‘What’s the most ‘The Office’ thing that’s happened in your office?’ – 23 awkward episodes

13.

There were such bad arguments over the aircon being on or off that it got to the point that we had to email the GM, who wasn’t based on site, for permission to use it. I wish I was making it up.
Lucky_Caterpillar_57

14.

DaddaMongo
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15.

I said I had a dentist appointment and my manager asked me if it was at 2:30 with a Chinese dentist, then he continued to say ‘tooth hurty’ in an accent.

I was young and had no idea how to react, so was just silence.
pen_dragons_pizza

16.

One of my colleagues was shat on by a seagull on the way into work. they got called into a “meeting” with one of the owners a few hours later. the meeting was called so that the other owner could shove an inflatable seagull above where she sat.
boro_seadogs

17.

I had to fight for my desk, three rounds, the winner takes all with no rules. I won all three rounds but there was some controversy over me swiping someone’s legs out from underneath them. Apparently that wasn’t fair?
a03dugga

18.

I had a (multi-millionaire) boss who wouldn’t buy us toner for the office fax machine, as we were “sending too many faxes”.

I gingerly pointed out to him that fax machines use toner when they *receive* a fax, not send one, and the reason we received faxes was that’s how our customers ordered from us…
mattlodder

19.

A couple weeks ago someone couldn’t get out of the office after hitting the exit button several times and it not unlocking the door. I stood up, walked over and opened it first try.

The moment give me real Jim and Dwight vibes.
Valkyze

20.

My manager used to have me watch him type out emails as ‘moral support’.

Casual mysogyny everywhere.
fabulousteaparty

21.

P_knowles
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22.

Manager refused to fire an absolute waste of space because it would reflect badly on him for having hired him in the first place.
fost1692

23.

Our manager gave the women in the office a cupcake for international women’s day.
summer_987

PaulGibbins went full Jim vs Dwight.

An annoying colleague of mine tried to argue with me once about what the old helper was on Microsoft Word. I thought it was Clippy the paperclip, he thought it was a pencil.

He then brought a giant novelty pencil into work to sit by his computer and be his “helper”, so I got my mate to steal it when I was off work, and then sent him sporadic emails from the pencil detailing his various adventures. All accompanied with photos of the pencil doing various things (going to the cinema, playing ping pong, bowling, DJing and other things).

This went on for a whole year while he tried and failed to prove the culprits (he didn’t suspect me because I was off when the first email was sent) until Christmas when I gave him a calendar with 12 photos of the pencil including the piece de resistance, a photo of the pencil meeting Santa Claus in a local shopping centre.

Before anyone says anything, yes I was incredibly bored and unchallenged in this job and yes, he definitely deserved it.

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