Going to work day in and day out can be exhausting. Throughout your career, you’ll have numerous bad days. Unfortunately, that’s just a part of life and there’s not much we can do to prevent it.
Hopefully, today isn’t one of those days for you, but I’ve found that seeing other people having a worse day always cheers me up.
These work fails to help you forget your worst days on the job.
1. “My Friend Got A Surprise Haircut At Work Today. And It Was Free”
2. “My Friend Works As A Cleaner Here”
3. “Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day”
4. “Poor Megan”
5. “When You’re Working From Home And You Hit Video Instead Of Audio”
6. “The One Time The Toner Exploded At Work While Switching It Out. You Can See Where I Was At That Exact Moment”
7. “Buckets Of Paint Fell Off A Pallet Being Lifted By A Forklift”
8. “I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence”
9. “Keeps Pecking The Window And Shouting At Me While I’m Trying To Work”
10. “It’s Always A Pleasure To Realize That Your Coworkers Don’t Know How To Close A Box Properly… Right When You’re Ready To Go Home”
11. “After Years In Retail, This Is The Worst Case Scenario”
12. “They Couldn’t Do It”
13. “I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists”
14. “Accidently Dropped My Work Keys Into The Toilet. When I Got Up To Fish Them Out, It Automatically Flushed Itself”
15. “The Windows Where I Work Like To Explode Every Month Or So”
16. “After The Meeting Coworker Let Me Know That I Looked Naked And Frustrated The Whole Time”
17. “Really Bad Day”
18. “My Friend Works As An Extra In Movies And Does Stock Photography…. Just Saw Him Pictured As A Sex Offender On A Bus In Florida”
19. “I Work As A Valet. Told Him He Had To Park It Himself”
20. “I Do Calligraphy. I Misplaced The Circled In Character, Which Is Part Of A 300 Word Scroll That I Almost Finished After 5 Days Of Work, 200 Characters In”
21. “So I Bring A Pecan Pie To Work. By Noon It Was Missing. Found It A Few Hours Later In My Boss’s Office”
22. “Actually Had To Put This Sign Up In The Bathroom At My Work”
23. “So I Started Working As A Beekeeper Last Week”
24. “My Girlfriend Got Nailed At Work”
25. “My Zipper Broke At Work, Right Before A Few Important Meetings”
26. “Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset”
27. “Flew In A Helicopter For The First Time At Work, The Pilot’s Helmet Wasn’t Calming”
28. “Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work”
29. “Bought 60 Doughnuts For The Office Today To Celebrate My 20th Birthday, Only To Be Told I Need To Self Isolate And Work From Home For The Next Week”
30. “My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today… Didn’t Go Very Well”
When he's not doomscrolling Twitter or writing for Pleated-Jeans, Nate Armbruster writes jokes—and then tells them on stage as a stand-up comedian, where he can watch audiences (hopefully) laugh in real-time.