Office Pranks, Office Humor, and Office Stories - One Crazy Office

Well as you have read before I was in between a rock and a hard place when it came to dealing with the facilities manager. I had gotten moved posts which was fine with me, because I wasn't in his direct line of sight anymore.

Well I was talking with one of the painters one day who also had problems with the facilities manager and told me about his paint storage room. He showed it to me and it was out of the way. No one else had a key to it. It was perfect.

I probably spent months in that place. And wouldn't you believe it. I all of a sudden started getting compliments from the facilities manager telling me how I am doing such a better job now.

Which I always thought was hilarious, but couldn't say a word. And if I got a call on the radio it was fine because I could just run out of there and be wherever I needed to be, but since no one ever wanted me for anything then I never got a call on the radio which was perfect as well.

What would I do for 8 hours a day in a little room you ask? Well I found ways to keep me busy. I was able to start taking naps after lunch again. I thought those days were gone after kindergarten. I would read books, but I don't have many books so I went through those pretty quick.

Then I went old school. And funny enough this little thing is what probably allowed to me to keep my job. I brought in my Old Game boy. I bought some new games for it, and all I did for months was play video games at work. And I was getting COMPLIMENTED FOR IT.

So if you have the means then this is one great way to deal with a boss. Just undermine him every chance you get without him knowing about it. LOL

This is one of my prouder moments during my work career. Reason being is because I was always call skinny and weak. The people I worked with always laughed at that. Well at one point a few years ago I put a stop to that. It took me a year, but I gained 50 lbs of muscle and outweighed and stronger than all, but one guy. So I guess they thought that they would put me to the test one day.

Every now and then we would have people abandon their bikes on-site. But they would leave it chained up at the bike locks at the bike racks. Well we would take bolt cutters to them if the bike hadn't moved in a year. Well one day we came across a MasterLock bike lock with 1/4" steel. All the other guys were thinking of crap we are going to need a electric saw to be able to cut through this thing.

I spoke up and said "nah I can do it" Famous last words. So they handed me the bolt cutters. I had to open them up all the way just to be able to get around the lock. And I gave one mighty push. I didn't even make a dent that first time.

But in those little moments that I had to just test out the lock I apparently had gathered a crowd. I look behind me and through the windows of the building you had everyone watching. So the pressure started to climb. The guys were like "Oh man you have to do it now, you have a crowd staring at you thinking your weak."

So I moved my position to be able to put more of my weight on the lock. And gave another mighty push. And after about one minute of giving it everything I got the lock started to give. I saw this and kept on going refusing to give up. I moved my legs to get a little more leverage and this seemed to help.

I saw it starting to cut in the steel more and more with each passing second, but I was quickly running out of strength. BUT at the very last second I gave it everything I had left and the lock broke away. Not only that I ended up breaking the bolt cutters, which were new.

I looked back at the crowd that had gathered and I was getting some nice looks from some female employees. I still have the lock hanging in my office to remind me what I had trained for. The respect I earned for myself and what I had to put in to get to that point.

We have all had to deal with mad coworkers. Whether they were mad at you or just the world in general we have all had to deal with them at the office. Sometimes we are those employees in the office.

Well I had this one guy come in my office and requested another ID badge because he lost his. But the Office policy is that you have to wait a few days after you lost it and try to look for it. More times than not you do find it in about a day or two hence why that office policy is in place. Anyways he comes into my office and asks for a new badge and I ask him how long has his ID badge been missing. He told me if he knew that then he would go there and get it.

That answered kinda confused me, so I asked it in a different way. I asked him when was the last time you remember using it. He told me yesterday. I informed him politely that the office policy is that you have to wait four days before you can get a new one. He then told me OK it has been four days then.

I told him no it hasn't because he just told me different. This is where is gets INTERESTING. He gets right in front of my face and says are you trying to argue with me. I get right back in his face and tell him no, I just repeated what you just said. I then asked for his name and he started to walk out. He then turned around and said that he will be back when I am not in there and get his badge anyways.

I walk out of my office following him to get his name and to see if he wanted to back up trying to get in my face. I get his name from an unnamed source. :)

But get this. After I write the report and send it to my boss I get a call from a unknown caller. I answer it and it was that dude!!! He actually called to apologize. I was taken aback. Not ten minutes ago this guy was trying to fight me over something as stupid as a badge.

I told him since he had the balls to actually call and apologize to just stop by during his lunch and I will get him a new ID badge. Which I did.