{"id":3173,"date":"2018-08-03T10:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:21:30","slug":"first-day-at-work-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/2018\/08\/03\/first-day-at-work-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day At Work Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last month’s survey, we included a bonus question that asked about the funniest part of your first day at your current job<\/em><\/strong>. You submitted a ton of hilarious stories and here are some of our favorites.<\/p>\n

This is worth a few minutes of your Friday.<\/p>\n

Uhhhh, is Anyone Home?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Being told to sit and wait for someone to get me, and waiting almost 3 hours with no one in sight.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I was the first one in the office, and nobody showed up until hours later. It was a lonely and confusing morning.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Absolutely no one introduced themselves until 3 days later.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Nobody at the job returned my emails so I showed up a day late”.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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First Impressions Matter<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“I borrowed a pair of heels from my mom and I could not walk in them and my boss kept asking if I was okay as I got a tour of the office”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Introducing myself to the Fed-Ex man thinking he was one of my bosses”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“During meet-and-greet, as I was getting to know people, I was getting lazier with asking for everyone\u2019s names and positions, so when I get to the last person, I said, \u201cSo what do you do here?\u201d He was the founder and CEO. I just asked the Founder of the company what he did here.”<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Co-Workers are Like a Big (Dysfunctional) Family<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Everyone at my office was so shocked when they heard what year I was born in– one woman said, I thought people born in 1996 were still in elementary school”!<\/em><\/p>\n

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“When new nurses all said where they were from and listed Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina then when it came to me I said Vermont and someone asked, Did you live on a farm”?<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Our operations managing team thought I was a client and came out to shake my hand then realized I was a new hire…”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“My coworker couldn\u2019t think of the word for photosynthesis so she googled \u201cwhat is it called when plants eat the sun\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nailed it!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“I couldn’t turn on my computer monitor”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Lost my ID badge already”. <\/em><\/p>\n

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“In the middle of training, I kicked the power switch on my computer and shut the whole thing down. I had to wait 40 minutes while it turned back on and updated before I was able to get back to the training.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Spilling coffee on everything”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Printed out three I-9s because I messed up the date then the year”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“After lunch I went to get my picture taken for my badge – turns out I had pen smeared across my face for the entire day until then…”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Getting locked out because I thought that the front door to the building was secured since the handle would not turn. Turns out, I just had to pull the door really hard”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"dog<\/p>\n

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Kids Do the Darnedest Things<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“The child I nanny pooped on me after I thought she was done pooping and took off her diaper”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“One kid pointed to the tail of a horseshoe crab in our touch tank and said \u201cThat\u2019s its penis\u201d.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I’m a swim coach for the summer and one of my little swimmers lost her tooth. So she handed the tooth to me and hopped in the water like nothing happened”!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Living the Dream<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Walking in and greeting people just to drop off my sister’s lunch because I’m actually still unemployed”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“This summer I\u2019m in Montana building a yurt with my mother. My first day \u201con the job\u201d, I met the two literally 60 year old men I will be spending the next solid month with. (They\u2019re living with us too!)”<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Yikes, if only I had a job…lol”.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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