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Most embarrassing moment at work

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HeidiBoo1984 · 27/03/2019 13:06

I love embarrassing moment threads and I'm always embarrassing myself beyond belief at work.

I have endometriosis and it often sends my bowels wild. Our office toilets are basically just within the office, rooms rather than cubicles, and our office, which is more or less open plan with about 8 of us, it's a quiet environment so you can hear everything. Anyway, I've many a time been to the toilet for just a wee and then unexpectedly farted really loudly. I die inside and consider just getting my coat and going home! No one ever says anything, but they must hear!

Does anyone else have any embarrassing stories at work?

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Bringbackthestripes · 29/03/2019 09:31

clockworklime

OMG! I am actually cringing for you. Blush

MaidofEyes · 29/03/2019 11:00

New job, very hot office, stood up to take my jumper off as I had a top on underneath but grabbed the hems of both top and jumper, pulled them up and flashed the entire team including my very serious boss. And in my panic it seemed to take about an hour to pull top down and remove jumper. It was really awful. This was in my first week.

tympanic · 29/03/2019 11:16

Accidentally blew a large snot bubble out one nostril while talking to two spunky male colleagues.

gotmychocolateimgood · 29/03/2019 11:40

Omg the story about the person taking a bite of her boss' sandwich and squeaking 'ham' actually has me crying. Thank you Grin

xWholeLottaRosiex · 29/03/2019 12:23

When I was about 18 I got my first "proper" job at a top engineering company. First day, I was sat across from very grown up professional man (to me anyways, at that age). He got up to walk past my desk at the same time as this horrible buzzing started right above my head. Cue my hitting panic mode, jumping up and flapping around saying "Ahh there's a wasp, get it, GET IT !" whilst sort of throwing myself upon him. He looked genuinely appalled and pretty much every one on the floor was gawping at me. So, it wasn't a wasp. It was a low-flying, very loud plane going over the building Shock 15 years later and I'm still traumatised Grin

Simonfromharlow · 29/03/2019 12:33

Just me and my boss in an empty shop. I accidentally let out a very long loud fart. She sort of raised her eyebrows in surprise. I just styled it out and carried on talking as if nothing happened.

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes · 29/03/2019 13:57

Not me but someone I worked with. She thought she was posh (don't know why, she went to the same comprehensive I did), wore huge jumpers,(important later) boots and a floaty wrap around skirt (it was a Laura Ashley skirt, dahhhhlings) you know what I mean.
She went upstairs to change her tampon, put a new one up her sleeve as there was no pockets on her skirt. We worked in an old building which had stairs with many turns and lots of landings. I was coming down, she was coming up and the tampon fell out of her sleeve, bouncing down the various flights of stairs.
Coming up behind her was "Dave", who was quite gorgeous, and the tampon rattled to a stop at his feet. Without breaking a stride, he picked it up, shouted that she'd dropped something and chucked it back up the stairs for her.
Well, that damn tampon landed on the landing by her feet, did the wall of death dance round her feet whilst she was scrabbling to pick it up, but every time she bent down to try to find it, her floaty skirt kept getting in the way, she'd then move to find it, kicked it back down the stairs, Dave is shouting "on me head, son", and chucking it back, I'm crying at the top of the stairs.
40 years ago and I can remember sitting back downstairs opposite her later and snot- sniggering.
And that skirt was bloody horrible.

BarmyLlama · 29/03/2019 15:49

When I was at university, I got a tutoring job (very well paid) with a nearby family. I was helping their 13 year old son who'd missed a lot of school. On my first day, after about an hour of work, I excused myself to go to the toilet. All fine until I realised I couldn't unlock the door again. Started banging on the door for help, tutee tried but couldn't help, he got his mum to try but she couldn't help.
After about half an hour, the father who I hadn't yet met and the eldest son came home and couldn't open it either. Eventually the older boy suggested that he get the ladder so he could climb in through the bathroom window. When, after much aggravation, he managed this, he recognised me from university- turns out he was a friend of a friend. He then points out that the reason the door wouldn't open is because the top latch was done up. Oh.

Finally get the door open and meet the father. Who was one of my lecturers. Incredibly, I was still employed.

BeanTownNancy · 29/03/2019 17:42

Small child bumped into me while I was pouring red wine, so I spilled it... All over the bride's lovely white dress.

Nishky · 29/03/2019 18:36

I dribbled while talking to my manager today. That hasn’t happened in 30 years of working. I blame this thread as I was reading it on the train this morning!

ClaraTheClown · 29/03/2019 20:28

Oof nancy! I once got a very demanding customer at a fancy members club with soup Blush. I got off lucky as she was in a really good mood and found it funny. How did your bride react?

Grin nishky, it’s worth it for the stories I’m sure.

Nishky · 29/03/2019 22:29

ClaraTheClown oh absolutely worth it!

BowStreetStunner · 30/03/2019 13:20

I am a teacher and was covering an ICT lesson which is not my subject or class In did not know many of the students they were a lively class messing around because they had a new teacher one girl was working very slowly and I told her she needed to hurry up or would be finishing her work in break time she was typing with one hand I told her "maybe if you used both hands it would be quicker" at which point she turned around and showed me she only had one arm by saying "how miss I only have one" there was an audible gasp from the other students I was mortified!

Totaldogsbody · 30/03/2019 16:00

Working in a chemist shop, I had noticed a young guy hanging around outside eventually he came in and asked for a pkt of condoms, I asked " Is that the small ones?" The young guy said "Whaaaat" looking absolutely deflated, I had meant to ask if it was a sml or large pack he wanted. Hope it didn't take away from his performance. We were both red faced.

stuborn5871 · 30/03/2019 17:35

I used to sell adult material in my younger days.one saturday a man bought an expensive sex doll about £550 in price.couple of days later he came back into the shop telling me what fun he was having with it!urggh!
a week later he came back in with the doll demanding a refund when i asked what was wrong with it he replied i was cuddling up to her and she started to hiss at me.Sad

foreverchanging19 · 30/03/2019 17:46

My scrub bottoms fell down at work, I was wearing a thong and due to the emergency airway manoeuvre I was performing I couldn't pull them up for at least one whole minute, it felt like hours. I now wear big knickers to work 🙈

val4 · 30/03/2019 17:47

I had just come back from maternity leave and was at a staff dinner. I was so caught up with chatting to a colleague at the table, ( and had been at home full time with 2 babies/toddlers for six months up to that week ),that without thinking mid sentence, turned to my left and started cutting up my uptight principal's meat on his plate, without breaking conversation with my colleague! I nearly died and he just sat stunned looking at his plate! Few days later I was coming back in a car, from a conference with the same principal , when while looking out the window ( mid serious conversation) I announced loudly " Oooohh...look at the digger ". It really was time for me to get back to work☺

babyno5 · 30/03/2019 18:02

Oh god @val4 I am dying 😂😂

DragonSnaps · 30/03/2019 18:18

I started working at a cafe when I was around 17 and I'd been there for around 3 days. I had terrible belly ache as I'd been holding in my farts because I hadn't had a chance to set them free privately, and I've always been quite windy. The cafe was open plan, so the customers could see and hear everything behind the counter where I was unloading the dishwasher with 2 colleagues. I bent down to reach for the clean plates and the loudest fart escaped from my backside. I was mortified!! I went outside the back door and died a slow death from embarrassment.

WhoKnewBeefStew · 30/03/2019 18:32

I have a habit of going over on my ankles and stumble a lot.

Bought a new pair of shoes, wore them to work, got up to walk somewhere, went over on my ankle, stumbles forward and head butted the filing cabinet Blush

puppy23 · 30/03/2019 19:07

A (male) customer handed me his loyalty card and I responded 'good girl' - evidentally wishing he was my dog. Luckily he either didn't hear me or was too polite to question it.

JustDanceAddict · 30/03/2019 19:07

Just this week I was in a meeting and could feel internal wind bubbling up. It kept on coming out - was nothing I could do about it - not in a noisy, smelly way but I could feel my chair vibrating under me! As soon as the meeting was over I dashed to the loo and let rip properly!
I’ve also had the classic tampon fall out of shallow trouser pocket thing which was quite mortifying. Of course everyone saw.

euronorris · 30/03/2019 19:11

I returned to work when DD was 6 months, and she was still breastfeeding, so I needed to pump at work a couple times a day. Work were great about this. I'd book a meeting room and schedule in time etc.

Well, unbeknown to me, one day of my Male colleagues had booked the meeting room directly after me for a client meeting, literally no gap inbetween my time ending and his meeting beginning. I was literally taking my boob out of the pump, as he peered through the little (high up) window on the door with his hand on the handle, ready to open it. I just suddenly heard him say 'oh no, sorry, someone's still in there'!

Oh the shame! Very thankful that he didn't open the door fully. I would put a sign on the door and cover that window after that, and book extra time in the room too! Lol

We've been very British about it, and never spoken of it since! Though my other colleagues love to remind me about it periodically! Haha

Bonnetdedeuce · 30/03/2019 19:47

All the big up wigs up from London, me doing a presentation in the days of the old flip chart, doing well untill I meant to say ‘joe bloggs’ and it came out ‘blow jobs’, absolute silence, que tumbleweed as I went very very red, then I saw a colleagues shoulders shaking which seemed to have a ripple effect until the whole room was in hysterics laughing, certainly broke the ice, great meeting and then we all got very very drunk.

MyNameIsFartacus · 30/03/2019 20:45

I was on a training day for manual handling and had been singled out by the (fit) guy who was running the course to be the person that needed to be rolled and slid up the bed. So I lay on the bed with him one side and another colleague the other - I had my hands sort of folded across my chest as he rolled me over towards him I basically put my hand directly on his penis. He didn't say a word but just gently reached down and moved it off. Could not look h in the eye for the rest of the day it was so humiliating!

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