Share with me your big f%#ck ups at work to make me feel better!

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Absolutely ballsed up at work today. It was a big one. Totally my fault and had an upset client. I was mortified and apologied profusely. I can’t say what it is as it’s really outing.

It’s really knocked my confidence and can’t stop obsessing about it

What dingers have you done ?

At a secondary school I worked at:

1. My line manager ordered 66 ukuleles rather than 6 (6 too many imo)
2. An English teacher was gathering together GCSE coursework to take home at the end of the week to mark, so decided to store them in black bin bags NEXT TO THE BINS IN THE OFFICE - yes you guessed it .....

But did you fuck up as much as the organisers of the 1904 Olympic marathon?

First ever job as a 16 year old working in an after school club which was held in a community center. The kids were playing football in the hall which was raised at one end in a kind of little stage. Went to kick the football to a kid on the stage completely mis kicked it and kicked it into a child’s face. I was convinced I was going to be put on some sort of register as they had said in my contract about safeguarding.
First time taking a live call in a call centre I said hello your through to X at Y then immediately panicked and hung up.
First week after training in the same call centre job. Accessed the wrong policy when a customer was incoherent with rage and shouting all the DPA answers at me so I couldn’t understand. Instead of asking him to repeat I went ahead and cancelled the policy I was in. Turns out it was a completely different account I had cancelled and due to a failed credit search I literally had no way of fixing it. Told my manager what had happened and then immediately got a very “loose” stomach spent the next hour in the toilets (only ones on department) shitting out my innards. Walking back to my manager grey and sweating an hour later was the singularly most embarrassing moment of my work life... so far

Sent an all-company email with the letter “o” missing from the word “count”.

As an NQT I was contacting home about one of my secondary school pupils. I used the number on their contacts which was listed as contact one; mum. Talked to mum all fine etc.

Next day I got a phone call off the dad asking for a meeting - again fine. Until he arrived and explained that the pupil didn't have contact with their mum anymore hadn't for a few years and that mum isn't meant to have any info from school.

I was mortified! Luckily it wasn't a safe guarding issue or anything major I'd contacted home about but I would get cold sweats after that for a long time when having to call home incase the schools system hadn't updated properly.

@Fedupmum13

You were a health hazard!
😂😂😂
Not laughing at the poor patrons but it sounds just like something I would do if I'd ever tried to be a waitress

18 year old me was in charge of submitting the adverts in the medical journal for junior/locum etc doctors for whatever speciality for our hospitals in our local trust. Missing submitting an advert for a jib role meant our local hospitals potentially.went without doctors for a number of months- it was veŕy serious. one time a consultant (they're the one who request the adverts) rang u p and demanded I submit an advert right then and there for a locum they needed immediately because someone had suddenly had said they were pregnant a d couldn't work butnwhat meant the entire hospital was left without a doctor in that speciality. submission for that month was only LITERALLY minutes away from the cut off line - I, as fast as I could, tried to type every thing in but wasn't fast enough as the medical.terms were hard to spell correctly and the submission was late by about 20nseconds so wouldn't be printed in the journal that month. he rang me up and EXPLODED at me. I just burst into tears. He called me an idiot, stupid etc etc. Everything my dad had called me all.my life. I've never forgotten it.

Not me but a family friend...ordered 10,000 bars of soap instead of 100 when he was a quartermaster. Cleanest regiment ever

I think the worst was accidentally sending the proceeds of someone’s house sale (about £500,000) to a bank account that didn’t exist because I’d transposed two numbers in the account number on the paperwork. Took four days for the bank to cough it up and the client went ballistic as you can imagine! Worst moment of my life as a trainee having to go to my supervisor and explain what I’d done....

@Sweetpea1532 I definitely was! 😂 Thankfully I'm a teacher now and with no access to hot food or drinks

@Fedupmum13

Oooh, that sounds much better for you...just don't try to teach any science sections..especially chemistry...you and your students might go up in a cloud of toxic smoke...plus it could get expensive as some lab scientists have posted about if fragile equipment were damaged by slippery fingers

@YouJustDoYou

18 year old me was in charge of submitting the adverts in the medical journal for junior/locum etc doctors for whatever speciality for our hospitals in our local trust. Missing submitting an advert for a jib role meant our local hospitals potentially.went without doctors for a number of months- it was veŕy serious. one time a consultant (they're the one who request the adverts) rang u p and demanded I submit an advert right then and there for a locum they needed immediately because someone had suddenly had said they were pregnant a d couldn't work butnwhat meant the entire hospital was left without a doctor in that speciality. submission for that month was only LITERALLY minutes away from the cut off line - I, as fast as I could, tried to type every thing in but wasn't fast enough as the medical.terms were hard to spell correctly and the submission was late by about 20nseconds so wouldn't be printed in the journal that month. he rang me up and EXPLODED at me. I just burst into tears. He called me an idiot, stupid etc etc. Everything my dad had called me all.my life. I've never forgotten it.

I don't think that was your mistake, he was an arsehole!

@YouJustDoYou
You sure proved your father wrong if you were able to handle that advert job despite having to work with impatient shouty consultants. Good on you!

As a student I had a Saturday job in a small hotel. Part of my role was to do the laundry - the bed linen and anything else that had been put in the laundry room. One week my boss had left one of her suits on top of the laundry pile, so I duly stuffed it into the machine, washed it and then whacked it in the tumble dryer with everything else. I'd never owned any wool clothing before, nor did I have much experience of tumble driers, so I had no idea that her once size 14 wool suit would come out of the drier as a size 2 at most. She was absolutely fuming - but somehow I held onto my job. I stuck to washing the sheets from then on.

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Ooh I've remembered another one.

I was working at the BBC and we had a upgrade of Microsoft Office.

I used to email DP quite often, it was early days in our relationship so there may have been a bit of sauciness. Anyway, as he was a regular email contact his address would just auto fill in the To box when I typed his name.

After the upgrade it still auto filled with just the name, so looked the same, but the emails were now going to someone in the BBC address book who had the same name as DP.

I only found out when this chap, who was the Editor of PM on Radio 4, replied to say "your emails are interesting, not to say titillating, but I fear they are not meant for me". Could never bring myself to read exactly what I'd written.

Also had to quit my job over it, couldn't deal with the shame of everyone knowing as i was 29 and he was 50! I should mention he was a fit for his age 50. Never again though.