What's the worst mistake you've made at work?

[Againstthegrainn]

Mine isn't the worst mistake but enough for an email to be sent to my manager along the lines of "please speak to againsthegrain and sort it out! This is getting very annoying now".

I kept sending forms out with wrong dates/details. How this happened was I was editing a word document and when i'd go to attach it, it would send an old version rather than the one I edited. My fault for not opening and checking once attached.

Only happened ocassionally before but I kept doing it this morning. So embarrassed now. Make me feel better? Share your stories 🤣

As a student nurse on an oncology ward, I told a very lovely patient who I hadn’t seen for a few weeks that her new hair cut really suited her. It was a wig 🙈

@Hoppinggreen hope your feeling better today💐. I understand that the post caused a painful memory of the unfortunate event which occured with your DM during her short stay in care home.
No need to apologise xX

Many years ago while working in a shop accepting a £50 note that had gone out of circulation . Luckily it could still be redeemed at the bank .

I put too much paper in the fax machine. It jammed and we didn't receive a very important fax.

not by me but some care home residents were given liquid diazepam instead of lactulose one morning.
ambulances were called.
the procedures were changed after that

Airline ground staff. At the back of a 777 trying to get the purser to sign off the duty free (it's a bonded cart sealed with a random numbered seal). She/He is supposed to check the seal number is correct and in place. She kept saying she was too busy to check and arguing with her I missed the "all ground staff to leave the aircraft" call on my radio. Nex thing I knew we were pushing back and I went running up to the front. They had to come back to the gate and wait for the jet bridge to be reattached. We lost our slot. I got a telling off but nothing too bad.

But for months the gate agent closing the flight would say "all ground staff to leave the aircraft. M25, that includes you". 🙄

Jesus, this is an absolutely awful thing to say. What’s wrong with you?!

Had a temp job in a call centre when I was a 19. I once asked whether I could speak to somebody's wife. Turned out I was speaking to the wife, she just had a deep voice!

Inaccurate as well.
I asked for it to be deleted as a personal attack but it seems its not.
Not too bothered though as I know the facts so this persons nastiness is incredibly unimportant to me

Not my mistake but one I witnessed . There was a big fear at the millennium that computer systems would crash and there would be a run on the banks. We were called to a confidential meeting, where we were be told that on New Year’s Eve a Millennium brick would be delivered to each branch containing 1 million pounds.The driver had been given a code word to use when delivering it to a named person.We were given a two hour time slot and had to report if it had not been received.

The time approached and no brick. I thought, before I phone I will just double check that it had not been given to another staff member. There is was, sitting on a customer service desk in the banking hall, just dumped there by the driver.

🤣🤣 And what was the reaction??

I finished the presentation and went to my boss and apologised and cried pathetically his office.

He told me to cop on, laughed and said the non perverts found it amusing. He did follow up by saying that I'll be forgiven once in an internal presentation but it can't happen again and definitely not with an external audience.

Told me not to worry about it and that he would deal with it. No idea what he said or did but it was never mentioned by anyone ever again. It was like it was just erased. No one every mentioned it again in any capacity.

He was always a legend. (His daughter is the same age as me and started her first job the same time so I always think he was extra nice to me for that reason).Most people wouldn't have covered my ass and I wouldn't have blammed him if he didn't.