Tell me your work mistakes that you can laugh about now!

[Drearycommuter]

Hi all,

I work in a relatively high profile role and had a complete brain melt in a meeting today and actually spoke gobbledegook.

I got completely confused and was talking about one person when I meant someone else AT LENGTH, everyone was looking at me like I was mad. It was my only contribution to the meeting.

It doesn't sound that bad on paper but honestly it was mortifying as they were all internal very important stakeholders who were completely competent. I was also the only one on screen so imagine I was MASSIVE too.

A few weeks ago I was on a virtual call and saw a cat killing a bird in my garden and started screaming on camera like a lunatic. This was worse than that!

Please make me feel better with your stories of work mistakes that felt awful but are now funny!

@BlumminFreezin I am a financial services director and this is AMAZING. Compliance would say the system should never have allowed that to happen! Poor you!

Similar to a PP, and not me but DH who was a chimney sweep at the time. He'd had a hell of a job one day - he'd sheeted up but the giant clump of debris that came crashing down with years of soot had rather breeched the protective sheets, so he was diligently cleaning up the customers rather posh sitting room with his powerful hoover. He went thoroughly to every corner of the room and then carefully hoovered the soot and dust from around the hearth, including clearing dust off a large, rather ornate ornament that he had thought was a carved piece of wood.

He was scrubbing his hoover brush over a cured ham.

Too many to mention (I'm amazed I'm still employed)
First day in New job
Had been there less than 20 minutes,managed to throw a full tray of red hot,fresh out of the fryer nuggets all over my new boss
I left a year later and he said he'd never forget me

I'm forever saying 'be careful with your fries,they are fresh out of the freezer'
I do mean fryer

I get mccrispys mixed up with mcdspicys as they are very similar colours to my eye

We had the main boss in the other day and I accidentally caught his bollocks with my fist as I turned round (I didn't know he had come up behind me)
Poor bloke just bent double in front of me
He seems to have forgiven me but does give me a wide berth

Years ago I got an admin job at a very posh auctioneers in London, typing up the catalogues. The first part of the catalogue was pre-typed and I just had to press some buttons on a very complicated word processor and then type the details of the particular auction. I got stuck and didn't want to ask the other girls for help as they weren't very nice to me so I just decided to type all of it. I checked it and all seemed good but after the auction had happened I saw a copy of the catalogue and in the bit where it should have said "There will be a storage charge of £5" I had typed "There will be a strange charge of £5". I can imagine the confused look of the customers, puzzled about a strange charge.

I recently read a CV that said the he had lots of experience at the 'cold face'.

Jesus. 😬 A cold shiver just went down my spine reading that.

I once took my class to the British Museum in London but we were supposed to be at their venue in Tring! Some how bluffed my way through - parent helpers none the wiser!