We all have different definitions of a bad day at work. For a chef, it could be finding your trusty knife bent to the point of inutility. For a hardware store employee, it could be spilling 12 buckets of paint all over aisle five. For a building security guard, it could be getting stuck in an elevator in the wee hours with no one to call for help. 

Whatever the case may be, we’ve been there. Fortunately, the internet gives people a platform to share their workplace woes through online groups. We’ve compiled some of the most relatable posts into this list just for you. 

If you’re at work, take a break and enjoy scrolling. And if you’re having a bad day, don’t worry. We feel you. Hopefully, this can lift your spirits even just a tad bit.

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#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

Bonus, the emergency phone in here doesn’t work. Double bonus, this isn’t the first time it’s happened.

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#2 Scene Outside My Apartment Today. A Crane Was Holding A Big Crate Of Paint. Then It Wasn’t

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#3 It Was Pajama Day At Work. Guess Who Was The Only One Who Participated?

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#4 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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#5 This Wins The Internet

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#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

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#7 There’s A Massive Hole In My Pants And I Only Noticed An Hour Ago. No One Said Anything To Me

I have a puppy who is almost a year old. My adorable, tiny turd loves chewing on clothes. Shirts, pants, underwear. She doesn’t care; she will eat it.
I lost a pair of black pants to the destroyer of clothing a few days ago, and I thought I threw them out (the pants, not the dog.)
I now realize, with horror, that I put the wrong ones in the discard pile. Meaning, I wore the ones with a huge hole in the bottom. To work. With people. Lots of people. I dropped a couple of things and had to pick them up.

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#8 My Old Office Once Held A Birthday Party For Me And Served Pork Tacos, I’m Muslim

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#9 I Brought Muffins To Work Because Of My Birthday, And 5 Minutes Later They Told Me I Was Being Fired Because Of Budget Cuts

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#10 That’s Why I Window Share, Not Full-Screen Share

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#11 Crane Tipped Over Onto A Mostly Completed School

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#12 I Caught Hand, Foot And Mouth Disease At My Job As A Daycare Teacher

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#13 Kids Trash Thrift Shop’s Toy Section, Parents Don’t Care

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#14 Company Enforced Monthly 2-Hour Drive In To The Office To Improve Collaborative Working

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#15 Customer Ordered All This Food On Uber Eats And Canceled The Order The Moment I Finished Making Everything

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#16 That’s Tough

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#17 Decided Today I Was Going To Take A Different Route In The Construction Zone To Get To Work

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#18 Someone Stole The AC Unit From Where I Work

We still have one for the other half of the store, but… why?

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#19 Can’t Get To Work

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#20 Ever Made A $100,000 Mistake?

I was recently moved to shipping for an ink-making company. While unloading a dark trailer, I punctured a 2000-pound tote of water-based ink; the entire thing emptied in seconds. The whole trailer, dock door, and outside were turned blue. Even though it’s water-based, it still had water pollutants in it, so the EPA had to be called in due to it getting into the sewer. The specialty company that was called in to clean up has spent the last 3 weeks digging up the sewer and surrounding ground that had been contaminated. A few days of heavy rain haven’t helped the cleanup at all. Needless to say, I had a nervous breakdown and missed 2 days of work. I got a call asking if I was quitting, which would possibly lead to criminal charges (don’t know if that’s possible, but I know I can fire back for not having dock lights and fork trucks with dim headlights). Being close to 3 weeks out, I can finally think back and laugh at this situation.

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#21 Contractor Fell Through My Sister’s Ceiling

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#22 Looks Like Someone Forgot To Put On The Parking Break

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#23 The Businesses In My Shopping Center Decided That The Recycling Chute (Two Units Down) Was Too Far To Walk. That Door Is My Store

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#24 Just Happened To Be Right Behind The Wreck

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#25 First Day Back From Maternity Leave. They Gave Away My Office And Left My Stuff Boxed Up In A Broken Cubicle

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#26 Got Off Work To No Road Home

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#27 Apparently Our Delivery People Don’t Know How To Stack Boxes Without Them Falling Over

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#28 So This Is How I Learned My Work Calendar Wasn’t Private

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#29 I Let Someone Borrow My Knife At Work, This Is How They Gave It Back To Me

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#30 In Chicago For Work, Paying $65 A Night For Parking, Wake Up Ready To Go To Work, All My Equipment Is Gone

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#31 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

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#32 Came Out On My Break To This

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#33 Orientation For My New Job Is Today, And My Eye Decides To Look Like This When I Wake Up

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#34 Got Dressed In The Dark Yesterday And Arrived At Work Wearing Two Different Shoes

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#35 Our Work Christmas Bonus

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#36 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

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#37 I Had To Take A Leave On The First Day Of My First Ever Job

One day before my first day of training at the company, this allergic reaction happened because of God knows what. I still don’t know what caused this.

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#38 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

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#39 Tank Fell Off Its Transport Trailer On The Highway

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#40 They Scheduled A Retirement Dinner For 1:00 Today. Almost Everyone In The Warehouse Leaves At 11:30 On Fridays

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#41 Wife Was Surprised Coming Back From Her Break At Work

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#42 Won What I Thought Was A VR Headset At My Company’s Christmas Party

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