FIRST DAY HORROR STORIES

People share their worst first-day-at-work stories.

At my preliminary visit for my first teaching practice, I was sent to an English class. After finishing my discussion with the teacher, I got up and turned round to leave the room. As I opened the door and closed it behind me, the class burst out laughing – I was in a dark cupboard, which did not have a door handle on the inside. When the teacher let me out, he said, “Everyone makes that mistake.” He showed me out through an identical door next to the cupboard door.

SUBMITTED BY VICTOR FLUTE

First corporate job. We had these large metal coffee urns in the break room. You put the grounds in the cup thing and hit a button because they were piped into the water line. What I did not know was that it would run a cycle for each button push. I pushed it twice in a row and left for it to brew. When I came back it had doubled up and overflowed. There was coffee everywhere. Day one.

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