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I've been in the banking industry for almost 20 years. Started as a paid intern, then teller, then ops and audits. My branch was on one of the front lines for the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Our branch was vandalized and attacked repeatedly for several months. It started with belligerent people wandering in off the street, threatening notes, graffiti, etc. But then they started breaking our windows every night. I'd have to call in to our dedicated corporate security line for status updates early every morning, just to find out what kind of mess I'd find. The bank had contracts with construction/carpentry companies to handle damages, but oftentimes it was up to the employees to sweep up the broken glass when they arrived in the morning. Then protestors started breaking windows even in broad daylight, when we were open for business. I watched a guy take a sledgehammer to a window, just above where one of our bankers was sitting. The idiot failed, and ran away when security went after him. Eventually, the protestors started destroying our ATMs; we once had to replace two sets of ATMs twice in less than a week, because they kept getting wrecked. Then the attacks started getting personal. One staffer from another branch was assaulted on the subway, and we all stopped wearing bank insignia while out in public.
Despite the extensive media coverage, we weren't allowed to talk to them. We'd be fired on the spot for doing so; instead, we could only refer them to the PR department. Since we never got to show what was happening, the media pushed a narrative that there were only "peaceful protestors" in town. It was complete, utter BS; it got to the point where the entire staff was so stressed and terrified of coming to work. You wouldn't know if some crazy mob would show up at the door, if you'd have to walk through tear gas, etc. The lowest point came in late 2011, when a massive wave protestors planned a day-long march and demonstration. We were all told to come into work - we'd be fired if we didn't - just so the company could save face amidst of all the turmoil. Corporate told us it was completely safe to come in, despite the fact that most of our windows were already busted and the protest was being _broadcast on national news networks._
At least 4,000 people showed up and surrounded the building, shutting down business, trapping us inside as they pounded on the doors, hurled insults, taunts, and chants, and hung banners. It was like a zombie movie, but far more annoying. I just sat and read most of the time. One of my bankers - who was a few months pregnant - had a panic attack and had to be attended to in the lunchroom. We were told the city cops would come and escort us out, but they never showed. We were trapped in there for about 5 hours before the protestors got bored and moved on. Not before destroying the rest of our windows and spray painting on the walls outside, of course. No one attacked us when we finally made a break for it. The media never talked with us, either; they just followed the march of "peaceful protestors" across the city. That was the point when I realized just how little corporate cared about its employees; I'd already been disillusioned with the job, but that was absolutely terrible.
I would have shriveled up and died if I had to endure that for that long.
stayed after we closed our coffee shop to clean up a bit. a chair moved and a watermelon started spinning on the table. i sprinted out of the shop out of fear, i started going to church after that happened.
This happened in 2009. I worked as a warden, mostly night shift, on a psychiatric hospital. Now, above our ward is the doctors offices, and noones there at night. For some odd reason we always heard sounds from somewhere there though. Thuds, steps and moving furniture, that sort of thing.
One night we didn't have much to do so we decided to investigate the sounds. Off we went, me and two colleagues. We got to the office corridor and could clearly hear the sounds come from a specific office. We make sure it's the right one by listening through the door, and it's no doubt. We open the door and.... Nothing. Complete and utter silence. We check to see that noones hiding under the desk, but no, it's empty. We think it's weird and creepy and decide to go back to the others. As soon as my colleague closes the door, the sounds come back louder than ever before, as if it held back and wanted to make up for the lost time of being scary. Open up again, and it falls silent. We nope the fuck out.
My scariest work incident was when I worked at a gas station. One morning a huge 18-wheeler truck turned into our tiny lot but didnt slow down AT ALL. The store was one room, so there was nowhere for me to go to get out of his path. If he hadn't hit literally the only pole in our lot he'd have hit the store right where I was standing. I'd be dead right now. I remember after the pole somehow stopped him we locked eyes and he looked as horrified as I was. I genuinely thought I was going to die. ANOTHER incident that Id rate behind that one but still scared me was a guy came stumbling into the gas station after midnight covered head to toe in blood and gore. I immediatly thought I needed to call an ambulance. Thought this person was gonna die on me here. But no. The moron had been at a zombie event and thought it was a good idea to go into a gas station like that in the middle of the night. It was all highly realistic makeup.
Do not hold or restrain a seizing person. Place them on the ground on their side. You can put something soft like a folded jacket between their head and the floor. Do not put anything in their mouth.
At work, in a small clinic for pets. We where robbed at gun point by people wanting drugs. They locked us in the cages, some with animals already I them. I had to share a cage with a not always nice dog, but the dog i think senced that things where not ok and he was cool with me sharing his space and did not bite me. The druggies took what they wanted and left. Another coworker jimmies out of thier cage and call police, then let's the rest of us out. They never got the robbers.
The dog was probably just as terrified as you guys were and was trying to keep his pack mates calm even though he didn't get along with you all.
At the height of the Great Recession I was working in the risk department of a huge investment bank. There were a couple of days where they could've lost the whole firm. That was scary.
Working at breakfast shift in a hotel (we start at 5am) at 5:10 am the chef arrives and tell us there's a fire in the first floor (there's usually an underground floor on every hotel where employees do their stuff, that's first level, not the actual level hotel floor. However, we are on the lobby floor (visible hotel's first floor) preparing everything backstage for breakfast. "Is not big deal" He said, 20 minutes later is big deal, they start evacuating some people from the rooms it's still 'not big deal' but big enough tho. We are ordered to stay there and act like nothing is happening so we don't startle the guests. We are mostly trapped inside the kitchen, a lot of door to reach the exit to the beach and gas connections all around us, they FINALLY decide to cut the gas supply and when we are about to be ordered to leave the fire gets under control thanks to the firefighters.
Also a very simple one, a shitty connection. Like a week after the fire I was setting up omelette station, keeping everything on ice so it gets temperature. Goddamn plug for an extension to connect everything else with exposed wires I've been asking for almost a month to change fucking sets on fire! Electricity sparkles jump everywhere, wires on fucking fire and even tho I'm wearing rubber shoes, I'm not sure if step on the melted ice is a good idea so I'm trapped there between a pool of water and an electrical fire blocking the only way out I have. I just wait until the sparkles stop for a few seconds and unplug the damn thing, a damn flame shots out to the ceiling but everything is over now... at least. I was shaking and with a cold sweating and since we were about to open in 10 minutes, they just FINALLY changed the thing, painted the burned wall quickly and very politely asked me to forget I was about to die 10 minutes ago and act like nothing happened.
A very intense month for sure at work.
The ex of my coworker came in with a gun and herded everyone into the break room and went back into our work room and shot her in the head and then blew his own brains out all over the business records we were meant to scan. We still had to clean the brains off and scan them. I quit that job
For first few years, had a phone and laptop guy doing business in the neighboring space to the right... honestly surprised no one has offed him (shady business guy, had cops called on him a number of times over selling stolen phones, but it couldn't be proven that he was aware they were stolen so nothing could be done about him. He's also just overall a terrible person.. would keep going but this is supposed to be about scary incidences).. and anyways, during one of the odd yelling arguments i had to listen to, this guy said to him that he was lucky that he was in the building he was in, or he would have shot him. Got the chills when i heard that O. O
Then there was the first year of road construction in the area, and somebody dun goofed... because a gas line got hit, so everyone within radius had to evacuate. Fingers were pointed, forget what outcome of investigation was..
tl;dr I was almost ambushed at my car by a man addicted to pain killers, and my boss thought it was my fault
I used to work at a retail pharmacy. Small town, shady doctors, lots of narcotic use; you know, the works. We had a lot of regular narcotic users that were obviously addicted (going through their prescription too fast, eating Tylenol #1s like candy, double doctoring, selling/buying, etc).
One afternoon, one of the more aggressive guys comes in and wants an early refill of his pain killer. I was the one to explain to him that he had gotten it filled ten days ago (was supposed to last thirty days). He got angrier and angrier as I kept telling him no, and that he'd have to get in contact with his doctor if he wanted more medication. He tried to reach over the counter when I looked away to grab something for another employee, but he didn't quite reach me. He eventually stormed off, shouting that I was going to regret saying no to him.
Fast forward to closing time (9pm). It's been about four hours since that point. I had to park in a second lot further away from the store because the closer one was too full. By that time, my car was the only one in the lot (the pharmacist had gotten a spot closer). I was on the edge of the parking lot when I heard something shift, and underneath my car I could see shoes on the other side. I called the police, and sure enough it was the same guy. Apparently he had paced between the two parking lots, trying to figure out which car was mine so he could catch me before I left. The situation itself was pretty murky law-wise so not much could be done about him, but I was able to get into my car and leave.
A few days later, pretty much everyone at my work had heard about the incident. Everyone was supportive. Except the two owners (husband and wife). The wife thought that I was exaggerating and would interject whenever I told the story. It wasn't until the guy came in when he was a little more 'publicly decent' that he talked to the husband and made a complaint about me. According to him, I had called him a drug addict and his prescription was perfectly valid, and I had called the police on him to get him arrested for no reason. I came into work shortly after, and my boss pulled me to the side. He explained that my behavior was uncalled for and that I needed to apologize. I refused, telling him that I had put the prescription on record and he was more than welcome to see that it was invalid on the patient file. I also told him that I had found the guy waiting by my car and that was why I had called the police. Since I refused to apologize, my boss made the apology on my behalf ('I'm so sorry that this happened, she misunderstood the situation, no one here wants to offend you, you're an upstanding gentleman, blah blah blah'). I guess that pseudo-apology was enough for him, because my car was never damaged in retaliation.
Needless to say, I don't work there anymore for several reasons. The funny part is that this wasn't even the incident that drove me to quit.
The mortar story reminds me of a scare I had. Not a fear for myself, but it deeply troubled me,. Brother was a US Marine in the middle east at the time, and I was enjoying one of our rare phone calls. Mom and grandparents got priority, so, I only got a call every few months. There was a loud boom in the background, and he says ,as casually as if he were mentioning that it had started raining ; "Ah, sh**, I gotta go. We're being shelled again." *click* He was so blase about it... I NEVER want to sound so bored about being at risk of death.
I love your videos keep up the good work
Worked in a haunted house..
_Scary_
First year in the truck. I got lost coming out of St Louis. I spent 2 hours crawling around these sht little roads .
Maybe not scary in the conventional sense but definitely an unpleasant surprise. I was working in aged care as an agency carer and this resident needed to use the bathroom. Her documents said she didn’t need any walking aids. So I walked with her and she told me to hold her hand. I did. She spontaneously tipped backwards. I pressed the call bell and waited for nurses to come. Have no idea what happened to her
When I was one of the first people to comment but I couldn’t come up with something funny
When the potatoes at the potato farm decide to rise up and overthrow the farmers
Once had to talk a belligerent, strung out junky customer down from her profanity laced tirade about needing a phone charger after having been arresting and losing hers after being turned loose that morning. It was like talking to an angry child, but more cursing, but it worked and I personally rang her up because she scared the everlasting piss out of my cashier, and ushered her out of the store. My cashier was amazed that I was so calm and that the woman became so quiet and compliant and wondered about my mysterious junky-taming abilities. After I had expelled the tank's worth of air I'd been holding in my lungs, I told her that if I had treated her like the nuisance she was being, it would feed her rage and I really didn't want to deal with a more angry druggy, so I basically had to swallow all the simultaneous, nasty feelings of extreme annoyance and fear I had and pretend to be nice and not totally ready to just throw my keys and bail on the whole circus I had going on.
Clearing a jammed industrial trash compactor. Was down in the compactor I had tagged out when one of the newer people threw the wrong breaker thinking it would scare me to hear the power turned back on only to have the piston start moving as he turned the breaker for the compactor back on rather then the breaker next to it that was for equipment we didn't have. Luckily the piston was still in the retract phase when I shut the thing down to give me a step at the bottom of the ramp so just kept retracting and didn't fully cycle like it can do on power up.
That's why it's called LOCK OUT tag out. A piece of paper isn't going to stop a moron.
Once at work, I saw double sided homework!
Big fireballs from electrical shorts.
Someone freaked out in the drive thru after a day of us being shortstaffed, he got cut in line apparently? I missed the beginning cause I was about to go on my last break. I hear:
"THIS IS BULLSHIT!"
He made threats to assault us, said we were looking at him like he was crazy, all that shit. We called the cops, but they never showed up cause someone cancelled the call.
Smelling rotten eggs on a ship. After you hear horror stories about H2S, that smell puts the fear of god into anyone. A refrigerant line leading to the fridge deck had ruptured and had started leaking. Any longer and it would have consumed the entire deck and adjoining compartments would have been flooded with the stuff and killed a couple people at the very least. Was not a funny day
I was traning a guy in a kitchen. This guy was 32 years old. He would scratch his nuts every 5 minutes. The first time I freaked out and told him to go wash his hands no ones wants to eat from nasty ass hands like that. 5 minutes later he did it again. He kept doing this through out the whole night I eventually told him to just watch me and not touch anything. After about 4 hours there he got a phone call from I asume his mother because 2 minutes later he told me he had to go his mom was their to pick him up. After he left he I made sure he never came back that night was terrifying for me.
The horror house body bag could've gone south real quick ommf-
When stalin finally gave people food 😫😫
When a Soviet missile site sent everyone to underground bunkers then asked permission to shoot me down.
I’m a carpenter, watched a guy drop a 1/2”x5x5 steel washer/plate from the 4th story of the parking garage were building barley missing a laborer walking below
Vixen Feline I started yelling at the guy for being careless he goes oh, yeah I dropped that.
Shit happens but you make sure it dosent, especially near a walkway! That guy has no business in a position where your actions can directly affect another’s life. Not even a very productive guy, bosses know it too, just won’t fire him or lay him off 🙄
Vixen Feline scary stuff! I work for a large (union) company here in Wa state they just had a fatality on the other side of the state last week, they were stripping below a deck that was poured, didn’t notify one of the subcontractors and a farmer stepped on the remaining un supported plywood. Fell 25 feet.
It’s always nice to know somebody but sucks when incompetent people get in...
I think you mean a Sound wall panel, those are crazy huge and dangerous, nobody but the 1-2 guys to install should be near when those are being flown in
You’re an Aussie? That’s cool! I’m from Washington state aka rain capitol of the world 😂
6:25 respect the drip Karen
Dude no joke the second i got this notification my dad got a call saying his brother cut off his finger
Eewww did he live.
Wild Sharday it’s just a finger I think he’s gonna make it
@@wildsharday9652 what do you think
@@CollinMcGhee excuse me for asked.
@@wildsharday9652 check your grammar
A man trying to rob my work and when I told him all the money gets put into a locked safe that I can’t access and he pointed a sawed off shotgun at me but there was still nothing I could do I’m just lucky he got scared and ran
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6:15 - If my pet was gonna die and I had to cause a ruckus to save their life, I'd do it, no question.I would not come back in my karate outfit, though (or, in my case, a super mario costume).
But bro, it clearly stated that it was't that serious
The dogs.
I stopped at a restaurant and picked up a huge box of pad thai to go. Then I caught my bus to the office. As I prepared to cross the street to said office two very large, feral dogs came out of the woods on the opposite side of the street.
These dogs were enormous. I saw the pair was a male and female and the female looked like she'd been nursing. And it just clicked that there were absolutely no misunderstandings about their intent. As a pair of wild dogs with young to feed they smelled that pad thai and had locked in on it. I stood frozen. The male looked at me intently. He inched a little closer and stopped. At this point I picked up my phone and called my co-worker. She said she could see me out the window. I advised her to call 911 if they went for me. The dogs were silent, methodical. They were staring me down and trying to do decide if they should go for me. Again, no misconceptions. I was potential prey. Thankfully I did have one caveat if I needed it. If it looked like it was going to escalate further I would just throw down the pad thai. I have no idea of that would have given me a saving throw Vs. being torn apart.
I locked eyes with the male for what seemed like a solid minute. Trying to stare him down. Obviously running would be the really stupid thing to do. But my brain was screaming at me to run anyways. Fuck you, brain. You know how this works from nature shows! Somehow staring worked. The male put his head down somewhat and turned away, heading back into the woods. The female followed. And I even got to keep my pad thai plus my skin, bones and organs! A couple years later those fucking dogs showed up again and trapped an employee in their car. (They jumped up on the person's hood and snarled/snapped at the windshield glass.) Animal control had to show up and take the hellbeasts away.
TL;DR: Bear Grylls helped me avoid death by doggo.
There was a report of a drive by in our area soon after a car with youngish guys drove by with guns at the ready luckily nothing happened not something normal for my part of the world.
Also, people are NOT allergic to dairy products in a life threatening way. I call BS!
I had a kid from up to and looks at me he literally followed me all.over the office and when I asked my co-workers if they saw the kid they said no.When the kid was right next to me... Turns out it was a prank...
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Aren't you supposed to not restrain people when they're having a seizure?
@Vixen Feline Thanks! Though, we can call the ambulance for free in the UK, and I just had a sad revelation about how that isn't the case everywhere, but I never think twice about it.
"Most scariest..."
10:23 She was epileptic and probably complaining after she came to that on top of her having had a seizure at a theater she is now stuck with footing the bill for unnecessary medical services.
My wife has epilepsy and your right about this. Before we got married and moved in together she lived with her mom, every time she had a seizure her mom would call the ambulance and they would have to take her to the hospital. Her neurologist and ER doctors told her mom not to do this but she kept doing it. So many bills…….
@@briancox628 An ex-girlfriend and I got a place together about 7-8 years ago and she would warn me occasionally that she was epileptic and hadn't had a seizure in a while and felt due for one. She would tell me that every seizure that she ever had were grand mals and that if I was ever around while she had one to just make sure there wasn't anything around she could hurt herself on and to not call the ambulance unless she injured herself badly in the process.
Her first seizure around me just so happened to be around 3 in the morning and it scared the crap out of me. She legit sounded possessed. I will never forget the sound she made. Scariest sound i've ever heard in my life.
My glasses flew off the table by themselves. I have surveillance footage of it
First view, like, and comment LMAO
i worked in a free women's clinic. as the patient came in, they had to start at a large desk that had a nurse that checked them in. as they proceeded to the waiting room, they had to pass a smaller desk that had a pelican chained to it. if the pelican lunged at the woman, they sent her to me where i had to tongue clean them before they saw the doctor. we had a 400+ lb woman that came in, and the pelican keeled over dead...
What the hell
@@goldfrog0 lol, just the reaction i was looking for...a bit of a poe and a touch of troll, please forgive me.
The sucididal woman who lost her spouse and only child should of had to the right to die.
Way to many adds
Pin me or I will cry 😔
Cry
Then cry
Looks like you are gonna be crying
then perish
:'(