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!

Was visiting a client and we were walking around his site .
As we were walking across a large outside yard I felt something sliding down my leg .
I was wearing a silky half slip under my skirt and the elastic waist had snapped .
I almost tripped over it but managed to recover ,step out of it and stuff it into my folder as the client looked at me aghast the carried on as if nothing had happened !
Clearly I need to be more careful with my wardrobe choices !

I worked at a resort where dogs weren’t allowed but there was a facility to leave them at the gate house tied up (I wouldn’t do it to my dog but some did).
I told someone on the phone that they couldn’t bring their dog into the resort but could “stake it out” at the gatehouse - my office mates laughed their heads off and I was desperately trying to hold it together. I failed

Oh my god 😂 what are the chances!!

So many. Walked into a glass door at an interview once (didn't get the job). When new and shy about going to the social alone, I emailed one of my new colleagues to ask if I could go with them because I didn't know anyone yet, but clicked "reply all" and sent it to the whole company. On my first day at a new job, I messed up with the photocopier and accidentally used up my department's entire quarterly budget in one morning (note to self: pay attention to zeros). First day of another new job (in a school), I tripped up going up the stairs and my plate of peas, chips, and gravy covered my new boss's white shirt and his suit. First time in another new role as a team leader and ended up reporting my own boss to that same boss for not responding to my emails.

And so many more. I try not to relive them too often!

Was standing at the photocopier with a colleague. There were some men sitting outside the CEOs office waiting to go in for interview. I said to my colleague that I hoped the very gorgeous one with blonde hair got the job - phwar!. She said she did too, he was her husband. He didn't get the job).

It was my turn to do the coffee in the weekly board meeting which was also attended by some very VIPs who were looking to buy some of our (very expensive) products. I caught my foot on a chair in passing and drenched their MD in very hot coffee. Our chairman banned me from ever doing the coffee again. Result!!

I have also turned up in odd shoes and in my slippers.

I really should not read threads like this late at night, laying next to a sleeping little one... thanks for the giggle all

Just recently, I went into a work meeting with two odd shoes on. I mean, really. Where is my head?