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by Rightey » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:36 pm

What's your biggest workplace mistake?

Mine was probably when I worked in retail years ago at a small pet food store, I once forgot to lock up the place after work. :slol:

I was leaving at the same time with another coworker, and they were carrying a bunch of boxes to their car. I assumed that they had more boxes to get from the store so I didn't lock the door, we both ended up just leaving. :oops:

We got really lucky as a few people came in after we left, noticed there was no one there and called the police as they thought the store had been robbed. At least 3 got what they needed and left money on the counter for us, along with their information and what they took, which was pretty nice of them.

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by Xeno » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:11 pm

I once left a key in the alarm system, it was a key system and not a keypad. No alarm on for a number of days, good thing nothing happened and I also was the person to open up.

I ordered the wrong parts for a boiler upgrade as I missread a list from one of our gas fitters (the mistake was caught and we sorted it out before delivery).

I once went home after a week of 12 to 16 hour days and forgot to lock up, I had to trapse all the way back to do it. I didn't get home till past midnight.

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by Kezzer » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:33 pm

When I was working in car sales, one of the guys opening up the main door managed to snap his key while it was in the lock, so we had to open up the side door. Me being the youngest had to run to the alarm panel and punch in the code before the alarm went off.

Unfortunetley, it was a tiled floor and it had been raining... so I slipped, and elbowed the bonnet of a car in the showroom leaving a big ol' dent on the apex.

The showroom alarm goes off and the guy just sauntered in, walking past me crumpled on the floor, says : "Oh dear" (without breaking stride) and continues to the alarm panel to turn it off.

After that he just sat at his desk. No "you okay?" Or anything :lol:

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by Squinty » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:20 pm

I had a Dougal Maguire moment. There was a button on a wall. Nobody knew what it did. I pushed it.

Turned out to be the buildings bomb alert.

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by Death's Head » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:51 pm

Probably about 20 years ago when I was preparing a new release of our software to go to partners I accidentally included the licensing software. I was really worried what the MD was going to say but he was really good about it and didn't give me a hard time at all.

I then told all of the partners that the CD I shipped had problems with some of the programs and that data would definitely be corrupted and that a replacement CD would follow.

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by pjbetman » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:57 pm

A colleague of mine texted another employee criticising the boss's wife, calling her the N word, and saying he was going to twat the boss! The 2 employees have had a falling out. That employee is about to present it to the boss! Update when I get the details of the fallout.

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by shadow202 » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:43 pm

I work as a mortgage advisor and last year was completing an application for someone borrowing additional funds. (£25k in total)

Anyway I made an error on their application and shouldn't have completed the application, only found this out after the money had been released, nothing I could really do but take full responsibility and beg not to lose my job.

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by Lagamorph » Thu Feb 08, 2018 5:54 am

Squinty wrote:I had a Dougal Maguire moment. There was a button on a wall. Nobody knew what it did. I pushed it.

Turned out to be the buildings bomb alert.

A guy did something similar when I worked at PC World. There were red buttons under several of the tills and service counters and a guy decided to push one of them one day to see what it did.

5 minutes later armed police were in the store.

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by Tafdolphin » Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:12 am

During feeding time, I forgot to close the door on a jaguar's isolation cage. I was wandering about the main enclosure and he sauntered back in while I was carrying a huge bucket of meat. I still don't know why he didn't pounce me.

Edged my way out and had a mini life-before-your-eyes moment.

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by Skarjo » Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:26 am

There was a kid once whose name I forgot and I jokingly called him 'Weird Shaped Head Boy' in front of the class (which isn't as bad as it sounds in that the whole class had a lot of jokey banter like that, but was still a strawberry floating stupid thing to say).

Turns out he'd been systematically bullied about that for years and I ended up having to explain myself and apologise to his mum.

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by Squinty » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:18 am

Lagamorph wrote:
Squinty wrote:I had a Dougal Maguire moment. There was a button on a wall. Nobody knew what it did. I pushed it.

Turned out to be the buildings bomb alert.

A guy did something similar when I worked at PC World. There were red buttons under several of the tills and service counters and a guy decided to push one of them one day to see what it did.

5 minutes later armed police were in the store.


Oh wow :lol:

It was embarrassing as strawberry float whenever I look back on it. I got reprimanded and I deserved it.

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PostRe: Workplace Blunders
by Moggy » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:37 am

Squinty wrote:I had a Dougal Maguire moment. There was a button on a wall. Nobody knew what it did. I pushed it.

Turned out to be the buildings bomb alert.


:lol:

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by Victor Mildew » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:56 am

Was helping with interviews at my last place a couple of weeks ago and one candidate was clearly blind in one eye. Nobody brought it up (he eventually did) But before that at one point my boss said, "we're keeping one eye on the situation". :dread: stoney silence. I asked him after if he meant to say it and he didn't even realise what he'd done.

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by Rex Kramer » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:18 am

One of my first jobs was as a ride operator in a theme park. First day on the job, I was on the Runaway Train ride and we had to evacuate it as it broke down half way round. Someone in maintenance had made a set of portable stairs that could be moved next to each carriage to allow people to climb down. We got everyone off and then they fixed the train. Sent it round empty to test it and I hadn't moved the stairs back far enough (though I'm pretty certain it was mentioned in training that we had to do this). Smashed them to matchsticks. Surprisingly the ride itself wasn't affected.

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by Dowbocop » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:27 am

Skarjo wrote:There was a kid once whose name I forgot and I jokingly called him 'Weird Shaped Head Boy' in front of the class (which isn't as bad as it sounds in that the whole class had a lot of jokey banter like that, but was still a strawberry floating stupid thing to say).

Turns out he'd been systematically bullied about that for years and I ended up having to explain myself and apologise to his mum.

When I was at after school club one day (as a kid, not a teacher!), another boy had been giving me aggro all afternoon. I'd had a strawberry floating nuff so I cussed his mum. Obviously his mum walked in immediately after that and the little rat grassed me up.

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PostRe: Workplace Blunders
by Benzin » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:39 am

Ad7 wrote:Was helping with interviews at my last place a couple of weeks ago and one candidate was clearly blind in one eye. Nobody brought it up (he eventually did) But before that at one point my boss said, "we're keeping one eye on the situation". :dread: stoney silence. I asked him after if he meant to say it and he didn't even realise what he'd done.


I've had something similar happen to my friend when in a wheelchair at a theme park. Waiting to get on the ride through the disabled entrance and the guy told us to just "take a seat" whilst waiting our turn. Don't think he realised exactly what he said until we had burst into laughter :lol:


A former colleague at my previous work made a fantastic blunder when offering Kit-Kats to our mostly female staff through asking them "do you want a finger?" in the most naive fashion possible :lol:

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by Moggy » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:00 am

The worst thing I have ever done at work was with an ex-girlfriend, she had a thing that she wanted to shag on my bosses desk. She didn’t know him, but she had it in her head and I wasn’t one to turn down sexy times.

It was a Saturday night and we were close to where I worked. After a few drinks we headed to the office, I let us in and we realised that the desk was a little bit too flimsy to do the deed on. Not wanting to miss out, we went to a sofa that was in the reception of the office. After hours and hours ( ;) ) of vigorous lovemaking, we finished up and left.

On the Monday afternoon, I was called into a meeting room by my boss, who asked if I had been in the office over the weekend. I said yes, I popped in as I had forgotten something that I had left in my desk. He then showed me the state of the sofa, white stains all over it. There was also a clear footprint on the plant pot that was next to the sofa. The electronic entry system showed that I was the only one who entered the office over that weekend. Panicking, I asked who was last to leave on the Friday and luckily (for me!) a man and a woman had been the last to leave and so I said that it might have been them. I then just denied all knowledge, no matter who asked.

Nobody ever believed me, but somehow I got away with it. :lol:

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PostRe: Workplace Blunders
by Tomous » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:20 am

Moggy :slol:

At least clean up after yourself man, come on.

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by Moggy » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:22 am

Tomous wrote:Moggy :slol:

At least clean up after yourself man, come on.


It was dark in there and I couldn't switch the light on or people would have been able to see into the office. And nobody wants to see my lily white ass going up and down.

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by Hexx » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:32 am

Pfft like you'd be on top


Not mine - but someone at our workplace decided to put washing up liquid in the dishwasher as we were out of tablets.
The kitchen filled with bubbles as they poured out the sides, over the floor and then piled up


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