Today's Awesome Stories

[mangaluva]

Soo proud of myself. While wearing a hiker's backpack full of a week's worth of clothes/notebooks/snack food/etc, I managed to run and make a ninja slide through the closing doors of an underground train that, had I missed, would have caused me to miss check-in time at my hostel XDXD

[Commi-Ninja]

Ninja slide, FTW!

[Edogawa4869]

I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows over again in preparation for the movie and I just found $10 hidden away in the pages!

[Yurikochan]

My Pug/Chihauhau mix qualified in all her runs and moved up to level 3 for some runs. ^^

[mangaluva]

Several awesome moments from my London trip:

Gatecrashing the Harry Potter premiere in Leicster Square. Not like we got in or anything, but we jumped several of the geeks who'd been queueing for two days to see the actors going in

When some wanker nearly pushed us down an elevator, my (Glaswegian) friend screeched "IMMA PUNCH YOU INNA FACE LIKE YOU A TERRORIST ON FIRE!"

When our group was slacking off and a teacher suddenly came in to see how we were doing, one of my friends instantly jumped to her feet and said "so, have the groups come up with some suggestions?" and a guy promptly said "Shoes!" Luckily, the teacher left the room again, so we didn't have to think up an explanation.

[PT]

So at work last weekend, they decided that we're gonna start wearing radios/headsets (every employee in the store, which is around 150-200 at any given time). Today was the first day they start issuing them out, and so we're all kind of in awe of the expensive new toys, so it was kinda crazy anyway, and they didn't have quite enough for everyone today because they're still getting some in, so those of us that went in earlier got them.

At one point, I was wandering around looking for something, and I had stopped to ask another employee a question, but right as I was about to say anything, we get this conversation between one of the cashiers (who was pulling in carts at the time) and my supervisor over the radios:

Cashier: Hey [supervisor]?
Supervisor: Yeah?
Cahsier: The JAG is grunting.
Supervisor: [pause] ....can you describe the grunting?

(the JAG is the cart retrieval machine btw)

Everybody around me that was wearing one of the radios (me included) just started cracking up. And the supervisor was telling me later that he got a call from one of the managers right after that thanking him for "keeping it clean" because we all knew he wanted to say something pervy. XD

[Abs.]

I can see only more Awesome Stories being posted in this thread because of these headsets and I fully approve 

[PT]

Yeah, me too. XD

And Commi even said she sees this whole thing going downhill very fast. XD

[Akonyl]

so it's an open connection all the time?

I wonder if they log anywhere which headset a voice is coming from

[PT]

Most of us know everyone's voices pretty well (except for the newer people), so, not really necessary.

[Akonyl]

well the real question is, do they know commi's voice? :V

[PT]

She's a ninja, of course they don't.

(Also, she doesn't talk much at work, so probably not. Not that she would be saying anything that needs to be logged anyway. Of the two of us, I'm more likely to be making inappropriate comments, and they all know my voice. )

[Akonyl]

ah, well I'd forgotten that you both worked at the same place. I was more insinuating that she could come in, you could lend her your headset and then she could say ridiculous things.

[PT]

Yeah, she probably wouldn't say ridiculous things. But otherwise, it would be an awesome plan!

[mangaluva]

Those headsets sound AWESOME.

Two awesome stories about my coworkers:

I work at Argos, and our branch is pretty small, just four tills up one side of the room, ten catalogues on the other, collection desk on the third side and a shop floor with a few chairs and some display items in the middle. Anyway, behind the tills there is one chair. When you're on a six-hour shift, you love that chair. That chair is your friend. Mostly we let my coworker Kirsty have it, because she's six months pregnant.
When I was on-shift yesterday morning, the manager took the chair away because she thought we looked like slackers sitting on the chair instead of standing behind our tills. When Kirsty came in, she was NOT happy. The managers is new, she's been here two weeks, and she's spent the entire time changing things that worked and ignoring things that were broken (like the fact that the huge and heavy TVs are kept at the back of the stockroom whereas the front shelves are dedicated to small things like videogames, which the boys could fetch from the back in about two seconds). There is no more glorious sight than watching a pregnant and angry coworker decimate an annoying new boss. We own her now 

Also, another coworker, Natalie, was conscripted into designing the new shopfloor display. There were several large toys just dumped in the middle of the shopfloor, and she was told to set them up into a nice display. So she stole one of the display trees from across the room, stuck it in the middle of the floor, and arranged the pile around it. When the manager came out to look, she wasn’t happy about Natalie moving the tree. The following exchange ensued:

Manager: Did you move this tree, Natalie?
Natalie: Of course not! Santa put the presents under the tree!
Manager: Did he now?
Random little boy who was in with his mother: You didn’t know that Santa brings presents, missus?
*All of us crack up as the manager has to promise the little boy that she won’t move the display, as he is under the impression that the display toys are presents for the people who work at Argos*

I gave his mother a free gift card.