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Had an embarrassing moment in a new job

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fuckoffjournalists · 16/01/2022 18:01

Had an embarrassing moment in a new job and I can’t stop beating myself up about it. Essentially I conveyed the wrong message from the big boss as a no to a more experienced established colleague who was quite disappointed by it, talked it through with them and then found out I had completely misunderstood, it wasn’t a no at all. Please share your most memorable embarrassing moments so I can get a grip and stop beating myself up about what an idiot I looked 😣.

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StepAwayFromGoogling · 16/01/2022 22:57

I typed out a very long and very detailed text about what a two-faced, underhand arsehole my boss was and sent it to... my boss. He responded with 'I don't think you meant to send that to me'. Made for an interesting next day at work.

FluffyBooBoo · 16/01/2022 22:58

@nimbus5000

When I was opening the office post in my first job, I failed to realise I had opened up a staff members payslip until I looked more closely. I quickly folded it back up and put it with the other unopened ones. Another girl in the office took the payslip pile and began handing them round and then I heard “Angela yours has already been opened” and gasps of horror. I went bright red and ran to the loos. Came back to the drama of Angela on the phone to the personnel team demanding to know why her payslip had arrived opened
Yikes! I think I would have destroyed the evidence. Better for her to think that they had missed it, than to think someone had opened it.
Snaketime · 16/01/2022 23:34

I work in the hospitality industry and the guy I work for is the landlord for 4 pubs in the area.
My first day working for him, I got there bang on time and got to work, I was there for about an when I got a message from him asking if I was still coming in, turned out I was at the wrong pub Blush

Feyre · 16/01/2022 23:35

@mrsbyers

I went into the toilet cubicle and instead of pulling down my trousers I managed to pull off my very full stoma bag and launch the contents all over the cubicle plus the feet of a colleague in a neighbouring one
I have an ileostomy and just been laughing at this for a solid 5 minutes 🤣 Something I could see myself doing haha.
RedHot22 · 16/01/2022 23:41

@MsIreneWinters

I was working for one of the senior directors. On my first day he put his head round my door and said "coffee?". I replied, "yes please, white no sugar". It took me about 10 minutes to work out he was asking me to make one for himBlush To be fair he did bring me my drink though!
Grin
Allsorts1 · 16/01/2022 23:47

One the CEO personally emailed me to say thank you for a project, let’s call him James. I was simultaneously in an email conversation with a John.

I replied to the CEO thanking him for his thanks, very gracious. Called him John.

Quick follow up email to apologise.

No reply Confused

ToffeeForEveryone · 16/01/2022 23:48

@Autismandgin

There was a little spark between me and a colleague. And once he sat next to me while I showed him something on my screen….

It was pretty obvious we liked each other. But we never mentioned it / spoke about ever.

Anyway, I typed in my login details for something and accidentally typed my first name and his surname - it was like if I had been daydreaming about marrying him (I hadn’t!).

He blushed. I quickly deleted the whole thing. I blushed. We both laughed. God it was awful!!

But then - my trousers split open AT THE FRONT!

I do not know how I survived at work that day and probably half the reason why I left Blush

Hahahahaha this cannot be real Grin Grin

But then - my trousers split open AT THE FRONT!

coatofmanycolors · 16/01/2022 23:49

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BliainNua · 16/01/2022 23:53

@WhatWouldKalindaDo

I'm a veterinary nurse who once left a thermometer up a dogs bum, then sent it home.

I'm not sure you can beat that OP! Grin

Please try not to worry, we all make mistakes, especially in a new job.

I read this while brushing my teeth and just spat toothpaste everywhere! I was imaging a sausage dog toddling along with a thermometer poking out its bum 🤣🤣
DixonD · 17/01/2022 00:11

@MsIreneWinters

I was working for one of the senior directors. On my first day he put his head round my door and said "coffee?". I replied, "yes please, white no sugar". It took me about 10 minutes to work out he was asking me to make one for himBlush To be fair he did bring me my drink though!
It sounds like he was offering to make you one.

The senior partner at the firm I work for offers me tea all the time.

TonyThreePies · 17/01/2022 00:26

I was just 16 and in my first admin job, and I was super awkward and nervous. I went round the office asking if anyone wanted a tea or coffee and one lady said yes to both. She actually wanted a cup of tea for herself with a coffee to take to her boss. I didn't understand and took her a cup of coffee with a tea bag in it.

ladycarlotta · 17/01/2022 00:54

@Autismandgin

There was a little spark between me and a colleague. And once he sat next to me while I showed him something on my screen….

It was pretty obvious we liked each other. But we never mentioned it / spoke about ever.

Anyway, I typed in my login details for something and accidentally typed my first name and his surname - it was like if I had been daydreaming about marrying him (I hadn’t!).

He blushed. I quickly deleted the whole thing. I blushed. We both laughed. God it was awful!!

But then - my trousers split open AT THE FRONT!

I do not know how I survived at work that day and probably half the reason why I left Blush

this made me guffaw
Dasher789 · 17/01/2022 01:16
Grin
WorstXmasEver · 17/01/2022 01:20

I used to be a freelance postie & tore my trousers on someones gate. Had to stop everything & go buy new ones as I was nowhere near home.

eyesbiggerthanstomach · 17/01/2022 01:32

@TonyThreePies

I was just 16 and in my first admin job, and I was super awkward and nervous. I went round the office asking if anyone wanted a tea or coffee and one lady said yes to both. She actually wanted a cup of tea for herself with a coffee to take to her boss. I didn't understand and took her a cup of coffee with a tea bag in it.
Haha, just the type of thing I would do when younger!
DorothyZbornakIsAQueen · 17/01/2022 01:32

I had worked here for around 4 weeks. After a particularly stressful drive to work where i had dropped dd off for school which she hates with a passion and the roads were icy, I had been verbally abused at the traffic lights by a male because my wheels were just turning on the ice and it took me a while to get out of the junction.

He was calling me a dickhead, a cunt etc. And I cried all the way to work.

I was so happy to be at the office that my parking was a bit skeewif. I was within the lines, but a bit diagonal.

When I got in, my boss said 'haha your parking is rubbish'

I just shouted, 'oh fuck of you prick', then went into the kitchen and had a cry.

This was years ago and utterly still mortifies me to this day.

But I've realised that for some reason, nobody EVER gets sacked where I work, regardless of what disgusting behaviour happens. It's strange.

cherrytree63 · 17/01/2022 03:56

Working in a lab and was processing some samples which had come packed in dry ice.
I didn't know the correct way to dispose of it so chucked it in the sink. And turned the hot tap on to melt it.
Oops Blush

caulkheaded · 17/01/2022 04:36

Crashed my work car on the morning of my first day - literally had had the car about 30mins and I drove it in to a gate post. My boss was in the car.

It was 15 years ago and we’re still friends now.

Imissmoominmama · 17/01/2022 05:08

@caulkheaded- I did that too! I drove out of the office, to the first set of traffic lights, and a woman drove straight into the back of the car behind me, which then shunted into me. Because my car had a towbar attached, it did loads more damage than if it had just struck the bumper, and they wrote the car off.

I’d had it less than five minutes!

LadyPenelope68 · 17/01/2022 05:19

Primary Teacher here and sitting opposite a set of lovely parents at their child’s first parents evening meeting in my class. Kept thinking all the way through I knew Dad, but couldn’t think where from. Dad even said he was sure we’d met somewhere before as well but he genuinely looked like he’d no idea where from. Just about to finish the appointment and suddenly realised ……… I’d had a very wild, one night stand with him many years before. Wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. Next time I met him at a school event he was just as embarrassed as me, so I think he’d realised as well 🤣🤣

piney07 · 17/01/2022 12:38

@TonyThreePies 🤣🤣🤣

Floundery · 17/01/2022 13:12

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Allsorts1 · 17/01/2022 14:31

Omg @Floundery I can imagine the stomach drop Shock

EinsteinaGogo · 17/01/2022 18:48

@Floundery

The managing partner of the law firm where I worked was called (say) Fred Baker.

So was a junior associate who was my office bestie.

I forwarded my Fred Baker some class of filth. For any lawyers here, it was the infamous city law BJ email involving the mysterious “Sarah” that was doing the rounds in circa. 2000.

Naturally I forwarded it to the managing partner by mistake. He replied saying “I don’t think this was meant for me and may I also refer you to our email usage policy here ”

In case that wasn’t bad enough, I replied with “oh fuck off Fred - I know it’s you, you big twat, shove your policy up your arse” etc.

Miraculously I was not fired!

😱😱😱

What happened next?

Hairyfairy01 · 17/01/2022 21:03

New job, picked up patients medical records, placed them on a sink to write in them (don't ask, limited space) but I didn't realise that the taps were automatic. Still can't believe I was such an idiot!