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When I answered the phone to be asked "what is your phone number"
That sticks out.
Nowadays though I am the full time carer for my Autistic Daughter, so everyday has Weird stuff at work! And I wouldn't have it any other way! |
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over a year ago
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I work surveying and installing specialist security systems for high profile building sites
The particular system I installed was very clever and with the research I’d done I was positive that I had completely secured the site.
We had an intruder alarm activated numerous times but never an intruder. After about a month of alarms and system checks I stayed on the site myself all night to try and find out what was going on. I saw nothing but the next night there was yet another intruder alarm and then reports of screaming. I had to go back to site and stay again only this time I heard the screaming too. After a while of hunting in torch light I found that a mother fox had got her back foot trapped in mesh and could just get her nose past the end of the perimeter which had tripped the alarm. She had 2 cubs behind her.
My job for that night was feed the fox family and get her free’d.
Apart from the odd base jumper, no more intruder alarms were raised! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When I answered the phone to be asked "what is your phone number"
That sticks out.
Nowadays though I am the full time carer for my Autistic Daughter, so everyday has Weird stuff at work! And I wouldn't have it any other way!"
Lol that’s funny.. asking what’s your number |
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over a year ago
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How long have you got !
All manner of things from first aid shoplifting sexual activity in the toilets men and women
Think the weirdest by far though was walking round and watching a female streaker and yes it was in daylight  |
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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago
Derbyshire village |
"How long have you got !
All manner of things from first aid shoplifting sexual activity in the toilets men and women
Think the weirdest by far though was walking round and watching a female streaker and yes it was in daylight "
Ooh shoplifting! Once saw a woman collapse, turns out she'd gone into shock cos of the frozen lamb legs under her dress that's she was trying to nab.
Whoops.
She was okay. |
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When I advertised for carpenters, and one dozy woman came round the site applying on behalf of her husband told me that her husband was and excellent carpenter, he fits carpets for a few carpet shops. |
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Bat hunting in a barn.
Had to seal a tenant's window as he was convinced that a ghost was causing the drafts.
Getting attacked by wild cats in maintenance tunnels deep underground at Heathrow airport. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Having the NRPB in to check our radioactive sources only for Rod on the plant to say he was missing a strontium 90. Had to later say to our visitors ‘oh the strontium was in the cupboard all along’ after I spied Rod sneaking it in after he found it. |
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I’ve had to put up with some horrific and unpleasant things at work, but possibly the weirdest is having to rescue a Manx Shearwater (very stupid migratory bird) from the middle of the oil refinery I work at |
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over a year ago
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Weird specifications written by people with no fucking clue what they're asking for. Or why.
Enter stage left, "all bricks must be delivered to site direct from the kiln and still warm".
In November.
For a job being done in December.
Me - "Why........"
Consultant - "because that's what I want........."
Winston
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"When I advertised for carpenters, and one dozy woman came round the site applying on behalf of her husband told me that her husband was and excellent carpenter, he fits carpets for a few carpet shops."
so funny! Bless her.
Some other of work stories are hair raising!
" A man with an owl on a lead telling me I was detached from reality."
...and some are surreal!
Weirdest in my workday is kinda within our interests here. Doing clothing alterations, I had a phonecall from someone who wanted their trousers waterproofed in a way that would allow them to... wee themself in public  I think I spent a bit longer on this call than any sane seamstress would! |
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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago
Market Harborough/ Kettering |
Not weird but bloody sad! One of my former employees got killed on his motorbike and I had to tell his colleagues the sad news  to see 5 burly groundworkers break down in tears will haunt me for the rest of my life |
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"Dealing with someone in labour who wasn’t actually pregnant 
Now that is weird !  "
Extremely, I was infuriated with her for wasting time but also chuckled about it. I guess there were some mental health issues, but her Aunty didn’t the same several years before |
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Depends what you mean by wierd.
Passenger causing a major security breach, by opening an emergency terminal door.
Having a dog break out of its cage, and run scared shitless around the airfield.
Getting a kalashnikov stuck in my face, for being a nosey git.
Having a dead persons arm hit your back, as the balsa wood coffin goes past you on the convetor belt. |
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Thankfully, it was minor though 
.... slightly more disgusting than weird.
Tg x