To ask you about the worst mistake you've made at work?

[800caloriesofwine]

Terrible, terrible day.
Please tell me the worst mistakes you've made in the workplace.
Mine were sending £6,000 of dental implants to the wrong dentist, two days before they were due to be placed in someone's mouth.
Also writing the wrong patient down as dead.

The Cunty Council one is an easy slip-up.

I used to work for Nottinghamshire County Council, which very nearly became Nottinghamshite Cunty Council on a commemorative plaque - good job I proofread it before I sent it to be engraved!

I used to work for Nottinghamshire County Council, which very nearly became Nottinghamshite Cunty Council on a commemorative plaque

This has made my day.

@cyclingshark
I am now thank you, sadly it spelled the end to a job I love and a massive downturn in my feelings of self worth but I’m happy to say 7 years on things have worked out for the best x

It really amuses me that I'm reading this thread whilst watching the scene in Alice in wonderland where the cards accidentally planted white roses instead of red

Promise this wasn’t me. Someone I know accidentally live streamed on YouTube a confidential meeting that she was having whilst Working from home. It was deleted VERY quickly.

I was tasked with putting together a proposal for a pilot programme for a new management process at work, the paper was to be discussed by the Exec Board at their board meeting. I submitted a paper on the introduction of Shit Managers (should have been Shift Managers) and referred to them as Shit Managers throughout. I had proof read, but my subconscious clearly decided to make known my feelings about the proposals.

Worked in admissions for a University. Team worked all day on preparing offers to send over to UCAS. I pressed reset on the offers instead of send.

@FenellaVelour your laughing story really made me smile. I love laughing fits like those.

@caringcarer

Secondary teacher. One day I had to cover a lesson for absent colleague. Not a problem as absentee supposed to leave sick work to be accessed if they are absent. I drew the short straw and ended up with food tech. I was hoping for some health and safety in kitchen type of boring task designed to keep kids busy but no I had to let them cool raspberry buns. First some kids arrived without ingredients. I did not have key to store room to find them any. This was last lesson of day so I knew they must finish cooking 15 mins before end of lesson to wash up and clean kitchen before home time. Time was going to be very tight. I had to demonstrate first. Quick demo then got them started. Some groups quite good others aggggh. Bund in oven 20 mins before end of lesson so washing up. After 10 mins one clown had switched on microwave with nothing in it. It caught on fire. I asked why was he using microwave with nothing in it? Reply, to time his buns in oven miss. Fire ala went off. Caretaker rushed in squirting fire extinguisher. Everyone had to go out on to playground for fire a countability. This took 25 mins and kids late for school buses and taxis. Parents rushing to back playground to see their kid ok. Everyone dismissed and then I had to go back and wash up all groups dishes. Head not best pleased. Following week new rule if good tech teacher away kids must have work sheets. No cooking ever unless good tech teacher.

ive done that oops didnt know it could catch fire empty

Another c word typo victim. I prepared a report for the board which referred throughout to the Accunts Team. To be fair, they pretty much were though.

Spellcheck saved me from sending an email to a German client asking her to contact me if she had any fuhrer questions

Forgot to put, it was her annual appraisal which would have been somewhat embarrassing had she failed it!

I'm always cocking up! Some are far too outing but one that still makes me laugh is this one,

At work one day and we were horrendously short staffed (as always) so I was running around sorting out till problems and trying to get stock out at a ridiculous pace. I was putting out a pallet of 2ltr lemonade bottles which are covered in a jacket of plastic and as I went to cut off the plastic I pierced about 5 bottles at the top of the pallet. There happened to be an elderly man walk past me right at that moment and ended up soaked from be sprayed by exploding lemonade right at head height, his face was dripping I couldn't get the lemonade to stop either He was ever so good about it and his wife found it hysterical but I was mortified at the time.

Whenever I think of that incident now all I can see is the little elderly chap dripping wet and being sprayed It's surprising how far and hard fizzy drinks escape their bottles when you pierce their bottles

Some others come to mind...

I had to stop a cashier from charging a poor lady £689 for a joint of beef (mixed up weight/price per kilo)

I've gone around far too many corners too fast with a pallet on a pump truck and it's landed on the floor, especially bread pallets as they are so light

A young lad forgot he left a pallet of meat on the shop floor rather that put it in the fridge, all had to be wasted costing thousands

A delivery driver was in a foul mood and was rushing the drop off. He went round a corner with a pallet of alcohol too aggressively and the lot toppled. Smashed champagne, spirits, wines and bottles everywhere! He soon started trying to act nice after that as he needed help clearing up

A colleague over loaded a display table of 10ltr paint tubs so it broke and we had paint all over the warehouse floor. Same thing happened with fence paint and smaller 1ltr paint pots, we don't learn in out store it seems

We have an electric floor cleaner which is sometimes used to clean spills. A colleague decided the floor cleaner was the best way to clean up a 1ltr bottle of washing up liquid that spilt on the floor. Yep, bubbles everywhere! The aisle had to be shut off while we cleaned up the river of bubbles

I'm sure I'll think of others

The funniest thing I’ve seen in a supermarket was whilst on holiday in nz a few years back. We were visiting mil and dh decided we would cook her dinner. So off we toddled to the supermarket.

Wandering round we picked up the things we needed plus a few treats and o happened to be in the snack aisle at the same time as a lady who somehow managed to spilt a huge bag of popcorn which then cascaded down onto her.

She just stood there and said “oh noooo!” (But in her kiwi accent it sort of drawled out “awwww noooooooi”

It was day 2 of our holiday and I was still stupidly jet lagged. I almost wet myself. Dh saw me trying to control the laughter and we had to leave the shop. Even now when one of us drops something/breaks something we stand there and say “aww noooooi”

Years ago when you could smoke at work I put my cigarette in the bin and hadn't put it out properly and the bin went on fire.

The matter of fact description of this has made me laugh

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon
Whats 'The Surge'?

Sleeping with my boss 🙈🙈

@RainbowSparkle ha I did that and lost my job

In a sales job at age 18 trying to promote the latest in DAT drives (remember them) my pitch went along the lines of not trusting these knockoff Japanese rubbish brands and these were far superior. yes the company were owned by a Japanese company and the rep sat their cat bummed and giving me the evils. Didnt last long in that job.

One was sending an email ranting about the stupidity of the people at my DSs nursery.... to them rather than my DH. (To be fair, they were great at caring for him, just crap at all the admin/communication stuff).

The other was attaching the wrong document to an email. The attachment gave the salary for all of the Board of Directors. I sent it to them all. I realised immediately and tried to recall the email. But some had been read.

Two directors resigned within a couple of months as they realised they were paid significantly less than their colleagues.

Accepting the job and ever turning up!

These have made me cry with laughter- loved the fem fresh, farter/farmer and skedaddling armadillos. Also the laughing/ crying over the boiler .
Wine boss sounds like the coolest guy ever

Nothing too bad. Burned loads of things in my teenage and student years working in kitchens. In my professional career, nothing. I’ve made mistakes in calculations but that’s what the checking process is there for and as a young professional, it’s part of learning. As long as it’s caught, corrected and learned from!