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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/TheGooseIsNotASwan on 2026-03-24 07:06:29+00:00.
So this was a while ago, back when I worked at Chipotle.
I was a very new employee and tend to be already really bad socially and at understanding directions. I was told to take the trash out to the dumpsters.
So I go out to carry the trash out, there were several garbage bags. Maybe 7 big heavy bags.
I carry one to the dumpster. It had really tall walls. I was like... How in the world am I supposed to toss these heavy bags up over this tall wall....
I use all my strength and toss, toss, toss... Trying to get one bag up past the wall taking up all my strength and failing multiple times.
I finally managed to get the bag up past the wall into the super tall dumpster.
Then I carry the next super heavy bag and do the same thing, trying to use physics and strength to get it.
After that, I am getting extremely exhausted and I cannot manage to do it for the fifth one no matter how many times I try...
So I go to my coworker and tell him that I am too weak to get the rest of the trash bags into the trash. He looks confused and goes with me to help.
I feel relieved because there is no way I was going to get the remaining three trash bags up there.
He goes to the dumpster but all of a sudden he makes a turn and goes around the side of the dumpster....
He opens a door and I realized that the "dumpster" looked suspiciously like a tall immobile brick wall.
Inside is a regular, closed dumpster with three garbage bags laying on top of it, and one garbage bag on the side in between the brick wall and the dumpster...
He just bursts into laughter at seeing the scene as I go "I was wondering how the trash pickup dude managed to get the dumpster emptied on trash day (because of thinking the immobile brick wall solidly stuck to the ground was the dumpster)"
He brings my other coworkers because it was so ridiculous and we all ended up laughing at it, myself included haha.
TL;DR: I thought that a very tall brick wall was a dumpster and threw heavy trash bags into it only for the real dumpster to be inside the brick wall, and my coworkers ended up laughing at how much of a silly goose 🪿 I was.