To ask for your embarrassing work stories

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I'm currently a deep shade of beetroot as I've noticed a major typo in an announcement email I've sent at work to a few hundred different people. I've somehow put someone's surname as a completely different name. Think 'Simon Smart' but I've written 'Simon Simpson' . No idea where that even came from!

I know it's absolutely not the end of the world and no has died but I just had that moment where you spot it and your stomach drops and you start to feel hot and panicky 😂😰

Can you please share your embarrassing work moments to help me stop hyperventilating - and more so to give us all a laugh/moment of solidarity, as I love these threads and they make me feel more human!

Is that it? I thought you were going to say you put Simon Cunt or something terrible. I once used the word Anus in an interview by mistake and they all laughed for quite a while, I hadn't even realised straight away what I'd said 🤦‍♀️

I had auto correct fail
emailed new team manager to tell him one of the team is transgender should of been transferred

Set the entire works alarm system off. Plus, almost fell of my chair in front of a patient.

In an interview once I told my interviewers I was into watersports when asked if I had any hobbies or interests. I realised what I had said straight away and the manager cackled and I got the job.

I once wrote pubic instead of public. For an article that went in the newspaper.

…I don’t get it?

Look it up

I sent an email to at least 50,000 people for an event, without putting the date and time of the event 🤦‍♀️. Almost immediately I had emails asking me for the details.

Was once on a conference call and leaned over to my friend and said "I've just wasted the last 10 minutes trying to tell this bunch of muppets what they're doing wrong and they're just not getting it. I dont know why I bothered"

And then discovered I wasn't on mute.

LOADS.

1. Two weeks into promotion, in meeting with the boss and a guy from the construction site of our redevelopment. Boss asks me to highlight current issues. I say I've been emailing X loads of times with no reply. Turns out it's X that I'm in the room with but nobody puts me straight until after the meeting is over. Honestly beyond mortified at the time.
2. Not work, but as a grad student. Our induction week we had to do compulsory IT training including a sort of 'how you send an email out to sections of the university to ask a survey question'. I was so bored at this induction so I wrote a silly question - 'how many people have you had sex with' because I was super bored and this whole training thing had nothing to do with my degree (which would never involve emailing surveys). I thought it was a dummy programme, but I actually send it out to a completely unknown number of people, possibly the university as a whole, because I got about 50 replies, including my tutors and a load of other people from completely different faculties. Turns out I obviously needed the IT training after all.

It's a peeing sex thing not swimming or water polo.

I still don’t get it

Sorry ludo, didn't mean to quote you.

Bang on @Northernsouloldies

NC, obviously…

I shit myself. Like, fully shit myself.

Yeah so pissing on someone for sexual kinks is kmown as watersports.

Hardly ideal interview fodder.

OK well I imagine most people would just think it meant water sports.

Id rather piss on someone than work for a creepy boss who thought I was talking about sex fetishes when I wasnt

I'm sorry but 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ffs it was an innuendo and he wasn't creepy. Bloody hell.

Oh I’ve shit myself(thought it was a fart, it was diarrhoea) during a meeting. Luckily I was WFH and it was a Teams meeting 😂

Yep to this. Co wide message to people asking not to leave anything private in pubic areas

When I was 19 I had a job involving the public. A used panty liner which had somehow gone through the wash emerged from the sleeve of my cardigan just as I was serving someone...

It’s not an innuendo though is it, presumably you meant watersports in the traditional sense? The fact he automatically thought of a kink makes him a bit creepy in my eyes.

Which reminds me - someone asked me once at work what I did at the weekend and I said I had a lovely facial. Two of the blokes laughed, I didn’t know the joke and it had to be explained, and it just pissed me off that that’s what people jump to. Like particularly annoying teenage boys.

Happened to me not something I did...
During my shift in a shop the flooring behind the tills was mid way being replaced.. A colleague tripped and grabbed the first think on his way down... Happened to be my trousers...
He was mortified...

Working in a call centre, answering calls from people who’d seen ads for a job at a bank in the paper. We had to interview callers. There were pauses when callers did maths questions when we used to mute our phones and have a chat to eat other. I muted my phone and told my colleague ‘I went to see an S and M film last night.’ (Secretary. I was flirting with him). Except I hadn’t muted my phone, and the caller heard.

got away with it, as it was an interview, and the calker wanted the job.