Workplace fisticuffs?
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- zoozoo0
first rule of ...
- boobs0
Friend of mine went to work at his parents' business after finishing college. First day on the job, his Mom and Dad are smacking each other in the face with rolled-up newspapers!
- elahon0
I was working as a dishwasher when I was like 14, and one Sunday morning, one of the sinks had backed up all over the place, so we called around, couldn't get any managers, etc. and were forced to call in the owner, who had been sick with the caustic shits for like a week. Well, he's under the dishwashing unit for like 20 minutes clanging around with a good sized monkey wrench, swearing up a storm getting madder and madder, all covered in gray water and dishwasher sludge. I am standing against a back rack putting away some pans, and he shoots up to his feet and sort of roars, and I turn around just in time to duck as he hurls the fucking wrench at my head. It sails past and crashes into the stack of pots and pans I had been stacking, made a hell of a noise, shit everywhere, and he just walks out. 30 minutes later a plumber comes in and fixes it up. He never mentioned a word of it to me afterwards.
- slappy0
A guy a worked with a long time ago punched on with the bosses son in the bosses office.
No one got fired. I left. Thats family run businesses for you.
- meffid0
I've had some run-ins. Won as many as I lost.
- fooler0
I went toe to toe with a PM once after yelling "do you think you can make these changes any quicker!" and slamming the phone down after being asked "is it done yet?" every 15 minutes for an hour straight.
After I slammed the phone down I heard him run from the other side of the building into my cube just in time for me to swing my chair around and stand up fists clenched before he charged.
nothing happened but i was sure to surf QBN for a few more minutes before completing the changes.- you showed him!monospaced
- you go girl!monospaced
- *slams down phone and runs into monospaced's cube!fooler
- come at me bro!monospaced
- vaxorcist0
ok... freelancers version...
I was at a laptop in a cafe once, working away quietly, then some dunderhead turned the TV sound up.... I didn't even know there was a TV, but it was LOUD, and playing Glenn Beck ranting away on FOX news.... I picked up my coffee and nearly hurled it at the TV, but before I even did that, at least 2 other cafe patrons walked up rather angrily to the dunderhead who turned up the sound and had a few choice words... we all threatened to never ever come back, and I logged onto namecheap.com and was about to register a domain that was the name of the cafe plus the a few obscene words.... but I didn't have to.... it was the owner's brother from hell, er... from a certain red state that shall not be named...
but damn, a few seconds of having to listen to Glenn Beck, I want my braincells back, that motherfucker deserves to die...... as painfully as inhumanly possible...
- jagara0
I wanted to push my boss down the stairs once, when he was walking in front of me. I did'nt do it, though...
- 5timuli0
No but I almost got in a fighter Ikea on Sunday. Fun times, fun times.
- bjladams0
place i used to work at, boss man got angry with the signage install crew for taking left-overs from the job sites and cashing them in at the recycling. not small things either, like 150 lb cast plaques and such. during the confrontation (in front of quite a few of us) boss picks up a cordless drill and launches it across the room, about 20 ft or so, and it smashes on the wall close to one of the installers. didn't come to blows, but was really tense. odd ending here, installers left the argument with a raise...
- randommail0
When I close my eyes, I see myself round-house kicking pretty much everyone here except the receptionist.
- her you take by the waist & kiss after kicking everyone's ass?albums
- BK0
Came real close yesterday when some sucker nerd knocked down a banner stand I made and just left it crumpled on the floor.
- zoozoo0
no. someones got to have a story...
- boobs
Anybody got any good stories on punch-ups down the office?