Most embarrassing moment at work

[HeidiBoo1984]

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?

I worked for an auctioneer's when I was 20.

My first day (when I was essentially useless) I was sent to view the auction with the general public. Being young I just thought I'd copy what everyone else was doing so opened a drawer on an antique piece of furniture. The handle came off in my hands . I rammed it back it and swiftly moved away.

I spent the first week getting the two ladies I worked with muddled up. They weren't keen on each other.

When I'd been there a while the company which printed the catalogues took me and my bosses out for lunch. I got absolutely hammered. It was a seven course lunch with wine and champagne. No one else appeared drunk but the room spun on the way home.

Good job I made the most of it as I've never been for a posh lunch meeting again .

I used to be a nursery nurse. I was back in work after maternity leave and one of the dads handed me his 11 month old DS. The dad had the same coat on as DH and also had his aftershave on.

He said "Bye, love you" and leant in to kiss his son and my mind just went on autopilot. I put my arm around him and kissed him on the cheek saying "Love you daddy, have a good day."

I was mortified and explained why I'd done it. He thought it was hilarious luckily for me. When mum came to pick up she pretended she was furious and that I was coming on to her husband. When I started to apologise she laughed and said she understood and said some of the embarrassing things she did at work.

Valentine's Day was a few weeks later and he got me a card and bunch of flowers!

This has just happened to me, I have come back from the toilet and thought.... I have to tell you this as I work with all men. I am literally crying as I type.... I wear leggings under my jeans to work as it's cold. I have just been for a wee, I didn't realise I hadn't pulled my underwear down!! Luckily, I had my car keys in my pocket so I was able to cut them off without getting undressed. I am now sat at my desk with a pair of pissy pants in my pocket.

Nc for this as absolutely mortifying.

New job sat in the office with my new manager. Really wanting to make a good impression. He says how he loves dogs and I mention I have a small very cute puppy and we get chatting about her. He asks to see a pic so I find my phone and start showing him, he is ahhing and saying how lovely she is so I kept swiping through loads of pictures of her until up on the screen comes a picture of MY VAGINA.

I had completely forgotten I'd taken it a few nights before as I had just had a wax and couldn't decide if i had an ingrown hair or not and wanted a closer look.

I tried to style it out by saying it was part of a joke my friend had sent me and must have automatically saved from WhatsApp 😳😳

It has never been mentioned again but I have avoided being alone with him as much as possible as I am quite frankly horrified by the whole experience. I've only ever told my husband that it happened and he loves to remind me to be careful whenever I show anyone anything. I will never take a picture of any of my body parts again and will always use a mirror 😳😩

Many years ago I had a work colleague who became a very good friend, and a very bad influence on me! We went to a really boozy works do, and I can remember being put into a taxi at the end of the night, while she stayed on for more drinks with the rest of the colleagues.
Next morning she was waiting for me round the corner of the office, lying in wait to way lay me.
She said: "I don't know if I dreamed it or not, but I'm so hungover, but I've got the distinct impression I gave everyone a blow job last night!"
I was so taken aback and shocked I could hardly speak! We never mentioned it in the office, and no one looked at her in a funny way, so we guessed not. Years and years later I bumped into one of the men who was there that night and I told him. He was as incredulous as I had been and said no, she had gone along and shook hands with everyone when she was leaving and fell into a taxi. Sadly her and I lost touch over the years, so I can't tell her that, no, she didn't do that.

franktheburger that made me gasp in horror and laugh out loud at the same time!

I'm a mental health nurse. I used to work with a consultant who I had a major crush on (looked like George Clooney.) I was standing at the nurses station once discussing the patients and he asked me to pass him Patient X's notes which were behind me on a nearby desk. I turned and stepped towards the desk, not seeing one of those kick step things (you know, they use them in shops etc for getting things off high shelves and they come up about half way off your shin.) Anyway I tripped over it and went; flying ending up arse over tit the other side of the office.

franktheburger OMG!!!

Did you style it out by saying it was a close-up of the dog's furry ear or something?

Lunchtime buffet at a very posh event at work. I never know how to act in these kind of situations. People were all cooing over what a great selection of food there was so I joined in. I waltzed up to the table with fake confidence and announced "Oooh, lovely, crudites", which I pronounced "crud-ites" rather than "crew-dit-aze". I only found out later it was pronounced so twattishly.

There was absolute silence from about 10 very senior people who heard me say it. So now they think I'm some kind of weirdo who loves carrot sticks but doesn't know what the proper name for them is.

franktheburger if you use an android phone your deleted photos will be saved in Google images.

She said: "I don't know if I dreamed it or not, but I'm so hungover, but I've got the distinct impression I gave everyone a blow job last night!"

TBF, we've all had nights out like that

My kid is in his first week of training as a waiter and emptied the contents of a glass of wine on the customers child at the table. He was so upset it could have been a hot drink and thank God it wasn't Luckily the parents were really nice about it....but he's still gutted.

I cringe about a job interview I went to which was for a position in mental health and had a psychologist sitting on the interview panel.

I was ill on the day of the interview and so to help me get through I took the maximum amount of over the counter medication as I could safely take, think mixing Ibruprofen with cold and flu remedies along with calms, this was not a mix of medication that I was used to taking at all.

The interview went as well as it could have done (or so I thought) but later that day I got the call to say I hadn't been successful with the words "we weren't quite sure what happened today but we have put it down to you being ill"...I was initially baffled by this, but as they drugs wore off I began remembering with horror the interview.

In hindsight I had clearly been high as a kite, there must have been tons of caffeine in the meds or something because I just didn't stop taking about all sorts of shit in a very fast voice whilst leaping from one topic to another

An interview question was to "describe what brought you here today?" I launched into a tale about how I had parked in a local supermarket car park and walked over but because I was ill I had needed to stop and rest twice on my journey from car to interview, including full description of which bush and which fence I had rested against and asking the interview panel if they were familiar with them

Another question was to give an example of good communication so I told the panel I knew Makaton and started signing 'hello' 'goodbye', 'car' then 'beans on toast'

To make matters worse my daughter had put 4 dog biscuits in my jacket pocket earlier (different story) and when I checked only 1 was left meaning that as I plonked my jacket on the floor next to my chair at the interview I must have left 3 dog biscuits behind, 1 for each of the panel

I feel mortified everytime I think of how I must have presented at that interview and how they must have thought that they'd had a very lucky escape

@Tisahardlife - I'm picturing Spud's interview from Trainspotting now

Omg this thread should come with a tenalady warning 😂😂. I am dying 😂😂 especially at yours @Hoppinggreen

I was in my early 20's and working for a company that made fridge vans. One of the (many) reps came in one day and as we were chatting, I could not remember his name. I made small talk, hoping it would come to me, but it didn't. I called our manager, the person the rep was here to see and said "There is a slightly overweight man here to see you" in front of the rep. To this day I cannot say why I called him that but God, it still makes me cringe.

You gave them dog biscuits :o

After an all day drinking session at work, I fell down a flight of steps, completely drunk and slit my chin open. My boss then took me home and we ended up in bed after I'd been railing at him for hours.

First week at my new job, trying to make a good impression. We had an issue which meant I needed to email practically the whole business (over 200 people) to let them know what was going on. Meant to write 'sorry for the inconvenience' for some reason autocorrect changed that to 'sorry for the incontinence'
For weeks after that my boss was leaving adverts for Tena lady on my desk! I was mortified!

One of my first jobs as a youngster, the computer system was playing up so I called the IT department to ask them to have a look. Gorgeous young IT engineer turns up, “what appears to be the problem?”. So I announced to the whole open plan office that my computer “had just gone down on me”.
IT engineer smirks and says “well that sounds interesting”. Still cringe when I think about it.

@Butteredghost a bit like Notting hill when the guy walks in on Julia Roberts in the bath

@Tisahardlife I'll remember to give the interviewers dog biscuits at my next interview. 🤣

I work in a small-ish shopping centre, small enough that most staff know eachother and say hello etc. About 18 months ago I saw the centre manager crossing the car park, called good morning and waved, then promptly tripped over my own shoelace and fell flat on the floor...I'm sure my shame amplified him shouting "oh noooo Bear" but it seemed to echo around the whole floor Ripped my trousers, horrible graze on my knee, pulled a muscle in my bum and damaged tendons in my wrist that required me to wear a splint for almost 3 months afterwards. But the damage to my pride was the worst!

Going back a few years. I was a young TA and we went out for Christmas to a posh restaurant. I don't wear heels often but I did that night. I tripped and fell (arms flailing eveywhere) and was caught by a teacher I had the crush on

I tripped over at work whilst wearing my new lovely heels. A group of military officers came to my rescue. I had obtained a fracture and sat on the floor crying. DH is a military officer working at the same sight so I had several of them around me trying to help.