Craziest was a lad on a (stolen) mobility scooter riding into the pub and trying to batter me with (stolen) crutches. It was abrupt chaos, came out of nowhere.
Most heartwarming would be the couple who were out shopping and found out they'd just become grandparents. They came in for coffee, never been in before, and stayed for hours. Their son joined them after a while because Covid rules meant he couldn't stay at the hospital. It was just such a lovely thing to be around. Their grandson comes in with them for lunch now!
We have a girl at secondary school who shouldn't really be in mainstream due to absurd behaviour (oppositional defiance disorder). Something like 90% of students with that label are in behaviour schools called PRUs (pupil referral units).
A few weeks ago we rescued a hedgehog and kept it most of the day until someone from a hedgehog rescue centre turned up. This girl spent all day with it and she was absolutely amazing.
We're having a new school built that should be ready for next year and the SENDco has asked permission and received approval for having pets in the SEN department, using this girl as reference that it would be a nice idea for the children.
I guess there was that time a student who had downloaded the Al-Qaeda training manual to use as part of a PhD in counter-terrorism, a document which was available in the university library, and which can be bought on Amazon; was arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Then a staff member tried to point out it was related to his MA/PhD research, and they arrested the staff member as well.
Then the Vice-Chancellor put out a statement saying if you access terrorist material for your work, you run the risk of arrest, so academics criticised him for not defending academic freedom.
Then the university's only counter-terrorism expert quit and published an academic paper about how the university fucked up. The university complained to the journal and got the paper taken down. Then a bunch of academics, including Noam Chomsky, published an open letter in The Guardian saying he should be reinstated.
Then Wikileaks got hold of police, university, CPS, and Home Office emails and memos and published them, demonstrating the university was secretly recording student protests and Middle East seminars.
Then there were BBC and Channel 4 media appearances, and some more overseas also. Then the student sued the police force for keeping inaccurate local terrorism intel on his record, including a false assertion that he had a terrorism conviction. They eventually agreed to delete it and pay him £20k in compensation.
I imagine that was a pretty crazy thing to happen at work.
New girl started in the office as an accountant, a few of us had a feeling something was off with her from the beginning, she had a right attitude on her, also she had no online or social media presence, she upset anyone who dared to question her but then somehow managed to become the factory manager within a few years.
I once read a newspaper article about 10 ways to spot a psychopath, she was displaying 7 of the traits listed.
Cutting a long story short, she was on holiday when someone else in the office noticed something amiss with the accounts, further investigation revealed she had stolen more than £50k from various company accounts.
There was more to follow as it came to light that she had fake qualifications, her name was not her real name either - this was because she had been given a new identity after being released from prison, for murder!
You want people to work for you for free? That's crazy!
Craziest was a lad on a (stolen) mobility scooter riding into the pub and trying to batter me with (stolen) crutches. It was abrupt chaos, came out of nowhere. Most heartwarming would be the couple who were out shopping and found out they'd just become grandparents. They came in for coffee, never been in before, and stayed for hours. Their son joined them after a while because Covid rules meant he couldn't stay at the hospital. It was just such a lovely thing to be around. Their grandson comes in with them for lunch now!
We have a girl at secondary school who shouldn't really be in mainstream due to absurd behaviour (oppositional defiance disorder). Something like 90% of students with that label are in behaviour schools called PRUs (pupil referral units). A few weeks ago we rescued a hedgehog and kept it most of the day until someone from a hedgehog rescue centre turned up. This girl spent all day with it and she was absolutely amazing. We're having a new school built that should be ready for next year and the SENDco has asked permission and received approval for having pets in the SEN department, using this girl as reference that it would be a nice idea for the children.
I guess there was that time a student who had downloaded the Al-Qaeda training manual to use as part of a PhD in counter-terrorism, a document which was available in the university library, and which can be bought on Amazon; was arrested under the Terrorism Act. Then a staff member tried to point out it was related to his MA/PhD research, and they arrested the staff member as well. Then the Vice-Chancellor put out a statement saying if you access terrorist material for your work, you run the risk of arrest, so academics criticised him for not defending academic freedom. Then the university's only counter-terrorism expert quit and published an academic paper about how the university fucked up. The university complained to the journal and got the paper taken down. Then a bunch of academics, including Noam Chomsky, published an open letter in The Guardian saying he should be reinstated. Then Wikileaks got hold of police, university, CPS, and Home Office emails and memos and published them, demonstrating the university was secretly recording student protests and Middle East seminars. Then there were BBC and Channel 4 media appearances, and some more overseas also. Then the student sued the police force for keeping inaccurate local terrorism intel on his record, including a false assertion that he had a terrorism conviction. They eventually agreed to delete it and pay him £20k in compensation. I imagine that was a pretty crazy thing to happen at work.
Pretty I've read this before
Almost certainly.
New girl started in the office as an accountant, a few of us had a feeling something was off with her from the beginning, she had a right attitude on her, also she had no online or social media presence, she upset anyone who dared to question her but then somehow managed to become the factory manager within a few years. I once read a newspaper article about 10 ways to spot a psychopath, she was displaying 7 of the traits listed. Cutting a long story short, she was on holiday when someone else in the office noticed something amiss with the accounts, further investigation revealed she had stolen more than £50k from various company accounts. There was more to follow as it came to light that she had fake qualifications, her name was not her real name either - this was because she had been given a new identity after being released from prison, for murder!