What's the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you at work?

[kimrose]

Got a few that tie for me. First, when I was in nursing school, I was taking care of this lady who was 102 years old, she was in the hospital for something. All of a sudden, she started waving her arms in the air and laughing, while she looked directly at the spot she was waving her arms in. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was playing with the white doves. I got chills all over my body, hearing her say that. Sure enough, when I came back the next day, they told me she had passed away in the night.

After graduation, I went to work in a longterm care facility, and one of our residents was a lady who had previously had a stroke and was immobilized completely. She had been at the facility for years, in good health before the stroke, but the last year or so of her life was spent unable to move anything but her eyes, and she would just stare at her call light for hours. We always kept a very close eye on her because we knew she couldn't call for help, and her call light never came on. When she finally (mercifully) passed away, for about three weeks afterward, her call light would come on, even though no one was in her room. We knew it was Miss G., playing with her light, because she could finally reach it.

Another night at the Home, one of my favorite residents passed away, he had been ill for a couple of weeks and we knew the end was near for him. When he did pass, it was in the middle of a thunderstorm, in the middle of night. My CNA and I were doing the man's post mortem care, when all of a sudden the power went out! The CNA was too startled to stay in a pitch black room with a dead body, so I told him to go ahead on, that I would be okay to finish on my own. He of course, thought I was crazy, lol, but he ran out of that room so fast, didn't think twice, just said, "you're nuts, Kim!" as he was running. lol. So, there I was in the middle of a thunderstorm, in complete darkness, cleaning and caring for my favorite "Grandpa", crying and telling him how much I was going to miss him. Don't know if I could have done it for anyone else at the facility. I just loved that man so much, that for some reason I wasn't afraid.

 

[Roadtrip635]

About 10 years ago, I was a dealer in a casino. I once dealt a 7-card (natural) straight flush in PaiGow Poker.

The odds of that are about 5 million to 1 against.

Hope you got a hellavu tip for that!

 

[Vtwin]

Years ago I had a second job a couple nights a week at a small gas station convenience store. There was a group home down the street and one of the female residents would come in every night wearing something with the intention of getting a rise out of me. An empty 12 pack container as a hat for instance. I can deadpan with the best of them and I never gave her a hint of a reaction. One evening I glance out the window and here she comes walking up the busy main thoroughfare wearing nothing but an empty 12 pack carton on her head. Walks in the store, over to the cooler. Grabs her usual drink and bag of chips and walks up to the counter. I was tested but didn't blink and rang her up like it was just another customer. Off she went back down the street. 20 minutes later the cops show up.
"Did a naked women just come in here?"
"Yes"
"Did you call the police?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Did you really want to see Helen from the group home naked?"
"(chuckles) OK. Give us a call if she does it again please."

 

[Rogah]

Hope you got a hellavu tip for that!

He didn't win anything. This was before the casino I was working at instituted the "Pai-Gow Bonus" side bet so there was no side bet payoff. It was the 3 through 9 of spades so his 5-card hand was the 7-high straight flush and his 2 card hand was 8-9. The straight flush is virtually unbeatable but 8-9 is a weak 2 card hand so he pushed.

I did, however, call my floor manager over just so they could see this once in a lifetime hand.

 

[cowboyeric8]

Got a few that tie for me. First, when I was in nursing school, I was taking care of this lady who was 102 years old, she was in the hospital for something. All of a sudden, she started waving her arms in the air and laughing, while she looked directly at the spot she was waving her arms in. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was playing with the white doves. I got chills all over my body, hearing her say that. Sure enough, when I came back the next day, they told me she had passed away in the night.

After graduation, I went to work in a longterm care facility, and one of our residents was a lady who had previously had a stroke and was immobilized completely. She had been at the facility for years, in good health before the stroke, but the last year or so of her life was spent unable to move anything but her eyes, and she would just stare at her call light for hours. We always kept a very close eye on her because we knew she couldn't call for help, and her call light never came on. When she finally (mercifully) passed away, for about three weeks afterward, her call light would come on, even though no one was in her room. We knew it was Miss G., playing with her light, because she could finally reach it.

Another night at the Home, one of my favorite residents passed away, he had been ill for a couple of weeks and we knew the end was near for him. When he did pass, it was in the middle of a thunderstorm, in the middle of night. My CNA and I were doing the man's post mortem care, when all of a sudden the power went out! The CNA was too startled to stay in a pitch black room with a dead body, so I told him to go ahead on, that I would be okay to finish on my own. He of course, thought I was crazy, lol, but he ran out of that room so fast, didn't think twice, just said, "you're nuts, Kim!" as he was running. lol. So, there I was in the middle of a thunderstorm, in complete darkness, cleaning and caring for my favorite "Grandpa", crying and telling him how much I was going to miss him. Don't know if I could have done it for anyone else at the facility. I just loved that man so much, that for some reason I wasn't afraid.

Thank you for all you do. Elderly are amazing people, and they deserve to have someone like you taking care of them.

 

[CowboyWay]

A few years back I come back from lunch, and as I normally do, walk through the receptionist area on the way to my office. I noticed the receptionists husband sitting there in the lobby. I didn't think much about it because he had been there several times before just chatting with her.
A few minutes later we notice she is gone. We go look at the video surveilence to see where she went. Turned out the husband put a gun to her head and kidnapped her. He apparently "snapped". We found out later that just an hour before, he had taken one of her children out of elementary school, and executed him just down the road from the school). Although they eventually found her unharmed in a different state.....she was obviously never the same.

I can't help but think, what If had been just one minute later from returning to lunch, and walked up on him trying to take her out of there. He had already killed an elementary child. He would have shot me in a second.

 

[kimrose]

A few years back I come back from lunch, and as I normally do, walk through the receptionist area on the way to my office. I noticed the receptionists husband sitting there in the lobby. I didn't think much about it because he had been there several times before just chatting with her.
A few minutes later we notice she is gone. We go look at the video surveilence to see where she went. Turned out the husband put a gun to her head and kidnapped her. He apparently "snapped". We found out later that just an hour before, he had taken one of her children out of elementary school, and executed him just down the road from the school). Although they eventually found her unharmed in a different state.....she was obviously never the same.

I can't help but think, what If had been just one minute later from returning to lunch, and walked up on him trying to take her out of there. He had already killed an elementary child. He would have shot me in a second.

Wow, CW. That is.....I don't even really know what to say. That's deep, man. That is something most of us only think we will ever hear on the news or see in movies. Can't imagine being a part of it. So sorry for everyone involved, including you.

 

[Corso]

I was filming a wedding one day and when I got there the bride ran out and hugged me.

Completely naked.

Now, normally the bride is too distracted to mess with us cinematographers. But this one certainly wasn't. And let's just say she was no Beyonce either.

So what's the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you at your place of work?

I was working at the Western Beverages connected to the Costco in north Austin several years ago (about 7 or 8).
I'm a pretty decent looking cat with an outgoing personality so I was a bit "known" by the locals and the industry reps who were always showing off their new spirits.
Every Friday and Saturday we would host tastings of whatever spirits that were being promoted and we would employ a modeling agency to be the tasters.
I loved it. I was well known for... tippling on the job and then I get models forced to hang out with me for hours at a time? Heaven.

Well one Friday evening we were doing a tasting of Monopolowa Vodka and they sent a real Russian girl (ridiculously gorgeous- black hair, bright blue eyes, body that had to be sculpted and an amazing accent) to do the tasting.
She introduced me to the Russian habit of eating tiny pickles with shots of vodka.
We did several shots (I always got those poor girls to drink with me, a few got fired...) and she was getting pretty buzzed. I was fine, but I had to slow down the festivities.
Mind you, my boss there at the time was also my best friend. He let me get away with waaaaaaaaaaaay too much. God Bless him. I sometimes believed he lived vicariously through me.

Well: this girl starts talking. Talking funny things. She's saying she's in trouble. Trouble with people in Russia.
She apparently has a husband in Russia and he's a bad, bad man.
He's coming to kill her and she needs an attorney.
"Are you an attorney?" she asks me with a slur.
"I'm working here in a liquor store. I don't think I'm an attorney."
"You look like an attorney..."

Good Lord.

She is now about to fall on her face as she's giving customers shots and hollering at me from across the store about how I have to save her.
Yikes. Joseph, my manager, tells me I have to get her out of here before the Costco bigwigs wander in here asking questions about some lunatic, Russian bombshell plying people and herself with booze.

I approach her and tell her her shift has ended (an hour and a half early) and she asks me to escort her to her car.
I do and realize she can barely walk and as soon as we hit the parking lot she begins bawling uncontrollably and falling forward with a complete lack of balance.

Customers walking into Costco are walking by, wondering what the hell is going on.

We get to her car (A very expensive BMW SUV) I take her keys and tell her to chill as I call a cab,
She starts undressing.
WHAT THE HELL LADY!!! We are in the middle of a busy parking lot that I'm employed at!
A family with children are walking by as boobies come out of their shirt. I calm her down, get her clothes back on- all the while she's crying that some men from Russia are coming to kill her and I call a cab.

I get out, but I hang around and I see a cab pick her up.


Now- the next day I have the morning shift. I get there and I see her car is still in the parking lot.
No big deal. She has to have a serious hangover. Nobody came for the car for two more days. Her employers call us and ask what happened.
She disappeared after last night.
Her car- towed.
Her employers- never heard from her again and had to call the police.

Us? I'm just glad I didn't get waterboarded by some gruesome Russian monstrosities til death.
I hope she's OK...

 

[DoctorChicken]

I was working at the Western Beverages connected to the Costco in north Austin several years ago (about 7 or 8).
I'm a pretty decent looking cat with an outgoing personality so I was a bit "known" by the locals and the industry reps who were always showing off their new spirits.
Every Friday and Saturday we would host tastings of whatever spirits that were being promoted and we would employ a modeling agency to be the tasters.
I loved it. I was well known for... tippling on the job and then I get models forced to hang out with me for hours at a time? Heaven.

Well one Friday evening we were doing a tasting of Monopolowa Vodka and they sent a real Russian girl (ridiculously gorgeous- black hair, bright blue eyes, body that had to be sculpted and an amazing accent) to do the tasting.
She introduced me to the Russian habit of eating tiny pickles with shots of vodka.
We did several shots (I always got those poor girls to drink with me, a few got fired...) and she was getting pretty buzzed. I was fine, but I had to slow down the festivities.
Mind you, my boss there at the time was also my best friend. He let me get away with waaaaaaaaaaaay too much. God Bless him. I sometimes believed he lived vicariously through me.

Well: this girl starts talking. Talking funny things. She's saying she's in trouble. Trouble with people in Russia.
She apparently has a husband in Russia and he's a bad, bad man.
He's coming to kill her and she needs an attorney.
"Are you an attorney?" she asks me with a slur.
"I'm working here in a liquor store. I don't think I'm an attorney."
"You look like an attorney..."

Good Lord.

She is now about to fall on her face as she's giving customers shots and hollering at me from across the store about how I have to save her.
Yikes. Joseph, my manager, tells me I have to get her out of here before the Costco bigwigs wander in here asking questions about some lunatic, Russian bombshell plying people and herself with booze.

I approach her and tell her her shift has ended (an hour and a half early) and she asks me to escort her to her car.
I do and realize she can barely walk and as soon as we hit the parking lot she begins bawling uncontrollably and falling forward with a complete lack of balance.

Customers walking into Costco are walking by, wondering what the hell is going on.

We get to her car (A very expensive BMW SUV) I take her keys and tell her to chill as I call a cab,
She starts undressing.
WHAT THE HELL LADY!!! We are in the middle of a busy parking lot that I'm employed at!
A family with children are walking by as boobies come out of their shirt. I calm her down, get her clothes back on- all the while she's crying that some men from Russia are coming to kill her and I call a cab.

I get out, but I hang around and I see a cab pick her up.


Now- the next day I have the morning shift. I get there and I see her car is still in the parking lot.
No big deal. She has to have a serious hangover. Nobody came for the car for two more days. Her employers call us and ask what happened.
She disappeared after last night.
Her car- towed.
Her employers- never heard from her again and had to call the police.

Us? I'm just glad I didn't get waterboarded by some gruesome Russian monstrosities til death.
I hope she's OK...

Well it's gonna be hard to beat that folks.

 

[Corso]

Well it's gonna be hard to beat that folks.

Honest- there were more than a few, true panic moments that evening. And a couple thereafter as well...
So gorgeous... so... I don't even know. Completely off the pasture.

I have a few more wild stories from that place, but they'll have to be reserved for PM.
That place was my daily playground and man, did I play. Sometimes I even miss it.

 

[Tabascocat]

Honest- there were more than a few, true panic moments that evening. And a couple thereafter as well...
So gorgeous... so... I don't even know. Completely off the pasture.

I have a few more wild stories from that place, but they'll have to be reserved for PM.
That place was my daily playground and man, did I play. Sometimes I even miss it.

I don't believe you. I need to see some of these pictures of her!

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

A female employee's husband made a pass at me at our Company Christmas Party a few years ago. In front of my wife. That was fairly awkward.

 

[Corso]

I don't believe you. I need to see some of these pictures of her!

Lol. I didn't have a fancy phone back then. Sorry. Believe me, or don't. It's cool either way. It happened. I'm trying to think of someone famous that she might resemble, but nothing comes to mind.
She was crazy hot though. And crazy crazy also...

 

[Tabascocat]

Lol. I didn't have a fancy phone back then. Sorry. Believe me, or don't. It's cool either way. It happened. I'm trying to think of someone famous that she might resemble, but nothing comes to mind.
She was crazy hot though. And crazy crazy also...

Sounds just like my type to a T except not Asian. Now, find me a Russian Asian with long black hair and blue eyes........my wife might be in trouble

 

[Corso]

A female employee's husband made a pass at me at our Company Christmas Party a few years ago. In front of my wife. That was fairly awkward.

Lord. If your woman is even the least bit possessive, I can imagine the heat your face was feeling from her direction.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Lord. If your woman is even the least bit possessive, I can imagine the heat your face was feeling from her direction.

she thought it was the funniest thing ever. My employee was really embarrassed, she said she never knew he was into dudes. Things were fairly awkward between us until they separated about eight months later.