tifu by labeling something with my initials

Submitted by Sayomi_Koneko t3_10q1evk in tifu

tifu by labeling something with my initials at work

Last week we had our regional manager come in to inspect the store and make sure everything is in order. One of the things he checks is the labels on our totes to make sure they're appropriate.

From what several people have told me (I was off during the inspection) the regional was going through our warehouse checking labels and came across one of the boxes I labeled. Everything in the box was glue and tape so I named it "sticky" and put my initials after as we are requiredto do. It read "sticky jz". Regional was NOT happy and rips the page off the tote and storms into my managers office, slapped down the paper and asked what was wrong with the page to which my store manager replied "nothing". regional starts yelling about it being labeled "sticky jizz" and everyone except our manager had walked away to contain their laughter. Apparently you could hear him yelling "sticky jizz" in the warehouse and possibly through the store. Manager man told him my name and told him to look in the box as its labeled appropriately and regional turned red and went to put it back on the box.

I come in the next day and my direct manager asks me if I want to be yelled at now or later. I told him "why not all the time?" since that's just how we interact with eachother jokingly. He walked me over to my tote trying to keep a straight face and once we got there he told me the story and I nearly burst into tears it was so fucking funny.

Everyone got a wonderful laugh and regional became a little more humanized as he was just viewed as a boss.

Tldr - regional came to inspect store and saw my box named "sticky jz" and he started yelling. Manager had to tell him my name and whats in the box

Eta: most of us make puns on the boxes or reference songs.

Drilling? Drilling in the name of

Safety? Safety dance

Electric? It's Electric, Pikachu, or zap

Sockets? Sock it to me

I did accidentally type "sock" instead of sockets so it read "sock jz" and my coworker found that one lol

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Jehuty8434 t1_j6n7w95 wrote

Think this is more "today I made my manager look like an idiot" lol

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nickac317 t1_j6nqxrv wrote

Wouldn't say you fucked up on this one, but a great story, nonetheless. Wish you would have been there to see the look on the regional managers face when they realized it was correct.

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NoGood_Boyo t1_j6o0fzv wrote

Imagine being an adult. A manager. Who flies into a fit of rage. For a little piece of paper that may or may not say Jizz.

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pilken t1_j6o0ihu wrote

I once was told that I had to use my "proper" initials - - - say my name is "William Stewart" but I go by Bill - I had put BS on everything I inspected that was not working at work and was told I was being "vulgar".

note: Not Working - BS

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stevedaher t1_j6p3m2m wrote

Replying to NoGood_Boyo (#1,671,729)

Imagine being an adult in a workplace and labelling a box “sticky” and not “adhesives” or “glue and tape”. He knew exactly what he was doing when he labelled the box.

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Dr_Mime_PhD t1_j6p52lw wrote

At least regional knew where to get the tape to reattach the label.

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stevedaher t1_j6p5u6o wrote

Replying to Dmisetheghost (#1,686,429)

Guy literally said he knew the regional manager checks the label for appropriateness. Then calls a box Sticky JZ. He’s written his initials a 1000 times and you think it’s the first time someone has made the remark that it’s “jizz”. I have a bridge to sell you.

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Kcirnek_ t1_j6p91tl wrote

Do you work at Dunder Mifflin?

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BabysCrumbBuffet t1_j6pbm2s wrote

Used to work for a small loan company and their software could be abbreviated PL. I had to box up old documents for offsite storage and some of the files were not in the system for some reason.

Those boxes were labeled NIPL and pink highlighter was used to label them.

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AcrobaticSource3 t1_j6pfvw3 wrote

The regional manager who got mad must be jealous because he’s shooting blanks

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Van_GOOOOOUGH t1_j6phpxe wrote

With such uptight inspectors, how about you just label the box with more professional verbiage, like "adhesives"

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