People are sharing their worst work related f-ck ups and they are brilliant
It all began when the good people of b3ta tweeted this.
We want to hear about your work related fuck-ups. Reply, quote tweet, do your worst.
— b3ta (@b3ta) May 3, 2018
And it turned out lots of people had work related disasters to get off their chest.
There was the one about the guy who got his days messed up and found himself ‘alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine’.
You can read about that one here. But before you do, enjoy our other favourite 29 …
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https://twitter.com/reb_day/status/992052842579021824
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My friend who did WE on the ASDA bakery at the same time set a donut jam machine to fill a donut with 666 shots of jam rather than 6 as the button got stuck. Saw it pumping like mad and just went home. Stain remained on their floor for MONTHS.
— Tobby Watson (@chas_hodges) May 3, 2018
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I ran two coffee jugs of cleaning acid through the coffee machines (it looked like water) and served a cup to the visiting area manager, on my first day at the Deep Pan Pizza Company in Purley.
— ThinkyThoughtHead (@mrstth) May 3, 2018
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First day of job in educational reference library located in old primary school hall with floor to ceiling windows. Couldn’t see computer screen due to sun, so tried to pull heavy duty curtains. The whole lot came down, inc. guy on step ladder who’d just finished hanging them.
— I don’t like divas or double daffodils (@wumblemacdumble) May 3, 2018
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1990s. Made a parody of the follow-up survey posted to our Restart course clients. Visually identical, but offensive. Someone went to my drawer rather than the document store…
150 forms went out with the final option of “No, I have remained unemployed like the lazy twat I am.”
— Alan Phoenix-Bates (@sp3ccylad) May 3, 2018
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This series of shenanigans is mirrored in why I left teaching.
One wee eleven year old asked me how I was feeling after my aunt died and I said ‘better than her’ and she started crying.— a kind of unstable idiot (@CaitMcMillion) May 3, 2018
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During a night-shift I updated the grid on the Telegraph website crossword without updating the clues. The day-shift guys had to deal with all the angry emails. There were many.
— alanbenzie (@alanbenzie) May 3, 2018
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This series of shenanigans is mirrored in why I left teaching.
One wee eleven year old asked me how I was feeling after my aunt died and I said ‘better than her’ and she started crying.— a kind of unstable idiot (@CaitMcMillion) May 3, 2018
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As a young, newly qualified nurse I had to catheterise an 18 year old young man. He was obviously nervous. As I was about to begin he asked “Is it small?” I replied “I’ve seen smaller.” Turns out he was referring to the catheter ♀️
— Polly Gallagher (@Polly_Gall) May 3, 2018
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Worked as a GP receptionist. Had to update their smoking cessation data, which meant ringing registered patients to ask if they’d thought of quitting. Phoned Mr *Smith*, his wife answered. I asked if he could come to the phone, she said he was dead. I said “so not a smoker then?”
— Emily Burt (@EmilyPBurt) May 3, 2018
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Work experience at ASDA pizza counter. All topping measured in a universal cup size. Sweet old woman ordered the ‘hot’ pizza. Shovelled on a cup of chillis and thought ‘that looks a bit much’. Told later the chillis are measured in a cup a tenth of the size. Probably killed her.
— Tobby Watson (@chas_hodges) May 3, 2018
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Filing job at a bank many many years ago. Printed off some shall we say “flirtatious” emails with the boy I was seeing. Accidentally stapled them to the loan reports. Filed them. Couldn’t find them again once I realised what I’d done. For all I know, they’re still there…
— Rachel Cunliffe (@RMCunliffe) May 3, 2018
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Accidentally pressed “correct all” instead of “cancel” when spellchecking a feature I’d written about a local businesswoman. The next day I got a call from her husband asking why The Birmingham Post had printed an article naming his wife “Natasha Psychopath”.
— Joanna Geary ⚡️ (@JoannaG) May 3, 2018
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Not me, but my favourite is a friend who worked at a gardening magazine. They ran a double spread of poisonous & safe-to-eat wild British mushrooms, but got the labels the wrong way around. All the poisonous ones marked as safe & vice versa☠️♀️
— Alice Ralph (@alicaurusrex) May 3, 2018
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I once sent a company wide virus warning by forwarding the email so they could see what it looked like should they receive one, and forgot to remove the infected attachment.
— Regrets? I’ve had a few… (@Entropy72) May 3, 2018