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

[Aurora63]

Back in college, I worked at Subway. There was a guy named Ed who also worked there. One Sunday, only he and I were working, and he decided it would be fun to act like country people whenever customers came in (NO OFFENSE to any country people who might be here!)

So he put on this big name tag that says "Wilbur" and I wear one that says "Glenda." When a customer would some in, he'd go out front to help, then he'd yell back at me (as loud as possible) "GLENDA! Glenda, we got customers!" Then he'd walk up to the person ordering and say in this very thick county/southern type accent, "Whatchoo want?" We'd then go on with the show until they were done.

Most of our customers had these looks on their faces that were just priceless..they wern't sure how to react! But it was fun, in hindsight some people were probably pretty annoyed with us, but oh well!!

So what goofiness went on at you workplace???

 

[jennyf917]

I'm a server and bartender at a restaurant, and we have given each other "American Gladiators" names. There's a Nitro, and a Storm, and a Falcon and I'm Turbo. I once greeted and served a table using the name Turbo on a dare for ten dollars. They looked at me like I was crazy, but never mentioned my odd name. Of course my coworkers were laughing like crazy. I also do great impressions and have served tables using a Fargo-like northern accent and a very very southern accent. Always on dares for money. What can I say, we get bored sometimes.

 

[briannesmom]

Years ago I worked at a jewelry/accessory store at the mall. Mornings were always our slowest time. When we were really bored we would superglue a quarter to the floor in the mall and watch people try to pick it up.

Amy

 

[OK!]

A friend of mine at the store where I used to work once had a horrible customer who stood up at the front of the store yelling at her for several minutes (don't remember for what), creating a scene to the extent that other customers were standing and watching what was going on; once he finally left, she was so frustrated and angry that she said the first thing that came to mind and told me she wanted to shoot him with a nail gun (our store was next door to a hardware store). After that, any time one of us was irritated with somebody or just needed a laugh, we'd page the other to the front of the store with a nail gun, a shovel, hammer, whatever. It was juvenile, but it made us laugh.

 

[ashjohnson80]

Well when we still had the furniture store, it was a slow day and I decided I was going to skip across it and I turned my head to look at something and skipped right into a rack that was holding a bunch of memory foam pillows and fell all the way down.

i'm clumsy.

 

[Stacerita]

At the last hospital I worked at I did some pole dancing in the office. It wasn't tip worthy though. Just a bit of fun. In between the desk there were poles that the wiring was in. So for no reason I would just break out in a little pole dancing. And I would hum the porn song while doing it. The office got a great laugh out of it every time.

 

[OK!]

Well when we still had the furniture store, it was a slow day and I decided I was going to skip across it and I turned my head to look at something and skipped right into a rack that was holding a bunch of memory foam pillows and fell all the way down.

i'm clumsy.

That reminds me...I was a supervisor at a hotel's central reservations office and was walking around the office one night, getting everything ready to leave for the night. While I was walking (fast, because it was like 2 minutes to close) along a row of cubicles, something outside caught my eye and I turned my head to look out the window, still walking. About a tenth of a second later, I turned my head back to look in front of me and immediately slammed face-first into the side of one of the cubicles, stunning myself and falling down backwards. Unfortunately, we were fully staffed that night, so about 10 people saw it happen.

 

[Colleen456]

Years ago when I worked retail I met the new manager of the shoe store across from us. He was busy (read uptight) trying to do his job and be worthy of his new promotion and since I thought he was really cute my co-workers and myself decided to have a little fun with the new kid in town.

When both our stores were dead I started throwing small bouncy balls into his store. That got his attention and he seems to relax a bit after that. We ended up becoming great friends and I learned that he was a dancer. So I used to throw the balls at him and to get me to stop I'd make him do some tap moves. Every once in a while my manager would go out and tap with him since she was a dancer when she was younger.

He collected those balls and every once in a while he'd toss them at me when I was walking towards the back of the store. It's probably funnier in my head but thanks for making me think of that!

 

[MyGoofy26]

When I did my college program at Disney, I was working merch at Tattooine. A couple coworkers had been trying to teach me how to juggle with those balls that light up when you bounce them. It was totally dead that night, so I was practicing in the middle of the store. One of the balls got away from me JUST as a group of people walk out from the ride into the store. The ball flew off to the back where all the glasses were displayed and yep - crash! I killed 3 glasses with an audience. I was laughing too hard at myself to be embarrassed.

When I worked in the offices of the radio station I work for, I got into daily rubberband wars with a couple of the guys in continuity. It started out me working and getting pinged. I finally got my aim down and fought back.

 

[Disney Doll]

On July 4th, at the hospital where we both still (amazingly enough ) work, I pushed a co-worker doen the hall on a Hoyer lift as she tore up pieces of scrap paper and threw them like confetti.

This was in mock protest to the fact that we were missing the annual 4th of July parade because we had to work. It was done completely in jest, and our nurse manager got a big charge out of it when we went by her office door!!!

 

[NMAmy]

I used to be one of only two women working as service advisors at a car dealership. I had about 25 mechanics (all male) to whom I'd give jobs.

They tortured the other woman and I relentlessly. Not in a mean way. Just practical jokes. One of the guys told us it was God's revenge for not having brothers growing up--now we each had 25 brothers. They'd tape the tops to every pen on my desk so I couldn't get them off quickly when I got a phone call. They'd hide and pop out of unexpected places (like a car trunk) to scare us. They'd wait until I was on the phone and hit the button on my chair to make it suddenly lower to the floor. They'd staple all our repair orders together in the middle so you couldn't read them. They'd hide rubber snakes in our desk drawers. It was actually a lot of fun working there and we'd play jokes on them, too. I miss those guys. While they'd try to rile us mercilessly, they were also extremely loyal and would stand up for us, too.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

The girls I worked with at my old job were hilarious. I don't remember anything specifically funny that I did, but I do remember the things they did. I remember one night after we closed one girl found two HUGE round hair brushes. She danced around the store like they were maracas. The funnier part was she was caught on tape doing it! The morning managers watch the tape from the night before. The next morning the manager asked her if she would dance for everyone again! She was embarrassed but she got over it quick. We were dancing again that night.

Then there were the times of the cartwheels, kick me signs, tripping and falling, skiing, cart races, makeup testing, no dancing, price stickers, pole dancing, name badge swapping, exercise bikes, and pereos and Atkin's books. Such funny memories. I disliked the actual job itself but I truly miss the girls I worked with.

 

[sk8belle]

One of my coworkers has been home for the past two weeks, very sick. She has been insisting that, despite her awful cough and still feeling ill, she would come in today. Our senior admin assist. and I have been encouraging her not to; she obviously needs more time to recuperate. But just in case she does drag herself in, we've piled empty copier paper boxes around her desk to "wall" it off and posted a sign that reads, "WARNING!! Isolation ward. Residents under quarentine."

So far, she hasn't showed up. Everyone else in the office has had a good chuckle about it.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

I dated my boss and wound up marrying him, pretty darn silly if you ask me (on his part only)

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

At a law firm where I worked as a secretary in my late teens, one of the attorneys, another secretary and I used to have rubberband fights all the time.

Another law firm where I worked a few years ago, I shared an office with about 5 other people. One of my co-workers was really hot (well, he was!) and whenever we were the only 2 in our office, we'd make out and stuff. *ahem*

 

[liamsaunt]

Many moons ago, in high school I worked at a movie theater, and we did various things to amuse ourselves. For example:

The building was older, and didn't really have a foundation. In the concession stand, there was a closet under the counter that opened for access to the soda pipes. The floor in the closet was dirt, so one day we decided to plant a tree in the closet. We would keep the door to the closet open during the day so it could get light, and we would water it regularly. It grew to be about 18 inches tall before the theater manager noticed it.

We also used to serve lemonade. It was kept in a large clear plastic dispenser that whirled the beverage around and around. We used to drop gummi bears into the lemonade. Gummi bears get really, really big if they are exposed to liquid. We had an experiment going to see how big we could grow the gummi bears. I think the largest one ended up being about 5 inches long. It would crack us up to see the lemonade whirling around, and then, every once in a while, a big bloated gummi bear going by.

 

[Aurora63]

Bump. Anyone else??

Liamsaunt, you sound like some people I've worked with!

 

[T. Lynn]

It was a Friday and a co-worker and I were busy holding a conversation (telling funny stories, etc) and the phone rang. I answered it and said "Thank you for calling here". Then the other person said they liked that and also knew my name. It happened to be the President of the company. I felt like hiding under my desk but he found it amuzing (thank goodness).

Also, it was my birthday and the other girl put happy birthday pieces of paper around the office. They were in the filing cabinets, typewriter, all of my desk drawers, under the phone receiver, rolled up in the toilet paper, etc...Needless to say, everyone knew it was my birthday after those episodes.

 

[Chicago526]

My first job was at McDonald's. Sometimes late at night, right before close, we'd great drivers at the drive through through the squak box "Welcome to Taco Bell, may I take your order?".

The scary thing was that none of the drivers ever noticed, they just started order Big Macs or whatever.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Several years ago while working in the OR, we discovered that by putting 1-800 in front of the main hospital number, you got connected to an "adult" phone entertainment company. We had no patients that night and an intercom system that only broadcasted in the OR. Well, next thing you know, some of the girls are dialing the number and putting the speaker up to intercom, broadcasting this message all over the OR. I had snuck to the back of the dept and got one of our male floor techs to call the front OR office where everyone was. He told them he was a doctor who had just come up our back elevator from the ER and demanded to know who had played that over the intercom and then demanded the number of the administrator on call. He and I were dying laughing after he hung up. I go back up front and everyone is freaking out that we're all about to get fired. I let them panic for about 20 minutes before finally fessing up. It was hysterical.