You can have one of the worst days of your life but it still wouldn’t be as bad as making a blunder at work! Imagine sending the wrong mail to your boss which contains embarrassing details, or deleting an extremely important file by mistake and having no backup, or simple farting in an interview with a potential investor. A nightmare, right?
People on the internet have been revealing some of the biggest mistakes they have made in their work-life and some are so bad that my anxiety has kicked in! Have a look:
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What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work? I once accidentally erased a section of the master tape for a Radio 4 Afternoon Play. It still haunts me.
— Steve Doherty ? (@SteveDoherty1) February 27, 2020
2.
Turned up to a funeral with the wrong body
— Archie W Maddocks (@ArchieMaddocks) February 27, 2020
3.
In my first week at work I somehow deleted the entire home page of the website I’d been employed to manage.
— Trishful Thinking (@Trishie_D) February 27, 2020
4.
I once deleted the BBC comedy website.
— Kat Sommers (@dogwinters) February 27, 2020
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21 years ago I reviewed a Meat Loaf gig for a newspaper without attending the gig (I was ill/an idiot). An hour after publication the paper called to inform me that the gig had, in fact, been cancelled. I was sacked. The Sun wrote a piece about it. The headline: “MEAT OAF”.
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) February 27, 2020
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Moved £26mil of the wrong people’s money into the wrong people’s account.
I don’t do that job anymore.— tom o'malley (@notweetstom) February 27, 2020
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I once emailed the CEO of a FTSE100 corporation to tell him I'd be home at seven, I'd pick up some pasta on the way, and that I loved him.
— Mike Maddox (@MikeMaddox10) February 27, 2020
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I worked in a UK semiconductor plant. An American colleague faxed details of a two chemical mix. The instructions were simple, 1 bottle of this to 5 of the other. My bottles were of different volumes.
Evacuated the building, fire brigade called, Police cordon. I kept my job.— Will B (@virtuallywillB) February 27, 2020
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I had to interview John Travolta once and I accidentally burped in his face. Also, I inadvertent held Oliver Stone’s hand throughout a film premier interview. There are many more…
— Steve Hughes (@moviegoblin) February 27, 2020
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Ordered $1M (in 2001) worth of IT kit, then was asked to cancel the order.
So I did, only I didn’t. I placed another order.
First I knew was when my customer called at 6pm on a Friday, to find out why he was being asked where several pallets of kit should be unloaded…
— SparkyDuchess (@Sparkyduchess) February 27, 2020
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I sent an email to a colleague having a moaning rant about our boss. Unfortunately I’d included him in the recipient list. There was an icy atmosphere for weeks.
— Angela (@andytude) February 27, 2020
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When I worked in an art gallery I unpacked a load of enormous framed photographs in a panic because my scary boss said he wanted them ready to hang by the time he got there. I used a knife to open the boxes & when he arrived we realised I’d slashed the photographs as well
— Sian Harries (@sianharries_) February 27, 2020
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You know when put something in a super safe place and forget where that super safe place was? I did that. With a client’s cheque for over €500k. Problem was, I forget where the super safe place was. I still don’t know. ?
— Dee (@gingerbreadmiss) February 27, 2020
15.
As a new student nurse I once collected in the same bowl all the ward patients false teeth for a good clean.
— Kate Harper (@KateCTHarper) February 27, 2020
16.
I was a nurse
Went into the room of a dying man
It was Xmas eve
I was wearing pink fairy wings
I forgot
Mortified I apologised to his family
They laughed & said he thought I was Angel
Got away with that ?— Chloe (@StVitusDance) February 27, 2020
17.
faxed the company’s entire financial situation & strategy info to a major competitor instead of to the MD. although I didn’t get fired I equally didn’t last long at that job
— Ray Gange (@realraygange) February 27, 2020
18.
Interviewed John Inman. Forgot to press record. So went back to interview the very annoyed John Inman again. Forgot to press record.
That and asking a non pregnant woman in the audience how many months she was.
— Meryl O'Rourke (@MerylORourke) February 27, 2020
This honestly makes me feel better about the mistakes I have made at work!
So, what is the worst and the most embarrassing mistake you have committed at work? Tell us!