Having a terrible day at work can be frustrating, overwhelming, and even demoralizing. Whether it's a challenging project, an annoying colleague, or just a series of misfortunes, sadly, there are plenty of reasons you might feel like you're a failure.
But as Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon sang, "It's just a bad day / Not a bad life." And one of the ways to recover is by venting online. So we at Bored Panda decided to remind ourselves that the universe hasn't conspired against any of us. From time to time, everyone runs into some (undeserved) adversity.
Continue scrolling to see all the messed-up nonsense people have had to deal with on the job! And when you're done, see more fails previously posted here.
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I Work In Mosquito Control. Everyday I Go Into Vacant Lots, Holding Ponds Swamps, Low Areas, Woodlands And Onto Residence Properties. This Is Typical Of What I Find
I've lost my faith in humanity. What we do defines us and this is what we do. We are not stewards of the land or caretakers. We are a blight. We are just vultures picking at the carcass of a dying world.
I Work As A Valet And Make $3.85/Hour And I Received This As A Tip
Getting dealt a bad hand at work isn't the end of the world. Especially for content employees. According to Annie McKee, Ph.D., who is a best-selling business book author and advisor to top global leaders, from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to government officials, those who are engaged with their jobs and colleagues work harder — and smarter. But that's quite rare.
"Far too many couldn’t care less about what’s happening around them," McKee wrote in Harvard Business Review. "For them, Wednesday is 'hump day' and they’re just working to get to Friday. And then there’s the other end of the bell curve — that nearly one out of five employees is actively disengaged. These people are sabotaging projects, backstabbing colleagues, and generally wreaking havoc in their workplaces."
Sorry Class, My Dog Ate Everyone's Homework
and this young boys and girls is the result of feeding your teachers' doggo all those treats ..well played :D
As A Practical Joke, Some Coworkers Wrapped My Office In Foil. In The Process, My 30" LCD Monitor Was Accidentally Turned On, And It Boiled Itself
Here's what it looked like when I unwrapped it.
I hope this came out of their paychecks and you were given compensation for this damage.
Got Fired For āTelling The Boss How To Do His Jobā When All I Did Was Say āWe Canāt Obstruct A Fire Escapeā
"Disengaged, unhappy people aren’t any fun to work with, don’t add much value, and impact our organizations (and our economy) in profoundly negative ways," McKee explained.
"It’s even worse when leaders are disengaged because they infect others with their attitude. Their emotions and mindset impact others’ moods and performance tremendously. After all, how we feel is linked to what and how we think. In other words, thought influences emotion, and emotion influences thinking."
If You're A Parent And Let Your Kids Make A Mess Like This
Two Domino's Workers After Their Shift In San Antonio, Texas Today. All Food Gone In 4 Hours
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Consequences Of Working In A -10Ā°C Lab Where I Have To Wash My Hands 40 Times A Day
I feel so sorry for you. I guess a good hand cream won't quite do the job?
McKee thinks it’s time to finally blow up the myth that feelings don’t matter at work.
"Science is on our side: there are clear neurological links between feelings, thoughts, and actions. When we are in the grip of strong negative emotions, it’s like having blinders on," she said. "We focus mostly — sometimes only — on the source of the pain. We don’t process information as well, think creatively, or make good decisions. Frustration, anger, and stress cause an important part of us to shut down —the thinking, engaged part. Disengagement is a natural neurological and psychological response to pervasive negative emotions."
Two Teams Of Builders Was Building A Bike Lane "On The Right-Hand Side" (Mariupol, Ukraine)
2 Hours Into A 10-Hour Shift When A Passenger Asks If I Know About The Stowaway On My Bus
I Work In A Mall With An Indigo Book Store And Found This Yesterday, It Really Pissed Me Off
New Guy Tried To Empty The Fryer Grease Into A Plastic Bucket
However, it’s not just negative emotions we need to watch out for. "Extremely strong positive emotions have the same effect," McKee said.
"Some studies show that too much happiness can make you less creative and prone to engage in riskier behaviors (think about how we act like fools when we fall in love!). On the work front: I’ve seen groups of people worked up into a frenzy at sales conferences and corporate pep rallies. Little learning or innovation comes out of these meetings. Throw in a lot of alcohol and you’ve got a whole host of other problems."
So it sounds like having your suspenders stuck in your chair every once in a while can be actually quite beneficial.
They Can't Pay A Living Wage But I'll Waste Hundreds On Food Waste
Stayed At Work For The Storm. This Is The Road I Take Home
Got Laid Off Today With Zero Notice, Found All My Stuff Already In A Box When I Got To Work
Over 2,000 Pounds Of Fresh Pork Being Rejected By The Walmart Distribution Center Because The Sell By Dates Occur When Their Stores Are Closed For Thanksgiving
This product will still be safe to eat for the next 15 days but they won't even attempt to sell it. This will end up in a dumpster today.
The pigs wouldnāt be happier if their corpses got sold. They didnāt want to die even for a good reason.
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Sadly, in most cases fresh meat goes to the dumpster only. It's "more expensive and a problem of responsibility to give it away for free" - heard that from a person who dumped a few hundred pounds of fresh meat the day before Christmas. It's not even going to be burnt for gaining energy from the process. It will just be wasted! And that's why I want some first world governments to not allow such massive overproduction of meat what makes it cheaper to get thrown than to be given to those who would appreciate some free food! IMHO a real possibility to significantly reduce animal misery!
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We're dumpster divers and Walmart LOCKS THEIR DUMPSTERS so you can't recycle, use or donate anything from them! Family is worth billions and billions and they can't be kind enough to let people help other people with what they waste.
Not that is agree, but they do it to keep from getting sued if someone gets sick. Some place pour bleach and other stuff like that too deter.
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No, it wont end up in the dumpster, the person who posted this doesnt understand how the food industry works. If Walmart rejects it, the supplier then goes and re-sells them to other customers. There is a whole system set up for this in place. I know people in the meat industry
I know people in the dumpster industry. OP is/was correct. This will end up in the trash.
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Animals suffered during their short lives without any daylight, ripped away from their mothers and transported for hours in packed trucks before being prodded into a building reeking of death and terror for absolutely nothing. There was a time when our ancestors gave thanks to the creatures who gave themselves up so humans could eat.
Sickening that pigs, sentient beings are killed in horrific ways (ventilation shutdown). The way they are treated during their short tortured lives and the way they are killed gives me nightmares. This is disgusting.
Dang they should just host a huge BBQ for the homeless but capitalism has essentially become the galatic empire.
Criminal on so many levels. Are species are idiots, actual fooking idiots!
The smart thing to do is to mark the pork way down in price. Folks would buy it at these slashed prices and freeze it. It could and should be given to food pantries. I bet people with no food would eat pork on Thanksgiving rather than turkey! Filling bellies is whatās important!š¦šš©āš©āš§āš¦šØāšØāš§āš§šØāšØāš¦ā¤ļøNorma Jean Morrissey
This is just disgusting, how much people waste. And I'm not blaming the poor workers who are forced to follow ridiculous rules like these. I'm talking about the huge, selfish companies that choke out small businesses and the ignorant, rich people out there who couldn't care less about the starving and the homeless. Imagine how many people could go a day without being on the brink of starvation, maybe for the first time in their lives, if this meat went to them. Some things are just messed up.
I'd be driving that load to the nearest shelters and zoo's before letting them throw it in a dumpster.
you have to wonder --When companies are Sooo rich they can afford to throw away 2000 lbs of meat - just how much are they gouging us--
If you're willing to pay the price, you're not being "gouged" (you're actually contributing to the demand). If you refuse to pay the price, you're also not being gouged. Get over it.
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Iāve worked for a meat and produce Walmart warehouse and if they left with the product it is most likely from the driver not being there on time or out of temp. Sell by dates arenāt considered until after itās unloaded and would be dealt with by the warehouse, they would not be leaving with the product if it was unloaded. I have a feeling someone isnāt being truthful.
Sell-by dates are complete bulls**t. They aren't FDA regulated, they're arbitrarily set by the company who packages the food. I feel like there should be some kind of testing regulation to actually determine the likely date the food product will go bad if stored correctly. Maybe pair it with a date if the food is stored incorrectly just to cover basic stupidity.
The distributor should change the sell by dates to the day before Thanksgiving and send it back.
Why not donate it to some church in the neighborhood, to be given out to poor families with children, that can't afford Thanksgiving food? WWJD, right?
There are people going hungry and things like this happen, makes me mad
Damn they could GIVE THIS AWAY. The good will alone would up their yearly profit margin....
call the local foodbank and they come and pick it up and distribute it to all the foodbanks in the area.
why can't they donate to a food bank, a shelter, a church that feeds the poor. ANYTHING but the trash!
No respect for the poor creatures that were harmed, brutally killed and now trashed
Can't even give it away to the nearest food bank? You do wonder about management at times, don't you?
I am guessing that nobody suggested giving it to some of the millions of Americans who are unable to feed their children tonight.
Is there not a food bank or church to distribute this food to the hungry?
Can't blame the retailers entirely. Regulations need to change. Also, whoever is in charge of market analysis and purchasing might need a new job.
Keep it in the damn refrigerated truck until Thanksgiving is over then delivered on Friday, good heavens
The people who make these decisions will never be financially unstable or go hungry so they're fine with ANYTHING as long as it isn't unpleasant for them.
It's too easy to write off. Maybe we ought double the write off when the food goes to the hungry.
I don't understand why it isn't donated to food banks or soup kitchens if it'll be good for 15 or more days?! That would feed so many people and they'd be very happy to have it!
And They Wonder why FOLKS ARE STEALING as they CAN NOT AFFORD greedy Walton's Prices on MEAT supposedly in a World Wide SHORTAGE?? This is EXACTLY Why STORE SHELVES are EMPTY absolute NEEDLESS WASTE by the RICH & The POOR have to SUCK IT UP & Tyr to Keep Feeding their Families!!!
Why not āgiveā consumers āthanksā and put it out on a 75% off sale a day or two before.?
there's an app for this called Flashfood. it's to help reduce this kind of waste by selling near expired (even same day) at 50% off. wish more stores would get involved in the program. Only store in my general area has high end prices but I still get fairly good deals.
Again, this is disgusting and should be illegal. Shelters, food banks, homeless NEED THIS FOOD!!!!!
This will end up in a dumpster. You're lucky if you can find it before it thaws out.
that's wrong on so many levels - they should have donated it to the local shelters & food banks. That sux
The amount of carbon that went into raising these pigs - only for them to live a short, cruel life, die a crule death, more carbon to process and transport the meat and all to end on a fcking dumpster because people confuse a 'sell by' with 'is deadly after' date. So frustrating.
have you no food shelf near you? this could be the closest thing hundreds of families have to eat for "Thanksgiving". sickening
Criminal. Walmart should take and redistribute. It might up their name.
Why did they order it then? Poor little pigs will get a burial at least.
Why so indignant? Shocked at corporate excess? Righteous tut-tutting at the Walton's immense fortune? Crocodile tears for the wholescale slaughter of animals for human consumption? Please. We are all complicit in wasteful consumerism. And this horror will continue. Vote with your wallet. Refuse to shop at the big box stores. Refuse to eat animal. Many. Many people DO. BE the change you would see in the world. Or just STFU!
unfortunately those of us living on fixed income don't always have the option to just stop using walmart and amazon. we use those things because they're cheap, close by, and provide free pickup or shipping. i'd love to shop small businesses, but i just don't have the money to spare.
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There should be a law that shelters get notified and come and get it.
My question is where TF is a Walmart thatās closed on thanksgiving?
I worked at Walmart in high school and was horrified by how much food is thrown away instead of donated.
If the Health Dept finds outdated meat after the Thanksgiving in the meat section, they can be cited.
but now the pigs died for no reason. They're not going to be eaten or used
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Since nobody can prepare for the unexpected (just the way they can react to it), it isn't surprising that workers worry about other things.
"One could argue that today's employees are as equally stressed as their predecessors, but for different reasons," said Jodi Chavez, president of Atlanta-based Randstad Professionals, a segment of Randstad US, which provides finance, accounting, HR, sales, marketing, legal staffing and recruitment services. "They fear having their jobs outsourced to another country, have anxiety about how best to work alongside new technologies such as automation and robotics, have increased financial pressures with rising student loan debt and late retirement, and feel pressure to be 'on' and answering e-mails 24/7."
Absolutely Shattered
At The End Of Shifts, We Split The Tips Evenly. We Had More Than 50$ Of Tips And My Coworker Had To Leave About 10 Minutes Early She Ended Up Taking All But 2.50$
I'd call her out and then cut her out of the next tip split..give her only $2.50 in shares
I Collect Carts At Walmart. Please Stop Being Lazy And Return Your Cart To Where It Belongs
OMG I Won I Won I Won
In difficult times, you need to find an internal reserve of energy and hope to help you make your way through. In other words, you need to tap into your resilience.
"Like so many other human traits, resilience can be woven into the fabric of one’s being (nature) and/or it can be learned (nurture)," career and business coach Marjie Terry said.
"One’s natural disposition may lead them to always look on the bright side or to look for the silver lining. For others, with an accumulation of life experience, they develop a resilience perspective and realize that, as the old saying goes, what doesn’t break you makes you stronger. They develop an ability to recognize that it’s important to keep going even when life hands you challenge after challenge—they develop perspective."
Sometimes, there really isn't much else we can do but endure. And laugh!
Something Went Wrong With The Line Painting
Paint Truck Breaks Long-Standing Speed Record - Hits 88 MpH
Colleague Definitely Drew The Short Straw On Email Naming Conventions
We had a lot of foreign contractors work at my company at one time, we had a "last name first initial' email naming policy, I was always sure to ask them first if the naming was ok and not inappropriate for their language, and was always sure to check new names. We could also set up aliases if they wanted a 'personalized' favorite email name.
Sgt. Vanderheiden Got His Suspenders Stuck In A Chair Yesterday, But Some Helpful Friends Came To The Rescue
Guy At Work Dropped So Much Oil We Got Invaded By The US Government
Girlfriend Works At A Local Target And Had A Family Stroll In And Do All This
Ahh, retail. I worked in vitamins and supplements. Having flashbacks to families with undisciplined children who loved to hurl the glass vitamin bottles onto the floor.
Coworker Found A Surprise At The Bottom Of Their Cup This Morning
When You Have A Long, Active Day Surrounded By People, Then Get Home, Take Off Your Work Pants, And Just Stare At The 6" Tear Straight Down Your Back End
I was closing late one night and it was just me and the restaurant GM. I was getting ready yo leave and he notices a bar towel in my back pocket. Then he realizes I've just worked an 8hr shift with torn pants. He quietly hand the towl back and wishes me a good night.
Last Night Someone Tried To Steal A Car From The Dealership I Work At
I Finished Rolling My Silverware After An Eleven-Hour Shift, Only To Have The Drawer I Loaded It In The Break And Fall To The Floor. I'm So Done With Today
5 Minutes Into My Maintenance Shift I Get Called Up To The Public Bathroom, This Is What I Found
Can't Get Into Work This Morning Because The Closer Didn't Realize They Took Home The Core To The Door Lock
I'm A Night Custodian At A High School. This Is What The First Day Of School Looks Like
Colleague Stepping On A Wet Concrete
Yikes! Cement burns are a serious thing! Letās hope he cleaned up thoroughly and quickly.
Coworker Drove A Forklift Over A Can Of Oil
Fresh Refurb At The Pub I Work At And Someone Decided To Write A Review Of The Paint Job
"You didn't sand or undercoat these doors!"
Theyāre right, though. The entire door is chipped and looks like c**p.
Bought Myself A Little Chair For When I Have To Program Robots For Long Hours At A Time At Work. Someone Over Capacity Borrowed It On The Off Shift
I Literally Just Got Home From My First Day Of Work
Scrolling thorough these posts do US citizens actually have any workers rights?
I Live In A Tiny Town (Less Than 10,000) And There's Only One Road In And Out. Whenever There's An Accident, Traffic Gets Jammed. It's My First Day At My New Job
First Day On The Job As A Pool Attendant And Some Lady Thought It Was A Good Idea To Dump An Entire Chocolate Fountain Into The Sink
Testing Out Our New Printer. Left The Room For 5 Minutes And Came Back To This
A Colleague Tipped Over 7 Crates Full Of Wine Bottles
My First Day As A Delivery Guy At Domino's
When You've Had A Bad Day At Work, Just Remember Someone Else's Work Day Is Probably Much Worse
Eh. Theyāll be fine. Just tap the lids a few times before ya open āem.
This Is The "Black" Coffee I Just Ordered From The Vending Machine At My Work. Good Morning To Me
Spilled Half A Pot Of Hollandaise On The Floor At Work. The Majority Of It Went Underneath The Cooler
Well...c**p..I guess slide it out and start cleaning there is probably something else under there too
Cleaned My Glasses Too Hard. I Am At Work, Don't Have A Spare Pair
On My First Day As A Janitor Assigned To This Area Of My School, The Rain Flooded Everything
Key Broke Off Inside The Lock To A Very Important Work Door. Wonder How Much Trouble I Am In
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Wandalutz is on a downvote and negative reply rampage, petition to get them banned starts here. The reasoning for this is what is below me and what they did to Zara the Squid
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Nah, we've had a handful of these, not new, they're just less common
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I found the EXACT SAME pics in the same order on the fun post. Who got it first?
The person who was a cart returner at Wal-Mart. Was complaining that people were not returning their carts? I... Well.... If?.... umm...? Forget it. If I explain it to them, I would be doing the job of learning for them. If this is not enough information for sometime in that type of situation; life is going to continue to be a abundance of differing disappointing situations. Puppies can bring happiness. Get yourself a puppy. . . DO NOT get a puppy. My apologies. They are only going to last you about 1 year each. . . Bonzi Tree
Wandalutz is on a downvote and negative reply rampage, petition to get them banned starts here. The reasoning for this is what is below me and what they did to Zara the Squid
Load More Replies... Nah, we've had a handful of these, not new, they're just less common
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The person who was a cart returner at Wal-Mart. Was complaining that people were not returning their carts? I... Well.... If?.... umm...? Forget it. If I explain it to them, I would be doing the job of learning for them. If this is not enough information for sometime in that type of situation; life is going to continue to be a abundance of differing disappointing situations. Puppies can bring happiness. Get yourself a puppy. . . DO NOT get a puppy. My apologies. They are only going to last you about 1 year each. . . Bonzi Tree
