50 People Who Are Having A Terrible Day At Work

We’ve all had that very worst day combo. From little things, like keys falling into the road gutter hole to a car engine that goes on vacation and doesn’t start, to pouring salt instead of sugar in your coffee, call them first world problems, but they’re real. And blood-boiling. In fact, we previously rolled up this compilation of pics with people having a day they’d be better off without.

This time, we are taking it a step further with a brand new list of employees having worse days than you. The cases are just vile. Think of a guy dropping a $40,000 pallet worth of glass on his first day or think of how it feels when you’re working from home and hit video instead of audio.

While you feel the hair standing up on your arms, I leave the stage to all the workers who need a big hug, mint tea and a warm blanket as soon as they get home. And if you still think that your workday is not going according to plan, well, think again.

#1 When I Worked At A Dog Daycare (I’d Bring My Dog With Me, Duh) I Once Got Off From Work And Was So Hungry I Left Without Him

My manager sent me this picture about 10 minutes later saying “You forgot something”. His expression is perfect.

#2 Started Work This Morning, Put My Headset On, Felt Something Furry In My Ear, Looked And There Is A Bat In My Headset

#3 When You’re Working From Home And You Hit Video Instead Of Audio

It has happened to all of us. The CEOs, the interns, the freelancers, nobody is immune to a bad day at work. And when it feels like everything is falling out of your hands and your head is about to explode, you look at the clock, and it says there’s still hours left until the day becomes history. So in order to find out what exactly we can do to help our miserable selves struggling with a bad day at work, We reached out to Christine Mitterbauer, licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, who was happy to share some useful tips and insights.

“When you’re in the moment and this happens, the best thing is to stop what you’re doing, don’t say another word and excuse yourself to go to the bathroom,” Christine said and added that the last thing you want to do is explode in front of your boss and colleagues. “Doing this solves the problem in the short term, but to avoid this type of situation in the long term, there are a few strategies you could practice.”

#4 Flew In A Helicopter For The First Time At Work, The Pilot’s Helmet Wasn’t Calming

#5 Keeps Pecking The Window And Shouting At Me While I’m Trying To Work

#6 The One Time The Toner Exploded At Work While Switching It Out. You Can See Where I Was At That Exact Moment

“Assuming you’ve excused yourself and have found a private space, whether it’s the bathroom or outside in the fresh air, the first thing to do is to get your breathing under control. Our breathing is intimately linked with our feelings and emotions, so by breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly, you immediately start calming your angry emotions down,” Christine said. In fact, the career coach argues that it’s impossible to be hot-tempered and angry while breathing slowly and deeply. “Do this 10 times,” Christine suggested.

#7 Actually Had To Put This Sign Up In The Bathroom At My Work

#8 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

#9 So I Started Working As A Beekeeper Last Week

“Another thing to do is to remind yourself that everyone always has a reason for acting and speaking the way they do, a reason that makes sense to them. It might make no sense to you and irritate or anger you, but by always trying to put your mind into that of the person who has angered you, you start losing some of that anger. No one is being mean or irritating on purpose.”

#10 My Girlfriend Got Nailed At Work

#11 This Pillar Was Straight Last Week. This Is The First Floor Of A Seven-Floor Building

#12 Fell On A Gusset Plate At Work

Obviously you want to minimize the bad days you have at work, Christine says, as if there’s too many bad days, there may be consequences. “This can indeed affect your confidence as you start questioning yourself and your capability to do the job,” she said.

Another great tip to make sure you don’t get yourself to the moment of explosion at work is, before accepting the job, to “try as much as possible to get a feel for the kind of people you’ll be working with, as associating with personalities that clash with ours can result in too many uncomfortable and angry interactions.”

#13 Poor Megan

#14 I Cleaned The Cat’s Litter Box And Brought The Bag With Me To Throw Away In My Outdoor Trash Can On The Way To Work. I Also Brought My Lunch

Guess which one got thrown away and which one came to work with me.

#15 My Friend Got A Surprise Haircut At Work Today. And It Was Free

Having said that, the career coach assured our readers that unless you’re a Buddhist monk, pretty much everyone will have bad days at work from time to time, even if they mostly love their job. “Speaking about Buddhist monks. One long-term strategy to really get your temper under control is to practice mindfulness meditation.”

It’s an excellent method to taking back the control you feel like losing when a bad day at work gets you. “This is a way of noticing your thoughts for what they are, ‘just thoughts,’ instead of having the thoughts control you. The better you become at this, the quicker you’ll pick up your angry thoughts in those crucial moments, and you will be able to push them away before they have a chance to consume you and make you feel like you’re exploding.”

Christine said that you could practice 10-15 min a day and see results after just a few weeks. So it’s definitely worth trying it out!

#16 Guy Dropped A $40,000 Pallet Of Glass On His First Day

#17 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

#18 They Couldn’t Do It

#19 After Years In Retail, This Is The Worst Case Scenario

#20 My Sister Tried Making Popcorn At Work Today… Didn’t Go Very Well

#21 Accidently Dropped My Work Keys Into The Toilet. When I Got Up To Fish Them Out, It Automatically Flushed Itself

#22 I Work With An Office Full Of Sadists

#23 I Work As A Valet. Told Him He Had To Park It Himself

#24 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

#25 The Ink From My Date Stamp At Work Exploded On My Shirt And The Material Formed The Droplets Into Little Stars

#26 I Work At A Movie Theatre And This Is A Regular Occurrence

#27 So I Bring A Pecan Pie To Work. By Noon It Was Missing. Found It A Few Hours Later In My Boss’s Office

#28 Buckets Of Paint Fell Off A Pallet Being Lifted By A Forklift

#29 Need To Keep The Light On When I Get Ready For Work

#30 The Windows Where I Work Like To Explode Every Month Or So

#31 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

#32 Was Given A Heat Sensitive Mug For A Work Meeting

#33 Really Bad Day

#34 My Friend Works As A Cleaner Here

#35 After The Meeting Coworker Let Me Know That I Looked Naked And Frustrated The Whole Time

#36 My Friend Went To Work With A Pair Of Underwear Hanging Out Of Her Pants All Day

#37 I Work As A Financial Auditor. When Reviewing Cash Deposits, I Found That One Of Our Employees Accepted This $100 Bill

#38 I Work At A Small Coffee Shop. My Boss Just Absent-Mindedly Poured Unroasted Beans Into A Batch Of Roasted Ones. Here’s Us Separating 10,000 Beans… By Hand

#39 FedEx Truck Hanging Off The Indiana Toll Road After Hitting Ice In Frigid Conditions. Driver Not Hurt

#40 A Fly Managed To Slip Into My Coffee At Work. Fortunately, I Spit Him Out All Over My Keyboard

#41 What McDonald’s Got Us (At Least My Branch Of McDonald’s) For Our Work During The Pandemic

#42 -41°С And No One To Let Me In To Work

#43 Just Slipped On Ice And Tore My Favourite Jeans. Now I Gotta Go A Whole Shift At Work With My Bright Orange Boxers On Show

#44 My Wife Just Got This Huge Banner For Work. Perfect

#45 This Was My Dad’s Only Christmas Bonus From The Company He’s Worked At For Over 20 Years: A $20 Off Coupon For A Frozen Turkey. My Mom Got A Christmas Ornament

#46 My Boss Is Going To Kill Me

#47 My Zipper Broke At Work, Right Before A Few Important Meetings

#48 So I Found Out That My Shoes Have A Hole In Them… At The Urinal At Work

#49 I Picked Something Up At Work, All Of A Sudden My Leg Started To Hurt, I Reached Into The Pocket At My Leg And Realised That My Spare Blade Made It Out Of The Case Somehow

#50 Just Lost Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Product At Work. Most Likely Getting Fired

#51 I Work In An Office And They Told People To Dress Up. I’m The Only One Dressed Up

#52 Happened At A Law Firm FYI. At Least It’s Friday

#53 I’m A Skilled Tradesman Who Is Supposed To Get A $3000 Bonus At The End Of The Year For Making The Company $150,000 In Profit, Per My Contract. This Is What I Received

100% done with this industry.

#54 Someone Drove Into My Work Today

#55 My Compensation For Working Through A Pandemic For The Past 3 Months

#56 Another Day Of Road Work

#57 I’m A Solar Roofer, And We Are Required To Wear Gloves While We Work… This Is Only May

#58 My Buddy Got This After Working At His Job For 42 Years. The Sticker Isn’t Even On Straight

#59 I’ve Had A Great Day Today. And It’s Not Even 11 AM

#60 Someone Is Having A Bad Day At Work

#61 Working An Outdoor Vaccine Clinic. Didn’t Think About Sunscreen. Now I Have A Mask-Shaped Sunburn, But Only On Half My Face

#62 Got Home From Work Today. Realized I’ve Been Walking Around Meeting Clients With A Giant 6-7in Rip In My Pants That No One Said Anything About

So I figured the internet should also know.

#63 A Nearly-Perfect Scalped Truck

#64 So Glad I’m Working Alone Today

#65 I Work At A College Dorm. This Week Is Freshman Move In And I’m Working A 12-Hour Shift. I Was Told Not To Pack A Lunch Because A Free One Is Provided. This Is My Free “Meal”

#66 Do Not Get Ready For Work In Total Darkness. I Thought I Brought AirPods

#67 Good Morning Night Shifters

Hope the start of your shift is going better than mine for those wondering, this is dish soap. First post that went viral. Thanks for making me trusted. And thanks to my colleague who dropped this. Couldn’t have done it without you. If you want to send me stuff or even chat, I am fairly new and would love to make friends to pass the lonely night shift

#68 I Work At An Ice Skating Rink And Instead Of Properly Turning In Skates People Started Just Throwing Them Over The Counter

#69 Ordered A Stamp, Guess The Photo Didn’t Work

#70 Happy Oil Day

#71 Was Doing Work At A University And Had To Use The Restroom. I Always Open Stall Doors From The Top When Exiting As To Not Touch The Lock

Now my hand is bleeding and I probably need a tetanus shot

#72 Train Taking A Bath

#73 Walked To Work In A Thunderstorm, But My Boss Forgot To Tell Me We All Have Today Off

#74 Printer Explosion

#75 Put Both On This Morning To Get Wife’s Opinion. Forgot To Change Before I Left And Was At Work All Day Like This

She liked the light brown, FYI.

#76 Someone Forgot To Lower The Dump On The Truck

#77 Been Waiting 6 Weeks For A Rather Expensive Toilet So We Can Fit It At A Client’s House, It Has Finally Arrived

#78 In The Warehouse, Right Now

#79 Transfer Slab Collapsed As They Were Pouring Concrete In A Highrise Building Near Gallery Square. No Workers Injured As Far As I Know. May 7th 2021

#80 Roughly 600 Plates Broken

#81 I Have To Untangle This At Work

#82 2 Weeks Of Telling My Boss The Produce In The Warehouse Is Going Bad – Him: Don’t Worry About It

#83 Coworker Announced That She’s Finally Pregnant After Years Of Trying, I Got Her A Box Of Pastries To Celebrate. I Open The Fridge At Work And See This

#84 Worked With Concrete Without Gloves. Didn’t Know It’s Corrosive

#85 Backed Up A Little Too Far

#86 This Grown Man Throwing His Candy Wrappers For Me To Sweep Up During Work

#87 Boss Told Me I Have To Come Into Work Because They Need Me

#88 When You Work At A Toilet Paper Factory But They Expect You To Wipe With This

#89 I Just Found A Photo From When I Worked At McDonald’s During High School. My Manager Dropped A 3 Gallon Bag Of Coffee Creamer

#90 So A Car Crashed Into My Work Today

#91 Someone Burglarized A School In My Area. Did This To Several Classrooms And Broke Some Computers As Well

#92 I Work Overnight Receiving Trucks For A Grocery Store. This Is How My Truck Showed Up After Being 7 Hours Late

#93 My Husbands Buddy At Work Was Having A Bad Day

#94 This Is How I Was Greeted Coming Into Work

#95 Whoever Keeps Doing This To The Doors At My Work, These Things Are Really Super Hard To Remove

#96 You Walk Into Work And See This Mess, What Would You Do?

#97 It Seems I’m The Only One Who Commuted Into The Office Today. Maybe There’s A Memo Out There I Didn’t Receive

#98 Literally My First Day On The Job, And I Shattered A Customer’s Window

#99 My Spanish Teacher

#100 The Coolers Were Down For A Few Minutes At The Store I Work At

#101 Do Not Wear Shirts Custom Made For You 30 Lbs Ago

#102 Manager Decided To Buy McDonald’s Burgers For Black Friday. The Burgers Were Locked Away From The Employees And Nobody Got Any Food For The Entire Day

Here’s the end result. Over 60 burgers and pies wasted.

#103 Poor Jake Misjudged The Oil Trajectory When Draining An Engine Yesterday

#104 The Small Business I Worked At Since High School Didn’t Survive The Pandemic

#105 My Work Had An Employee Appreciation Lunch For Us

#106 Absolute Blinder Today, Devastating, Beautiful Venison Stock. All Over The Floor

#107 When The Employee Doesn’t Put The Lid On The Paint Can Properly

#108 This Is What Happened When Employee Spilled Water On His Mac Laptop Then Attempted To Dry Using A Space Heater

#109 You Know You’re Having A Bad Morning

#110 I Work At Walmart And Came Into This Nice Gift, I Guess A Kid Really Had To Go, And Well The Tacos Shells Looked Like A Good Place For That

#111 At Work I Had These Bottles Of Paint Pretty Well Sorted By Color, Then Bumped The Cart Into Something Moving It

#112 Get All The Way To Work, Look Down And This Is What I See. I Work 1.5 Hours From Home, So I Can’t Go Home And Change

#113 I Set A Large Document To Print And Then Went To Teach. Came Back To 99 Pages Of Wingdings

#114 After 16 Consecutive Hours Of Work I Come Home To Find This

#115 Meals (1 Per Person) We Get At My Job For Shifts Up To 12 Hours

#116 My Boss’s Secretary Quit This Morning After Delivering Breakfast

#117 The Store I Work At Lost Power For 20 Minutes And We Had To Throw Out 1000$+ Of Meat And Cheese Because It Was 3 Degrees Above What We Can Keep

#118 A Causality Of The Snowstorm

#119 I Just Spent Over An Hour In Traffic On My Way To Work. Only Then I Looked Down

#120 Happened At 6:15 This Morning. My Shift Was Scheduled To End At 7. I’m A Night Shift Dairy Clerk

The skid caught on the doorway floor drain and abruptly stopped. I did not finish work at 7

#121 Really Bad Day At Work

#122 Here’s A Pic From Last Year. Not My Best Day At Work

#123 Spilled Coffee At Work The Other Day

#124 Elderly Lady Tipped Over The Wine Display, Employee Knocked A Few More Over Trying To Save It

#125 Right In The Middle Of A Job

#126 So You’re Not Open Today?

#127 This Uber Driver Contemplating His Existence After A Passenger Threw Up All Over Himself And In The Car

#128 I’m A Music Teacher. Not Only Did I Trip Over My Laptop Charger And Close Zoom Mid-Lesson, But I Found Some More Collateral Damage. Anyone Got Glue?

#129 Sprained My Pinky Finger At Work. Made A Split Out Of Tape And Straw For The Time Being

#130 I Got Transferred To A New Location At Work. This Is My New Break “Room”

#131 Boss Called Me In Early For Work Today… They Only Took 6 Refurbished Tools

#132 Labor Day Fiasco At Home Depot. Someone Is Clearly Not Having A Good Day

#133 Wednesdays Can Be Harder Than Mondays

#134 And You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day

#135 Employee Managed To Melt The Top Of A Monitor

#136 5 Minutes Into My 10-Hour Shift At Work

#137 Anybody Else Have To Poop In Open Stalls At Work? No? Okay

#138 My Shorts Ripped While Cycling To Work. I Live 15km/10miles Away

#139 Houston, We Have A Problem

#140 When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse. End Of The Day. Mango Is Everywhere

#141 To Someone Who Stole My Work Backpack With Dirty Clothes In It, Hope It’s Worth It

#142 When No One Notices The Cooler Stopped Working

#143 Now I Need To Figure Out Which Pipe Services Which Suite

In a perfect world there would normally be a marking system in place to assist technicians to identify different systems and with fault diagnosis. NOT TODAY

#144 Someone Had A Bad Day At Work

#145 The Prisoner Threw His Lunch On The Guard

#146 Ordered Sushi For Delivery. I Got Garagehub Instead. They Said “Sorry For The Inconvenience, Here Is A 20% Discount For Your Next Order. Must Be Used Within 30 Days”

#147 Great Start To My Work Week

#148 The Boss Backed Into The Garage Door At Work Today

#149 My Bamboo Mug Split, Spilling Coffee Over My Work Desk

#150 I’m Working As A Cop Over The Summer And I’m Outside All Day. It’s So Hot Outside That As Soon As I Put My Pen In My Pocket It Exploded

#151 My Pants Ripped Today While I Was At Work. Almost Threw Up When I Realized How Bad It Was

#152 My Boss Announced I Had A TV To Mount In The Conference Room. Looks Like We Got Peak 2021 Shipping & Handling Service. Do You Think They’ll Notice The Dead Pixels?

#153 Sole Of My Shoe Came Off With No Warning When I Got To Work

#154 Had Over 60 Pallets Collapse At Work Today

#155 Somebody Hit The Brakes A Little Too Hard

#156 Load Didn’t Show Up Yesterday, This Is What I Walked Into Today

#157 Chief Nursing Officer Brought In This Half Eaten Cake From Her House Party As A “Thanks” To The Nurses Working At The Children’s Hospital

#158 So I Work In A Movie Theater. Family Of The Year Award Goes To These Guys

#159 Started Work And Someone Spilled 10 Liters Of Milkshake Mix In The Fridge And Didn’t Say Anything

#160 Our Toilet Paper At Work You Can Read Through

#161 Running Late This Morning And Ordered An Egg McMuffin. Got To Work And Opened This Monstrosity

#162 When ET Comes Over And Decides To Make A Mess In Your Office

#163 One Of The Coffee Tubes, With 7,7 Pound Coffee, Bursted While My District Manager Was There

#164 There Is 40°C Inside The Tiny Room Where I Work At. No Ventilation Or Air Conditioner. I Just Love Summer

#165 This Burrito At My Job Is $5.54 And We’re Not Allowed To Leave To Get Food

#166 Love Coming In Monday Morning, Already Stressed, Only To See This Vandalism On My Shop’s Window

#167 Dropped 10 Pounds Of Beads On The Floor Today At Work. Boss Was Not Happy

#168 Things Happen

#169 WCGW When You Put The Biggest Paint Containers On The Highest Shelf?

#170 Having To Throw Out 50k Worth Of Frozen Items At Work

#171 No Matter How Positive Of A Person You Are, Or How Much You Love Your Job, Bad Days Happen To The Best Of Us. This Is How I Started My Day Today – A Big PC Disaster

#172 Either Expired Or Water Damage. Truly A Sad, Sad Sight

#173 Everyone At Work Got Amazing Heart Felt Gifts For Secret Santa And I Got A Bottle Of Car Detailer As A Joke

#174 Do You Take Your Dog With You To Work? Looks Like Mud Daddy’s Team Member – Roxy Will Be Off From Tomorrow. Happy Monday Everybody

#175 When I’m At Work Like “Oh Hi, Let Me Just Move Your Desk A Litte… Well”

#176 The Storm Flooded The School Hallways And The Staff Parking Lot

#177 My Availability Has Always Been Strictly Mon-Fri. I Spoke To A Manager When I Saw This Sign And Was Told I Will Be Working That Day, Regardless Of My Availability

The schedule is now up and I have been assigned a full shift that Saturday.

#178 When Your April Fools Prank Is To Replace All The Mugs In The Office, But Everyone Works From Home Now

#179 This Is How My Day Started At Work

#180 Anyone Else Having A Really Bad Day?

I’m not sure what was the initial cause but it seems like the tool changer changed tool ok and then 1 of 2 things happened, either the bolt for the guide roller sheared or the head came down and caused the bolt to shear smashing the changer off!
But in theory I would of thought the limit switches would of stopped the head moving as it wasn’t homed

#181 This Is How My Work Day Went. And I Didn’t Even Drop Them! Just Crumbled And Split Right In My Hands