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?

Shamelessly place marking so I don't miss any of these!

I’m on the train almost wetting myself at this Hoppinggreen

So many.

Tripped into the lift at a very very big (top ten) accountancy firm and blurted out "fuckshitbollockswank" as I bounced off the wall - and into the arms of the Chief Financial Officer.

Committed a terrible "reply all" faux pas effectively telling my boss I thought he was a knob (and demonstrating that I regularly told other people I thought he was a knob).

But only this week - I had to have a telephone meeting with the highest of head honchos, the actual CEO of our rapidly expanding, recently floated Group. All to do with changing structures, new roles etc. The Group recently acquired a big, big firm within our industry - think along the lines of managing to buy up the equivalent of, say, Coca Cola (just an example for anecdotal purposes).

Trying to show how attentive I was to the growth of the group and what had been in the press about us, I said enthusiastically, "I'm not surprised you've been busy, that's a massive coup isn't it, acquiring Pepsi!"

There was a pause, and he said quietly, "Coke. The other one."

Ugh, kill me.

😂😂😂😂 that’s so funny, farting in shock

”It comes out of my knickers.” OMFG, brilliant.

As a young woman, I got a flash new graduate job in an R&D lab. Had my own aisle with my little desk and lab bench . After a particularly hard night on the Bass Bitter, I was working at my desk, sitting farting and stinking terribly in peace. I’d say doing that for quite a while and it was so bad it was even making my own eyes water, when the hot boss can down to see me and actually reeled from the smell. Nothing was mentioned or acknowledged apart from the initial reaction, but I knew he knew. And he knew that I knew that he knew.

At work Christmas dinner aged 20-ish, very very drunk. I had a bit of good-natured banter with my Area Manager when it came to divvying up the bill (we were splitting it equally and she couldn't work out how much each) ... then worked into walk the next morning met by sudden silence and horrified stares - apparently I'd ranted for 25 mins about what a terrible manager & person she was

You'd think I'd learn from this, but sadly not. Some years later I was bitching to a colleague that this same manager (now a Director at national level) looked like she'd dressed in the dark in a thinner person's clothes. Obviously she was standing right behind me.

@buzzbobbly that probably would have been better but I just panicked and said it was a silly joke from a friend 😩 honestly every time I think of it I want to quit jobs. My dh finds it hilarious as I often embarrass myself 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I was about 16 and worked as a Saturday girl for a massive Co-op department store.

I was in the staff canteen, finished my cooked lunch, and put my used plate on a rather high pile of other plates to be washed. The whole lot crashed to the floor, probably about 30 or 40 plates. As you can imagine the noise was tremendous!

The stunned silence was followed by a loud cheer and a round of applause. I was SO embarrassed!

Went out for work drinks. Got very drunk. Told my boss I wasn’t going to shag him as I was too fat. He had never offered, we are both married to other people, and both in our 40s and old enough to know better. Was mortified the next day, and could barely look at him. He messaged me later on that morning saying “bet it would have been fun though x”.

I was delivering a training presentation to a room full of colleagues including my director when the elastic snapped on my knickers and they slipped down. Fortunately I was wearing a knee length skirt, so I stood with my knees together and held the wayward drawers through my skirt at the side. I was very embarrassed though.

Equally embarrassed when the zip bust in my dress when I was leaning over my director's desk showing him some work - I showed him my bra and everything else at the same time

@Tisahardlife this is the best

Team building day
Very hot weather.... all on a little boat , jumping in and out of the water, and taking turns at the helm.
I had a little white dress on over my swimming cozy.
I was taking my turn at the helm ( posh word for boats steering wheel) and everyone else , men and women, were sitting behind, watching.
I stood up from the stool that the boat had for helms-person to sit on and my little white dress was apparently red! I'd started my period and had no idea. So, for 20 minutes, everyone was staring at a massive red patch. Some kind person managed to find a reason to take me aside and tell me.
I still die when I think about it

Once changed the printer cartridge but didn’t realise I’d got some ink on my fingers. When I went to the loo later I saw I had a Hitler moustache.

I work in operating theatres and as you can imagine, urology can be abit messy. I was strolling along going about with my business when I slipped on some urine water and reached out to the nearest thing to me to break my fall, which so happened to be the almost completely sterile table of trays. I fell into a proposal pose, couldn't get myself back up, then burst into tears, partly out of embarrassment but mostly in pain. All in front of the scrubs, anaesthetic team, surgeons and a few medical students. All rather dramatic.

Many years ago now, I was the last one left in the office one evening, so decided to get changed for the gym in our meeting room instead of going upstairs to the toilet.

The next morning I was mortified as my boss handed me the black lacy bra I'd accidentally left on the meeting room table

I had a text off the guests (a group of workmen) staying at the holiday let's I manage asking me if I'd changed the key code whilst they were at work. I text back that I hadn't and gave them some pointers. They messaged back and said they'd sorted it. I still have no idea why I felt I needed to put this but I said "that's good because I'm in the bath!". I meant i couldn't come over and help them because I was in the bath but it sounded like I was saying I was in their bath at the apartment! I quickly text again and explained and they sent back "that's ok" and a winky face

I personally haven’t had any embarrassing momements but my colleague’s finger accidentally went up a bloke’s nose when they were dancing at the Xmas works do on the dancefloor - oops!!

I am blushing just thinking about this, mortified, and very outing!!

I worked for the local authority and had just changed to a new department in a different building and didn't know anyone... Except a handyman who worked in all the buildings, we had a shared hobby so this moment was shared with 60+ orchestra members!! We pranked each other a fair few times at work and in social settings.

The phone rang and after I said hello the man said 'hi, it's only me" and I thought it was my orchestra buddy. He then said something like (long time) "can you send an email saying no phone contact over the weekend, going away"... Being jolly and forever helpful I replied "want me pop into Ann summers for you? [silent pause] hanky panky time pal, does your missus know what you're up to" and chuckled. More. Silence on the phone... It was the most senior general manager of the department.

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My DH is a classical percussionist. He was playing in a concert years ago and was sitting through a bit with not much to do. Leaned back for a stretch... and knocked a massive pile of cymbals off the table behind him, right in the middle of the slow movement

Oh @Unclebuck3 bless you!!

I remember when I was fairly newly qualified and working with older adults with mental health issues. We had a very attractive consultant psychogeriatrician. One day he saw me walking to work and stopped his big shiny BMW to offer me a lift. I got in and being very tall, asked how to put the seat back for leg room. I pulled the wrong control and as I was pushing back managed to totally recline the backrest so I was lying almost flat beside him. To cover my embarrassment I giggled and said something along the lines of. " ooh, you could have a lot of fun with this " ( whilst I am lying flat beside him) and he just looked at me with one eyebrow raised and I still cringe to remember it 25 years later!!

Not at work - at the gym, I’m working on squats on the power plates located in front of treadmills, bikes, cross trainers etc, I really worked hard squatting and lunging for around 30 mins - on leaving the gym a man calls to me ‘ excuse me miss ..... you’ve ripped your leggings right up the back and been flashing us all morning!!!! I thought I’d better tell you as you wore those same ones last week too, 🤭😭 MORTIFIED (to make it worse I wear skin coloured thongs)

This thread has brightened my morning. Thank you everyone for sharing!