The Daily At-Work WTF

[Saydrah]

So, I like the website "Daily WTF," so I thought we could do a daily WTF moment at work thread.

Today's:

Was walking back from lunch when a shiny Beemer with Arizona plates pulled up to the curb next to me, driven by a tanned gent in sunglasses, looking like he had just gotten off the golf course.

BD: Beemer Dude
Me:

BD: "Excuse me, do you know where Aspire Marketing Group is?"

Me: "Nope, sorry, haven't seen it. It's not on the third floor of that building there, because I work on that floor and there's no Aspire Marketing Group there, but that's all I know. I don't live in this part of town." (pointing at my building)

BD: "Oh. Who do you work for?"

Me: "Disaboom. It's a website connecting the millions touched or affected by disability."

BD: "That sounds like a good job."

Me: "I enjoy it. Say, I think there's an information desk in that building. Why don't you park and come inside and ask them where your Aspire Marketing Group is?"

BD: "Do they pay you well?"

Me: ....

BD: ....

Me: (frostily) "I feel I'm adequately compensated."

BD: "Fair enough." (drives away)

WTF???!!

We are NOT hiring you, jackass, and does the 20-something girl walking along the street LOOK like the person with hiring power, anyway?! My salary is NONE of your business.

Soooo anyone else have a WTF of the Day from work?

[Rubyred]

I probably would have asked him why. It almost sounds like he wanted to hire you.

[Saydrah]

I don't think I would want to work for an employer that hires people walking down the street I've gotten offers like that twice- one was obscene and the other was for the Kirby vacuum cleaner people. Accepted neither

It struck me more as, he couldn't find his job interview at the Marketing Group, so he was trying to find someone else to hire him.

[Rubyred]

Probably...but I'm one of those people who has to ask. What if he was about to offer you 10 million a year? It would have bugged me. Lol.

[blas]

My daily WTF at work moment last night was the pervert maintenance dude, doing his usual nothing but pushing the maintenance cart up and down the halls....well I was walking to my boss' office and I saw him pushing the cart and staring at his elbows with this really dumbfounded look on his face.. As if to say "What the fuck are these for?"

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

my WTF moment a few days ago was when I was pushing carts, and some bitch stopped her car in front of me and laughed

[Rapscallion]

A notice left on your desk when you get to customer services:

"You may get some 'Where's my order?' calls from customers on the XX run. Driver went off in the wrong truck, found out too late, and is now four hours behind schedule."

Rapscallion

[karath]

Well, working in the drive-through these days, I could probably fill a page with posts about moments...but just to pick one, I would have to pick the guy who changed his order as he was paying.

Now, I'm sure you're all aware that drive-through speakers are hardly crystal clear, so mistakes DO happen. Usually simple stuff, like hi-c (fruit punch) was supposed to be iced tea, sprite was supposed to be fries or vice versa...orders like that sound similar enough through a staticy speaker that we're pretty easy to fix, if a bit annoying for all parties involved. Even with double-checking the order, the shitty speaker goes both ways, so its not an ideal system

Now, that said, mixing up, say, a combo and a SALAD is damn near impossible, shitty speaker or no. Which made the guy who made this switch about midway through the lunch rush and acted as though we had spit in his face a major part of my day.

[Geek King]

"My mouse pad is broken."

No, it wasn't one of the optical mice that needed the special pad.