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 ?

I miss read the end date of a contract, we kept billing the client for 6 months...... we had to pay back £20k. I got a verbal warning.

One wrong line of code, 100's of servers shut down and angry top dogs ringing me up all day across 3 timezones...
Yeah that was fun

I once forwarded a risk documents to some senior managers for their comments, only it was confidential ... as the document had risk mitigation plan of one of the managers posts being made redundant!

@BlowDryRat

As an office junior, I once ordered 20 reams of A4 paper instead of 20 packs. They were delivered to the small office on a lorry. I was horrified as they just keep unloading and unloading. Luckily my boss thought it was hilarious. I found a new job before we ran out of paper.

I got a call from our school exercise book supplier because my 2ic who had done the order hadn't taken into consideration that they were packed on 50s, he'd ordered 2500 packs of 50 rather than 50 packs.

Work once gave me a brand new laptop and DH accidentally ran over it with his car on the same day.

I worked in travel from 17 up until February this year so 18 years! I once received a flight change and assumed it was the same day, customer turned upto the airport and flight has been moved to the day earlier 🤦🏼‍♀️ that was 10 years ago. I learnt my lesson and triple check everything now.

@BlowDryRat

As an office junior, I once ordered 20 reams of A4 paper instead of 20 packs. They were delivered to the small office on a lorry. I was horrified as they just keep unloading and unloading. Luckily my boss thought it was hilarious. I found a new job before we ran out of paper.

@BlowDryRat 😂😂😂😂😂 cracked me up

I always think of the poor sap who handed out the wrong envelope at the 2017 Oscars which meant the wrong film was announced as Best Film. At least you're not that guy.

Mine is awful, and I still feel sick when I think of it. I misheard and told my manager that an ex colleague had died - a condolence card was sent - the person actually said the person was dying - as in now terminal, but still very much alive at that point.

I apologised and apologised, but there’s no excuses, I learnt a valuable lesson to always double check what I think I’ve heard.

Moved milk from one kitchen to another while at a client premises on audit. Sounds harmless? Oh no - not when the kitchen are kosher. Irate partner who didn’t believe me that I had no idea it was a problem. Firm to pay for the kitchens to be recertified.

Ordered cheap printer cartridges and stuffed up the office printer 😳

In my first year working as a TA, I marked a really easy multiplication question correct when it was wrong right in front of an Ofsted officer. I was so nervous I completely lost all ability to think.

@Artesia my heart goes out to you but my goodness that made me laugh!

Mine was when I was 15 and my mam was good friends with the lady up the street anyways her friend come down to our house on a Saturday asking if I wanted to work the night at a posh do in a posh venue (waitresing food called silver service)so i said why not it will be easy , everyone sat down for their meals to be served dressed in really expensive suits and the woman in dresses so I started serving the starter what was soup half way down the line I accidentally spilt half a bowl of soup down a mans shoulder n back I couldn't apologise enough but when I tried to wipe if off with it kept flicking in his face 🤣🤣🤣 he was boiling I looked up and there was about 40 people looking at me in disbelief I've never felt more embarrassed in all my life so it's safe to say waitresing is not my strong point 🤣🤣

I moved £5mil to the wrong account. I had meticulously balanced a disaster of a set of books. Found every penny. Then launched into the wrong bastard account. Thankfully it was “only” in the payroll account so I could move it back. But it was the end of the day and tearfully made thr senior wait while tried to fix it in case I needed his authorisation. He couldn’t stop laughing.

Think of the person who stuck the boat in the Suez Canal! Their mistake was visible from space and people who couldn’t put Suez on a map knew what had happened. It’s not as bad as that.

Not really mine but guilty by association.. Years ago worked in the police force. We were at HQ picking up documents and instructions from our boss.
My colleague went to the loo on the way out.

My colleague accidently left the large sealed jiffy bag of docs in the loo.

At the time we'd had several bomb threats.
Unknown to us, the left jiffy bag was reported as a suspicious parcel. The police HQ was evacuated, bomb squad brought in and the staff given an unexpected 2 hours off work. (they went Christmas shopping).

The following day we were called to HQ. We survived but the teasing from colleagues was legendary. I still go bright red at the memory of it.

I once had to ask DH to courier some tender documents for me when I had mistakenly mixed up the deadline date . I was supposed to send them recorded delivery post, and although I could probably have sourced same day delivery courier this would have meant admitting my mistake to my boss ! This was 1990s, I imagine it would all be emailed now .

I was working at a huge Christmas function many years ago, and had to put a very full gravy boat on a very full table. After wedging myself between two guests, I got it almost completely to the table when my hand twitched and I spilt the whole thing, making a huge lake of gravy on the table.
Many waiting cloths. Many.

I was usually a bit better at the job than that.

My first job was a waitress in a restaurant. One afternoon I was half listening to my boss while she was slating one of the chefs because of his attitude. She bitched often so would try and tune her out. I honestly thought she had said that she had sacked him. When the chef turned up for his shift the following day I was obviously confused as to why he was there and said withoutthinking "I thought you'd been sacked" que massive fall out between said chef and the management, chef ended up walked out and quit. My boss had to cancel her holiday as she a chef herself had to cover the shifts of the chef that quit until she found a replacement. Major fuck up on my part!!

@hartof

I worked in travel from 17 up until February this year so 18 years! I once received a flight change and assumed it was the same day, customer turned upto the airport and flight has been moved to the day earlier 🤦🏼‍♀️ that was 10 years ago. I learnt my lesson and triple check everything now.

We had this for a return flight on holiday . DH has also now learned to check flight details

When I was about 18 I was an office junior at a large supermarket that employed a florist. We received lots of out of town orders for sympathy bouquets for bereavements, and it was my job to hand-write and post out the invoices. Unfortunately I invoiced the person who had died and sent the bill to his home address, and it was received by his widow . Hardly earth shattering but 25 years later I still remember the bollocking from my boss and her trying to calm down the outraged person on the phone, who was the person who’d ordered the flowers. They did get them for free to be fair

Cracked a very I appropriate joke to a parent at the school I worked in when she told me all 5 of her kids were Nov birthdays.

"Wow your husband must be really good at picking valentines gifts"

Alot of my family members are Nov birthdays so it's a joke that been used and heard multiple times.

I couldn't sleep that night and had to track her down at school gate the next day. Thankfully she found it funny and had actually gone home and told her husband who also found it funny but God, I wanted the ground to swallow me whole.

@HappySwordMaker

When I was about 18 I was an office junior at a large supermarket that employed a florist. We received lots of out of town orders for sympathy bouquets for bereavements, and it was my job to hand-write and post out the invoices. Unfortunately I invoiced the person who had died and sent the bill to his home address, and it was received by his widow . Hardly earth shattering but 25 years later I still remember the bollocking from my boss and her trying to calm down the outraged person on the phone, who was the person who’d ordered the flowers. They did get them for free to be fair

That reminds me of the poor florist junior who got an order from my BIL muddled up.

He wanted to send me flowers to thank me for my help when he and his wife were dealing with a bereavement.

The florist junior got the message muddled and I was sent a wreath saying “thank you for everything”. Which was slightly sinister at first 😂

This thread has reminded me of this:
(Hospital calls wrong family and tells them their relative is dead)
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hospital-apologises-wrong-patient-death-call-2043207.html

I mishandled very important evidence and it then became inadmissible. The defendant walked free.