We all have those days at work where everything seems to go wrong. You know, the kind of day where spilling coffee on your keyboard is just the beginning.
But before you start drafting that resignation letter, take a look at these hilarious work fails that will make your worst day seem like a walk in the park.
1. “I’m Stuck In An Elevator, And I’m The Only One In The Building. I Work Security So There’s No One Else Here”
2. “It Was Pajama Day At Work. Guess Who Was The Only One Who Participated?”
3. “5000 Litres Of Spilt Ink”
4. “I Brought Muffins To Work Because Of My Birthday, And 5 Minutes Later They Told Me I Was Being Fired Because Of Budget Cuts”
5. “Scene Outside My Apartment Today. A Crane Was Holding A Big Crate Of Paint. Then It Wasn’t”
6. “I’m The Only Person In My Entire Office Of 30 People Who Dressed Up Today, And I’m In A Full-Body Banana Suit”
7. “My Classroom After A Preschool Tantrum. 3.5-Year-Olds. The Parents Insist The Child’s Behavior Is Not The Problem”
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9. “Made These For Work On My Birthday, Nobody Really Ate Them”
10. “My Old Office Once Held A Birthday Party For Me And Served Pork Tacos, I’m Muslim”
11. “There’s A Massive Hole In My Pants And I Only Noticed An Hour Ago. No One Said Anything To Me”
12. “Customer Ordered All This Food On Uber Eats And Canceled The Order The Moment I Finished Making Everything”
13. “Crane Tipped Over Onto A Mostly Completed School”
14. “Company Enforced Monthly 2-Hour Drive In To The Office To Improve Collaborative Working”
15. “I Caught Hand, Foot And Mouth Disease At My Job As A Daycare Teacher”
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17. “Kids Trash Thrift Shop’s Toy Section, Parents Don’t Care”
18. “That’s Tough”
19. “Someone Stole The AC Unit From Where I Work”
20. “My Boss Thinks It’s A Great Idea To Randomly Pull The Fridge Plug To Save Energy”
21. “Customer Left A S**ty Tip, Quite Literally”
22. “Can’t Get To Work”
23. “Decided Today I Was Going To Take A Different Route In The Construction Zone To Get To Work”
24. “Just Happened To Be Right Behind The Wreck”
25. “Contractor Fell Through My Sister’s Ceiling”
26. “You Had 1 Job! My Boss’s Name Is Brian”
27. “Came Out On My Break To This”
28. “Looks Like Someone Forgot To Put On The Parking Brake”
29. “First Day Back From Maternity Leave. They Gave Away My Office And Left My Stuff Boxed Up In A Broken Cubicle”
30. “Apparently Our Delivery People Don’t Know How To Stack Boxes Without Them Falling Over”
31. “Got Off Work To No Road Home”
32. “The Businesses In My Shopping Center Decided That The Recycling Chute (Two Units Down) Was Too Far To Walk. That Door Is My Store”
33. “I Let Someone Borrow My Knife At Work, This Is How They Gave It Back To Me”
34. “Right Before Closing, A Customer Came In And Got $60 In Diesel For Their Truck. Now I Get To Count And Roll These Bad Boys. He Was Also $3 Short”
35. “In Chicago For Work, Paying $65 A Night For Parking, Wake Up Ready To Go To Work, All My Equipment Is Gone”
36. “Some Jerk Keeps Eating My Food At Work. This Is The Third Time Now, They Eat It Even Out Of My Own Containers. I Have No Idea What To Do Anymore The Manager Won’t Do Anything About It”
37. “Wife Was Surprised Coming Back From Her Break At Work”
38. “Our Work Christmas Bonus”
39. “My New Desk At Work”
40. “So This Is How I Learned My Work Calendar Wasn’t Private”
41. “Orientation For My New Job Is Today, And My Eye Decides To Look Like This When I Wake Up”
42. “My Boss At Work Plays The Same Playlist Every Day For The Past 6 Years. I Feel Like I’m In My Own Personal Purgatory”
43. “Tank Fell Off Its Transport Trailer On The Highway”
44. “Got Dressed In The Dark Yesterday And Arrived At Work Wearing Two Different Shoes”
45. “Ice Truck Making A Delivery To A Local Dock Decided That Even The Ice Needed To Cool Off”
46. “I Got Up At 5:30 AM To Dress Up For “Whoville Day” At Work, Only To Find Out I Was The Only One Who Dressed Up. I’m Embarrassed Now”
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.