We’ve all had that very worst day combo. From little things, like keys falling into the road gutter hole to a car engine that goes on vacation and doesn’t start, to pouring salt instead of sugar in your coffee, call them first world problems, but they’re real. And blood-boiling. In fact, we previously rolled up this compilation of pics with people having a day they’d be better off without.
This time, we are taking it a step further with a brand new list of employees having worse days than you. The cases are just vile. Think of a guy dropping a $40,000 pallet worth of glass on his first day or think of how it feels when you’re working from home and hit video instead of audio.
While you feel the hair standing up on your arms, I leave the stage to all the workers who need a big hug, mint tea and a warm blanket as soon as they get home. And if you still think that your workday is not going according to plan, well, think again.
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It has happened to all of us. The CEOs, the interns, the freelancers, nobody is immune to a bad day at work. And when it feels like everything is falling out of your hands and your head is about to explode, you look at the clock, and it says there’s still hours left until the day becomes history. So in order to find out what exactly we can do to help our miserable selves struggling with a bad day at work, Bored Panda reached out to Christine Mitterbauer, licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, who was happy to share some useful tips and insights.
“When you’re in the moment and this happens, the best thing is to stop what you’re doing, don’t say another word and excuse yourself to go to the bathroom,” Christine said and added that the last thing you want to do is explode in front of your boss and colleagues. “Doing this solves the problem in the short term, but to avoid this type of situation in the long term, there are a few strategies you could practice.”
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“Assuming you’ve excused yourself and have found a private space, whether it’s the bathroom or outside in the fresh air, the first thing to do is to get your breathing under control. Our breathing is intimately linked with our feelings and emotions, so by breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly, you immediately start calming your angry emotions down,” Christine said. In fact, the career coach argues that it’s impossible to be hot-tempered and angry while breathing slowly and deeply. “Do this 10 times,” Christine suggested.
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“Another thing to do is to remind yourself that everyone always has a reason for acting and speaking the way they do, a reason that makes sense to them. It might make no sense to you and irritate or anger you, but by always trying to put your mind into that of the person who has angered you, you start losing some of that anger. No one is being mean or irritating on purpose.”
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Obviously you want to minimize the bad days you have at work, Christine says, as if there’s too many bad days, there may be consequences. “This can indeed affect your confidence as you start questioning yourself and your capability to do the job,” she said.
Another great tip to make sure you don’t get yourself to the moment of explosion at work is, before accepting the job, to “try as much as possible to get a feel for the kind of people you’ll be working with, as associating with personalities that clash with ours can result in too many uncomfortable and angry interactions.”
Poor Megan
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Having said that, the career coach assured our readers that unless you’re a Buddhist monk, pretty much everyone will have bad days at work from time to time, even if they mostly love their job. “Speaking about Buddhist monks. One long-term strategy to really get your temper under control is to practice mindfulness meditation.”
It’s an excellent method to taking back the control you feel like losing when a bad day at work gets you. “This is a way of noticing your thoughts for what they are, ‘just thoughts,’ instead of having the thoughts control you. The better you become at this, the quicker you’ll pick up your angry thoughts in those crucial moments, and you will be able to push them away before they have a chance to consume you and make you feel like you’re exploding.”
Christine said that you could practice 10-15 min a day and see results after just a few weeks. So it’s definitely worth trying it out!
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I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence
this happens in countries where they apply "the customer is king" principle. The customer is a partner, not a king and they are not always right. I spilled popcorn once and got up to get stuff to clean my mess myself, this is how I was raised and how most people here would react.
Ugh...I just don't get it. I guess consideration has become a lost concept
Having been a lower level employee who had to do grunt work like this, I make a point of cleaning up after myself and throwing away my own trash. Same with returning grocery carts to their proper place, and putting things back where I found them—-or where they belong if they were misplaced when I found them. Why make a minimum wage, or near-minimum wage, employee’s workday even shittier than it already is? I hated it when I was that employee, and swore I’d do my best to stop that cycle when I got a better job. It’s not hard to do, especially if your parents raised you right (mine taught me things like don’t borrow without asking, put things back in their proper place, don’t treat other people like servants, always be calm and polite and do not cuss in public even if you’re angry and/or registering a complaint, don’t make a hardworking person’s day harder than it has to be, etc etc etc).
This is awful. And images like this are part of why we teach our son to leave places as nice or nicer than he found them.
Is it any wonder that our planet is such a mess when we behave like this? If everybody did their bit we'd be on a much better trajectory.
Absolutely, but I've never seen such a scene nowhere in Seoul or cities nearby, cinema wise, and since 2010. Not perfectly clean either, but to that extent...Cultural differences? Or maybe the kinds of films I go see.... who knows...
Load More Replies...This picture doesn't show some of the worst that could include gum, diapers, etc.
How about a drink cup full of p**s. Heard this from a friend so I don't know how true it is but I can definitely see it happening.
Load More Replies...this is why I don't like seeing movies in theaters anymore: rude people who talk during films, leave a mess, and rustle wrappers incessantly. Banksy: "The grumpier you are, the more a$$holes you meet."
And people who bring babies (and other children much too young to understand what's going on) to the theater. Admittedly my most recent experience at a movie theater was really fun, but I really wish the screaming kid behind me left a lot sooner than just 30-60 minutes into the film.
Load More Replies...Kids and old people movies. Kids leave a mess. Old people leave napkins they either blew snot into or wiped their mouth. Either way, its gross
Load More Replies...I was on a packed international flight from Madrid to the US and this is what the plane looked like at landing.
I work in a movie theater too. People are the worst! Whats bad is when an old man has a "spit cup" for his tobacco and has a tiny cup that they put in the cup holder. You have almost no choice but to touch the rim of the cup to get it out. Or people leaving used napkins. Nasty. I truly believe theater cleaners are immune from all diseases
Do these people have time to see the film in between bouts of trashing the cinema?
TBH I never minded this because I got to get away from the counter while still looking like a tEaM pLaYeR.
The fact that there’s so much of it on so many rows proves everyone that went there is a POS.
Now I wanna secede from the human race... Uncultured disrespectful morons, who consider it a right to mess around cuz they paid extra for their popcorn n drinks. Well it's the staff that cleans up not the owner and it's a sad life
I kinda force my family to clean up after ourselves. My grandpa started scolding me for ordering him around sadly, but I still cleaned up our trash because people working in retail, are usually only there because it's the only job they can really get.
Plus I'm not a self centered a--hole and has some respect for others
Load More Replies...People of the Me generation try to remember that someone has to clean up after you constantly.
The thought of doing something that makes another person's life more difficult is abhorrent to me.
You should be able to ban people who do this, but I guess there would be no audience left.
Girl Scouts are taught to leave a place cleaner than you found it. Not many Girl Scouts around anymore I assume. Also, at the end of a popular tv series, the main character asked what kind of world this would be if we all cleaned up our own space. Obviously not like this. I truly would like to opt out of the human race sometimes bc I'm so disgusted.
If you are someone who doesn’t take your trash out with you when you leave the theater, you are part of the problem with humanity. This is another form of shopping cart theory.
I seriously wish sugar free gummy bear bellies for anyone who does ish like this!
Absolutely atrocious. Zero respect. I make sure I leave no trace of my visit in a cinema or a fast food place. Teach my kids the same, yeah people are paid to clean up but you don’t do that to them!
This one pisses me off I have never left my food/drink things at my seat and I'm teaching my kid the same. We always throw away our trash.
That's why, pre covid, I went to the 21 and over cinema, only. It's connected to a pub, you can order meals and drinks at your luxurious recliner style chair, no children, no annoying teenagers, and the staff puts up with no BS. You'll get banned first offense. It's great! 😃
Wow. I was at a movie theatre this weekend that serves food and drink to you while you watch the movie on a comfy sofa. When I left, I picked up all my debris and put it on the tray and started carrying it out. A bunch of people in front of me were also just leaving. Saw me with my tray and then turned round and went back to clean up their own mess and bring it out. I guess we can try to lead by example.
Totally gross, what is wrong with people these days, no respect for anything.
Absolute pigs. They should be made to clear it up. That’s disgusting. Who leaves a nasty mess like that?
listen now i live.in china and the cleaners minimum is to clean the seats bc of covid and diseases and also to clean up minor amounts of popcorn on the floor
Damn, the movies I went to never looked like this, if I ever saw someone leave their s**t like that I would've told them to pick it up.
This is either the work of: A) Rowdy kids, B) Rowdy teenagers who think they’re kids, or C) Michael J. Fox.
And I feel guilty if I accidentally drop a couple kernels of popcorn. They should be made to come back and clean up their mess!
The first few times...fine, but a REGULAR OCCURANCE?! What sort of nasty hunk of humanoid atoms would do that?!
That's really ishtty. We need to have compassion for fellow laborers.
Grrrrrrr! Watching a movie is no reason to be a slob. What do the homes look like?
this is just sad what we people do. I at least place the empty box of popcorn on the floor and the empty drink in the cupholder.
People are just gross. When did this become okay? Why is it alright to leave a mess like this? Folk should be penalised if caught, or banned if they can’t behave in public,
I feel bad when I go to movie theaters I make not to make a mess and I bring the trash with me to throw away
People raised in a barn and their mama needs to be slapped. SHAME! Hope you have 10 kids one day and they make this mess every day at your house so YOU have to clean it up! Just soooo common!
I do apologize before hand but if you see a Popeye's chicken box and a empty Dunkin donuts cup with melting ice on the top last row under the 5th seat down that's mine
People like that should be banned forever... After a while, they'd start to behave
I always take my trash proudly! Also does anyone laugh at the people who leave early in the Marvel movies instead of watching the credit scene
Its like when people go to a movie they forget how to not spill things. Do you forget how hands and cup holders/tables work at home also?
Ughhg . I could only imagine what their house looks like. * so disrespectful
Imagine what their houses look like,& I bet they wonder where all the new infections come from . That is disgusting!
Worked at a theatre myself (14 screens) and yes this is a regular occurrence. I may be in the minority here but I mean this is expected everytime. Shut up. Quit crying and do your job that you were hired for. If you don't like it get another job. It really is that simple. Sorry but kind of tired of people complaining about gasp doing their actual job
Maybe add £10 clean up fee on each ticket and the usher goes in at end and stamps tickets of those that left place clean
Goes to show, just how nasty so many people are. Just imagine what their house or car looks like. 🤮
What, there should be a fine for littering and not clean up after yourself
I have to confess that I always accidentally drop my popcorn when seeing a film...
I get up and loudly tell my son to gather all his rubbish before we leave, so people around me feel shamed into doing it too 😂😂😂
and there's worse than that hidden in and on those chairs. worked at a cinema in high school. i refuse to go to any cinema. i don't care how good the movie is
I'm going to make my kids work a customer service job of their choice so they can see how not to behave in public. I worked with the general public for years before I got sick . As a teenager to support my self I learned a lot about how people treated the ones they thought they were beneath them. I learned through experience how it felt to be treated like trash to the ones that treated me like I was a human working a job. So now I treat people how I want to be treated. When I worked my way yp to management at a hotel I always protected my staff and if you were rude then you didn't get very far with me but I would always go tjst extra mile for the ones who acted like they had common decency. I want my kids to learn and take it forward to where ever they go in life
I would be ashamed of myself and my parenting if my kids or I left a huge mess like that
Do people just go in there and just throw everything on the ground on purpose?
everyone should be required to work 6 months in retail or food service to graduate high school
What disgusting behavior. Cinemas should start putting cameras in their theaters to keep an eye on the audience, so that whoever leaves messes like this should be charged a fine.
I always took my trash out with me and threw them out myself. I thought this was common sense.
WTF is wrong with people? That is so rude, inconsiderate, unnecessary and infuriating. Spills happen, sure, but why couldn't they take their trash to the receptacle at the very least? Jeez.
When my husband took me to see No Way Home for my birthday, I talked s**t about the people next to me leaving trash behind until they came back and cleaned it up. I don't care how pissed they were. F*****g assholes.
People can be such pigs. I NEVER left my trash behind when I used to go to the movies.
Why do most people find it so hard to take care of their own mess?! To me this is so disrespectful...
Do the chair armrests have a cup holder or are they flat? If they're flat them that helps to explain why so many things got knocked over - the patrons are in a dark room so there's a good chance things will get knocked over... This is 80-90% people being lazy/thoughtless, but the effect could probably be lessened through better design - a drink holder on one arm then a popcorn box holder on the other, for example, floor lighting when the film has ended etc. I'm not a designer but there must be some good ideas floating around.
I worked cleaning a big football stadium and security went through the seats and picked up valuables first, then we went through with brooms, all the rows looked like this. Confetti and sunflower seeds were the worst. They then hosed down everything behind us. At least I didn't have to work the side that faced the sun, those were dubbed the barf bleachers.i wore clothes I could throw away.
I used to work at a theater. This is the reason we employed leaf blowers to clean up. Blow all the crap up towards the front and scoop it with a snow shovel into the garbage can.
Asses should have to put down if they buy food or drinks returned upon bringing back containers. Goes as tips for who ever has to clean theater.
This right here... is some entitled bullshyt if u get my drift🤨 Or a bunch of kids acting a fool either way CLEAN THIS MESS UP!!!!
Been there not just the theater but school lunch rooms and resturants..foh.. Eh yo! U sat here..man come clean this shyt up ( throws clean rag at them) ain't no maids here
Why. What kind of shite person does this? Even when I was young I would never have done this. People are raising whiny, entitled crybaby children who grow up to be whiny, entitled complaining adults.
No wonder the planet is in the mess its in. Humans are such DIRTY animals!
I work at a movie theater and I can say: wow I don’t get this stuff rip
People are absolutely disgusting. I have taught my kids to take their trash with them. Why can other people?
People disgust me sometimes! Why leave this for someone else to clean up? How were these people brought up??
I bet they still expect their parents to just always clean up after them.
These people need to be banned from every single theater in the world. How can you do this to other people?!
I dropped my keys inside one if those fancy reclining seats and had to fish them out. The view below the cushions is worse.
Actually, cinemas in the UK, a lot of them actually ask you to leave your rubbish behind so the staff can clear it... I've always put my stuff in the bin, but I've seen on the screens a message to leave it where you're sitting! However, spilled popcorn and drink is too far.
My sympathy to you and anybody they live/spend time with. A smack upside the head (possibly repeated) may be remedial-maybe...
I understand the spills. That can happen for many reasons and folks don't have a way to clean up. But leaving trash like that is so lazy.
Been there... And cleaning after movies for kids was the worst. Absolute horror.
This is why I never go to the movie theater anymore. Humans are absolute heathens.
That's disgusting. How do you not clean up after yourself? I could never.
F'n heathens. And it's 9/10 it's ADULTS!! Pisses me off so much when we go to clean a theater and it's like this. Just disrespectful, "not my problem" attitudes!
those theatre snacks are sooo expensive, i would never throw them on the floor!
Doesn't surprise me, pretty much given up on the cinema, having to physically remove people from your seat, constant talking, people on phones, just a crap experience.
Where I live the popcorn and drinks at the cinema cost so much I wouldn’t eat one kernel/ drop
WTF?! WHO DOESN'T CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES WHEN THEY GO ANYWHERE?!
Wow these are monsters! Some people are lack of basic manners. No respect towards others and their properties.
This is just disgusting. You would not make a mess like this in your own home and leave it would you? Hell this is probably intentional. Yes, my years of retail have made me cynical.
That's society these days , and they want make abortion even harder these days when it's idiots procreate more useless self entitled shits
People like this probably were left on their one while mom was out doing her thing. They need to live in a REAL pigpen. Totally despicable!!
My favorite movie theatre in town refuses to sell snacks just because of that. Bless them.
Is it 'murica without tellin' it's 'murica? I've never seen this kind of mess. People in Hungary don't even leave their cups in the cinema rooms. Usually.
Omg no wonder they take a good 30 minutes to clean up for the next showing 😳
Add cameras and on spot fines on the way out, easy money or send them back to clean there mess, there choice.
I'll bet dollars to donuts this photo was taken in The USA, wasn't it!
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Just toss it all away. It would take too much time and the cost of buying new ones would outweigh the hours spent on sorting
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Just a general comment to all workers out there. Thank you for putting up with all the s**t you do.
I hate how poorly workers are treated. They're treated like mere cogs in a machine.
The food waste really hurts. And I learned that you always should have replacement pants at work - and a pair of matching shoes.
It’s unfortunate, but they can’t sell stuff that’s determined to be outside of safe temperatures. And the ice cream one seems like that stuff had been sitting without power for at least 10 hours since they said it happened at 7 pm and it’s clearlu past dawn in the photo.
Load More Replies...One very hot day when I was working in downtown Seattle, a truck carrying a dozen or so barrels of pig guts started up Marion Street, a hill right next to my workplace, and the chain at the back of the truck holding the barrels in broke. All those barrels tumbled out, coating the street with several inches of gore. We caught wind of what happened way back in the repair shop when the driver came into the store to use the phone to call his boss, leaving footprints of greasy, smelly slime on the carpet. I still remember watching the poor truckdriver getting started scraping up the mess in the street, his head hanging low. The company cleaned it up, but an aromatic memory was with us all through that heatwave.
Yeah, that would make sense if we had seltzer water outside the US
I love looking at photos like these. That’s only because I can get anxious at work, thinking that nothing could get better. That is until I remember that photos like these exist, enabling me to think, “At least I’m not these people.”
Just a general comment to all workers out there. Thank you for putting up with all the s**t you do.
I hate how poorly workers are treated. They're treated like mere cogs in a machine.
The food waste really hurts. And I learned that you always should have replacement pants at work - and a pair of matching shoes.
It’s unfortunate, but they can’t sell stuff that’s determined to be outside of safe temperatures. And the ice cream one seems like that stuff had been sitting without power for at least 10 hours since they said it happened at 7 pm and it’s clearlu past dawn in the photo.
Load More Replies...One very hot day when I was working in downtown Seattle, a truck carrying a dozen or so barrels of pig guts started up Marion Street, a hill right next to my workplace, and the chain at the back of the truck holding the barrels in broke. All those barrels tumbled out, coating the street with several inches of gore. We caught wind of what happened way back in the repair shop when the driver came into the store to use the phone to call his boss, leaving footprints of greasy, smelly slime on the carpet. I still remember watching the poor truckdriver getting started scraping up the mess in the street, his head hanging low. The company cleaned it up, but an aromatic memory was with us all through that heatwave.
Yeah, that would make sense if we had seltzer water outside the US
I love looking at photos like these. That’s only because I can get anxious at work, thinking that nothing could get better. That is until I remember that photos like these exist, enabling me to think, “At least I’m not these people.”