Uneventful situations which cause a KERFUFFLE in the work place

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

What BORING events are HIGHTENED into a state of mass hysteria in your work place?

We've just ran out of coffee cups. I had to explain I was being sarcastic when I claimed it was a 'crisis' as some others AGREED.

 

[Driver8]

A snowflake falling outside.

 

[The Large One]

What BORING events are HIGHTENED into a state of mass hysteria in your work place?

We've just ran out of coffee cups. I had to explain I was being sarcastic when I claimed it was a 'crisis' as some others AGREED.

Along the same lines, our kitchen appears to forever be missing teaspoons.

We got shitty circular emails and everything.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

35 out of about 180 people being made redundant where I work at the mo. God you wouldn't believe how people have been going on.....

What a KERFUFFLE over NOTHING.

 

[Hillian1]

Being stood at the coffee machine at the exact moment production go on a break, they go postal at that and I have made it a mission to be there at least once a week.

 

[Mellotron]

We share a kitchen with a couple of other companies.

I would say it was a notch below MASS PANIC when it was discovered we had accidentally washed up someone else's teaspoon and brought it back with the rest of our cutlery.

 

[Badger]

Running out of MILK, utter CARNAGE.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Guys in our office have not learnt the full functionalities of a toilet yet. Many still don't know there is a flush mechanism. To be fair it's actually annoying flushing other peoples waste down the toilet before I deposit mine.

 

[Biscuit]

We have a draw full of knifes but seemingly no forks.

This caused quite the conversation around the water cooler I can tell you.

 

[shaolinpunk]

Someone in my office is a bit OCD about germs, so if anyone sneezes or coughs he drops what he's doing and leaves the room for a few minutes

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Wow. People are now writing their NAMES on the last used disposable cups so that 'someone doesn't take' theirs.

This has gone up a notch.

 

[SeagullSongs]

From this thread I can deduce that a KERFUFFLE is measured in NOTCHES. Can anyone offer a conversion table?

 

[Easy 10]

We had some new company courtesy cards made up after we "re-branded" the business logo. When they arrived, they were printed on a glossy-style card which basically meant it was a right BUMCAKE to try and write on it with a biro. The ink just don't stick, see ? Sales Ledger went into MELTDOWN, various consultants had a right old whinge about it, and by the end of the week, the woman in Facilities who had ordered the useless cards received one complaint too many. The final straw had arrived, the donkeys back was duley broken, she was reduced to a snotty, grizzling MESS at her desk, and was led away sobbing by the bird in HR for a motivational chat in the womens toilets.

We all looked at each other, nonplussed.

 

[Badger]

We have a tuck shop in our office kitchen, chocolate bars, crisps, cans etc. There was a point a few weeks ago when we completely ran out of crisps AND chocolate bars, when Armageddon comes I reckon it will get a similar reaction to that moment.

 

[amexee]

Workmates realising that their foibles were being held up to ridicule on NSC

 

[Easy 10]

Running out of MILK, utter CARNAGE.

This.

And the cold, hard stares aimed at the selfish bastards who come back to their desks with their cereal SWIMMING in the stuff.

Not to mention the people who leave about 2mm of milk in the bottom of the bottle and put it back in the fridge. There are times whn I've seen about FIVE BOTTLES left like that, and a new one just opened.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I got a rollicking for writing 'kind regards' to some potential clients and a dressing down for protesting and querying email decorum.

Definitely made the right decision to leave that firm, even if things did go a little pear shaped afterwards.

 

[nail-Z]

If you DARE to re-fill the photocopier and not put the EMPTY BOX in the right place afterwards, it really gets on their jam-rag.

We've had several emails circulated complaining about it.

 

[tinx]

Someone in my office is a bit OCD about germs, so if anyone sneezes or coughs he drops what he's doing and leaves the room for a few minutes

Oooh you could have fun with that.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Not filling the dishwasher and turning it on at the end of the day. Causes major ructions and many emails to be sent the next day. Utterly ridiculous and I now find myself deliberately not doing it at night just to get a reaction. Admittedly it only seems to be the women who have a major breakdown over it.

And the other day a major hissy fit from one of our high maintenance female employees as somebody had used her margerine despite her name being written on the side of it!! How very dare they!