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[OntheWaves40]

...so I feel better!

So my finger slipped when using Amazon chat, I didn’t know whether to correct it or break out in the seven dwarfs off to work we go song.
Instead I ignore it and waited an excruciating long time for a reply.
Share your cringey moments so I know I’m not alone!

Haha that's hilarious! I now have the song stuck in my head. Did they mention it?

I once watsapped my entire work team saying "Good morning, I love you". We were on an away day with an overnight stay and, pre-coffee, I meant to text my DH. There was no point in deleting it, I only realised I'd watsapped the entire team after loads of them had pointed it out. As one of my colleagues said, it could have been so much worse.

I once text dh moaning about how how pissed off I was & how much of a twat my boss was for taking my break off and adding in more work so I was back to back all evening (Dom carer) and how the hell does she expect me to get it all done with no travel time, it's stupid she's such idiot etc etc

Except I sent it to my Boss.

OP- I think its funnier that the amazon consutant was called 'Hari Krishna'!!!!

@confusedmuma

I once text dh moaning about how how pissed off I was & how much of a twat my boss was for taking my break off and adding in more work so I was back to back all evening (Dom carer) and how the hell does she expect me to get it all done with no travel time, it's stupid she's such idiot etc etc

Except I sent it to my Boss.

Don't leave the story there!! What happened next?? :)

How about when I texted my friendly family butcher, asking did he by any chance have a tasty duck for me on Thursday? Only I typed quickly and missed the autocorrect. Didn’t go through as ‘duck’.

To make matters worse, I only noticed my mistake after I’d sent a reminder. Something like ‘Hope my request isn’t going to be a bother. It’d need to be quick, cos I’ve got people coming over after.’ Which makes more sense when you know we’re both usually up for a chat. Possibly partly because he has a bit of a crush on me.

Does that make you feel better about typing ‘ho’, by any chance?

@spaghettihoops16 she text back a short while after just saying 'right is there a problem confusedmuma?!' I was dying inside and didn't reply, and avoided going into the office after that.. she left a couple of months (she had not long started with us when I sent that text) after anyway and it turns out she was actually shit at the job and no one liked her.

I still cringe when I think about it

My dh text me to let me know he was at work safe. I text back ok love you. I didn't send it to dh though, sent to a male friend who text back you love me?

I once shouted "I'm not deaf" to a kid outside our local shop who was bellowing "Penny for the guy" at anyone passing. It was only when I got closer that I noticed he'd got two hearing aids. Felt bad, so gave him some money. Went into the shop and had an awkward chuckle about it with the shop assistant, only to find out I was queuing next to the kid's Mum. Mortified.

That really did make me laugh OP.

elouera why is that funny, though?

Once upon a time I went to the pub.

I bumped into a colleagues very recent ex, she was very cut up about them ending (he cheated) and she was crying.

In my very drunken state i thought i would give her a little boost and empower her by telling her she was beautiful and could do so much better than him and she would find her real prince charming soon, and that I had told my colleague he was stupid and was punching above his weight with her.

Out of my very drunken mouth came "I told him you would be away with someone else soon because you're too pretty for him anyway" then I tried to correct myself and made it worse, and worse and worse.

This poor woman was in bits and ran off to the toilet, he friend just looked at me and said "what is wrong with you".

The ex never talked to me ever again, I had basically called her a slag and said that I had told my colleague as much.

I have never tried to be nice to anyone since

Yeaaaars ago I was chatting in a lift with a colleague who told me his dad was Croatian. As he used past tense, I found smart to say "Oh he's not Croatian anymore?" "No, he's dead" 😬

It was 15 years ago and I still cringe when I occasionally see that guy in my Linkedin feed.

@MinistryOfTragic
Oh god.

@wellerhugs5 it wasn't my finest moment.

Haha some of these are so much worse!

@Elouera I don’t know what you mean, I’m googling now

I work in the middle of nowhere so my company has a bus that collects employees from the city centre and takes us to the office everyday. On morning on the bus, I stood up to get off and my dress had ridden up exposing my whole arse to everyone behind me. I was quite far towards the front of the bus so a lot of people potentially saw. No one has ever mentioned it but I'm sure a lot of colleagues have seen my bum.

Can't think of one but place marking as this thread has potential

I sent an email to a friend/colleague describing our new social media director as a jumped-up wanker with an iPhone who didn't know jack shit and couldn't organise his way out of a paper bag. Except I sent it to him instead.

Awkward. (But it was true. He was useless.)

I don't work there any more.

@AmandaHoldensLips how did you face him the next day?

I sent DH a text telling him what I was going to do to him when he got home from work except I sent it to his best mate!

Excited I see your husbands best mate and I raise you his dad 😫😫😫

I texted my accountant, 'hi lovely, do you fancy a drink sometime soon? X'.

(meant for my best friend I hadn't seen in ages)

Recently to a work colleague who has siblings working at the same company all came in together with another sibling who doesn’t work for the company, I said “how many of you lot are there” and one responded “one less than yesterday”. They’d lost a sibling the day before. I was mortified, apologised immediately. Colleague was very gracious about it “don’t worry, how could you have known”. Could slap myself still.

As a teenager I got snogging with a German exchange student at my parents' friends house while they were all out one evening. We'd been seeing each other all week and got rather carried away, passionately moving into the downstairs bedroom. We landed on the bed in excitement and to our absolute horror the friends weren't out at all - they were in bed and we'd landed on top of them. The most embarrassing moment of my life!!!

Just this morning I answered the work phone "morning darling". And a while ago, after getting very annoyed with an employee constantly ringing because he was hungover and doing a shit job so asking stupid questions I answered the phone with a very curt "YES?!" to a very lovely customer.