I loveStitchnippyjon
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 15, 2007
Twenty years ago. Our department secretary walked out of work mid-day and very publicly committed suicide.
Oh good Lord - what exactly happened? What mass shooting? Why on earth would a customer do something so terrible to you? I'm quaking just thinking about it.The mass shooting is the first thing that came to mind.
Working in veterinary medicine lent itself to many emotionally difficult days, one of the worst being the day I held a dog while he bled to death from a ruptured artery.
My personal scariest incident was when a customer waited outside for me to get off work, then followed me and attempted to run my car off the road.
Oh good Lord - what exactly happened? What mass shooting? Why on earth would a customer do something so terrible to you? I'm quaking just thinking about it.
Worst thing that has happened to me on the job...I sliced my leg open when I was 16/17 while working at McDonalds. The front/control panel on the front of the fryer was open when I walked past it I ran into it. It tore my pants and sliced my leg. I am sure that I sure I should have gotten stitches but they never even sent me to the ER to get it checked out.
The worst I have done...well that is something I am not going to get into...
Mine isn’t death and destruction, but it has to be one of the grossest. I worked at a large old complex. It was having major renovation work done which stirred up critters. I was in the restroom at the sinks when a ceiling tile fell on a coworker across the bathroom and HUNDREDS of HUGE roaches fell from the ceiling onto her. We all just screamed and she went running out the door down the hall while roaches just fell from her.
I went to my desk, grabbed my purse, and went home for the longest shower of my life.
Today while unpacking some boxes to set up for an event nobody had a box cutter. I was using pens, keys, whatever to get the tape off. At one point I angrily used my hands and stared ripping.
I got a cardboard paper cut. It’s so much worse then a regular paper cut. Really, I didn’t know that could happen.