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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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Justonemorepancake · 27/03/2019 17:30

(He was an a*hole so hence the glee)

SimonJT · 27/03/2019 17:38

Took my ex boyfriend to a work do at my previous place of work, I hadn’t seen him for a month as he had been on tour, the do was in a hotel and virtually all of us stayed the night. I had only been there three weeks so it was a good chance to get to know my new colleagues.

When you’re a bit drunk you have less inhibitions and have no idea about how much noise you’re making when you’ve gone for an ‘early night’.

At breakfast we were sat at room tables, the occupants at the tables next to us seemed very tired, didn’t think anything of it. One side was my line manager, the otherside was the CEO.

We went back up to our room to pack, we then realised we could hear the entire conversation going on in the room next door, and the slightest noise in the hallway. It then dawned on us why our neighbours at breakfast were so tired, I’m quite shy so I was mortified, my ex boyfriend is not at all shy and started making really loud sex noises.

Partners then went home and colleagues did team building activities, it was very very awkward.

Pieceofpurplesky · 27/03/2019 17:45

These are fabulous

iklboo · 27/03/2019 17:48

I'd been doing some work at home and had brought the files back in. I was also going out with my friend and staying at hers overnight so I'd put the files in my bag with my going out gear.

Hot boss asked for the file. I fished it out and handed it to him. Complete with my lacy black knickers attached to the paper clip.

PRoseLegend · 27/03/2019 17:51

9 weeks pregnant, first baby, new job.
Arrived at work and needed to vomit.
Unfortunately that morning my body decided to do a mass exodus of all bodily fluids, so I not only vomited my breakfast, but wet myself badly too. My skirt was soake

OhDiddums · 27/03/2019 17:54

I had not long started my first proper job. Generally I would wear trousers or leggings and this particular day I decided to wear a skirt. Think male dominated job. Was talking to my boss and another member off staff they commented on my skirt and my boss lerched joked and said 'give us a twirl love' my reaction 'fuck off so and so'. Totally forgot where I was. On the positive he never commented on what I wore again.

PRoseLegend · 27/03/2019 17:54

Oops, phone slipped and I hit send. Typing while feeding!

As I was saying, my skirt was soaked through, and I even got wee on my shoes.
I was mortified, I told everyone I was feeling sick and thought I had a tummy bug, called DH to come pick me up.
After that day people started asking if I was pregnant.

knitandpearl · 27/03/2019 17:57

@TallulahBetty have you posted that on another forum? I've definitely read the same story and in fact had it in mind as I was reading these until I got to your post! Can only think it was the SH b forum...

MsTSwift · 27/03/2019 18:21

I was mid pregnancy and had a day I went slightly mad. I read a joke in a work newsletter wasn’t that funny but I literally couldn’t stop laughing. Had to sit in the loos but it wouldn’t stop. Ended up going home in a cab still laughing

SurgeHopper · 27/03/2019 18:52

God ive loads, reply all fuck ups, giving away grants at the drop of a hat etc, inadvertently said the boss is a slut etc etc

SurgeHopper · 27/03/2019 18:53

Hot boss asked for the file. I fished it out and handed it to him. Complete with my lacy black knickers attached to the paper clip.

^

At least they weren't the granny pants

SurgeHopper · 27/03/2019 19:12

I bent over and starting baby talking to the dog, dribbled down all over the dogs head. Visibly.

^^

On floor 🤣

Isth · 27/03/2019 19:18

I got shitfaced on a work weekend away (fresh out of an abusive relationship and my drinking was a touch out of hand for a while). Threw up quite dramatically just outside the lodge we were staying in, stripped and dived into the hot tub (I’m a mermaid!!) and then fell down the stairs, severely damaged my kneecap and dented the plaster
I apologised profusely but I was relatively lucky. Most of the others thought it was hilarious but one bitch I work with still brings it up now to be snide, it was over 5 years ago 🤦🏼‍♀️

CatsMother66 · 27/03/2019 19:18

I was working nights with a male colleague and had my period. We were driving around and I had a flood which saturated the front passenger seat. When we went back to base for a break I got out of the seat and the stain was huge! As it was dark it wasn’t obvious that it was blood. My colleague saw it and straight away said “what’s that?” As he put his fingers in it and put them up to his nose!!!!
I didn’t own up and spend my break scrubbing it off. Luckily it all came off and no one was the wiser at work!

lalasmum11 · 27/03/2019 19:20

I was sitting at my desk in the middle of a large open plan office, I sat separately to the rest of the floor as was on an international team and the rest were dealing in local business ( different language). Was on a
Phone meeting in English and swinging back and the back came completely off and I landed on my backside with the rest of the chair flying across the floor. Mortified!

TallulahBetty · 27/03/2019 19:35

@knitandpearl I dont think so, it happened 15 years ago tho so maybe! Trying to think what other forums I have used over he years.. what is SH b?

candlefloozy · 27/03/2019 19:40

Works Christmas do. New to the job. Sat next to my new boss. He said he enjoyed his meal but was still hungry. I offered him my left overs. Not sure why

36degrees · 27/03/2019 19:55

An external colleague was having his last day of work on our project and went in for a hug at the end of our (off-site) meeting, but I don't do hugging and had a huge internal panic, misjudged how tall he was and ended up touching his bum. I was so mortified I couldn't go back to the office, and ended up having to go home on a flexi.

buzzbobbly · 27/03/2019 19:56

Many years ago I was blowing some tippex dry. I also have quite dark skin.

Apparently my nose got a little too close to the paper without me realising and I got a good way round the large office and several conversations in looking like a fucking white-nosed clown, before a kind colleague finally told me.

BlackSatinDancer · 27/03/2019 20:00

Hoppinggreen's post about the American boss holding out a sandwich which she took a bite of just reminded me of something but it wasn't at work.

Years ago we had to go to church for 6 months so that I could get married outside my parish. It was a High church of England. Me and DH were just eating our sweeties and looking into each others eyes and not taking notice of what was going on.
I realised later, to my shame, that we were asked to shake hands and say hello to the person next to us. I wasn't listening and just became aware a lady said hello to me. I didn't know what to do but saw she had a hymn book in her hand and thought she was giving it to me. I reached out to take it. I remember there being a bit of resistance so I tugged until I took it from her. I still remember the on her face. The minister then said how we'd now become friends now that we'd introduced ourselves and the penny dropped. Oh, the shame of it.

buzzbobbly · 27/03/2019 20:10

I am doing proper Muttley laughing at the "need a wee"; the saliva in front of the hot boss posts and the poo in the club one.

CeeCeeEnnEss · 27/03/2019 20:17

The ham sandwich has had me doubled over, so funny!

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TixieLix · 27/03/2019 20:20

Me and four other global colleagues were on a Skype conference call. One overseas colleague joined the call and her webcam connected automatically. Despite one of us quietly messaging her to say her camera was on, she didn't turn it off. We were doing a 'round robin' taking turns to update the others on what we were working on. Video colleague didn't want to miss her turn so took her laptop with her....when she went to the loo. Took it in to the cubicle too so everyone else got to witness her doing her business. Never to this day has anyone told her and hopefully she's still blissfully ignorant of what she did. So fuck off tabloid newspapers if you're picking up this thread because I don't want her knowing now!

SpamChaudFroid · 27/03/2019 20:51

I love these

I really fancied my boss and went into work one day with a bad cold and a sinus infection. Boss said something funny and I snorted with laughter and fluorescent snot all down the front of my black jacket.

Oohgossip · 27/03/2019 21:00

Not mine but a dyslexic colleague who signed off an email to hundreds of people ‘sorry for any incontinence!’

I worked out she meant inconvenience and hadn’t checked auto spell correct closely enough...I never told her!

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