Have you ever done anything or witnessed someone else doing something at work or with work colleagues that was funny, embarrassing, intriguing or momentous in any way? Post your stories here :)

OMG!!!! you wouldn't believe the stories I have :twisted: LOL

Well anyways. A couple of days ago i was working. It was a slow day so i was staring out the window at our gas pumps when all of a sudden some van actually crashed into one of our crash poles (poles that sit just before the pumps). After a while he came in and got some gas and i was like... so hows the van? He was like... My wife is going to kill me.... LOL

Had to share it :razz:

Lol (",)

I used to be one of them annoying folk who turn up on your door and try to persuade you to give money to charity. I just remember on one of my first days some guy who was suposed to be showing me how its done knocked on a door and a woman answered in a dressing gown, he just went "Woa you're not going to flash me are you?" she gave him the dirtiest look and slammed the door in his face haha.

I was considered a 'Green Agent' (noob) for a very long time at my duty station while I was working. (for those of you that do not know, Border Patrol is how I am formally trained) I had already had 3 years in and was still considered very very green though I was one of the hardest working agents at my station: Always on "the ground" chasing and "working traffic" as we call it when hunting law breakers in the middle of the brush and stuff. Well that week, I had been in the same 'AOR' (area of responsibility) for like 5 days in a row and getting tired of it! We had a "sensor" (indicator to let us know if there is possible illegal activity going on. Used in more used or remote areas) going off alot by a trail used by said law breakers, which I discovered to be a skunk setting it off during the night as it foraged for food. A SKUNK! I made sure to avoid it and let my neighbors to either side know about it. Like clockwork this skunk would set it off. Well one night, my partner to one side happened to be an idiot agent that dismissed ANYTHING anyone with less than 5 years "in the service" said or did. The sensor went off at said time and I "called it in" as animal traffic after a brief check of a few things. This idiot overrode me on radio to EVERYONE and said "It's good, greenie doesn't know what they are saying." Well, everyone went ahead and let him go "CUT THE BUG" (check for footprints, signs of human activity). EVEN the supervisors sat back and let him do his thing. :biggrin::biggrin: Not more than 20 minutes later, we all hear a frantic call on the radio "STAY BACK STAY BACK! SKUNK! ($#%($#(%$ SKUNK!" Everyone was LOL'ing as we knew what happened. He was the type to "walk in trails" and go to the actual area where the sensor is. While he was doing this, he disturbed the skunk and got sprayed for it! He got nailed so horribly by it as he was "low crawling" it in! (trying to be all covert and tactical and stuff..now imagine WHERE he got nailed by the skunk) WE were all laughing our butts off and the "channel" lit up like an X-mas tree with everyone asking him if he was 10-19 (Agent status OK) :razz::twisted::razz::twisted::razz:

I settled back in for the night ( I was on graveyard shift), satisfying smirk on my face. He went home for the night :smile::smile: AND never again questioned my input whenever we worked together out in "the field."

I got alot of colourful stories like that lol. That one was just one of the funnier ones I remember from early on in my career.

I got 2 stories. About 5 years ago in the microbiology lab i was lab ♥♥♥♥♥ at, a grad student trying to impress girls sniffed a petri dish streaked with Proteus mirabilis, a bacteria that is particularly foul smelling and the cause for most kinds of urinary tract infections. Anyway, he landed at the urologist and missed school for like 2 weeks.

The other one, very recently, is about this chemistry teacher who thought potassium nitrate looked "wet". Often in chemistry some chemicals get hydrated because of humidity and can easily be recrystallized by sticking it into an oven for a little while. But you have to know what should and what shouldn't go into an oven, or risk being remembered as the idiot who stuck half a kilo of potassium nitrate in the oven at 400C. Anyway, not knowing any better, she stuck it in the oven.

Potassium nitrate is the main ingredient in smoke bombs. The half kilo of nitrate burned for about 15 minutes creating enough smoke to fill the entire room, hallway and have smoke escaping from out the window.

Science is just jerking around 75% of the time.

Lol, I loved reading those stories :P
I also have 2 stories from work.

The first involves another cashier at work chatting to a female customer.
Cashier: "When's your baby due?"
Lady: "I'm not pregnant"
Cringe. :razz:

The second involves one of the duty managers at his old store.
A customer told him that he had heard someone in the toilets who sounded in pain.
The manager went to investigate. He knocked and pushed open the door saying, "Are you alright?" on entering, only to find two people making love :razz: Needless to say he departed quite promptly and said, "Clean up when you've finished". :razz:

I’ve been promising this story that happened to me at work to DB and a few others so I finally got the articles (some of them) scanned in for you all to read the publicity surrounding this even that occured to me few years ago while serving in the U.S. Border Patrol. Sorry if it reads wooden. I am keeping it to the basics even though it is long =))

The nature of the job of a USBP Agent is not all just about catching illegals. The job is very dangerous and very unpredictable. Most often, we work as solo agents with sometimes back up being anywhere from a minute to several hours away. We must rely on our senses, our training, or wits, and most defs our tools given us to help accomplish our jobs. Among law enforcement in the U.S., Border Patrol has some of the most rigorous and best training available. We are also trained in rescue and survival swimming, medical specialties, sign-cutting, all sorts of tricks in our bags (this is just a small number of the kinds of training we get..so you can see why we are considered very highly trained and experts in many things..including weapons training). Well on this day, my skills in certain things were put to the test.

I’ve been in really hairy situations before on the job and mostly alone. I think to date, I have proven the caliber of agent and training that has stuck through me…from rescuing drowning people in full gear, pulling people from crashed vehicles, confronting and physically fist fighting with suspects twice my size and of opposite gender and more than one, to being attacked with a knife and being shot at too. AND many that know me..know I have been through a severe personal tragedy that made this situation even harder AFTER but during. I let my training kick in. I delivered a woman of her child while she was out in the middle of nowhere in the brush.

On this day, I was patrolling an area not frequently patrolled due to remoteness and dangerousness of the area in terrain and the types of criminal element that frequent these places. It is rugged, hot, desolate.. just terrible. As I was in this area, doing my checks of the areas where we find our targets, drugs, people, human traffickers, ect I spotted a man coming at me out of a bush. He was very sun burned, dirty, dehydrated and scared. I could tell this was a genuine problem going on. He was hardly understandable in his speaking but I managed to get that his wife was hurt or sick very close by.

As agents, we are trained to look at physical cues to gauge a situation and I could tell he was not faking. Luckily my AT vehicle was close by and I called out that there was an assist and I would be getting back with more info. As I approached the brush, I noticed a woman lying on the ground. She was passing in and out of consciousness and was naked from the waist down. The man went to her side and begged for me to help them. I could see..that this man was sick..this woman was sick but THIS woman was in labor. She was about to have this baby! I immediately rushed to my vehicle and called out on the radio “10-18 10-18 get EMS en-route. I have two subjects, severely dehydrated and one in labor. Looks like she is gonna have it now! I need a 975 (our station call number) supervisor stat and any available back up..I am (I gave my approximate coordinates to where I was.) Turning on portable radio locator. Ports don’t work here. I will be out of contact. Need assistance now” I did not even give a chance for our dispatchers to respond to me when I grabbed my rescue gear and went back to the woman and man. She was conscious now and in a lot of pain and reaching out for me with such a look on her face. My training kicked in. All I could think of was saving this family. Helping this woman. Nevermind my personal tragedy dealing with the loss of my three day old son. THIS was NOW and this needed to be done.

It was as if time stood still. There were no other sounds. There was only this woman that I kept conscious by talking to her and focusing her on her baby being born. I had geared myself with gloves, scissors, bandages, blanket, towel and bentadine in my rescue kit. I told the man to hold his wife’s head in his lap. I had my own personal water in my camelback on my back. I gave that to him for him to feed to her and to him. They were so sunburned and sick. I learned later that the heartless human smuggler they paid to get them across had abandoned them because she was too slow for being term pregnant. They had been there for almost 2 days in the severe heat with no food and water.

I talked to her. I had my cell phone which did work out there (our hand helds did not in that remote of an area) and I was in contact with one of my fellow agents that gave updates. It would be about 30 minutes before any of my fellow agents arrived and 45 minutes for EMS. I positioned myself and then before I knew it. This baby’s head was in my hands, then the body then the feet. Then She was out. She did not cry and I did my best to get her nose and airway cleared. The mom passed out again and I told her husband to try to wake her. I had this child in my hands..and finally got her to take a huge breath after what seemed like forever! She squiggled and cried out and I was exilerated but at the same time businesslike. I cleaned her up with what I had. I wrapped her up and saw the mom had delivered her placenta too early and she was bleeding so badly! I knew I had to cut the baby’s cord, which I did, and called again via cell to my partner and told him it had gotten more urgent. I did my best to keep her awake as I gave her husband his new daughter to hold. I talked her awake and kept her conscious. Not long after, my first back up arrived but there was not a lot to do than to take orders from me as I was the first responder. EMS got there while I did my best to stop her bleeding. They immediately took the child and the father and mother and transported them STAT.

I found out later. This woman would have bled to death had I not been where I was. The area was so remote. The last time anyone had been there was over 5 days ago. The family was already dehydrated and ill. They would have all died had I not been there. It just goes to show that the life of a US Border Patrol agent is very unique and it was truly an experience. I was also listed as the “attending” on the child’s birth certificate. That child is now two years old as of the 7th of this month. Such a plus to know it all went well.

Many of you that know me know I hate to brag. I am pretty hard on myself honestly. I am not saying I am a hero. I am saying I just did what I had to do. I did hopefully what anyone else in my position would have done. Those people needed help and I gave it to the best of my training, abilities and tools given me. I was just glad to have found the living instead of the dead and help them when they needed it.

That’s my epically amazing story from work. I’ve had many but nothing in this category. I am including three of the many articles written about it for you all to look at. Hope you appreciated this event. I know I will never forget it. :smile::smile::smile:*

DISCLAIMER: Blocked out area is for another unrelated incident that was also being recognised and that Agent is to remain anonymous and in the others name kept private for security reasons of that person only.


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