FabSwingers.com forum: What's the weirdest thing you've ever had to deal with at work

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Happy Tuesdays everyone

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The back of a paintbrush in the eye….

Thankfully, it was minor though

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Lipstick on my personal mug

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By *heNerdyFembyWoman
over a year ago

Eastbourne (she/they)

When I answered the phone to be asked "what is your phone number"

That sticks out.

Nowadays though I am the full time carer for my Autistic Daughter, so everyday has Weird stuff at work! And I wouldn't have it any other way!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I work surveying and installing specialist security systems for high profile building sites

The particular system I installed was very clever and with the research I’d done I was positive that I had completely secured the site.

We had an intruder alarm activated numerous times but never an intruder. After about a month of alarms and system checks I stayed on the site myself all night to try and find out what was going on. I saw nothing but the next night there was yet another intruder alarm and then reports of screaming. I had to go back to site and stay again only this time I heard the screaming too. After a while of hunting in torch light I found that a mother fox had got her back foot trapped in mesh and could just get her nose past the end of the perimeter which had tripped the alarm. She had 2 cubs behind her.

My job for that night was feed the fox family and get her free’d.

Apart from the odd base jumper, no more intruder alarms were raised!

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By *sBlueWoman
over a year ago

Up North

I have sooo many stories lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I answered the phone to be asked "what is your phone number"

That sticks out.

Nowadays though I am the full time carer for my Autistic Daughter, so everyday has Weird stuff at work! And I wouldn't have it any other way!"

Lol that’s funny.. asking what’s your number

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

A shark in the wrong box. Silly shark.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How long have you got !

All manner of things from first aid shoplifting sexual activity in the toilets men and women

Think the weirdest by far though was walking round and watching a female streaker and yes it was in daylight

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

"How long have you got !

All manner of things from first aid shoplifting sexual activity in the toilets men and women

Think the weirdest by far though was walking round and watching a female streaker and yes it was in daylight

Ooh shoplifting! Once saw a woman collapse, turns out she'd gone into shock cos of the frozen lamb legs under her dress that's she was trying to nab.

Whoops.

She was okay.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Crime mostly, from Robert Maxwell pension fund robbery to slightly more petty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My boss

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

A hand grenade, bomb evacuations, lost animals but mostly people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A snake in the ladies loo

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By *elshcouple18Couple
over a year ago

Cardiff

A complete stranger entering the customers house I was working in, and using their downstairs toilet. Hasten to say, I reported him, and he was sacked.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A colleague made us eat bbq'd banana wrapped in bacon. Weird but surprisingly pleasant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I could write a book. In fact, I think I might..

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By *romagefraisWoman
over a year ago

Sunderland

A girl was stabbed in the neck by a colleague.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A ferret found its way into the factory

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Bee stung my Dog lol (if you know you know)

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

When I advertised for carpenters, and one dozy woman came round the site applying on behalf of her husband told me that her husband was and excellent carpenter, he fits carpets for a few carpet shops.

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By *rlandoMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

A man in a Nigerian accent calling saying " this is you bank calling you "

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Bat hunting in a barn.

Had to seal a tenant's window as he was convinced that a ghost was causing the drafts.

Getting attacked by wild cats in maintenance tunnels deep underground at Heathrow airport.

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

The craziest was a bomb threat. The weirdest was probably a rat

. There was also the man who brought in a tupperware of his poo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being attacked by seagulls trying to reach the cab of my crane

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A woman with her toe stuck up a bath tap

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Having the NRPB in to check our radioactive sources only for Rod on the plant to say he was missing a strontium 90. Had to later say to our visitors ‘oh the strontium was in the cupboard all along’ after I spied Rod sneaking it in after he found it.

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

When I was a gardener I caught a guy taking a shit in a bush.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cannot comment on work matters

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By *lex.and.SexCouple
over a year ago

Bedale

Someone doing a shit in the elevator was probably the weirdest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Half a fish found underneath a climbing frame

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

"Half a fish found underneath a climbing frame "

Which half? Which fish?

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By *heRazorsEdgeMan
over a year ago

Wales/ All over UK

I’ve had to put up with some horrific and unpleasant things at work, but possibly the weirdest is having to rescue a Manx Shearwater (very stupid migratory bird) from the middle of the oil refinery I work at

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By *layisbetterwithLaughterMan
over a year ago

Stourbridge

A man with an owl on a lead telling me I was detached from reality.

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By *ustyLeRouxWoman
over a year ago

Brecon

I'm a dog walker ... many many things

Mostly eating things that shouldn't be!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Half a fish found underneath a climbing frame "

I went to the public toilets, in the carpark and found a duck's head, without the body on the way in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Weird specifications written by people with no fucking clue what they're asking for. Or why.

Enter stage left, "all bricks must be delivered to site direct from the kiln and still warm".

In November.

For a job being done in December.

Me - "Why........"

Consultant - "because that's what I want........."

Winston

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

"I'm a dog walker ... many many things

Mostly eating things that shouldn't be!"

My childhood dog once ate a pair of tights and it made its way all the way through

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Mould in an ear

.... slightly more disgusting than weird.

Tg x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A customer weeing in one of our bins

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By *thfloorCouple
over a year ago

Hove

"When I advertised for carpenters, and one dozy woman came round the site applying on behalf of her husband told me that her husband was and excellent carpenter, he fits carpets for a few carpet shops."

so funny! Bless her.

Some other of work stories are hair raising!

" A man with an owl on a lead telling me I was detached from reality."

...and some are surreal!

Weirdest in my workday is kinda within our interests here. Doing clothing alterations, I had a phonecall from someone who wanted their trousers waterproofed in a way that would allow them to... wee themself in public

I think I spent a bit longer on this call than any sane seamstress would!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had one lady had 35 cans of baby milk between her legs in bin bag when searched

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough/ Kettering

Not weird but bloody sad! One of my former employees got killed on his motorbike and I had to tell his colleagues the sad news

to see 5 burly groundworkers break down in tears will haunt me for the rest of my life

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

Dealing with someone in labour who wasn’t actually pregnant

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough/ Kettering

"Dealing with someone in labour who wasn’t actually pregnant

Now that is weird !

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By *.L.0460.Woman
over a year ago

Bognor Regis

I work with kids in care- teens. Even here, I wouldn't share some of the mad stuff they do but...jeeeeeez!

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

"Dealing with someone in labour who wasn’t actually pregnant

Now that is weird !

Extremely, I was infuriated with her for wasting time but also chuckled about it. I guess there were some mental health issues, but her Aunty didn’t the same several years before

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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago

Burnleyish (She/They)

Someone wanting a refund on a used sex toy because they didn't enjoy it

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Depends what you mean by wierd.

Passenger causing a major security breach, by opening an emergency terminal door.

Having a dog break out of its cage, and run scared shitless around the airfield.

Getting a kalashnikov stuck in my face, for being a nosey git.

Having a dead persons arm hit your back, as the balsa wood coffin goes past you on the convetor belt.

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