Sometimes I think it would be fun to be a fly on the wall in a call centre, listening in to some of the bizarre calls the customer service operators receive and watching their reactions. This is just one of those sort of calls where it would have been interesting […]
The Best Collection Of Work Jokes
It was a boiling hot summer day and Johnny and Henry were working hard digging a ditch, which in that heat as you might imagine was hard work. Meanwhile, Roger was sat under the shade of a tree sipping on a cool drink and watching them. Johnny asked Henry, “Why […]
Murphy was telling a friend that he had just lost his job because the foreman on the building site fired him. “Why did the foreman fire you?” his friend asked in surprise. “Oh”, Murphy said, “you know how foreman are. They stand around with their hands in their pockets watching […]
Charlie applied for a job as a signalman for the railways and was told to meet the inspector at the signal box for a job interview. The inspector gave Charlie an aptitude test, to determine whether he would be suitable for the position, having told him how being a signalman […]
We all know that drinking alcohol at work is pretty much forbidden everywhere these days, but back in the day you used to be able to drink at work, or at least after work and sometimes it was encouraged as well. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks […]
For the last annual company picnic, management had decided that due to liability issues on company property, we could have alcohol, but this was to be strictly limited to only one drink per person. I was fired for ordering the cups. Image Source: Social Media
I tried once to get a job at Office Depot and Staples. It wasn’t because I needed the money. I just wanted to steal from a company that would never run out of office supplies. Image used under a Collective Commons License from https://www.flickr.com/photos/25955895@N03/37240719134
The executive’s wife thought that she would surprise her husband one day, so she dropped by his office unannounced. When she opened his office door, she found him in a rather unorthodox position, with his secretary sitting in his lap. Totally taken by surprise but managing to appear only slightly […]
A chief executive for a large corporation was due to give an important speech at a major business convention. So he asked the company press officer to write him a punchy, twenty minute speech. When the chief executive returned from the convention, he was furious and went storming into the […]
A Coca Cola salesman returned from an assignment in the Middle East, very disappointed with his lack of success. A friend asked him why he hadn’t been more successful with the Arabs. The salesman explained to his friends that when he got posted to Saudi Arabia, he was very confident […]
Murphy wanted to be an accountant, so he went for an aptitude test with a local accountancy company, confident as he ever could be that he would get the job. The tester took Murphy to a small office, where he sat him down and started to ask him some questions. […]
A wealthy couple in Arizona employed a Mexican maid, who they barely paid the minimum wage. One day she asked them for a pay increase. The wife was very annoyed about this and decided to talk to the maid about this pay increase that she was demanding. She spoke to […]