I've made a huge cock up

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Today (on my day off!) I've realised and probably exacerbated a monumental mistake I've made at work. I can't tell you what it is due to safeguarding (don't worry noones in danger!) which is really frustrating and sounds like am attention seeking post as I'd love to wail and share the load!!! I'm so stressed about it I just nearly threw up in Asda! Waiting for someone from work to call me and let me off the hook

So to make me feel better tell me ridiculous/alarming/cringed mistakes you've made that still make your tummy feel weird ages afterwards but all turned out fine even though you did something wrong!! Some amusing ones would really help!!

Actually would that even happen?? Can I ever look back on this, roll my eyes and give an ironic chuckle??
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On my last day temping at a multinational I sent an entire pallet of product to America when it should have gone to Stability down the corridor.
I may have been drinking at lunchtime.

Oh god a lunchtime drink would be good right now!! Did it get sorted??

Just happened to me and I'm still feeling awful. I admitted to my manager whilst completely off my face on a night out (I'm sure my drink was spiked) that I'm in love with a colleague. This was overheard and blown out of proportion to everyone in the office that I am having an affair with the colleague (I'm married, he isn'), with rumours that we've got together and that I'm going to leave my DH for him!!! I had to face the cringe moment on Monday when he asked me what this was all about that I'd only said I had feelings and would not make up untrue crap and I will NOT be leaving DH for him. I don't think he likes me very much at the moment and we're the gossip of the office.

Years ago I was a graduate trainee for a retail company. Was put in charge of organising a huge store floor move around. Begged, pleaded and cajoled a lot of staff to help me out by coming in early (around 5am) to sort it all out. I overslept and didn't wake up until about 8am. I was not popular.......

Well the username fits!! 😂

Oh god @RunSweatLaughAndLatte mortifying!! I had a situation in my teens when I mentioned one of my friends clearly fancied our youth worker. I was dragged into a meeting with her and another one about how it had almost ruined her marriage!!!! Even at 14 I knew they were overreacting.

Some people love to create drama!!

Hope it blows over soon xxx

Oh gosh! Yes it's not pleasant. I hate to be made out to be a creator of gossip too. I have never made up false gossip in my life but he thinks it was me that started it! I'm so angry and humiliated. I know he feels the same but it's not really my fault. And he's not behaved that amazingly either which only makes me feel angrier about the whole thing.

I once witnessed something happening at work like this. Colleague A makes a big mistake with some VIPS not sorting enough places for them. Colleague B (who was younger and much more inexperienced and who barely knew Colleague A) was amazing; she offered to help out and dropped work to accomodate colleague A. She was calm, focused on finding a solution and went the extra mile to sort it out. She was a joy to watch and colleague A didn't ever properly thank her either but colleague B was fine. and I had such admiration for her capable and can do spirit.

I once took bloods from lots of different patients, and sent them all to the lab with absolutely no patient ID on them. It was very awkward explaining and re-bleeding

I also quite frequently come home with urine samples in my pocket, with no idea who they belong to.

Oh I made my place of work overdrawn by 7 million due to a wrongly placed number

I sent an email to my colleague today calling him Fagan by accident. His name is Lewis. I have absolutely no idea how this happened.

Years ago I sent out a press release for my employer which stated that funds under management had increased by £2 that year instead of £2bn. Compliance had missed my mistake as well so off it went. The newspapers thought it was hilarious. Our Chief Executive was not amused.

I accidently put a customer's mortgage account nearly 2 million in credit when I was closing the account. Thankfully this got flagged to me when I had to check all my closed accounts from the previous day. Had to explain to finance who had to undo though. Thankfully the customer didn't request an end of account statement.

I once ‘lost’ £425,000 of clients money by typing two digits the wrong way around on a bank transfer. Took a week for the bank to find it and return it to us. My client went fucking harpic, as you would. I was a trainee at the time and thought I’d get the sack. I didn’t, and they even offered me a job at the end of it....

in my first job, aged 16 (late 80s, if anyone’s counting) i was tasked with sending a large number of international accounts by fax. about 30 of them, with about 10 pages each. i dropped them all on the floor and attempted to re-sort them with no clue who needed what. after the first few mixed-up pages, i realised i had no clue what i was doing, sent the rest of the documents to Dubai and pretended it wasn’t me. after a disastrous training course where i achieved 3% on the final exam, it was gently suggested to me that maybe accountancy wasn’t a good fit. I KNEW THAT! but my stepfather insisted so me and my pitiful maths had a bash at it. i lasted 5 weeks.

also, once upon a time, if your waiter was a bit panicky and rubbish for the first fortnight of your world cruise i’m very sorry. i had to find 6 galley washer-uppers who could find/borrow a pair or shoes and were willing to step up, until i could get the proper waiters on board. that one nearly made me throw up in horror when i realised...

*of shoes

I once redirected a person's email address to her abusive ex husband's inbox. They had the same last name and I was editing server side while tired.

Thanks for all your stories, I feel so much better now!! I've grovelled to my very lovely manager who was actually really sympathetic and said even though I ballsed up I acted very professionally when following it up.

It's good to know I'm not the only human who makes mistakes! The worse thing was that it wasn't so much an accident more a poor decision by me so I felt very stupid!!

Thanks also for bearing with my post about nothing but also a really big "thing"!

I once emailed our handyman and asked him to come and flush out our 'U' bend because something was clearly stuck down there and the place was ponging.
And sent the request to one of our charitable donors.

In my defence, their names are very similar

I was once chatting with a work college while feeding 3 children (worked in a nursery) . I should have been paying more attention because a child with a dairy allergy (apparently severe) snatched another child’s very dairy filled yogurt spoon out of my hand and ate it while I was gabbing.

Turned out after we all panicked and called his mum and got ready for the worst ( no epi pen or anti histamine provided) it was actually just a ‘hunch she had’ and he wasn’t actually severely allergic at all thankfully. I concentrated a lot more after that!

Would just like to highlight nothing like that has happened to me before or since! And children with severe allergies usually have an epi pen or at least anti histamine in case of contact with an allergen. I become A LOT more stringent with children with allergies after that. It scared me senseless

I misread a drawing from a steel fabricator and signed it as correct. 21 large steel beams turned up to site, 90mm too short to fit between the columns to form the first floor. Cost a packet to fix and put us well behind schedule.

I once called a colleague to tell him I was on my way from one site to another. I didn't hang up properly and proceeded to drive along listening to cheesy pop music and singing along very loudly (I am really bad at singing) - he put it on speaker phone for the whole ward to hear....

What the actual fuck @MooFeatures?
The poor bastards who get tested by you!

First office job involved taking orders for car number plates, mostly from dealers. They'd order a big batch every year, especially when the new cars were being released. My terrible handwriting resulted in production of 1000's of V plates instead of W. I was mortified. Boss was lovely about it but I know the poor lads in the shop were not happy with me.