O tons of stuff.
One of our guys wrecking a semi
Another one of our guys almost tipping a semi over
One of our customers trucks caught on fire
One of our dump trucks caught on fire almost caused a dust explosion had we not gotten it out of the way it would have blown up the entire block probably.
Almost caused a field fire when one of the guys had the bright idea to use a welder in a bone dry field while it was windy to disassemble a irrigation unit. And the slag started catching the field on fire luckily we had a fire extinguisher in the truck.
Had a fire related innocent at another plant when someone was welding and some slag got into a pipe lucky the oil from the sunflowers prevented a fire from starting and blowing up the entire plant. But I was sweating bullets for a minute.
Those are some of the craziest things that have happened at my job since I've worked there.
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I used to sell police equipment and uniforms. I was at a large police department at a nearby city. I used tobset up a display in the basement about an hour before change of shift. The basement was also where the holding cells were. There was a guy locked up when I got down there.
I was all set up and waiting for the guys to come in off the street whan one of the cops walks in and heads over yo the cell. The guy tells the cop he needed to talk to him. The cop gets closer and the dirt bag spits in the cop's face. The cop opens the cell and gives this scumbag a good beating. Then he locked the door and he turned and saw me sitting there. He came over and asked me if I saw anything. I just said "anything like what? and the cop nodded and walked away.
There was a corrupt employee that would never do her job properly and I saw her sexually seducing or attempting to seduce her co workers.
I didn't see it but a mental health patient ran rampant destroying a lot of the library. Almost destroyed the fish tank. Poor fish.
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A technician and I were conducting electrofishing surveys in a watercourse. It was really turbid and on the final sweep, we shocked a Snapping Turtle which grabbed the tech by the leg and would not let go. He dragged the turtle out on the shore, took off his waders and had to lay them on the bank, have lunch, and wait for the turtle to disengage from the waders. I then grabbed the turtle and took him to a different section of the river and release him, so we could continue.
Ok. Here we go. The senior prank was a water balloon fight in the hallways of my high school that year. All of the staircases and floors are SOAKED with water all over the school. My assistant principal who was an older guy in his 60s is in the cavernous lobby of the high school with a MEGAPHONE shouting up both staircases "It's very slippery! Take off your thongs!!" Needless to say the younger teachers like me were all WTF? ARE YOU INSANE? He didn't know that thongs were underwear and he only knew the word from the beach wear on your feet. As long as I live that will be the funniest thing I've ever witnessed. The look on these HS girls faces was just indescribable.
A new employee came up to me and said: "watch this. It won't even hurt". He sprayed his hand with denatured alcohol and lit it with a lighter. He started slapping his leg saying "Ow! Ow!". I was glad he was from another department.
A dude dressed like the undertaker just fell asleep at a table and started smoking when he woke up
I've seen a ton of crazy stuff. From Chem spills to an arm ripped off to a compressor blowing up.
One time I saw an empty drug baggie on the floor right under the timeclock.
I did quit that day...
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