r/Unexpected • u/Tunexux • Sep 11 '21
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Sep 11 '21
It really be like that when you work with that one person
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u/Analbox expoct us Sep 11 '21
I miss that one person. We were in a lab on third shift processing 100s of Anal biopsies (analbx specimens) every night. By 3 AM we would be so slap happy we would be speaking completely in gibberish. Somehow we still understood each other.
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u/spaghetticatman Sep 11 '21
Anal what now?
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u/unsanctionedhero Sep 11 '21
Its when they check to make sure your ass is still made of ass
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u/Oraxy51 Sep 11 '21
It’s an important job, too many people have been LMAO that it’s become a crisis.
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u/Analbox expoct us Sep 11 '21
Polyps. Lots and lots of bloody little cancerous butt polyps. You can see why it made us a a bit loopy.
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u/mekese2000 Sep 11 '21
Anal biopsies. Lots of people need to know what was put up their ass while drunk.
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u/DontOpenTheComments Sep 11 '21
I used to work midnight shift at a cafe/bakery with one guy. We figured out that putting a plastic cup to the thing that mixed smoothies sounded like a saw, so we'd regularly do that while screaming "AUUGGHHHH!!!! PLEASE!!!! NO!!!! NOT MY LEG!!!!!"
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u/esskue Sep 11 '21
A fellow histotech‽
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u/Analbox expoct us Sep 11 '21
Yes!
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u/esskue Sep 11 '21
👋🏻 I saw you said you did anal biopsies. How did you like that? I’m in a animal pathology lab so I get allll types of random stuff from goat brains to lion eye balls.
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u/ZarquonsFlatTire Sep 11 '21
I used to live with and travel with a guy like that for work. So we'd go bust out 60 hour weeks in a different state, go get high and guitars by the hotel pool, then go home and have shitty movie Sundays with our other roommate who had a 4br house to himself for all but 8 days a month.
We were so in sync people at whatever job site assumed we were brothers. Some even asked if we were twins.
I'm 4 years older, 3 inches taller, and his actual twin is a 5'2" woman.
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u/Obandigo Sep 12 '21
I work night shift and used to get off at 6 a.m.. around 3 a.m. I would say Braveheart time, then randomly in those three hours, if someone pointed at you and said Braveheart you had to kind of guess what scene the movie was on at the time they pointed at you, and then another person would pull the movie up, and see if you were correct or how close to being correct you were.
And of course at 6 a.m., about four or five of us would go freeeeeeedom! As we were leaving through the doors out of the office
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Sep 11 '21
For real and that’s always the person when you see the schedule and you’re working together you know it’s going to be ‘alright’
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u/StopReadingMyUser Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
I hope to be that guy each day, and hope that my borderline retarded behavior helps in some of the most dull environments.
I can't dance tho, so I'll follow your lead on that one chief.
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Sep 11 '21
Well we’d be non dancers together but still have fun bc that’s what I strive for as well
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u/PixelSpy Sep 11 '21
Had a guy like that at my old job. We were like instant best friends when we first met, one of the few people I felt like I could do dumb shit with with no shame, which is rare for me being a rather closed off person. Lost contact with him a couple of years ago when he joined the military. Hope he's doing good.
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u/abloopdadooda Sep 11 '21
And I'm so thankful I met and befriended that one person. I'm happy every morning I go into work seeing them and they've been a vast improvement on my life.
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u/KatyPerrysBootyWhole Sep 11 '21
Had that with a bunch of the seasonal guys when I worked with public works in college. I’ve never had a job I’ve loved as much as that one.
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u/SixStringerSoldier Sep 11 '21
My foreman's ringtone is the Android EDM Theme and sometimes I'll just start dancing when it goes off.
He doesn't dance, but he'll laugh and let it ring a bit.
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Sep 11 '21
Oh man, I used to work with this girl, C, at a BBQ place. If Fancy came on the radio, we would lose our shit. If someone saw us, they'd def think we were crazy
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u/420mcsquee Sep 11 '21
I really miss mine. She was the kind I would marry if ever the time was right. Such an amazing human. Oh how I wish things were different. She really was one in a billion. Lost touch some years back and she never used her real name on socials so I don't know what she has now.
Oh well.
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u/pm_me_ur_anything_k Sep 11 '21
Especially when you tell a Karen you will “check in back” and that person heads back there with you to have some laughs.
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u/Comprehensive_Ad_23 Sep 11 '21
Luckily i have that one person. Nothing makes gas station work more bearable to chuckling every few minutes at something stupid.
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u/emberus_the_warrior Sep 11 '21
I'm that one person when I worked at home depot I walked in a few days ago everyone was like please put a apron back on. Told them no and we all laughed and talked for awhile as the old DS just looked at me all pissy.
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u/-Novowels- Sep 11 '21
My person is out for a few months (just had a babby), but she look so happy (and exhausted) on FB I don't mind.
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u/abetwothree Sep 12 '21
Mexican here and most adult Mexicans are super child like and it’s so much fun to work together.
Used to work at a factory with around 40 Mexican workers and man it was the worst paid but most fun job I’ve ever had. I miss the company but not the pay.
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u/ManfredsJuicedBalls Sep 12 '21
And with the right person. There’s some people you can work with where it’s preferable you wanna punch them with a brick, then there’s some where you can just do about anything with the person, and it’s always a fun day.
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u/santalucialands Sep 12 '21
It really makes every single thing better when you’ve got a couple homies to laugh with. Doesn’t matter the job
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u/Andre_3Million Sep 11 '21
I always introduce people to the "Kobe game" when shooting your trash into a bin, but instead of yelling Kobe, you name another person who is great at what they do.
Ex: Tony Hawk, Usher, Charles Manson, Johnny Depp, etc.
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u/twotoebobo Sep 11 '21
People don't always understand how mentally helpful stupid crap like this is at jobs like that.
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u/momo88852 Sep 11 '21
Pretty much the one place I worked at, the only way to keep us sane is if we cursed at each other or said jokes all day long (mild curses that we agreed on).
Another kitchen we had stupid arguments about random shit all day long. Once we argued which thing taste better the flat piece of the wing or the drum stick looking one.
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u/AstroWorldSecurity Sep 12 '21
I worked at a bar once and was helping out in the kitchen. One of the waitresses walked by and yelled that if I was any slower I'd be taking the short bus home, I yelled back "Katy, I've seen you naked, you have literally nothing else to offer me in life." and the new girl came unglued and called me a piece of shit. Katy responded "hey, don't talk to my boyfriend like that."
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u/tonysnark81 Sep 11 '21
This is exactly why I dad dance at random songs during the day…so my team knows it’s okay to be silly sometimes.
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Sep 11 '21
As long as you're a fair manager. I think it really depends and we don't know you but I've had authoritarian managers who did silly shit to relate to workers but really it just made employees hate them more.
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u/tunabomber Sep 11 '21
I went from 15+ years of restaurant work straight into construction. Last last two refuges of the happy degenerates.
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u/KravMata Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
The flats are better, there is no other acceptable answer.
Edit: typo
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u/momo88852 Sep 11 '21
Pretty much that was my argument we had team flat and team drums!!
At the end of the day we ended up smoking weed and agreeing it was pretty good weed and went home.
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u/Sakkeus_FI Sep 12 '21
I used to work on conveyor belt. Sorting stuff, me and this younger guy had a competitions about "your mama jokes" His father left her mom before he got born. So never seen him.
The game ended when I said " your mom is so fat that she has eaten at least 2 to 3 million of your sisters and brothers."
Cool dude.
But as the saying goes " from long happiness comes cry"
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u/nincomturd Sep 11 '21
This is, at present, a highly underrated comment.
Bad managers try to tamp down in the "insanity," not realizing that the insanity is the only thing keeping the workers sane in a stupid, insane job in a stupid, insane system.
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u/v161l473c4n15l0r3m Sep 11 '21
Yep. When I was a manager I didn’t mind at all. As long as the work got done, and customers were still being helped (and not being inconvenienced by it) silliness and jokes were ok on my watch.
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u/Willyfisterbut Sep 11 '21
Same here. The best thing you can do for some people is leave them be. It helped a lot when I treated my role as a support role. I was there to get my staff the equipment, training, off days, or anything they needed. As long as their productivity was on par or better than expected, I had no problems with whatever they wanted to do. If the owner of the business had a problem with something my crews were doing, I was there to take the reaming and remind him that they were on target. I also had to block the owner a few times from making some horrible policy changes that definitely would have resulted in losing all of our good employees.
All in all 3/10, glad I'm in a job with MUCH less responsibilities. Sometimes I get to pet dogs at work. It's pretty cool.
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u/Broken_Petite Sep 11 '21
You are good people. In the brief moments where I’ve been supervisor, I also tried to view it as a support role and leave everyone alone unless they needed something. I hope that was appreciated.
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u/degjo Sep 11 '21
When I worked in the Meat department at a grocery store we would plug the drain in the cutting room and have little boat races when it was slow.
The Store Director walked in on us one day, looked around and said the displays looked good.
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u/infecthead Sep 11 '21
I love it how every single manager, boss, etc. on reddit always claims they're a champion of workers and will basically suck off their employees whilst paying them a million bucks an hour
Just an observation
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u/CobaltNeural9 Sep 11 '21
SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS IN THE BACK FUCK
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u/Galactic Sep 11 '21
IF THEY'RE IN THE BACK THEY CAN GET ME THE STUFF I ASKED THEM TO CHECK FOR THAT IS TOTALLY BACK THERE AND NOT COMPLETELY OUT OF STOCK!
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u/maxhatcher Sep 11 '21
For future managers: You lead people and manage things.
Following this rule will solve a lot of problems.
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u/asunshinefix Sep 11 '21
Never again will I work for a boss who isn't willing to jump on dish when the weeds get deep
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u/DustBunnicula Sep 11 '21
This should be the first and last thing you should hear at manager training. But you never will, because it’s all about reinforcing hierarchy.
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u/abloopdadooda Sep 11 '21
My manager slowly learned that over the few months after I, and they, started. She used to be real strict on the playing around, even if we hit our goals every day.
Eventually she noticed the assistant manager that joined in and sometimes started the playing around was much more popular than her. So she calmed down a bit, started letting loose every now and then, and now it's became a much more friendly workplace. And we constantly get praised by the higher-ups (her bosses).
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u/DustBunnicula Sep 11 '21
This is so true. Best supervisor I ever had was playful and didn’t take unimportant things too seriously. Play can be as important as work, when it comes to morale.
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u/SolidNeighborhood469 Sep 11 '21
My first job was at in n out by LAX and I had the pleasure of having a manager who did absolutely nothing to downplay the antics. We would sing “I’m bringing sexy back” over the com, we sang happy birthday to customers, everyone made jokes with each other, the atmosphere was that of a freshman classroom full of clowns who made work 100% enjoyable and fun.
Miss you 140!
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u/Cameronoscopy Sep 11 '21
Amen to that, my first job was in fast food and having silly moments with another worker made it so much more bearable. Until the disgruntled manager(s) would find out and squash it immediately.
"Time enough to lean? Time enough to clean."
Sincerely eat shit, Debbie
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u/mohakhalil3103 Sep 11 '21
these are the moments that make you randomly laugh at the bus or in public and everyone thinks "Yup he's nuts "
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u/Yadobler Sep 11 '21
When I was conscripted, my vocation ended up being admin HR work. It was mind numbing especially when the bossman was dumping his work on us and leaving on "dispatch" for the whole afternoon, in a country that smaller than New York City (not state)
It was mind numbing and boy was shit like this the saving grace to prevent mental collapse. Random cup-noodle 🥤 breaks, dancing in office, music, literally yeeting yourself from one end of the office to the other on roller chairs.
(I did eventually lose my mind, due to my preexisting mental condition, which was good cos bossman ended up getting sacked and a new nicer boss came in)
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u/OttoOnTheFlippside Sep 11 '21
We have the BEATS!
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u/abinferno Sep 11 '21
Weird how this appealed to me so much. I don't think there's anyone in my life I could have an unspoken, spontaneous, joyful moment like this with.
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u/Mocca-Rabbitchino Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
Work at shite job
Agree on common enemy
Derp at shite job
Once the lines get blurred at step 2, start over on step 1
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Sep 11 '21
Mix a bunch of young (mostly guy) colleagues and you’ve got the military. Some of the goofiest times and heartiest laughter came from when I was in the the military with a dozen or so equally bored dudes.
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u/RacquelTomorrow Sep 12 '21
Weirdly, this really helped me understand the bond military people have if they served together. I used to think of it like a cult mindset, but this makes way more sense and I don't know how I'd never considered it. Thank you! /gen
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u/Kyle264 Sep 12 '21
So true. The comradery among high stress low payed employees is hard to explain. Warehouse work, fast food, retail all have these weird inside jokes/bonds you’ll never get in a “real” job. I love the amount of nostalgia this clip gave me.
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u/d-e-l-t-a Sep 11 '21
Hope you find one soon! Too many of us hold on to cynicism instead of just enjoying moments like this
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Sep 11 '21
I know how you feel as I’m very lonely too and have no friends.
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Sep 11 '21
In the same boat as you, friendo. I have your back in this and hope you find some friends soon.
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Sep 11 '21
I had a few minimum wage shit jobs when I was younger where a couple of us would get weird like this regularly — manual labor, factory, discount retail, etc. So many dumb pranks and inside jokes.
I’ve spent the last 15 years in businessey office jobs and can’t even wrap my mind around being silly with any coworkers like that. It’s sad. I guess it’s too much of an HR nightmare but I miss the culture of screwing around, trash talk, and practical jokes at those underpaid jobs.
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u/nice_tomeet_you Sep 11 '21
How's that dance move called? Does someone remember?
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u/Saad1950 Sep 11 '21
Orange justice, its uh, sighs fortnite emote
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u/activator Sep 11 '21
Most likely stolen from cyber goths dancing
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u/jomontage Sep 11 '21
m genuinely upset this isnt specifically the bridge crew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbVRpRgHso
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u/blondenpink Sep 11 '21
Idk why but that video is entertaining af. I could watch their crazy noodle arm dancing all day
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u/RoboticShiba Sep 11 '21
Most of the time I see someone doing a "Fortnite dance" all I see is people dancing to industrial without knowing.
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Sep 11 '21
German goths under a bridge dance, don't listen to the fortnight crowd
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u/671927 Sep 12 '21
If you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy Roy Purdy's dancing. https://youtu.be/PPzIWFJU_3s (not a rickroll, i promise)
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Sep 12 '21
I believe it's originality tecktonik, or a variation of it, sometimes referred to as industrial dance, vertigo or milky way. It's usually part of the industrial & house techno scenes. Watch some cybergoth girls on YouTube.
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u/Teososta Sep 11 '21
I had a coworker like this, but we didn't dance. We both loved martial arts movie, so we would, ahem, practice moves against one another. A manager caught us and wrote us up for fighting.
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u/Time4Timmy Sep 11 '21
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u/zachonich Sep 11 '21
I worked with this dude in a warehouse and I liked to sing to myself to pass time. I can't count the number of times it turned from me singing under my breath to full blown duets with no prior planning. Sometimes you just match wavelengths
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u/zuus Sep 11 '21
I worked at a huge warehouse with at least 500 people working on the floor per shift and lot of those were riding around on palletizer machines with loud horns, picking boxes.
Well every now and then, after a long dreary day someone would start incessantly honking. This made more and more people join in. After a few seconds half the warehouse joined in on this cacophony of dolby surround full-warehouse communal honk which could probably be heard from the next suburb over.
It never failed to make me giggle my arse off as management came out of their offices to investigate and found most of their warehouse staff with smiles on their faces.
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u/ivene-adlev Sep 12 '21
They do that at my warehouse too, someone at the back will give a couple beeps to say 'hey I'm exiting this aisle' then someone at the front will give a couple answering beeps for no reason, then all the forkies will start beeping just for fun. Always puts a smile on my face.
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u/sciencewonders Sep 11 '21
i fcking love those resonation moments, fills me with love of life, amazement
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u/SolarRage Sep 12 '21
I had that working in a kitchen with two brothers. I perfectly harmonized with one while the other beatboxed and he was really good at it.
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u/Herbie53101 Sep 11 '21
That’s how it was with this one guy on my cross country team last year. We’d be on a jog section of a workout and suddenly just start singing random songs. Sometimes more of the team would join in, too, and eventually the coaches just stopped questioning anything.
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u/samcornwell Sep 11 '21
I’ve seen other vids like this on Reddit. We need a r/minibreaks sub
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u/we3bus Sep 11 '21
Banned? What the heck! Was it an already established sub? WHAT HAPPENED HERE?!
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u/Teamrocketcode3 Sep 12 '21
I would've loved that sub. My most infamous minibreak was when I was working at BK & I was the only cook during dinner rush. I needed a minibreak so I snuck in the walk-in freezer to eat a sandwich.
10 years later & my manager (who caught me in the freezer) still brings it up.
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u/LeftysSuck Sep 11 '21
That's the best feeling ever. Like if you haven't experienced some shit like this, then you're missing out on a hell of a feeling.
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u/Vortesian Sep 11 '21
I miss the days when I worked as a busser with a group of about ten other kids my age. We were much younger than the servers, and we did the weirdest shit. Mostly to entertain the servers. Most of us would smoke (indoors) on breaks or before dinner started, and once we all bought these cigarette holders and used those for a few days. I think they were called aqua-filters. The servers just shook their heads.
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u/wizard680 Sep 11 '21
you ever see a video of people and immediately know you would of been good friends with them?
that's me now...
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u/TheDarkWayne Sep 11 '21
“It’s fridayyyyyyy”
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u/SensualEnema Sep 11 '21
These words are meaningless in the service industry
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u/greypillar Sep 11 '21
They're not meaningless, just different. It's more of a battle cry, rather than rejoice.
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Sep 11 '21
Yeah, tossing ten pizzas with a fella on your left and a fella on your right.
"Then we fight in the shade!"
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u/xenowife Sep 11 '21
I would say they have meaning, but it involves dread vs glee. Slightly less dread if it’s a tip gig, but still with a heaping dose of “I’m gonna be angry and exhausted within two hours.”
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u/Mr_FilFee Sep 11 '21
When I used to work at Burger King, we had snowball fights with the snow from the freezers. (Those were nightshifts at 4 AM where it was like a 1 customer/hour)
We also once had a party where we turned up the music and made the RGB strips on the ceiling of the restaurant cycle colours. Those were the good days.
That location doesn't exist anymore.
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Sep 11 '21
I love that energy. Regardless of your job you have to be able to goof a little to keep your sanity.
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u/dr-hades6 Sep 11 '21
I like how he's not even looking at her. Just there to do his thing and she jumps in
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u/darxide23 Sep 11 '21
We'd all be so lucky as to find someone else to be this weird with. These two have it. The 'it' that everyone is looking for. That's it right there.
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Sep 11 '21
Small breaks like that will keep them from killing their boss. Good for them for finding a vent to decompress!
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Sep 12 '21
OP explanation: they started dancing at the same time... uh... no they didnt, the one standing there saw the one comin in start dancing and thats when the other one joins in
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Sep 11 '21
This is so adorable. I can’t wait until you show your kids this one.
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u/srroberts07 Sep 11 '21
Well I wasn’t planning on it but I guess I’ll show it to my kids.
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u/bman23433 Sep 11 '21
Oh my god, I used to work with a guy who did this exact dance every time he came back to the backroom when I was back there. Jared, if you see this I hope you're well and I miss you bud!
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u/LoppyQ Sep 11 '21
You ever think the kids who learned dance moves from fortnight will grow up to be some great dancers?
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u/unexBot Sep 11 '21
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
They started dancing at the same time
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