Work mishaps

From crazy customers to massive spills, students share their weirdest and worse job stories

Illustration by Josh Watson

Emily Rowe, Rumbler Staffer

“It was a really rainy day and we were getting ready for a huge lunch rush. And this really drunk guy comes in and orders this crazy pizza. So we placed his order and called the police. While we were waiting for them to get there we told him his pizza wasn’t ready yet. Once they arrived, we gave him his pizza and told him not to come back.”Rebecca Soto, Domino’s

“I spilled grease all over myself. I was cleaning the fryer and I got pushed down by somebody and the bucket poured all over my head and just spilled everywhere.” – Jeremiah Rodriguez, Short Stop

“This guy walks into Taco Bell and orders about $30 worth of food. We come back later and said that we ‘messed up’ his order. All that it was is that the chalupa shells were a little over fried, so we remade the chalupa shells and gave them to him. He comes back a second time and said that his order was still messed up. So we refunded it and gave him his money back and gave him the food after another remake. Then he came back a third time and started yelling at the cook and the cook said that he made his order two times and was not going to make it a third time. It took about 20 minutes to resolve the problem and now he’s no longer allowed at our Taco Bell again.” –Ethan Morgan, Taco Bell

“We were supposed to be working while our manager wasn’t there. One of our co-workers got into a box and started walking around the lobby, then he walked into the manager’s office and scared him.” –Jake Latouf, Freddy’s

“One of the customers spilled milk in one of the aisles and I was sent to clean it up. As I was cleaning it I felt a sneeze coming on, so to try and not hit my head against the concrete, I tried standing up. As I was standing up I stepped on the milk when I sneezed. I fell on my tailbone on the ground. Then I sneezed again and I hit my forehead against one of the glass panes.” –Michael Alpert, HEB

“I was making a large brownie sundae and I put a brownie in there and then I put a scoop of custard, and I watch this bug fall from the ceiling and into the custard. My manager is standing right next to me and he’s like ‘Oh, just take it out and finish making the sundae’ and I do that and I’m just like This is so gross I don’t want to do this. After I give the lady the sundae she comes back to me because she found a bug in her whipped cream. So that would have been the second bug that she found in her food if I hadn’t thrown that first one away. But that means there was a bug inside the whipped cream can.” –Katy Weir, fast food restaurant

“My co-worker was cleaning out grease traps and he was just struggling, his arms were shaking because there was a lot of grease and it was just heavy. When it finally all poured out, it spilled everywhere. I had to mop it up and it was just so greasy I just when home and he did it.” –Xavier Fitzgerald, Short Stop