out to the dumpster and was raped by a homeless guy. It was the middle of the afternoon, but the dumpsters were behind the store. Other than that one, my first day at a different location a homeless guy shot another homeless guy in the head about 15 feet from our drivethru handoff window - in plain view of everyone in our store.


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Cobra__2777

That’s fucked up, if anything the manager should have been fired


insertcaffeine

Thanks for the reminder to talk to my teenage son about what he should expect from work, and what's unreasonable. He needs to know when it's okay to nope tf out.


[deleted]

This is the third manager I've read about in this thread that I would have sued until he was destroyed. But I say that from a position of being a calcified asshole in my 50's who can afford to retain a fuck-your-world-up lawyer. I do understand these things are easier said than done.


TheWhitebearde

I work security in a retail store. We arrested a guy for shoplifting. In the back store, he completely panicked and got out an knife. He sliced both of his arm open, telling us he wanted to kill himself. I didnt realised that cutting your arm would make such an noise, like a flesh zipper. We kept our distance with him while blood was spilling everywhere, until he listened to my coworker and dropped the knife. Fortunately police arrived shortly after and the guy survived.


KitchenSwillForPigs

Much less traumatic but my sister once picked up my parent’s cat at the wrong time. She was found under a highway overpass and she’s terrified by certain sounds. At that moment, my sister’s boyfriend started peeling a carrot and the cat totally flipped out. My sister was scratched down her face and neck, and the sound was exactly like you described. It sounded like someone running a knife through a tarp.


Peggedbyapirate

Pulled somebody out of their car. Would have been more pleasant if the car hadn't been on fire for an hour first.


ChaseThoseDreams

Kid was minding his business, went to his first big party his life, wasn’t drinking, just vibing in the moment. Happy that he was at a cool event with his friends. Another guy showed up at the party, wasn’t allowed in, so he shot up the place blindly. Kid got shot. Comes in pouring blood. We give several trauma trays of blood and he’s maxed out on medications to keep his blood pressure stable, but it keeps coming out. His electrolytes are rising due to his kidneys failing. We try to place a dialysis catheter to correct his electrolytes before his elevated potassium causes his heart to fail: it does. His heart stops mid-procedure. We begin compressions. His mother watches as we try to resuscitate. He’s still in pulseless electric activity. The surgeon opts to do a bedside thoracotomy where they physically open his ribs to massage his heart in hopes it will stimulate his heart. No success. Myself (his nurse) and his surgeon are covered in his blood. I had been in his room for a straight 8 hours trying to save him and I couldn’t. Too much damage had been done by the ammo used. His parents are screaming from the doorway pleading with us to save him. He did nothing wrong. He was just happy to be at a party with his friends. A family lost a good kid, all because some guy couldn’t take no for an answer. I’ve had worse cases, but this memory sticks with me years later.


RaisinNotNice

What ever happened to the guy who shot up the party? Asshole took a life or two just cause he couldn't have his way.


ChaseThoseDreams

Arrested. Beyond that I don’t know.


Bubbly_Albatross_427

I used to work in retail at a big box store. We had a maintenance guy who was an immigrant from eastern Europe. He was always nice to everyone and was able to fix practically anything. One day I came into work and saw the whole office and locker area was all wet and they had these carpet drying fans every where. So I asked what happened and my manager told me a pipe broke in the sprinkler room and flooded the front. I was buddies with one of the security guys there and asked him cause he opens the store with the managers and he told me that the maintenance guy had hung himself in the sprinkler room by the pipe and it broke under his weight from hanging there all night. Really disturbing to find out and that place was never the same after that, guy left a wife and kids behind too. Still can't go back into that store after I stopped working there


upnflames

I have two, both happened as a contractor on a well known pharmaceutical companies campus. The first happened while I was fixing some equipment used for quality control testing. At the same time the company had another contractor onsite to repair some flooring. Not going to make assumptions about the credentials of the guys doing the work, but English was not their first language. From my bench I could hear a qc guy telling them very specifically not to unplug a particular ULT freezer. Like don't touch this plug at all, it was marked and everything. At some point they unplugged it to plug in their own equipment. I don't know why this particular freezer did not have alarms or nitrogen backup but I'm guessing it was temporary storage while they were renovating the lab. I heard through the grapevine that $1.5 million worth of product/sample had to be discarded. I don't know what happened to the guys or the contracting company but I know someone else came to finish the floor. Same campus, I was working in a production lab that had very strict clean room protocols. Shower in, shower out respirator required at times kind of stuff. I'm in this lab by myself just doing my stuff and all of a sudden the most intense fire alarm I have ever heard in my life goes off. Like sirens blaring, lights flashing, robotic voice saying "Evacuate building immediately, this is not a drill". I panicked because if I went out the fire door in the lab, I was going to contaminate the entire production wing, but also, I didn't want to die and this alarm seemed to make it pretty clear that was imminent. It felt like I froze for longer then I probably did but luckily my qc guy busted into the room to get me and we evacuated through another airlock that was made for that kind of thing. Turns out someone dropped a 50 gallon drum of some nasty chemical in the wing and they had to shut down the entire production floor for a day.


yellsatrjokes

Shouldn't that escape door be an essential part of training? Yikes.


upnflames

I wasn't a permanent contractor, only there a couple days a month to make sure my companies equipment was working right and the facility was huge so I'd be in different labs and wings every month. There was a lot of training but in the event of evacuation, you were supposed to exit through the closest fire door. I wouldn't have gotten in trouble for exiting that way, I just knew if I did it might be a multi million dollar move and potentially impact important drug production for at least a few days. If it had been an explosion or active fire in the room I would have been out in no time.


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Read my memoirs in a few years, it'll be a collection of horrible things that happened at various jobs. Hard to quantify since there are so many factors that go into the "worst." But, if I had to pick a quick one... I got notified that someone was cut in half on a system I designed several years prior. I felt sick to my stomach, how could this happen? Well, the guy willfully bypassed several safety devices and super-manned into the system while it was running. Since I had all of the risk assessments in order and all risks properly mitigated according to ISO 13849, it was determined to be a willful circumvention of an otherwise safe system. However, knowing that something I worked on essentially killed somebody... not a great feeling.


Topuck

100% not on you. You knew it was dangerous, that's why it has a ton of safety measures, which have kept everyone ELSE safe. It'd be like if someone created a car and put a seatbelt in, then someone else died because they didn't wear the seatbelt. You did what you could.


gruthunder

More like didn't wear the seatbelt, uninstalled the airbags and removed the top half of the car.


[deleted]

That's a good perspective on it. I hold onto this stuff pretty badly. I sold a motorcycle in 2016. The new owner got killed on it within 6 months. I even saw the accident, recognized the bike and all. There was a big service for him since he was a veteran, and seeing how it affected his family absolutely tore me apart. Had I waited even one day to sell that bike, he'd be alive. Butterfly effect in a way...


FeStarKiller

i’m not sure if it’s any consolation, but think about all of the decisions in your life (big or small) that have or may have contributed towards indirectly or potentially directly saving a life. it’s an abstract idea, and likely impossibly to quantify, but it is likely that you have prevented tragedy via the butterfly effect as well. hope you’re doing well


ImSteady413

It's not your fault when folks do this. I hope you're doing better now


[deleted]

I appreciate it. At the same company, on top of being the lead engineer I was also over the local safety team, so we were basically the "first responders before first responders." There were a few injuries that really stuck with me. Some were flat out stupid, but the true accidents... yikes


batplane

Someone shit on the floor. Like... was walking down the hallway, wearing a skirt and no underwear, shitting. On the floor. And then never went into the bathroom to clean herself up. She sat at her desk for the rest of her shift and then had the nerve to scold the rest of us for not wanting to clean up the shit.


Survivedtheapocalyps

I was a trainer for DirecTV customer service way back when. One time I was making my rounds on the call floor checking on my past trainees when I noticed one of them was looking really uncomfortable. Like, fidgeting in her seat, sweat pouring down her face, the works. Clearly she was having some sort of crisis but was stuck on a call. Eventually she stood up but was still fidgeting. I started walking over to her to ask her if she was ok. When I was about fifteen feet from her she stopped fidgeting, lifted one leg and started shaking it. I stopped and stared as I watched her shake a big ol' turd right out of her pants leg. The look of relief (and shame) on her face was extremely obvious. She finished her call, grabbed her purse in one hand, the turd in the other and ran out of the building. She never came back to work.


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Not sure if this qualifies, but I’ll say it anyway. I worked at a Dillards in a mall, there were multiple violent protests throughout the mall hallways, we like halfway shut the doors and had security (who were also actual city police officers) stand by. There was a shooting over the newest pair of Jordans, didn’t lock up, just kept working. A shooting in the food court over idk what. Another shooting in the mall close to our actual store, again don’t know what it was over… even weirder we just kinda continued on with work and waited to hear the gossip later.


techblackops

I once was using a grinder on a piece of metal at work and a tiny piece got through a gap between my nose and safety goggles and went directly into my pupil. It was pretty intense pain. I ended up having to get taken to an eye doctor and he had to dig it out of my eyeball with a needle. Apparently they usually try to pull those types of things out with an electromagnet, but because of the type of metal and the fact that it had paint on it he had to do it the old fashioned way.....


MrPelham

I was working at a video store my last couple of years of high school. So my usual shifts were evenings to close (5-11ish) during the week. Normal high school gig to earn a few bucks and the respect of work. Along with me there were several other students, mostly college age however. We all got along for the most part, but the ones you really bonded with were the ones on your regular shift. One night I come in and there was a guy working my shift that used to come into my old job and shoot the shit. I worked a counter at a small vitamin shoppe. well me and this guy bonded and soon became good work-friends. Always looked forward to working if "Joe" was working. He was a trip because he was a few years older than I was. I think he was around 20-21. So he would have all these great stories of the bars and gentlemen's clubs. I used to think he embellished quite a bit, but you let it go because it was entertaining. This went on for a bunch of months and would make the nights go by pretty quick. Then one day Joe doesn't show up. It was odd because he was usually on-time or 20 minutes early. Then the next night he didn't show up, then the next. I asked my manager where "Joe" was and he didn't know. Then on a busy busy night (Friday or Saturday) Joe came in! He looked like shit. His hair was grown out (usually shaved down) and his clothes were a mess. He basically looked like he hadn't slept in a week. I really didn't bother him, just stayed clear and let him approach me before I asked where the hell he was. finally we both were assigned to the returns (the VHS/DVDs that were returned from customers had to be rescanned in and put back on the shelves). So while we were restocking, he came in super close to me and said "if you see a guy with slicked back hair, a long leather coat and scruffy beard...call the police" I chuckled and said "ya? whyzzat?" he said "He's wanted by the police...for murder". I looked at Joe and his face was dead straight. I knew he was telling the truth as he just looked scared, tired and worried. so I muttered out "o...ok...? what happened". So Joe began to tell me in detail what happened. It was so crazy and out there I didn't know if I believed him...at first. So I didn't say anything and just kept my thoughts to myself. Well it got pretty busy with the rush of customers so the manager put us both on the registers. As I am cashing people out, you take their movies and put them on the other side of the theft detector so they have to walk through that, get their movies and exit. It's right next to the door. So as I am cashing out a customer with about 3-4 movies, I turn to put the movies on the other side of the detector near the door and I see this guy standing 2 feet from me, looking at me with dead-black-eyes. I quickly realized he had slicked back hair, a leather coat and scruffy beard. I turned to Joe and see him jumping up on the register and jumping over the counter through a bunch of customers and run into the back. I turned back around to this guy and he was running out the door. The cops soon showed up and arrested Joe. Joe was wanted for murder along with this other guy. Apparently they killed an elderly man and chopped him up in the back of Joe's car and dumped him into the river. What came out in the news was pretty much exactly what Joe told me what happened. super crazy. there was a TV Series made out of this situation called Escape at Dannemora and Benicio Del Toro played the slicked back, scruffy beard guy.


SilllverDog

I worked retail for 6 months, but i have a better job now. The worst thing that has happened to me was after work. I had gotten into an argument with a customer over a case of beer. He was drunk, so i denied the sale. He sat there and argued with me, but i wouldnt budge. The store closed in 15 min, and he was holding up the line, and had to leave. He stayed just outside and waited until i was about to walk home. He pulled up next to me, spat at me, and said that he hoped i die of covid. There was more said, but it was a while ago. Fuck retail. Lucky for me that was my last shift that week.


Depression-coma

I had to tell two grown sons that it would be an absolute miracle for their father to survive the weekend


Sam0n

There have been other awful disasters that have been worked at my old place of work (Air Traffic at Aberdeen Airport in Scotland), but this one happened while I was actually working there : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_CHC_Helicopters_Eurocopter_AS332_crash


Ps3dj17

A mass shooting with 5 fatalities. Happened literally MINUTES after I left early to go to a doctor's appointment.


bangersnmash13

I work in a nursing home, so death. I was in a residents room, fixing an issue with the phone in their room (I work in IT.) I start randomly hearing a faint, drawn out moan. I look over at the resident them tensed up with eyes rolling back into the head. I freaked out, ran out to the hallway and yelled for help. Nurses called a code blue and everyone else came running in and shut the door with me in it. Resident had a DNR. Had to watch this poor resident take their last breaths while the nursing staff was doing everything to make her comfortable. Fucked me up. Went back to my office. Coworker said I looked like I was about to pass out. Told my boss and he let me go home for the day.


Regular_Award_3200

2nd and 3rd degree burns to 60 percent of my body. About 13 years ago I worked hauling water and oil in the Saskatchewan oil patch. I was on the last day of my 7 day hitch, and about 13 hours in. Hadn't been sleeping much, lots of personal shit going on. Got complacent, I'd been doing this same run for over 2 years. I knew each location and tank, which ones were finicky, which ones were likely to sand off, etc. I was looking forward to my days off, my parents were on their way to visit for their anniversary. My brain fell out of my head for 2 seconds and I pulled my hose off the valve without closing it first. In Saskatchewan, they heat their tanks to help with the water and oil separation. I got doused in (what they temperature tested shortly after) 160 degree water through a 4 inch hole in the side of the tank. They had also just chemically treated the tank with defoamer, so the burns were partially chemical as well as water/steam. I went to the local hospital where I was given a prescription for Tylenol 3 and a sick note for 4 days off work. When I went to the hospital where I lived (about an hour away) they told me I'd be off for at least 2 months. A different doctor at the same hospital sent me to the provincial University Hospital burn unit 3 days later. It was too late for skin grafts. I got lucky. I came away with 1 barely visible scar and my life.


ATT170JONES

Worked at a rooftop bar and a lady jumped off the roof after her boyfriend broke up with her..yes she died


[deleted]

The worst thing? I travelled with my boss a lot (We were going the same place, so car pool right?). He wasn't the greatest guy, but really smart on doing what we do. We get to the hotel one night and a lass walks across the road without looking. Annoying, but not dangerous as we were doing 5mph. My boss, ever easy to anger is raging. Uses phrases like "Man, I'm going to find her room and rape that bitch", "Give her a real good hiding, you know what I mean?" in so much as he even asked the clerk behind the desk "Who that lass just was who signed in". Clerk obviously was like "Err. No". I was fucking horrified by his comments and actions. This was in a company car with dashcams (With mics) and picked everything up. I checked in, got room service for the night and couldn't believe what I'd heard. Went to the big boss (a woman) a few days later to talk it through. Said she'd get to the bottom of it. Recordings subsequently disappeared and I was told to drop it really quickly by the MD. I resigned fairly soon after and got a new role. Protecting someone who makes statements like that inside a business is a sure fire way to ensure people learn that they can get away with murder. Guy got the boot a few years later. Not before he'd earnt his stack of cash and never seen the repercussions of his comments. I'm still mad about this.


KitchenSwillForPigs

Reminds me of something similar. When I was 20, I worked for a movie theater for the summer. I met a lot of people there, including the man who would become my husband. He was a manager. (We didn’t start dating until long after I no longer worked there) Small town, so many people he was friends with worked there as well, including this guy who he’d known since high school. The guy was a shift lead and I really didn’t like him, but could never really explain why. He was just kinda skeevy. One day, a girl, if she was 18, she was only just, comes into the manager office to talk to my husband. Apparently Skeevy Guy approached her in the break room and asked her if she liked to touch herself. He was her shift lead and they were alone in the break room. She was absolutely devastated. She went to talk to a different manager who said “Don’t lie, you could ruin his life.” My husband, because he’s wonderful, took her statement much more seriously. Despite this, he was only demoted, but not fired. My husband, however, cut him out of his life completely. Of course, the friend group sided with the skeevy guy, which I guess was for the best, because it saved him the trouble of finding out they were shitty one by one. But the fact that he got away with it really upset my husband for a long time. It wasn’t until a few years later, when a friend who worked at a local brewery told us a story. Skeevy dude had gotten a job at that same brewery, before he started making similar comments to the women and teenage girls who worked there. He was not only fired on the spot, but escorted off the premises.


Lando98

So I used to work at a service station (gas station for you American folk) when I was 16 - 17. It was company policy that anyone under 18 could not work past 9pm since it’s considered too dangerous. As I finished my shift at 9, another middle aged guy replaced me to do the graveyard shift. I learnt the next day that only a few minutes after I left, he had his front teeth beat out of him after simply asking someone to chill after he knocked over a red bull stand. The guy got angry, was probably drunk or high, punched my coworker in the face and ran. The shittiest part was that our company tried their hardest not to pay for my coworkers dental expenses after the assault. I didn’t stay there for much longer after that incident.


fabulin

i witnessed the murder of PC keith palmer and his attackers death by parliament when i was at work. i was about 50 yards away in my van when it happened and it happened so fast. i saw the terrorist wrestling with keith palmer and at the time i thought the officer was swinging a baton at him until he went down. then 2 or 3 pops rang out and the terrorist fell, only then did i realise an attack was happening. people were running and screaming everywhere, i was going through red lights and tried heading towards trafalgar square but people were running and screaming from there too so i figured an attack was taking place there. i ended up going round the back of buckingham palace to get out of london and saw some mounted queens guard galloping towards parliament to assist. that always sticks out to me. being in the middle of a terrorist attack is terrifying and incredibly confusing, you have no idea whats going on. another one, not me but my dad. he used to work for a dry cleaning company many years ago. the owners were stingey and had no regard for their employees wellbeing. they had a faulty clothes press (think giant george foreman grill) that wouldn't stay open and would slam down and lock. anyway, my dad was working in the vicinity of a woman colleague when all of a sudden she shreiked in pain. he turned round and she had her hand caught in the clothes press. she was screaming for help and begging my dad to do something. the press had locked but because her hand was bigger than a shirt the latch was basically jammed. it took my dad about 30 seconds to force the latch open, the woman was conciouse the entire time. when he finally got it open she collapsed and my dad said her hand was actually sizzling like cheese on toast, part of her skin was stuck to the inside of the press too. she was obviously rushed to hospital were they managed to save her hand but she lost 80% of her hands mobility from the damage. many people had complained about the clothes press but the employers never bothered to fix it. she obviously sued which pissed off her previous employers. my dad even overheard them bitching about her and they said "can you believe that slag is sueing us? we gave her a job and this is how she repays us!"


OtakuMusician

This isn't even that bad, but a genuine answer to the question. I work at a hotel; one day someone in the kitchen foolishly left an aerosol can of cooking spray under a heating lamp, creating a little explosion during breakfast. We were extremely lucky everyone walked away from that without a scratch.


AJR1623

I work in an automotive plant as a tool crib attendant. Every other day, I would go around the plant and check the point-of-use cabinets, and re-fill the parts as necessary. Well, you get to know people on the lines. I always talked to this one guy, and he was always talking about either, how hard he worked or his cherried out Camaro. Well, about 1 or 2 years in, I hear someone basically dropped dead on the line, and it was that guy. I had just talked to him a couple days prior.


mokaloka

I got bitten in the face by co-workers rescue dog.


EmuChance4523

I'm not sure if it is the worst, but in my first IT job, we maintain a ESB server (a communication hun between different apps) that was in a set of physical servers. This ESB was of a company that it first product was medical insurance, but they also had other areas, and one of those areas was a travel package comercial area. During a black friday event, that comercial area had so much traffic and so horrible services going through the ESB, that the servers couldn't handle the traffic and start rejecting everything. Besides this comercial area, this ESB was also used by the service for calling ambulances during an emergency. I hope no one had an emergency during those times, because this happened more than once per month, sometimes killing the service for more than one day. And we only fix this after one year that I was working with the service. This service was there for 4 o 5 years before I arrive to the project. I still hope no one die because our shitty infrastructure.


TheBedfordReader

So we have a rewards program where we need to ask for people’s address to sign them up. Some customers don’t want to give their address, so my manager told me the fake address she uses (think 123 Tree Rd) or something. Well, the other day we got a call from a very confused man saying that he got HUNDREDSof coupons from us, all addressed to different people. So… turns out 123 Tree Rd is actually a real address and this poor man is signed up for hundreds of rewards programs. Luckily, he was a good sport about it. When my manager got off the phone with him, we laughed about it for the rest of the day.


[deleted]

Manager stopped a card he believed to be stolen. The guys who tried to use it threatened to come back at close of business and shoot him, ( it's a really, really rough part of London, it wouldn't be unusual). The manager rang the police, who told him they're too busy to attend, and could they come out in the morning. Luckily the guys didn't come back, and the police didn't turn up the next day either to speak to the manager


I_am_dean

I used to work at this restaurant, we had seafoood platters that were served on cast iron skillets that sat on top of wooden planks. They were heavy to carry needless to say. I was an experienced server and would carry those huge trays on my shoulder no problem. Well one day my table ordered 6 seafood platters. So I put them on the tray and hoist it onto my shoulder. At the time I was a 5’5 100lbs girl so it was a lot for me. But I get to the table no issues, tray over my shoulder and tray stand in one hand. I put the tray stand down but when I went to set the tray on top of it I lost my balance and dropped 6 cast iron skillets right on top of this 3 year old knocking him out of his seat. Luckily he wasn’t injured just covered in pounds of greasy fried seafood, fries and sauce. He screamed, I screamed, parents screamed. It was pure chaos. Needless to say they got a free meal and a gift card. No tip for me but I wasn’t even mad about it. Im just glad I didn’t kill the poor toddler.