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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When I Worked At A Dog Daycare (I'd Bring My Dog With Me, Duh) I Once Got Off From Work And Was So Hungry I Left Without Him
My manager sent me this picture about 10 minutes later saying "You forgot something". His expression is perfect.
Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset
When You’re Working From Home And You Hit Video Instead Of Audio
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.”
Flew In A Helicopter For The First Time At Work, The Pilot’s Helmet Wasn’t Calming
Keeps Pecking The Window And Shouting At Me While I'm Trying To Work
The One Time The Toner Exploded At Work While Switching It Out. You Can See Where I Was At That Exact Moment
“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.
Actually Had To Put This Sign Up In The Bathroom At My Work
My Friend Works As An Extra In Movies And Does Stock Photography.... Just Saw Him Pictured As A Sex Offender On A Bus In Florida
So I Started Working As A Beekeeper Last Week
“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.”
My Girlfriend Got Nailed At Work
This Pillar Was Straight Last Week. This Is The First Floor Of A Seven-Floor Building
Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work
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
I Cleaned The Cat’s Litter Box And Brought The Bag With Me To Throw Away In My Outdoor Trash Can On The Way To Work. I Also Brought My Lunch
Guess which one got thrown away and which one came to work with me.
My Friend Got A Surprise Haircut At Work Today. And It Was Free
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!
Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day
Bought 60 Doughnuts For The Office Today To Celebrate My 20th Birthday, Only To Be Told I Need To Self Isolate And Work From Home For The Next Week
They Couldn’t Do It
After Years In Retail, This Is The Worst Case Scenario
My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today... Didn't Go Very Well
Accidently Dropped My Work Keys Into The Toilet. When I Got Up To Fish Them Out, It Automatically Flushed Itself
I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists
I Work As A Valet. Told Him He Had To Park It Himself
I Do Calligraphy. I Misplaced The Circled In Character, Which Is Part Of A 300 Word Scroll That I Almost Finished After 5 Days Of Work, 200 Characters In
The Ink From My Date Stamp At Work Exploded On My Shirt And The Material Formed The Droplets Into Little Stars
I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence
So I Bring A Pecan Pie To Work. By Noon It Was Missing. Found It A Few Hours Later In My Boss's Office
Buckets Of Paint Fell Off A Pallet Being Lifted By A Forklift
Need To Keep The Light On When I Get Ready For Work
The Windows Where I Work Like To Explode Every Month Or So
It's Always A Pleasure To Realize That Your Coworkers Don't Know How To Close A Box Properly... Right When You're Ready To Go Home
Was Given A Heat Sensitive Mug For A Work Meeting
Really Bad Day
My Friend Works As A Cleaner Here
After The Meeting Coworker Let Me Know That I Looked Naked And Frustrated The Whole Time
My Friend Went To Work With A Pair Of Underwear Hanging Out Of Her Pants All Day
I Work As A Financial Auditor. When Reviewing Cash Deposits, I Found That One Of Our Employees Accepted This $100 Bill
If only there was a way for the cashier to tell that this is fake 😐
I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here's Us Separating 10,000 Beans... By Hand
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
FedEx Truck Hanging Off The Indiana Toll Road After Hitting Ice In Frigid Conditions. Driver Not Hurt
A Fly Managed To Slip Into My Coffee At Work. Fortunately, I Spit Him Out All Over My Keyboard
What McDonald's Got Us (At Least My Branch Of McDonald's) For Our Work During The Pandemic
-41°С And No One To Let Me In To Work
Just Slipped On Ice And Tore My Favourite Jeans. Now I Gotta Go A Whole Shift At Work With My Bright Orange Boxers On Show
My Wife Just Got This Huge Banner For Work. Perfect
This is either fake or clearly the other company’s fault. When the image doesn’t load, you ask the client to resend it.
This Was My Dad's Only Christmas Bonus From The Company He's Worked At For Over 20 Years: A $20 Off Coupon For A Frozen Turkey. My Mom Got A Christmas Ornament
These big companies honestly should be destroyed. Quality and employee care are all horrible.
It depends, really. I work in a big company, and, it's not perfect, but I'm satisfied. 2 million krw additionally every year, free lunch, free snacks, regular annual pay rise, health insurance, biannual systematic full health check, paid overtime, additional coupons for the big holidays, lots of prize winning events.... etc. This is to list the good sides. Some of which, we got as we demanded them. No official union, just really good workmates joining forces.
Load More Replies...I used to work for a business of 150/200 employees and everyone, from the Chairman down to the tea lady got a large turkey every christmas. This was 25 years ago and we all were quite happy with having one less expense over the festive season. Right up until the year they decided to stop doing it without telling anyone. So, come December, we're all waiting for the call to go grab a turkey and it never came, throwing lots of people into a mad dash to see what was left at the supermarket. How could they not tell us?
My old company used to feed us a free Thanksgiving buffet lunch every year. The second or third year after I started, they discontinued the offer with no notice. We thought that was the biggest turkey we'd ever had, until they started taking other benefits: Unlimited sick leave whittled to 5 days; choice of 7 awesome med insurance policies down to a single high deductible. When I first started, the cap on vacation time was 5 weeks for folks that had been there for 15 years or more. By the time I reached year 15, the cap was 3 weeks, the same amount of time I had been earning when I was hired. My manager, who started working there at age 16, earned a special parking spot for 25-year veterans. A month later, they repaved the parking lot. No more special parking spaces for anybody, except as required by law. The skinflints.
Load More Replies...America is NOT the greatest place to work. This is terrible. I hate this "Live to work" ethos.
And for some reason "No one wants to work anymore." tempFileFo...e83b24.jpg
The rich get richer the poor and middle class get poorer, just look at this inflation another excuse for use to pay more so the rich corporates c an maintain their extravagant lifestyles
Poor politics non livable wages unhealthy life styles no work life balance can't afford to rent or buy a home. Poor quality education , idiets and slackers and zero leadership skills have management positions ate 3 slices of bread with spreads for 3 months starlight because i couldn't afford groceries healthcare is c**p with extremely high medical expenses. It costs at least 32,000 to birth a child. all other countries think this is this country is great.
Load More Replies...If you are paid a proper wage then a bonus shouldn't be needed or expected. IF you're paid a decent wage that is.
At my previous job I got a bottle of water as a christmas bonus. They owned the brand water :')
lol right?? i was just gonna say this has serious 'jelly of the month club' vibes.......
Load More Replies...A big box store that rhymes with ome epot used to gift the management with huge bonuses and the same $20 gift card for the hourlies.
Wait did someone vote and continue to vote for politicians who put the needs of corporations over the needs of the people?
For my husband's 20th anniversary he got slightly better... $400.00 in whatever gift card he would like to choose. While the CEO they hired and fired for incompetency within 2 years was given $400,000,000.00 in - I don't know - hush money? Oh yeah, and they took his pension away and replaced it with a 401K...
These can be deposited into your account. The office I used to work for gives them out for Thanksgiving every year.
I remember when a bonus consisting of a jelly-of-the-month club subscription was considered a corporate gift so laughably bad it was used in a certain Christmas comedy as a valid justification for kidnapping the boss.
Year before last we got to order Thanksgiving from Omaha Burgers and for Christmas we got to order from a gourmet website (we got 3 deep dish pizzas from Chicago.) This year we got Omaha for Thanksgiving and an entire week off for Christmas. Love my bosses!
I would expect for more from freakin Taco Bell than this! So ridiculous
Years ago, I worked at a car dealership. The owner gave everyone a HUGE frozen turkey for Christmas. Most of us were single and couldn't even fit the bird in our fridges. We called a local food bank and they were happy to pick them up. A gift certificate (no gift cards back then) to the supermarket would have been more appreciated.
They couldn't even stretch it to an entire free frozen turkey or cash equivalent? Sad.
Used to work for a grocery chain and this was a combined Thanks Giving and Christmas Gift.
In the late 70s, my company (bought out by another firm long afterwards) made it clear that employees were important. They paid for all inter- and intra-company extracurricular activities, education, etc., whether at the venue (multiple cities and buildings) or elsewhere, public or private. I played tennis, volleyball, ping pong, etc.; took a couple of night courses and even a day course that wasn't offered at night. No other company since then came even close. When I tell people, today, about this, their jaws drop, and some say, "Wow. No wonder they were bought out!" And, when that happened, a few years after I left for higher pay in a different State, my co-workers still at the company said that the new company stopped paying for ALL of that, after which, morale plummeted, and about 10% of the then-huge, international, company's employees either quit or retired. Surprise, surprise.
What's a Cristmas bonus? I've worked in healthcare for 26 years and have never received one before.
Most corporations don't give Christmas bonuses. Usually an annual bonus after the year's numbers are compiled in the new years. Sometimes not paid out until May.
The company that I recently left, give the staff £15 One4All vouchers. It's a Multi-Million pound global company.
Tesco supermarket chain in the UK did something similar to this about 20 years ago. Extra Clubcard points to spend in any Tesco store.
Honestly a free turkey or ham is nice. You know when you're hired which "bonuses" to expect. I CAN get sales bonuses but as far as "gifts", it was a pair of socks. 😆😖
I'm a Nurse and work for a huge company! We got nothing for Nurses week..
Same. An engineering firm I used to work for did this as a company bonus. We had a group meeting, CEO talked about how profitable the year was (10s of millions of dollars) - and proceeded to give us all a frozen turkey. Repeat the following years with a company logo jacket, golf shirt and a serving dish. I left that place eventually... ;)
Yup. The only Christmas bonus I ever got was for a turkey or ham at a grocery store. No one else gave me anything.
15 years at my factory with multiple promotions and an excellent file and got to pick out of a two page prize booklet with most items averaging around $75 in an Amazon search. I picked the electric smoker at $109. Haven't tried it yet.
I got a 60 dollar gift card to a Kroger. I actually think it was less because I remember being able to only buy like 5 items. I worked 5 days a week sometimes 6 from 5:30am to 12 midnight sometimes 2 am. With one 30 minute lunch.
be thankful he got something. have never received anything for working except my entitled wages.
I legit got this from my work this past Christmas. Paid for all my items for my lovely dinner alone sans 23 cents. It took 2 cashiers, a manager and for 10 minutes for them to figure out how to enter a check. I figured it out before any of them!
Damn. The company I worked for gave everyone Christmas bonuses and two paid weeks off at the end of the year. My first year there, had only worked 6 months before the end of the year, my bonus was over 900$
i hate that. It is just as bad when you are handed a catalogue of junk and told to pick your favorite.
I haven't gotten a Christmas bonus since...I've never gotten a Christmas bonus.
When My dad worked for Abbott Laboratories here in Ireland h never got a Christmas Bonus. Meanwhile I was on a Government run computer course and I got 100% of my wages from the course for my Christmas Bonus. Here in Ireland if you are on any kind of benefit from the government or course run by them you get 100% of your payment for Christmas.
we got one of those too. and you HAVE to use it at the grocery store but the store deposits it as CASH. stupid
we got one of those too. and you HAVE to use it at the grocery store even though THEY deposit it as cash
I once worked for a well know artist, packing prints, and even though I had only been there two months, I still got a nice check for $50 at Christmas, totally unexpected, and much appreciated. My husband, an RN, never got more than a keychain flashlight or coffee mug with the hospital name, even after 20 years.
When our world ends there will be fairness and equality; not until then ('cause we'll all be dead).
Ive been a guard for 2 years and mine was $60 seeing this makes me greatful lmao. This should not be okay
Well, at least the OP's dad got $20 off. My husband's worked for his company for 36 years and only got $15.
Technically this is 20$ off the entire grocery bill, so not just off a turkey
I really hope he finds somewhere else to work because all I see is just lazy greed from his employers.
My Boss Is Going To Kill Me
Why're you just standing there taking pictures? Help him climb up
My Zipper Broke At Work, Right Before A Few Important Meetings
So I Found Out That My Shoes Have A Hole In Them... At The Urinal At Work
I Picked Something Up At Work, All Of A Sudden My Leg Started To Hurt, I Reached Into The Pocket At My Leg And Realised That My Spare Blade Made It Out Of The Case Somehow
Just Lost Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Product At Work. Most Likely Getting Fired
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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.”