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The lounge has been fairly sane lately so share your stories.

For those of us who have spent our working lives either in the military or public sector, we've all experienced or witnessed some strange punishments or retaliations when someone pissed off the boss.

My one experience with this came in 1977, when I arrested the son of a very successful local business man, for attempted burglary and possession of burglary tools. Before I could get the arresting paper work started the little charmers' father was in the shift commander's office razing hell and demanding that this was all some sort of misunderstanding and it would be best for all concerned if we let his little darling go right now. The Lt. used his officer discretion and made arrangements for an O.R. release.

The bandit's father then demanded that I apologize for arresting and terrorizing his poor misunderstood offspring. To which I replied I would happily apologize to Jr. when Jr. explained what he was doing at the back door of a business that had been closed for hours, with a pry bar in his hand and a large pair of vise-grips in his back pocket. It was then suggested that I may want to rethink my position and was asked if I could apologize to everyone involved. Well after a few seconds in deep thought I explained to Daddy that I was truly sorry his only son was a second rate burglar, a liar, cheat, and a thief, and went back to work.

The upshot of this was three days later I was informed that the department was in the middle of a redeployment of resources and I had been transferred from the patrol division to the traffic division and assigned to work the downtown parking control sector. My new shift was to be from 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday and as parking was not enforced on holidays I would also have all holidays off with pay.
After six months of having my morning coffee with the coeds from the local beauty college, lunch at any of a number of the fine dining establishments in the D.T.A. then drinking iced tea for part of the afternoons with several of the ladies from the local massage parlor, I was again informed of another resource redeployment and the following Monday I was back in a patrol car working a district.

So, I guess my question is, have any of you experienced or know of any other asinine punishments like I was forced to endure:D
 
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kamloops67 said:
i used to get suspended from school for playing hooky.
never really understood that ,more a reward for the teachers than a punishment to me, i didnt want to be there anyway!
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You know I always wondered what their thinking was about that. You would think they would make you stay after school for a couple of weeks or something. But instead they gave you some time off which is what you wanted anyway. Go figure.
 
Roadtrash said:
You know I always wondered what their thinking was about that. You would think they would make you stay after school for a couple of weeks or something. But instead they gave you some time off which is what you wanted anyway. Go figure.
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they caught on at my school after a while. Started giving me "in school suspension" where i was at a desk by myself in a closed off corner. Couldnt sleep, couldnt talk to other people getting the punishment. Even then though, the person who was in charge of monitoring in school suspension ? My defensive back football coach :D

No need for talking when the coach brings his computer and we watch youtube videos and games on it.
 
6th Rank Oregon Basketball 1974 and my PhD

I was a finance/ real estate doctorial student at Oregon. I was teaching and administering a three professor final exam. I had the starting guard from Coach Herter's sixth ranked USA college basketball team in my class.

This **** walked out with a paper copy of the final...I discovered it about two minutes after he left the room.

A student clued me in who the thief was. So I found out where his room was....at the jock frat house, and I went there to confront him. In his room he fessed up and handed back the test. This allowed the other two profs to give the test fairly to their students.

I charged him.

He got a hearing and a Liberal Arts prof came to his defense....which was that I failed to render him his Miranda Rights!!!!

What? This was not a criminal charge by the police! Miranda just does not apply here... ( Fwiw I also taught some Law courses )

Well, the upshot was that I became persona non-grata, and my doctoral program went no farther. Oregon was behind the team and its star players.

After another year I went to the U of Ct. to wrap up my 7 years of teaching, and I went to the private sector. Aetna first, where I created the first billion dollar derivative. Then to my own software company where I created an Apple II and PC based trading desk platform for GNMA, FNMA and FHLMC pools used at over 200 primary and regional brokerage firms.
My company eventually became part of Thompson Reuters and IDC -FT. But I retired in 1989.

The kid who swiped the final caused a turn in my life.
 
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I once had a problem similar to the original OP. Daddy came down raising hell about what a sorry *** I was for messing with his little darling. The kid was drugged out and later went to prison. Daddy was in the middle of a divorce. I got him to talk to me privately and told him if he wanted to throw his weight around I would do the same and have a talk with his wife's divorce lawyer about his mistress. He backed down. Keep notes.
 
kamloops67 said:
i used to get suspended from school for playing hooky.
never really understood that ,more a reward for the teachers than a punishment to me, i didnt want to be there anyway!
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I got suspended once for something stupid. To my surprise my dad didn't yell at me. He calmly handed me a double bladed axe and pointed at four cords of wood that had to be split.:o Ever since then I've hated double bladed axes and splitting wood.:rolleyes:
 
old bear said:
The lounge has been fairly sane lately so share your stories.

For those of us who have spent our working lives either in the military or public sector, we've all experienced or witnessed some strange punishments or retaliations when someone pissed off the boss.

My one experience with this came in 1977, when I arrested the son of a very successful local business man, for attempted burglary and possession of burglary tools. Before I could get the arresting paper work started the little charmers' father was in the shift commander's office razing hell and demanding that this was all some sort of misunderstanding and it would be best for all concerned if we let his little darling go right now. The Lt. used his officer discretion and made arrangements for an O.R. release.

The bandit's father then demanded that I apologize for arresting and terrorizing his poor misunderstood offspring. To which I replied I would happily apologize to Jr. when Jr. explained what he was doing at the back door of a business that had been closed for hours, with a pry bar in his hand and a large pair of vise-grips in his back pocket. It was then suggested that I may want to rethink my position and was asked if I could apologize to everyone involved. Well after a few seconds in deep thought I explained to Daddy that I was truly sorry his only son was a second rate burglar, a liar, cheat, and a thief, and went back to work.

The upshot of this was three days later I was informed that the department was in the middle of a redeployment of resources and I had been transferred from the patrol division to the traffic division and assigned to work the downtown parking control sector. My new shift was to be from 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday and as parking was not enforced on holidays I would also have all holidays off with pay.
After six months of having my morning coffee with the coeds from the local beauty college, lunch at any of a number of the fine dining establishments in the D.T.A. then drinking iced tea for part of the afternoons with several of the ladies from the local massage parlor, I was again informed of another resource redeployment and the following Monday I was back in a patrol car working a district.

So, I guess my question is, have any of you experienced or know of any other asinine punishments like I was forced to endure:D
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Good on you for standin' your ground. I despise people like that twerp and his father. I'd be willin' to bet that the kid wound up in the gray bar hotel for SOMETHING before it was all over with.
 
I recall when we had the son of a local board member in jail. His son was in his late thirties and was a real (insert letter word here, any of them will do) and what was worse was some CO's were letting him run their housing units because of his father's status. Well, one of the Sgt's heard about this and put me in there with the strict understanding that I make sure things get put back to normal because I had zero problems with getting things done no matter who. Within an hour of the start of the shift I had him locked in his cell for insolence (he started early by calling me a few choice words when I found out he was on the cleaning list for the night) and then after a few more words I wrote up internal charges on him. Well before the end of the night I get called into the Sgt's office because another inmate called his dad to say that mean old CO was picking on his son. The Sgt. asked what happened, I told him, and I also told him I made the appropriate entries into the computer after each and everything that the inmate said. The Sgt. said it was good enough and away I went. Well a day or two later I get pulled aside because the inmate put in a grievance and the bosses were wondering why I had taken such pleasure in locking him in. I responded by telling them what the inmate did, and also told them about the log entries. I was told to be a bit more professional and all the internal charges were dismissed from up top. Oh well, he never gave me any trouble after that, can't say that about the rest.
 
Didn't you love it when you put down in the remarks on the yellow copy of the ticket you issued. The "Kind" things the offender said about you or the judges?

Then you got to read those remarks in court, or at least give them to the judge.

That brought on deserved punishment at times.


WuzzFuzz
 
Years ago, I was the photographer for a large weekly newspaper.
My boss was a bi-polar tyrant who loved to do all discipline loudly and in front of everyone else in the office. He had a personal rule; if one of the reporters or I misspelled someones name and there was a complaint about it the boss took $5 out of our pay. This was not company policy. Any time this would happen he would stroll out and crow loud and proud he was taking $5 for the offense.

After enduring this, and other indignities from the boss for five years an incident happened which finally ended this practice.
I photographed a group of middle school math fair winners. I received a typed news release from the teacher with the five students names. One boy looked at the release and seeing his name listed as Bill requested it be William, as he preferred William. A week later little Williams mother calls the office and demands a correction be made in the paper as I had misspelled her sons name. She spells his name WILIEMM. What? Really? The little genius never mentioned the odd spelling.

Anyhow, the boss came out of his lair and calls me out. As ks me If I remember a boy named William from the math fair. Yes, I did. Well, you are being docked $5 for misspelling his name. I said, if it was his last name-the teacher spelled it. Nope- he says I got William wrong. William- that is my dad's first name, don't think I messed that up. W-I-L-I-E-M-M he bellows. I said look, the teacher had his name as Bill, the student said please change Bill to William-never mentioning the oddball spelling. If you feel it necessary to dock me $5 for this, tell you what (whipping out my wallet) here is $10 (bleeping!!) dollars- Go buy yourself lunch! I stuffed the $10 in his pocket, grabbed my camera bag and left.

He was our boss for another five years and never once did he dock anyone $5 for a misspelled name again.
 
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This wasn't a punishment but the threat of one that was ludicrous. When I started Federal Service, there was a week long training course on the traditions, structure, etc of the Agency I was working for. Nice week at a wooded lodge/training center, eagles and turkeys and deer everywhere, restaurant quality food. Well, there were limited sessions of this course, so several of us had already been working together for several months. Well, we started cutting up a little and the instructors pulled us aside to inform us that if we didn't stop, "they'd have us transferred to Alaska". Now you know these were bean-counter types. They were using that as a threat to wildlife biologists, salmon biologists, etc.

Upon reflection ("How soon can you get me transferred? Do I have to go back to California or can I go straight to Alaska?"), they amended the threat to a transfer to D.C.
 
I got called to a meeting with mr insane tyrannical yet barely literate boss and the Big Boss one time to defend my actions. He threw out two dates and asked me why things were not properly handled. Menacing words about suspensions and such were spoken if answers were not acceptable. I referred to logs and my personal notes of the two dates and agreed that the situations they described were indeed factual, and in my opinion warranted suspension without pay. To my bosses astonishment I should add. He stumbled for words and said "what?" My final comment?

I was on vacation those two days.
 
When i was a senior in High School there was this bully that called me a very nasty name for 3 years and i finally snapped i grabbed his shirt collar with my left hand my right fist was just inches from his face i was ready to clean his clock, the teacher dragged us both down to the dean's office, the dean took us both into his office i got chewed out. The bully got detention.
 
In high school my class room was the farthest from the gym. I was always late and about the last to get changed and appear. I think I was a freshman. One day the coach lined us all up and was bellering that things were being stold. He walked down to me and told me it looked bad for me as I was always late. We got into it. I dont recall getting madder in my lifetime. I went to the principal, he hauled in the coach and I insisted on a public apology on the entire school PA system.
They asked me to give them a few days. They hid someone in the locker room and the next day caught the culpert. I wish I could say that I made them give that apology over the pa as threatend but I caved and didnt.
On my first day in high school a senior met me in a crowded hall, dropped his books and told me to pick them up. We started to scrap and a woman teacher broke us up. He called her a xitch. We both were sent to the principal and he was going to suspend us both. Again I got mad while the senior was bawling. Said I did nothing and the senior tried to say he called her a witch. I stayed, he got a week or two vacation. He was 4 or 5 years older than me as I started school young.
For me, several years of school was a battle zone. I was huge but younger than all my class all the way through school. I not once told my folks about my fights almost every day. I dont know why. Maybe it was because my dad was 6ft 5"s and a fighter. I think I read him wrong in retrospect.
 
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"So, I guess my question is, have any of you experienced or know of any other asinine punishments like I was forced to endure

Dude...happens everyday. Vote with your feet...you were looking for a job when they hired you, you'll be looking for one when you leave.
 
I was once threatened with Two days off without pay.
When I asked the boss if I could have them in conjunction with my regular days off he threw me out of the office and never followed through with his threat.
 
I worked with a guy that wanted to go hunting on a thur. (normal days off were fri, sat, sun ,mon,so he'd of had 5 days off in a row).the boss said no you have to work, he called in Wed. night after the boss had left.
When he got back from his long weekend, they gave him a disciplinary hearing and was given 5 days off. a guy that was supossed to go on vacation during that week had his vacation cancelled and made to work the 5 days of 11pm -7am!!!
 
I was working as 'shift millwright' in a major sized mill. Job was rotating shifts so one of four was always on duty. When someone called or didn't show, the on-duty man stayed 'till relieved.

One night on grave yard shift, a co-worker was reported for a safety violation. The safety officer intercepted the accused at the start of his next shift while holding me overtime to cover his duties. He was sent home then & told the two following days were 'off without pay' as well.

The day shift millwright was called in early (he started that morning at 3:00 am, I did OT from 11:00 pm till 3:00 am. The next two days were normally days off for the accused.

He was excused from his last night of grave yard shift. I did 1/2 a night shift without planning, & so did the day shift guy. I ask you, WHO were they trying to punish?
 
I still laugh about this today.

When I graduated I had a part-time job at Gamestop. It was like 6:40pm one night.... this one dude comes in, buys a USED copy of some motorbike racing game. He hands me the box, my manager sees the box and is being nice and grabs the game out of the locked cabinet where we kept the used game discs, she puts it in the case... I tell him his total, he hands me cash... and he's gone.

About an hour later the guy calls in. He says " I can't get past the 1st race". I asked if he finished the race and didn't quit during the race. He says "Yea I beat it, I got 1st place". So at this point I'm confused and have no idea what the problem is... I tell him to bring it back in tonight or tomorrow and well take care of it. He says ok, thanks, and hangs up.

Now it's about 8:20pm... we close at 9pm. He walks into the store, looks right at me and demands gas money. I laugh, and ask him "What are you talking about dude?". He says... "You told me you'd give me money for my inconvenience". I laugh even harder and tell him "Man, I never said that, my manager was right beside me, she heard what I said... I'll be glad to give you a new copy of the game though". He gets angry, mumbles some works which are still unknown to me today and hands me the game case. I pop out the disc and inspect it to see what the problem was... my manager grabbed the DEMO disc version of the game instead of the actual full-game!

So now my manager apologizes to him , gives him 50% off, the difference back, and personally gets him the correct game (so she thinks). He leaves, says thanks and slams the glass door like an idiot... he was wearing brown sweats- a grey shirt, and a G-Unit gold chain and hat, but, had a country accent. This is the type of area I lived in.

It's closing time... 9:00pm. We lock the doors, close the registers, count our money. Right when we grab our coats to leave the phone rings. My manager runs back to get it real fast... she picks it up and you hear this scream... I'm 50 feet away and I heard it clear as day... "THE ******* BLACK HAIRED BOY DID IT TO ME AGAIN"! "HE GAVE ME THE WRONG ******* GAME, AGAIN!" "I KNOW HE'S HIGH, WITH THAT LONG HAIR OF HIS, HE'S A STONER!" "HE'S TO STONED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON". I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe... to me, this was a riot considering I've never smoked anything but the candy bubble-gum cigars. So I just leave... I wasn't waiting all night for this idiot to vent on the phone.

The next day, I get told I might get fired for all of this... my manager blamed me for it all and didn't hone up to her mistakes. During my lunch break I called this oil/gas company that was looking for an IT person...and they hired me over the phone, they were so desperate. I never went back to Gamestop after lunch.
 
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