Spreadsheets, emails, meetings, more spreadsheets, more emails, more meetings... The workday can get dull very quickly. Sure, there’s the occasional coffee break, but even those eventually blend into the routine unless something surprising breaks up the monotony.
And sometimes, all it takes is a forgotten relic collecting dust in a drawer or a secret note your predecessor left in the server room. To show that the highlight of your week can hide in the simplest of places, we put together a list of moments when employees discovered mildly interesting stuff at work they didn’t know existed!
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Found This Little Guy At Work
Wasn’t safe where I found him, so I let him go outside of the job.
My Coworker And I Found A Praying Mantis At Work And Took A Picture With It. It Turned Out More Like A Couple's Engagement Photo
Look What I Found At Work Tomorrow
I Found A Rather Tiny Salamander At Work Today, Chilling In The Morning Rain
Found This Little Guy Scurrying Around At Work! At Least Someone Was Having A Good Monday
When I was a kid, we used to catch them at my grandmother's house in Oklahoma. We called them horned toads. I haven't seen one in ages.
This Mushroom I Found At Work, Never Seen Anything Like It
A Beautiful Giant Silkworm Moth That I Found At Work
Found A Bible From 1882 Today While Cleaning Out A Storage Unit At Work
Found A Chainmail Today On My Lunch Break At Work Outside Of Walmart
Very very heavy so I know it's not an aluminum suit like larpers wear. The photo is the original state I found it in.
I Found A Piece Of Chrome At Work That Looks Cool
Mineral Named Turgite - Found This While Working In An Iron Ore Mine, Remote Western Australia
Whenever We Clean The Ball Pit At Work, The Most Broken Balls We Find Are Always Orange
Found This In The Ceiling At Work. Great Job Chris
For this, and many other reasons, things didn't work out between Chris and Steve. Sad, really...
iBook I Found In Cultural Archives From Museum Im Working
A Friend Of Mine Found A Mammoth Tusk While Working Up North
These Knives At My Work Have Been Used So Much They're Almost Gone
My Husband Found This Tucked Behind Some Shrubs At His Office Complex
Found A Heart Shaped Tomato At Work
It is better than finding a tomato-shaped heart at work, I tell ya.
Found A Receipt For A Boeing 737 Purchase At Work Today
I Found A Little Baggy Of Coca Cola At Work
Found A Safe At Work And Opened It
This Mini Laptop I Found At Work
This Mouse I Found At My Work Has A Calculator On It
This Cool Moth I Saw At Work Today
Oh, that's great. Insects are becoming so rare in urban areas these days.
Spotted This Amazing Door Stop At Work
A Coworker Said There Was A Walk-In Fridge In The Break Room…… Wasn’t Disappointed
My Boyfriend Found An Ammonite Fossil While Using An Excavator At Work. Ammonites Went Extinct About 66 Million Years Ago
I Found My Doppelganger At Work
We Got These Giant Screws In At Work For Mounting Solar Panels
Found An Indented Penny At Work
Repoussé Technique: The image is consistent with a technique called "repoussé," where someone has hammered the coin from the back to force the design—in this case, Lincoln's head—outward.
A Work Colleague Found This Behind A Hot Water Heater He Replaced Today
My Brother Found This Fossil While Doing Construction For Work
What’s Your Best “Who Closed Last Night Situation?”
Was working at this place doing morning prep. I walk in the building and go to clock in before turning on the lights and I notice a faint blue glow from the kitchen. Come to find out the torch had somehow been left lit on a shelf overnight. The last crème brûlée was an hour before close as well. I want someone to show me something that’ll top this please.
Secret Recording Device Under Break Room Table At Work
I Work In It, Finding This In The Server Room Made My Day
What My Dad Found When Working On Someone's Mower
Person dropped this mower off for my dad to take a look at. This is what he found when he removed the engine cover. Dad did get it running after clearing the debris and gave it some TLC.
I Saw This At Work Today And I Was Crying
Found This Guy In The Bathroom At Work Today
I Found A Ridiculously Large Chair At Work
Found This At Work. Any Idea What It May Be Used For? We Are Stumped And No One Knows Where It Came From
Found This Box At Work. I Am A Robot
Found This Phone At Work
Dude dont be alarmed but i think u may have found the phone of...Batman!! 😳😳😳
This Guy At Work's Huge "Dad Wallet"
Years Of Paint Build Up I Chipped Of An Old Trestle At Work
I Work At A School And We Just Cut All The Left Over Locks Of The Lockers. We Got To Keep Anything We Found So Long Story Short This Is My New Corset
I Found Some Pepto-Bismol That Was Bottled In 1959 In The Bathroom At Work
I Work In A Building Built In The Early 1900’s. While Running Cables Through The Ceiling, I Found This Old Dr. Pepper Can, Late 60’s Early 70’s?
It cleaned up nice and in almost perfect condition!
What It's Like Working With All Women And Their Lunch Purses
This Is An Actual Package Found At Work
Found This Gem In A Bag Of Work Rags
Found A Thor’s Hammer At Workdesk I Booked
Had booked a desk online for my office visit (we have to book desks every time we work from office), and found this Thor’s hammer on the desk. Now the question is - should I leave it as is when I leave work, or is it mine to take now? Please note that the desks are not allotted to any individuals and there is no way to identify the owner of this hammer.
I Work In Low-Income/Mental Health Housing, And A Tenant Fixed Our Hallway Trash Bin After Accidentally Breaking It
Great example of the odd ways people show me appreciation at work.
