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Anyone have any interesting stories from their jobs?

I was working for Cutco (a kitchen cutlery company)over the summer. I sold knives.

I'd tell the stories, but I'm still nursing my wounds...

Well I've had two mega stressful jobs both of which involved amusing stories.

The first was working as a Customer Services Co-worker in IKEA. The most memorable experience there was when this huge, scary, biker man stormed in and basically threw a damaged wardrobe at us. Luckily it fell a few feet short of us and we were just closing so it was empty. He was shouting and swearing at us because it was damaged. Mega scary. I turned around for a more experienced member of staff than me and they'd all bogged off and left me to deal with Mr. Manic! It was like David and Goliath, except there was no stone, only a refund voucher.

And this summer I worked as a mentor for children referred from Social Services. Many strange and funny things happened to us (needless to say)! Most memorable was when my mentee called my colleague a "spazmatic chicken" as an insult during an arguement. Another was the time half of us got stuck on a train with no money and no idea of where we going to end up. Even though I was stressed, I find it amusing now.

Oh and also, we all went to the park and a lad kicked our ball over the other side of a brook. So he jumped over to get it and couldn't get back. Another mentee jumped across to help and again, couldn't get back. So three of us mentors had to wade in and carry the kids across as neither of them could swim. We all looked like complete pillocks on the bus journey back sitting there sopping wet whilst the kids were completely bone dry.

In the last week we went fishing and had a mentor vs mentee competition. Myself and Luke caught four fish, Danni and Mikey caught a tree.

I've been working as a barmaid in a pub for the last 3 years
Needless to say there are hundreds of funny stories I could tell but a lot of them are probably not suitable for here hehe

Hm, well as a few here know, I work at a theme park, but nothing all that funny happens.
It's not a story, but one day when I was put to work at the glass maze, I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud each time some poor kid would run straight into a glass wall... And once when I kid who was waiting to go in, he cuffed his hands around his face and leaned in to what he thought was a glass, but was actually the exit, and he fell forward.

People do that here! There's this plaza near my school, just a short 15 min mini-bus ride, and there's this sticker photo place. My friend told me that another friend walked straight into the glass window. ><"

Few years ago, I was working as a helper at summer school at my old primary school. We were reading with the kids and there was this kid called "Rod". So then we were all a little...surprised and amused.

He ended up being "Pink fishing rod". Fishing rod - you can guess why. Pink - because he liked/s pink.

Rod is short for Rodney I believe.

My parents bought Cutco knives. Very good knives, by the way.

Indeed they are... but as you can imagine, it can get a little dangerous at times...

I was once giving a demonstration when the lady whom I was giving it to cut me with one of her knives. She led me to her bathroom, applied a rather large dose of iodine (cringe), put the bandage on herself (missing the wound completely and placing the adhesive on my raw flesh), then asked me to continue the demonstration.

Needless to say, I used the whole "this could happen to you" tactic