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.

Slagged off the big cheese in the toilet, he was drunk, judgmental, rude and inappropriate. I was furious. He was in the gents and heard every word....

Gave a student the wrong set of keys but mistake so he moved into the wrong room. Only realised two hours later when his flat mate came to say there was someone in his room. Ended up just switching the room numbers around on the doors!

Mines was a minor error that ended up being a huge inconvenience and embarrassment for lots of people. I worked in a hospital building that had secure mental health patients who had been sectioned or there long term. I burned my toast which set off the fire alarm. I was telling everyone I knew that it was just toast that I had rescued, but nope. Two fire engines had to come out and the whole hospital building had to be vacated. Awful experience and I felt so guilty.

Many moons ago I was a deputy produce manager in major supermarket. I accidentally ordered 44 crates of apples in stead of 4. They practically took up the whole chiller. Could have been worse if it had been something perishable like lettuce etc. We luckily managed to pass some on to nearby branches.
Years later I was working in a pre-school, brought all the children in for lunch and I checked to make sure that that had all come in. A while later one of the children asked where 'Lucy ' was. I had locked her outside, fortunately she was happily playing with a doll and was no worse for wear!

@crispysausagerolls - recklessly injured an elderly, difficult patient and covered it up.

Processed a software licence order for 34 million pounds. Twice. Will never forget the cold sweat when I realised.

This is by far my favourite thread of entire lockdown lol

I was doing an important pitch to a big UK form and had my
Laptop on projector screen. Forgot to stop email notifications getting displayed and my work email had been hacked/sold etc... didn't realise that while I was talking I was getting several messages (which were displayed.. subject and first line) from several Russian girls who all wanted me to lick their [cats] ...

I used to work in a town near Manchester called Sale, for an international company. To email the whole office (around 25 people) you could use the address [email protected] and my coworker once emailed a VERY smutty joke with references to how shitty the company was, and how she was going to leave and take everyone with her, to the whole office. Or she thought she had.
When she got read receipts from the Dusseldorf office, and the Sydney office and the Florida office and the Moscow office, she realised she had sent the email to [email protected] - her face was so white when she realised.
She couldn't speak but squeaked at me and pointed to her computer. She got read receipts from all the board members even.

Nothing happened to her but in my mind she was a legend.

Some of these are totally unbelievable. Others should never be published. What is wrong with you people?

Worked in a temp agency. Sent a new temp into a client, forgot to check her ID and references. Two weeks later client phoned to say that they had an call to say that the temp was on Crimestoppers website for fraud. The next day the police arrived at the office to arrest her. She had given me a fake name.

Boss took me to the client to apologies, they never worked with us again. Did not loose my job, but was always very strict about ID and references after that.

@Holeywalls no I'm a specialist nurse thankyou. I'm using a smart phone with predictive text not my macbook so it isnt as easy!

Taken in by a fraudster whilst working for an airline ...
When I called the police, they said “so let’s get this right. You’ve just given away £50k worth of first class tickets and the passengers are mid-air completely unaware that their generous donor , Lady xxx, is actually a cleaner from Dagenham and you accepted her “Bank of Armenia” investment bonds as a guarantee of payment?”

God bless my kind colleague who went out to the airport to greet said passengers but none were able bro pay.
How I didn’t lose my job , I just don’t know.

I'm a doctor. You don't want to know the worst mistakes I have made.

I said don't you dare to an older child with SEN when he was threatening to hit me round the head with a chair. He thought I was daring him to so he did it. Very painful lesson learned. (Child was actually lovely 99% of the time and was very sorry once he realised I was hurt)

Junior lawyer, in court, the witness looked a lot like a Bruce Forsyth. I googled a photo of Mr Forsyth and sent it to my colleague who was a few seat along from me in the court to make her laugh. Except I put in the wrong bloody email address and actually sent a photo of Bruce Forsyth to a VIP client of the firm with the only the heading 'fancy a little Brucey Bonus????' and no other context. The client was hundreds of miles away at the time being busy and important and was somewhat confused as to why he had received it...

Oh G'awn.

@overtimewoes......please? What you killled people?

I used to work in an airport doing the currency stuff. (I was 19 at the time!)

There were two branches, one before security and one after. The one afyer security only operated 10am - 4pm but the other one was like 4am until midnight.

I shut up the one after security, counted and bagged up all the money blah blah and went home.

I got a phone call the next morning (my day off) to explain why I had left over £100,000 with of currency on the unsecured desk of the booth.

I had forgotten to put it in the safe through the back!

I just never went back

Started work at a hotel as a wedding and functions manager. Worked alongside the lady who was leaving to ensure a smooth handover. She had just started driving and was nervous about fuelling up so I went with her. It started to rain heavily so she asked me to drive back and park at the top of the car park (it sloped down to the hotel entrance)so she could drive away easily.
I parked it in gear but decided she might not realise so slipped it back in to neutral and we both ran down the slope and back into work. Seconds later there was an almighty bang and the receptionist screamed. The car had smashed through the doors and was now parked in the reception. Yep I had forgotten to put the handbrake on.

Boss took delivery of brand new sign painted van ... and promptly drove it into a wall.
At least it was his own business.

But there was much sniggering.

I was off sick one day and unhappy in my role so decided to use my day off to apply for a new job.

I texted my boyfriend with some links to jobs I was planning to apply for that day with comments such as 'this one looks good but a bit far for me to commute maybe?'

Texted it to my boss by mistake. He came straight back with 'are you sat at home job hunting???'

Criiiiiinge

I did a mail merge of around 50 letters but there was a typo in the address - it read 'Cock Road' instead of 'Dock Road' and I sent the letters out without checking. It makes me chuckle now .......

Very early in my career I worked at a bookkeepers. The evening before I was at my friend's house and we were playing cards. However the cards had naked men on them from the 70's. Her boyfriend came by unexpectedly and she hid the cards in my bag as he was the jealous type. I gave them back to her when I left.
The next day I found a rogue card in my bag and laughed about it with a friend. However this must've been the time I lost it amd I hadn't realised it. A few days later it turned up in a file files an my boss was less than impressed

@overtimewoes I worked somewhere very premium, but so many mistakes were made. We were so low on staff, so you ended up a jack of all trades to keep it all running. Our bodge job motto was " no ones died" would work for you then ?