It's never a good feeling to be called into your boss's office because you truly never know why or what's coming next.
And it might be for a trivial reason, but still, your heart pounds and you sweat while waiting for the reason to be presented.
And then if it's for a dumb reason, the adrenaline crash is crazy.
u/Sinifish asked:
What is the weirdest reason you were called into your boss's office?
Here were some of those answers.
Set You Up A Glass(es)
GiphyMy glasses didn't match my uniform. He told me to change them. I said no because I don't have vision insurance. I told my boss I am not paying $600 or more just because my blue glasses don't go with my Olive Garden uniform. He was still insisting I change them. I told him to pay for my glasses then. Needless to say my boss shut up real quick.
Luuuuunch
I used to grab a chicken sandwich on my first break at work. Apparently, some new hire assumed I was going to lunch 2 hours into my shift. After I came back 15 minutes later (our standard break time) I got called in to ask why I felt I should be going to lunch. Told them I didn't and to check my time card.
Monkey In The Middle
Back when I was an intern, a coworker told me to give a pile of papers to my boss and to tell him that he is an "*sshole". He told me explicitly that I have to call him that way. I went to my boss's office, told him who send him the papers and then I told him "Well, he also said that I should say something to you, which is really unplea" -
"Is it that I am an *sshole?"
me:"Well yes but"-
Him:"It's ok, he's one too".
It turned out that those two guys are basically bffs and that they constantly do something like this.
All Good Deeds
- To pull me away from a customer, who was yelling at me, who my manager knew was f*cking crazy. He even pulled the whole " IN MY OFFICE! NOW!" down-the-hallway gag. The customer just gave me that smug "ha ha" look as I walked away. I was shaken up by it but as soon as I walked in and closed the door, he apologized and told me that the customer who was just yelling at me had been banned from our business for causing sh*t with employees and other customers and as soon as my manager saw them walk in, he called the cops and the cops were on their way.
He then pulls up the cameras on his computer and says "I'll be right back. Watch this" and he leaves his office. I watch the cameras and see him walk right up to the cops who just entered, take the cops to the customer, and has the cops escort the customer out of the building. He then turns to the camera and gives a big thumbs up.
2. To promote me to a supervisor job I didn't even apply for, or was aware of.
Rude Customers Don't Run This Joint
"Hey, u/Closer67, could you come to the office?"
"What's up?"
"Someone wrote a review complaining about doing your job too well."
"...???"
"I'm serious. Take a look."
Review goes on to talk about how the reviewer's son and friends had attempted to see Deadpool, I had denied them entry, sold them tickets to a different movie, found them trying to sneak into Deadpool and consequently kicked them out of the theater and denied them a refund. Then, it talked about how I, and a second employee who was involved, should be fired and how good of an employee a third employee was who gave the kids their refunds.
"Are you serious right now? He gave them a refund, and now this person is complaining about me following policy while acknowledging exactly what was going on?"
"Yep. Don't worry, I'm not gonna write you up or warn you or anything. Just wanted to tell you 'Good job". Now, could you do me a favor and send in (third employee who gave the refund)?"
Edit: you can always tell the people who never had to do any kind of customer service job. If you have a job, then you have to uphold the rules and policies of the place you work for. If you don't, then you get in trouble. You don't get a pass just because it's a movie theater or a fast food restaurant. That's not how any of this works.
Wiki-Wut
In the early 2000s my boss called me in so he could show me Wikipedia, which he had just discovered. He says "ask me anything and I'll find the answer!" I asked how many tacos are sold per day in San Antonio. He was angry because that's "obviously not a question that Wikipedia can answer".
Sparrow Attacks
The new policy of not transporting wildlife in the work van had to be explained to me, because a) I was the reason the policy came into existence and b) I was the only person on the site it would ever apply to.
It was a sparrow that had flown into a window. I carried it back to the mailroom, found a box, and took it to a wildlife rehabber that night. The employee driving the van was VERY concerned about this tiny half-ounce bird getting loose in the van and attacking her.
Reward For Dumb Behavior
Used to make levels for Quake while taking tech support calls. One day, while modeling a level and doing an FFR (Fdisk, format, reinstall) I notice a boss out of the corner of my eye. F*ck it. I'm busted. I don't even try to hide what I'm doing. Mute the customer and ask if he needs anything. "Put youself in time when you get off this call. I'd like to see you in the pit."
The pit was a corner of the call center where all the lead techs and bosses sat.
My stomach lurches.
"Ok." I turn my attention back to the caller and finish up in about another 20 mins. I loved this job. I'm really bummed. I switch my status and start walking back to the pit, except now there's THREE bosses right outside my cubicle.
"Can you do a level that's the floor plan of the call center, with the elevator and all?"
No sh*t.
I was promoted a month later.
Quick Conclusion Jump, No?
Had my boss call me in once because a parent accused me of hitting their child. Apparently the kid came home with a bruise. When they asked me what happened I explained the kid wasn't even in my room. They were in a class on the other side of the building and I didn't even see them the entire day. Turns out the kid had a hockey game that night before he came home. Guess where the bruise came from. Thankfully, once they had the facts they pretty much told the parent "This never happened. You are mistaken and we are standing by our teacher." It was scary though cause you seldom get out of these types of accusations without at least a suspension as they look into it.
Roma Romama
GiphyI used to work IT in a school, my boss was the principal. I'm gay - this is actually sort of relevant to the story.
One of the rules in the school is that principal and VP doors are to stay open at all times, unless they are having a meeting with parents.
All the VP and Ps doors were closed. This is super super odd. There were 4 vps and a principal, so having them all closed is basically unheard of. Even the administrative staff were freaking out a bit.
Finally, I get buzzed into the principals office. Of course everyone is looking at me like "What did you do?!".
I walk into the office and my boss (an older lady that I totally respect) finishes up her email, pushes her glasses on her face and says "What do you know about lady gaga?"
As it turned out, they were all trying to one-up each other in the talent show and my boss wanted a gay opinion.
I told her she needed to do Bad Romance and kept it from everyone.
Trying To Understand The Youths
I worked at this ad agency and the creative VP on my team called me into his office one day and put on the video for "I Fink U Freeky" by Die Antwoord. He made me sit through it and then asked me if I could explain it to him, because his son was really into them and he just didn't get it. Since I was just a few years older than his son I guess he thought I might be able to explain it to him.
This One Is WILD
I worked a job where we had to wear ugly pant suits and we kept our blazers at the office. I walked in one day to find my blazer missing, and my boss called me and asked me to come to her office and let me know she'd borrowed it. I get to her office to find that she'd borrowed my blazer because she'd been "out partying at the beach last night and woke up late" so she was wearing a bathing suit bikini under her uniform. She'd borrowed my blazer to hide the bright orange you could clearly see through her work shirt. The best part was, the reason she'd been at the beach was that she'd needed to get a tan so that she could pull off "faking being on vacation in Hawaii". She'd lied to the guy she was sleeping with and said she was going on vacation to make him "miss her" and she'd gone tanning and even BOUGHT FAKE SOUVENIRS to make it seem legit. Craziest boss I ever had.
What A Tangled Web We Weave
To thank me for saving her marriage. My wife and I split, as she was in a full-blown affair with her boss, and left me. I was devastated. My boss was sleeping with her boss, and about to dump her husband. After walking beside me (great boss that she was) through my pain, she dumped her boss and focused on repairing her family.
Weird but cool. The Texas Tornado...
Thank Goodness THAT'S Taken Care Of, Byeeee!
My boss called me into a meeting room because I was having a private conversation while my scripts were running, which she knew meant we could not use or computers for several minutes.
She thought she heard me complaining about something and demand to know what I was discussing.
She also told her boss I was threatening to burn co-workers houses down.
Her boss flew into town for a week and we discussed these and other items over sushi. She told me she had my termination paperwork completed before she got to town, but wanted to observe and talk to me first. She left after she shredded the papers and my manager had delivered her own notice.
We Know We Said Smile, But We Didn't Mean It
For smiling too much while I was helping a customer. And it wasn't just my bosses office.. It was the store directors office. My boss's boss's boss.
The company I worked for is quite well known in the Midwest for its own terrible "A helpful smile in every aisle" slogan.
Ten years later I still can't wrap my head around it.
Stealin' And Sexytimes
GiphyWhen I was 16 I worked at a restaurant. I was called in to the office with three other employees and one of the owners because the day before someone had made a pizza for the staff and not paid for it. It happened all the time and was never a big deal. I was a dishwasher and didn't even cook. So after a few minutes of yelling about it being made they dismissed me and kept yelling at the other two. When I left the other boss called me in to the back. Those two had been caught on camera having sex and smoking in the parking lot. Things had been coming up missing and they wanted to know if I had ever seen them stealing.
Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.