How do you die in a trash compactor?

scriptgirl said:

Good lord. Was the manager ever fired?

I think she ended up going to school and left the company because I don't remember her being around when I left. But she wasn't fired because of this incident, since she didn't break any rule or code.

Adisa said:

Genesia said:

I've been through several "bloody purges" (mass layoffs). Those days are always awful, because they tell you to stay at your desk and wait for a phone call. The people who are let go are escorted out of the building immediately and the ones who remain get to spend the rest of the day feeling relieved and guilty.

Back in Feb. 2009 was the worst. The next day I had to have my monthy meeting with my sr. manager and he was trembling like a leaf from all the stress of the previous day.

The last one we had, I knew I was safe when I walked into the "hatchet room" and saw only our VP of marketing - no HR person. If someone's getting axed, HR is always there - so they can go over the "package" and do the walk-out.

The only reason they called me in, at all, was because I was being "reorganized" back into the division where I'd worked before. That news was actually a relief - because the new assignment wasn't working out.

kimrachell said:

i caught my boss having an affair with my fellow employee. i wanted nothing to do with the whole thing. but somehow i was put in the middle of a huge investigation. was very stressful because they blamed me for blowing the whistle, when i just minded my own job, i honestly could not care less who is sleeping with who at work!

I will love you forever for those four words right there.

I would have stood there and watched them until they got dressed, at least. Maybe mentioned they didn't need to stop on my account.

benjaminira said:

3 years ago I was working at an adult bookstore, and my co-worker killed and dismembered one of our regular customers! He spread his body parts throughout San Diego. I had to testify in court against my co-worker. 2 weeks later, I quit! The vibe got really wierd. I guess it's hard to watch porn and jack off thinking about a ghost hanging around!

Winner. Or loser, maybe.

Edit: I did not just call you a loser, btw. I just meant that in the context of this thread.

[Edited 9/11/11 20:54pm]

Genesia said:

I've been through several "bloody purges" (mass layoffs). Those days are always awful, because they tell you to stay at your desk and wait for a phone call. The people who are let go are escorted out of the building immediately and the ones who remain get to spend the rest of the day feeling relieved and guilty.

I was going to say something else, but the bloody purge I went through at Bank of America in the 90s when the merged with Nations Bank is, in all honesty, one of the saddest things I've ever seen. People who had worked there for 20-30 years, who thought they were going to retire there, getting packaged out left and right at a time when BofA stock was worth less than when it was issued.

benjaminira said:

3 years ago I was working at an adult bookstore, and my co-worker killed and dismembered one of our regular customers! He spread his body parts throughout San Diego. I had to testify in court against my co-worker. 2 weeks later, I quit! The vibe got really wierd. I guess it's hard to watch porn and jack off thinking about a ghost hanging around!

You win.

JustErin said:

benjaminira said:

3 years ago I was working at an adult bookstore, and my co-worker killed and dismembered one of our regular customers! He spread his body parts throughout San Diego. I had to testify in court against my co-worker. 2 weeks later, I quit! The vibe got really wierd. I guess it's hard to watch porn and jack off thinking about a ghost hanging around!

You win.

Except his post kinda makes it sound like he was jacking off on the clock.

JustErin said:

benjaminira said:

3 years ago I was working at an adult bookstore, and my co-worker killed and dismembered one of our regular customers! He spread his body parts throughout San Diego. I had to testify in court against my co-worker. 2 weeks later, I quit! The vibe got really wierd. I guess it's hard to watch porn and jack off thinking about a ghost hanging around!

You win.

Just for the record, I wasn't speaking about me watching porn and jacking off!

FauxReal said:

JustErin said:

You win.

Except his post kinda makes it sound like he was jacking off on the clock.

Which makes no sense, since I'm sure they kept rolls of heavy duty paper towels in that place.

benjaminira said:

JustErin said:

You win.

Just for the record, I wasn't speaking about me watching porn and jacking off!

Ooooh so close...but look up.

FauxReal said:

benjaminira said:

Just for the record, I wasn't speaking about me watching porn and jacking off!

Ooooh so close...but look up.

Benjaminira, were there any signs that your coworker was batshit crazy? Did he know that regular customer outside of work?

a flooding the parking lot that damaged a lot of people's cars, the worse part is due to the fact that the storm drain was clogged by debris. Unfortunately I knew the person who was responsible for putting the debris there in the first place, they didn't intially mean to cause a problem they just didn't want to pay for having to dump a lot of stuff an assumed they found a practicle alternative, they felt horrible.

scriptgirl said:

Benjaminira, were there any signs that your coworker was batshit crazy? Did he know that regular customer outside of work?

No! He was actually very nice. I have seen him on a couple of occasions get irritated with some of the people that came in though. Lots of tweekers, drunks, people that would stay in the theater for days on end. The customer (who we called "Pillowman") was a regular who would bring his backpack and pillow and kick back in the theater during Jerry's shift (1am-9am) so they got friendly with each other and seemed to be buddies! It was a shock for me to come in to work at 9am and see "Pillowman" on the news in a security video from 7-11. They said if anyone knew who this person was to call the police, which I did. The police showed up an hour later, questioned me and I had told them Jerry was probably the last person to see him (Jerry lived in a studio behind the bookstore). Not even a half hour later, I was standing at the front door smoking a cigarette and I saw them put Jerry in the back of the squad car. It wasn't until that next day I saw on the news that they found Pillowman's body parts around San Diego. They found his head in a bag on the side of the freeway, an arm here, and a leg there. Ugh, just reaccounting it again makes me feel grossed out!

The biggest drama was when I worked in retail... for a custom clothier....

I came to work at noon to find the doors locked, while my newly hired boss the I was training was in the store with his 3 buddies smoking crack and sucking eachother off.

I was pissed and the entire store smelled like shit... the smoke smell seeped into all the suiting and in the carpet. Dude and his 3 buddies did not appreciate me walking in on their little session so one lunged at me. I just quietly stood my ground and told them that I wasn't leaving. I told Richard (my trifiling boss) that he should take the rest of the day off that I had the store. I locked up, called my family members to round up the thugs in the fam and called the police.

I then called the VP of the company at the flagship store in NYC and told him everything with the threat to sue if dude was not fored on the spot.

So that punk assed bitch made ME fire him the next day when he came in WITH his buddy sporting an attitude. I was scared but I didn't show it. I kept the doors locked. Richard's lover told me he didn't want problems... I told him if anyone gave me anyshit they would not be found. I meant that.

My brother and his boys were there ... HUGE guys with guns and rifles. Damn thugs.

I worked in the store alone for a month until they hired my replacement. I was two months preganant and too happy to leave that company.

I returned to the company with a huge payraise (they doubled my salary) 8 months later... the company went under shortly after that.

[Edited 9/12/11 0:44am]

kewlschool said:

FuzzyWitch said:

i have had 2 fire ppl..... its never a pleasant thing 2 do

but one time this guy went crazy and grabbed the letter opener on my desk pointing it right at me and screaming!!!

i didnt say anything and waited 4 him to calm down.....

now when ppl get fired there is always another person with me in the office... its still a horrible requirement of my job

In a past job, I fired many people. Not once did someone yell or scream. I think my secret is that I truly care about each and everyone of my employees (whether they are a bad or good employee). They know I have worked with them and given them chances to change (retraining etc). If an employee didn't "like" me then the other boss would do the firing. If they didn't "like" the other boss then I would do the firing. And we where always both present when we fired someone.

i am like that 2... i even keep in contact with many of them making sure they found a new job

but this guy was not all there

benjaminira said:

scriptgirl said:

Benjaminira, were there any signs that your coworker was batshit crazy? Did he know that regular customer outside of work?

No! He was actually very nice. I have seen him on a couple of occasions get irritated with some of the people that came in though. Lots of tweekers, drunks, people that would stay in the theater for days on end. The customer (who we called "Pillowman") was a regular who would bring his backpack and pillow and kick back in the theater during Jerry's shift (1am-9am) so they got friendly with each other and seemed to be buddies! It was a shock for me to come in to work at 9am and see "Pillowman" on the news in a security video from 7-11. They said if anyone knew who this person was to call the police, which I did. The police showed up an hour later, questioned me and I had told them Jerry was probably the last person to see him (Jerry lived in a studio behind the bookstore). Not even a half hour later, I was standing at the front door smoking a cigarette and I saw them put Jerry in the back of the squad car. It wasn't until that next day I saw on the news that they found Pillowman's body parts around San Diego. They found his head in a bag on the side of the freeway, an arm here, and a leg there. Ugh, just reaccounting it again makes me feel grossed out!

the big boss coming in from headquarters, taking our most beloved and nice

co worker into an office and giving her the boot.

she ran out crying.

later we found out that the head of our department had stolen company

goods and funds, and had forged a paper trail leading back to that lady,

who had done nothing wrong at all, except for taking abuse from that

very same head of department who would shit on her and make her do

overtime every single day.

everyone knew about it in about a week, but nothing was done about it.

so the lunch breaks were pretty dramatic after that, with all kinds of loud

name calling and threats.

there was an incident with a cup of coffee and a crisp new haircut that

i will not narrate here, lol. and an envelope with dog crap, too.

but the culprit, an evil to the bone hardcore bitch, just sat there and took

it all on the chin for another three months until she didn't show up for her

work one morning and the resulting investigation turned up much more

missing funds and stolen property.

she sent me a friend request on facebook a few months ago

the new head of the department kept a mistress and his wife would

be calling me a few times a week saying "do you know where he is? I'm

calling him on his mobile since last night and he doesn't answer. I am so

worried about him. As you know, he's in Japan on bussiness right now,

and perhaps something happened to him".

he was in belgium, actually. but we didn't know that yet. it's just that in

time, after his wife kept calling and we found out that he constantly lied

to her about where he was, two of my co workers went into his office

and used hairpins to open up his desk drawers.

they found pictures of him and his nice thai mistress. stacks of them.

holiday snaps, bedroom snaps, etc. even snaps of him and her and

their newborn baby. receipts etc, everything.

fcuz these ladies were nice enough to show everyone in the office all

this stuff.

they confronted him and told him they wouldn't lie to his wife anymore.

i'm still amazed they weren't fired over that. but they weren't.

a few months later, he too, left without a trace, and finally, like some bad

hanibal lector impersonation, he called one of the girls in the office from

a bangkok airport, to tell her he had "relocated indefinately" and if his

wife would call, to please not tell her where he was and that he was not

coming back.

the bastard had two kids with his wife as well

quite soon after that, our whole office was closed.

sometimes i wonder just what more miraculous bizarreness would have

gone down in time if we'd remained in bussiness.

Isten, where in the hell were you working re the boss and the mistress and in the first story, re the woman who stole the $, how come she didn't do time?

scriptgirl said:

Isten, where in the hell were you working re the boss and the mistress and in the first story, re the woman who stole the $, how come she didn't do time?

i was working for a very, very dodgy mail order company. the kind that sends out

huge mailings to whole towns at once.

you know that kind, "order now, a special commemorative euro coin, in 18K gold,

for just 10 bucks".

it used to rain complaints all day long. about 100 angry phone calls per head was

pretty common on an average day.

i only found out about that after i'd been working in the back office, putting orders

into a computer. then they put me in the front room, on the phone.

oh boy.

but it was my first job, and despite my ethical objections, i also needed the money

and decided to stay and stick it out for a while.

yet nothing changed. and i felt bad for the people on the phone. being ripped off

on the first order and then through some legal loophole being forced to buy all the

following shipments for which people unwittingly signed up.

they were in the newspapers a few times and on consumer programs etc. and it

quickly became clear to me that management was pretty much just this big and

untouchable bunker deep in germany, whom didn't care about anything as long

as money kept coming in. (were were the dutch office)

me and a good friend used to talk to people on the phone and if they were old

or confused friendly people, we'd just make their outstanding payments kind of

"disappear". since there was no legal precedent that bound these people to the

"contract" anyway, they had nothing to force these people to pay up, except for

scare methods.

it's a long story but you could basically send a consumer a form if they really

didn't want to pay and then they had to sign it, basically saying something like

they didn't know what they signed in the first place blablabla and then if that

form came back, you could close the account.

so I just filled in dozens of those forms each day and drip fed them into the

administration. every old man or woman that called in a shaky voice, i told

"look, i'm very sory about all this, it was just a misunderstanding. i'm going

to make it go away for you. if anyone ever calls you to aks about anything,

just say you don't remember at all. i'm very sorry about all this".

i guess that was my way of justifying the fact that i continued working there.

figuring while i was there, i might do a bit of good. which was fcuz bullshit

since i was in the system as well.

but it's pretty obvious that a company that works on such a basis, has no

way of cleaning up house, especially if the headquarters is located 1000 miles

away and the only info they get is from the rotten apples who are stealing

from them in the first place.

the "big boss" all the way from germany had visited the company only 2

times. the second time was when he came in to fire that nice lady who had

been set up. just to scare the rest of us, i guess.

the final straw for me was when I guy called up one day, asked my name,

then read me the adress of our office (which wasn't public, but he must have

somehow found out) and then said "listen, [isten], i'm getting in my car,

right now, with a few mates and some baseball bats and as soon as we

get to the office, yours will be the first set of teeth i knock out of your skull,

got that mate?"

that's when I went to our new head and said "look, this ain't worth it. the

job sucks, we're ripping people off, and in about an hour or so, i'm gonna

need a fucking off the scale dental plan, so i'm walking".

which is when they told me that the company would be closing our branch

in two weeks.

nice, for the other co workers who had mortgages to pay and weren't told

about it until that afternoon. two weeks notice. damn.

but in the end it was the best thing. a company like that should not be

allowed to continue to work.

however, i heard from an ex colleague a while ago that they now have a

few pretty big offices in the US and still operate in Germany as well. Tho

the name has changed now and I haven't been able to locate them online,

since no one seems to know the new name.

so they might have become an urban legend at this point. who knows

Me and a friend of mine where supposed to meet up with our boss but we got caught in a snowstorm in Atlanta and missed our flight, and our boss fired us for that.

JustErin said:

benjaminira said:

3 years ago I was working at an adult bookstore, and my co-worker killed and dismembered one of our regular customers! He spread his body parts throughout San Diego. I had to testify in court against my co-worker. 2 weeks later, I quit! The vibe got really wierd. I guess it's hard to watch porn and jack off thinking about a ghost hanging around!

You win.

Wait, wait. When I was a banker, I had a customer that wanted to go into business with me, and one of the things he insisted on was a key man life insurance policy on me. However, the deal didn't work and we never bought the insurance.

Then later, he went into business with another guy and bought insurance on him. Later, that guy was found dead in the trunk of a car at the airport. My old customer was arrested and found guilty of murder to get life insurance proceeds.

That could have been me! Do I win, or at least get second place?

***No frogs were harmed in this story, but I can't vouch for the safety of the earwigs***

probably the time the law firm where i was working in san francisco tried to find out who had run up over $1000 in phone sex charges from an office phone

no, it wasn't me

RodeoSchro said:

JustErin said:

You win.

Wait, wait. When I was a banker, I had a customer that wanted to go into business with me, and one of the things he insisted on was a key man life insurance policy on me. However, the deal didn't work and we never bought the insurance.

Then later, he went into business with another guy and bought insurance on him. Later, that guy was found dead in the trunk of a car at the airport. My old customer was arrested and found guilty of murder to get life insurance proceeds.

That could have been me! Do I win, or at least get second place?

***No frogs were harmed in this story, but I can't vouch for the safety of the earwigs***

That was a close one! √

I had a co-worker murder a woman and her daughter and use the company van to transport their dead bodies to where he was attempting to get rid of them.

I really have had a charmed life.

Jersey, where was this?

scriptgirl said:

Jersey, where was this?

In Tampa. He was the nicest guy. None of us knew he had such a criminal past.

story here.

holy shit