I Have Major Secondhand Embarrassment After Reading These 23 Horribly Dumb Mistakes People Have Made At Work
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“As a new manager trainee, I had to sit through death-by-’90s OSHA videos. It was all stuff I had seen before, and I was incredibly bored of it. At the end of the video, there was a random guy in our office I assumed was a customer, and I sarcastically said, ‘Well, that was an hour. I’ll never get back.’ He goes, ‘Did you not enjoy it?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I didn’t at all, but like, I get it. Safety comes first, so it’s necessary, but the videos are so common sense it hurts. Anyway, can I help you real quick? I have a meeting to get to; the big guy from the corporate merchandising team several states away is gonna be here in an hour or two.’ He goes, ‘I’m filling in for the big guy from corporate; I’m the North American safety director. Let’s have a chat about your vision of safety at our workplace since you have that all figured out.'”
