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.

I used to work in an old fashioned store that had those order books which copy through when you write on them. A customer came in to make a payment on her account, I was flat out at the time so found her order and scribbled it in without thinking. Copied it through to her other accounts and our book keeper couldn't work out why we were so short - oops!

Oooh! I did also send an explicit text to my DH but accidentally sent it to my boss. I called him the second I sent it and begged him to delete without reading. He claimed he never got it because he was so nice.

Shagged my manager. Accidentally told his wife in the toilets at the the xmas do. Didn’t know she was his wife.
Whoops.

I accidentally paid £20,000 from the wrong bank accountants 😬 two senior managers approved the payment but I was in trouble

(in fact didn’t know he had a wife at all, didn’t tell me)

I was working in London and kept getting electronic work from a colleague in Wales. Never met her. One day she marked me down for something. I said very loudly “who the fuck is Jenny Jones anyway” (not real name).
Yes you’ve guessed it. She was in the office for a visit and sat about 2 rows of desks away.

I gave away a working fridge. Im my defense - they said that someone was coming to collect the fridge but didnt tell me that it was the old broken one that was hidden under a pile of rubbish.

When in was 17 I was working full time in a cafe - it was Sat and I thought it best to freeze all the iceberg lettuce!!!
Didn’t go down well - I was assistant manageress!!
I didn’t become manageress!! Opps.
We didn’t own a freezer at home.

@OhMyDarling

Shagged my manager. Accidentally told his wife in the toilets at the the xmas do. Didn’t know she was his wife. Whoops.

Spectacular!

These are hilarious!

@Ruth2009 did the old lady you put to bed want to go to bed?

I run events and part of my job is to have an individual timetable (with room locations) ready for all attendees. Large event (3,000 people), 5 minutes before we are due to open at 7am and i released I'd not hit the button in the system which put put the room information on each timetable. Had to tell my boss, dump all 3,000 timetables, and reprint. With a lot of help, we got it done but it was the most terrifying 45 minutes of my life.

Never have an office orgy

Not a big mistake but one which has made me feel guilty for years....

My first job - Saturday girl at the local bakery (before it became a Greggs).

We used to have regular orders and one chap always had a very big order, though never exactly the same each week.

Weirdly, the breadcakes were priced for 2 rather than individually.

When adding up his order I charged him the price for 2 for each breadcake. So instead of 9 times the price (for 18) I charged him 18 times the price (effectively charging him for 36).

He didn't notice because of the size of his order, but I felt terrible about it for ages afterwards, and still have residual pangs of guilt!

Accidently sending an email to my manager that was meant for my boyfriend. Years later I still quake before pressing send on an email.

Tell us what happened next *@OhMyDarling, please. Eek.

I was working in an ice cream shop and dropped a huge vat of molten chocolate on the shop floor. It went up the walls, on the ceiling (somehow) behind all the counters and machines. All over me and my colleague. And on the floor, obviously. It took about 6 hours to clean up.

Rushed checking some drawings. Signed them as correct. Steel frame arrived on site and lots of the bits simply didn't fit together 😳 cost a LOT to have them modified on site to get it to work. Like some massive cut price Meccano kit when you realise why it's cheap....

I want to know how @QueenOfCatan set fire to the roof..

Missed a court deadline it hadn't been diarised. Fortunately managed to settle the file before anyone other than my manager knew.

Oh @TheRattleBag great user name and charmingly small-scale cockup!

Once asked the new lad to transfer all the freezer stock from broken down freezer on the shop floor to the one in the warehouse..
Raging call from the manager next day as he had in fact put £1200 worth of stuff in a fridge..
The lad was early 20 's. Should I really have had to check he knew the difference between a fridge and a freezer?
He left soon after as he claimed nobody' gelled 'with him anyway!!

When I was a university lecturer I once was trying to show the students how to use an online resource and accidentally showed them my internet search history (on a massive projector screen) and it was... incriminating

The worst thing about my work is I know I make mistakes because I’ve had barely any training but no one corrects me on them. They must just fix them for me.