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Can you beat my colleague's mistake?

280 replies

yaela123 · 05/06/2017 17:30

I work in a school and we were doing a cake decorating activity this afternoon, so at lunchtime I sent a colleague to the local shops to but some icing, decorations, etc.

On the list was sprinkles. (aka 100s and 1000s)

He comes back with... a sprinkler!

Yes, one of those things for watering the garden.

He said he was a bit confused, but could he really be that dim?

In his defence, there is a small garden. but everything else on the list was icing, chocolate chips, etc. And we don't send out the teachers to buy gardening equipment!

What silly mistakes like this have people around you (or even better you yourself!) made?

OP posts:
shitgibbon · 05/06/2017 18:10

I was asked to order 20 pocket folders and ordered 20 boxes of them, with 100 per box. Years ago. They probably have still not run out of pocket folders.

LadySalmakia · 05/06/2017 18:04

I once spent £2k on books for the students. Which is fine, I do that a lot. These were textbooks for English speakers on an course taught and examined in English.

Somehow I ordered the Finnish edition.

(mercifully a bright spark at the booksellers realised we probably didn't want them so I didn't end up with unusable stock!)

SheWhoDaresGins2 · 05/06/2017 17:45

Asked a new worked with us for 3 weeks colleague to fetch the hoist. She came back with an empty cardboard box that had once contained incontinence pads.

Jogonmate · 05/06/2017 17:39

Had an interview with a potential employe and asked them to come in for the 2 until 10 shift. She was a no show until 2mins to 10pm, aka closing time, gave her another shift and she worked out great.

SallyCanWait · 05/06/2017 17:38

One of the guys was going to Tesco on the breakfast run. One of the supervisors asked for a roast chicken sandwich. The guy came back with an actual roast chicken...we don't even have a cooker at work. Lord knows what he was thinking.

I've made a few mistakes. I do all the purchasing and accidently ordered too much material (stainless steel) it cost in the region of £1500. The supplier wouldn't cancel the order. I could actually feel the colour drain from my face when I realised. I had phoned the order through and then phoned the exact same order through 5 minutes later.