Whats the silliest thing you ever did while at work??

[Jrsy Boy]

I worked in the mailroom in college. When things were slow, which wasn't often, we took our handcrafted rubberband ball (not one of those fancy store-bought ones) and bounced it into the mailboxes. The higher the box number, the higher point value. As the ball got bigger during the course of the year, getting it to go inside one of the small mailboxes became more difficult.

More recently, when one of our coworkers got married and was gone on his honeymoon, we packed up everything in and on his desk in copier paper boxes, then saran wrapped the boxes.

 

[Miranda Danda]

Funny you should ask. A couple of days ago I was running late for work. I grabbed my sweater out of the dryer because it can get chilly in my office. When I got to work, I got cold and went to put it on. Wouldn't you know my thong attached itself (thanks to dryer static) and as I pushed my arm through the arm hole, I pushed out my thong for all the world to see. I don't know what was redder- my face or the thong

 

[tuckerkeys]

back when all of those crazy things were getting sold on ebay ( virgin mary on toast etc etc..) we decided to put up on ebay the holy spirit for sale. Everyone took pictures with "him" and had their arm around him, bunny ears on him etc etc.... it was just funny to see the actual auction up on ebay with everyones pictures looking goofy & stuff standing next to nothing

 

[Miranda Danda]

I think my thong-in-the-sweater story killed this thread

 

[Cinderella2004]

Nope, Miranda.....I'll add one!!!

After I graduated high school I worked at a telephone answering service. It was all computerized. There were certain phone #'s that my boss "owned" but hadn't rented out yet. When they rang, they'd come across the screen "unassaigned #".

The girls and I would get a kick out of answering "Michele's Massage Parlor, Lauren's love nest....etc" It was always a wrong #.....lol!!!!

 

[Miranda Danda]

Nope, Miranda.....I'll add one!!!

After I graduated high school I worked at a telephone answering service. It was all computerized. There were certain phone #'s that my boss "owned" but hadn't rented out yet. When they rang, they'd come across the screen "unassaigned #".

The girls and I would get a kick out of answering "Michele's Massage Parlor, Lauren's love nest....etc" It was always a wrong #.....lol!!!!

I think I would love to work with y'all!!! I like having fun at work, but some people make it So unenjoyable! Bosses ruin everything

 

[TDC Nala]

I danced with a cardboard cutout of John F. Kennedy at a Christmas party.

 

[babiesX2]

Whenever I was working ER (I"m a nurse) and we'd have a new nurse tech, I'd act like I thought a specimin cup full of urine in a biohazard bag was apple juice. I'd see them in the hall with it and say something like "I'm so thirsty and apple juice is my favorite! How did you know?" Then I'd act like I was going to take it from them. They wouldd freeze and look weird.

Or we'd put guacamole or bean dip in a diaper and 2 of us would walk into the station dipping our fingers in it and licking it off while we discussed what the possible sources of the "infant's" illness could be.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Whenever I was working ER (I"m a nurse) and we'd have a new nurse tech, I'd act like I thought a specimin cup full of urine in a biohazard bag was apple juice. I'd see them in the hall with it and say something like "I'm so thirsty and apple juice is my favorite! How did you know?" Then I'd act like I was going to take it from them. They wouldd freeze and look weird.

Or we'd put guacamole or bean dip in a diaper and 2 of us would walk into the station dipping our fingers in it and licking it off while we discussed what the possible sources of the "infant's" illness could be.

Nurses have the best sense of humor.

 

[RachelEllen]

I can't believe I'm posting this, but....

On a very quiet day at the nursery, we dressed an infant maniquen up in clothes and a blanket. One of us grabbed an attending doc to 'ask a question' and positioned ourselves outside the nursery so that she was facing the glass viewing inside. Meanwhile, another resident on the inside was carrying the 'baby' accross the room. He mimed a gigantic stumble and the 'baby' went flying out of his arms accross the entire nursery. I think the attending about fainted.

(insert evil grinning smiley)

 

[ImMarcik]

Miranda that was funny.

When I was in high school I worked at Dairy Queen. One night at closing we locked the doors and each bought a can of the spray whip cream then we all hid in different areas and had a whip cream can war. Of course afterwards we had to clean it all up. I was a mess too. haha whip cream everywhere. That was a blast.

 

[Miranda Danda]

Miranda that was funny.

When I was in high school I worked at Dairy Queen. One night at closing we locked the doors and each bought a can of the spray whip cream then we all hid in different areas and had a whip cream can war. Of course afterwards we had to clean it all up. I was a mess too. haha whip cream everywhere. That was a blast.

FUN!!!!!!! Delicious, too!

 

[Kimmielee]

Funny you should ask. A couple of days ago I was running late for work. I grabbed my sweater out of the dryer because it can get chilly in my office. When I got to work, I got cold and went to put it on. Wouldn't you know my thong attached itself (thanks to dryer static) and as I pushed my arm through the arm hole, I pushed out my thong for all the world to see. I don't know what was redder- my face or the thong

Ok, wasn't a thong for me (I wish ) it was a pair of panties that stuck to the inside of my pants. I was walking at work and someone tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to the ground about 5 feet behind me...."I think those just came out of your pants!"

I could have DIED!! I had to go back and pick them up with about 15 people splitting a gut....

 

[Syrreal]

I used to work in a kids' store that sold educational toys. We had all kinds of rules about wearing these aprons and not sitting while we were on the floor, no food on teh floor, etc. Well, one morning, which mornings were usually dead for us anyways, I was with one of the managers breaking all the rules. I was sitting on the back desk of the registers, we were both having breakfast, no aprons, and we were blaring the radio. Lo and behold, this guy comes in and we yell a "Hi" to him and go back to what we were doing. Well, turns out that the guy was one of the VPs of the company! I'm still surprised that we weren't fired! It didn't stop us from doing it again though. lol

 

[smilingmouse]

I used to worl from 12 (noon)-7pm as a customer service rep. for a baank. From 5-7, there were only 4 of us in the office. After making sure everyone else was gone, the 4 of us would play cards. Some days I miss that job

 

[Conservative Hippie]

The silliest thing I have ever seen at my work was not me, but one of my coworkers...after closing when we were cleaning up, she put a size 48F bra on her butt and walked around the store........just thinking about it is making my eyes tear up with laughter!

 

[Sparx]

I have sockskated on tiles on a wet floor. I've fallen HUNDREDS of times. I slid down a hill because I didn't feel like walking down (its a restaurant). But I think our shining moment was Gertrude.

Gerturde is a living ledgend at Medley's Classic. Shes a chicken. Now, I know what youre thinking, "its a restaurant. of course there are chickens". But no. Gertude was a LIVE chicken. who lived outside the restaurant. We fed her, and every morning shed come up and eat breakfast with us.

Its absolutly insane to think about now, btu I've eaten more than one breakfast with a chicken behind a restaurant.

I'm not sure whatever happened to her, she started coming less and less often, and eventually stopped. I like to think that she found another place to eat, and if not, she's eating behind the great diner in the sky.

 

[arminnie]

When I worked for Visa we all traveled ALL THE TIME to member banks across the U.S. (and internationally too). But at first I only did U.S. Bank processing centers are usually off in some remote location.

We would fight to see who could bring back the tackiest souvenir from these out of the way places. My favorite though was one from New Orleans (not out of the way) that had two alligators on a seesaw in a snowglobe with a boat in the background. And the snowglobe part was embedded in an alligator belly.

 

[goofygirl]

I wore my Minnie Mouse ears to work- it was Halloween.

 

[liamsaunt]

I thought of another one from the movie theater. The theater was divided between two buildings, seperated by a parking lot. We had an initiation of sorts for new hires. We had a sealed box marked up very officially with hazardous materials labels and so on. Inside the box there was nothing more than a few screws and bolts, etc. But we would tell new hire that the contents were very important parts of the projection system that needed to be moved from one building to the other.

We would caution the new hire very seriously that the person transporting the materials had to be very, VERY careful while carrying them, because if the parts rubbed together in the box, they would EXPLODE! This of course would result in the new hire walking across the parking lot, very gingerly, holding the box as far away from themselves as possible, much to the amusement of everyone else on staff. Their reward for being tricked was that they got to tell the next new hire about the important box and send them across the parking lot.

This went on for years and years (I worked at this theater all through high school and college breaks), until we had one new hire that was so nervous about carrying the box that he actually started crying about halfway across the lot. Of course we all ran out and told him it was a trick, and retired the box after that.