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catmandoonewbie
19 posts

Posted:
Ever incredibly embarrased yourself at work?
Whats your story?

Here are mine (there are a few!)

1. On my first day working at Pak n Save supermarket, I felt a little queezy, and before I could escape, I threw up everywhere, and a supervisor had to get a plastic bag! Even the customers could see, and many left with looks of disgust on their face.

2. Happened just the other day...I work at a physio as a receptionist after uni in the evenings...the phone rang and I leaned over someone to grab it...fell off my chair!!! had to answer the phone while sprawled on the floor eek so embarrasing! Mean while several physios and patients cracked up laughing.

I would love to hear other embarrasing work incidents!

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."


furbsSILVER Member
Member
29 posts
Location: Scotland (UK)


Posted:
I have to use the tannoy system at work,

the best ever was when i forgot what i was saying halfway through....

"Staff Announcement.....ummmmm" but the manager just laughed at it.

Another one was when i realised i was still drunk from the nigh t before. in front of my manager, my old manager (transfered depts) and the store manager.

I work at tesco's btw.

faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
when I worked at the bank, a woman came up to me and starting screaming at me about how I was trying to steal her husband and was sexually harassing him...she brought in their child too to make me feel extra guilty...
no i wasn't trying to

of course at this new job, i took out the network for three hours on a friday...you know when everyone is trying to get together their business in for Monday reports

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


shocked_prawnSILVER Member
old hand
865 posts
Location: Sunderland, UK


Posted:
when i used to work in tescos in the warehouse i used to surf the rolll cage when it was empty from my lock u to the back door and back
i dont really think it was that embarasing but i crashed it and knocked a pile of boxes over in front of a few pople...

or i suppose when one of the lads locked me in the hardware locker and refused to let me out for a little while

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
oh there's so many:

maybe trying to lead a clas of 60 chinese kids in singing 'Ring of Fire'

or trying to demonstrate really cheessy dance moves to them

or having to speak in gibberish while trying to communicate an emotion

oh, and on some occasions I have chinese teachers watching as well.

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


BlayzeSILVER Member
Doesn't play well with others...
187 posts
Location: CANADA


Posted:
I quit my job right after getting a puppy, and since everyone wanted to see her, I brought her in on my last day. Since it was a Friday, everyone was leaving early, so I left her in my office for a minute so go to the washroom. When I got back, the door to my office was locked. I thought someone was playing a joke, but soon figured out that I had accidently locked my puppy in my office! No one has keys to our offices - even the building manager, so we had to take apart the T-Bar ceiling and use a ladder to climb over the door frame to get her out. Poor puppy!
I ended up going back to that job after two months and my first day back, I set off the alarm and had to call my boss on vacation to get it turned off...
redface

I smile because I have no idea what is going on...


faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
I was the only person to not set off the bank alarm...everyone who ever worked there set it off at least once...people used to kid about how the police were always there

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


georgemcBRONZE Member
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand


Posted:
my most recent one? innocently using a choice of words to describe intense lifting and carrying while moving and having it appear as someone's sig on HoP!! redface

previous ones - waaay too many to mention! and besides they're all in my "repressed memory" section so hard to retrieve!

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alien_oddityCarpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees


Posted:
 Written by: georgemc


my most recent one? innocently using a choice of words to describe intense lifting and carrying while moving and having it appear as someone's sig on HoP!! redface

previous ones - waaay too many to mention! and besides they're all in my "repressed memory" section so hard to retrieve!




biggrin i've changed it now mate wink



i cant really say i've had any embarrasing work moments redface there's been times when i've been chatting away and mentions "i hope i dont drop my spanner/spirit level/ratchet spanner/tape measure when pearched 50 foot up in the air on a steel beam and 2 seconds later you go and do it.

i thnk the worst one was the bolier house ubblol every year we had to put the same jobs up for anual maintainance and every year i smashed the same bloody light ubblol

RoziSILVER Member
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia


Posted:
A mate of mine drove a forklift through a piano once. smile Apparently it makes a good sound.

He got away with it though. So I guess it doesn't count as embarrassing...

It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.

What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...


LazyAngelGOLD Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK


Posted:
 Written by: Rozi


A mate of mine drove a forklift through a piano once. smile Apparently it makes a good sound.

He got away with it though. So I guess it doesn't count as embarrassing...



how on earth did he blag that? Did he say it was like that when it arrived? or was he working at Tate modern? wink

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.

'Be the change you want to see in the world around you' - Ghandi


RoziSILVER Member
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2,996 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia


Posted:
 Written by: LazyAngel


 Written by: Rozi


A mate of mine drove a forklift through a piano once. smile Apparently it makes a good sound.

He got away with it though. So I guess it doesn't count as embarrassing...



how on earth did he blag that? Did he say it was like that when it arrived? or was he working at Tate modern? wink



No one was around, so he just stepped out of the forklift and walked away whistling with his hands in his pockets.

It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.

What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...


_Aim�e_SILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom


Posted:
Farting probably.
You know those ones that slip out that you arnt expecting? ubblol

However the other week I was wheeling a elderly gentlemen man to the dining room and as we passed the cook he proudly announced to her that I had rubbed cream on his nut sack earlier that morning redface ubblol

pkBRONZE Member
Lambretta Fanatic
4,998 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
We can never go on board a yacht and do a job with out dropping some thing in to the water, Rags, scissors, tape, polishing paste. (Always some thing we later need to finish the job we were doing) when I lost the rag in the water luckily I was wiping the last piece down when it went GLOOP! lol

We always say oh, wonder what will go GLOOP today then!

Plus the other day I had to eat at work, we have those old knackered chairs out in the garden the ones falling apart, well you guessed it mine the other day broke and I was on my ass in an instant.

faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
my mechanic friend dropped a jaguar off a lift once, messed up the undercarriage royally
he was lucky it didn't fall on him or another mechanic

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


Catsmiomember
37 posts

Posted:
I was walking off the floor on my break at the office and looked back to say something to a friend and took the corner too fast, the corner desk (kinda like a heavy nightstand) and I collided, it got knocks about a half a foot out of whack not to mention the noise.
EVERYone from that floor stopped and in unison said

"ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Trying to hide the fact that the blood had drained from my face and felt like I needed an amputation on my leg smiled and waved cheerfully yelling "I'm fine.. it's all good"

super DOH

"Don't be so humble, you are not that great."


alien_oddityCarpal \'Tunnel
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees


Posted:
 Written by: faithinfire


my mechanic friend dropped a jaguar off a lift once, messed up the undercarriage royally
he was lucky it didn't fall on him or another mechanic




was it a two poster vehicle lift??? i almost did that when taking the gear box off a van as removing it made the van back heavy

faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
yup, i guess it fell to the side, but it wasn't the whole way up

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
I turned up to do a gig and within 2 minutes had dropped a prop onto the venues UV light, smashing it, 20 minutes before the gig redface
Go toast...

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_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
ubblol

Sitting in my newspaper job... practicing contact juggling in a very quiet, stressed office.

Of course, dropped the acrylic on the legs of my colleagues chair which resulted in a very loud bang, my colleague jumping out of his seat, and as I scrambled about on the floor to pick it up, noticed the feet of my boss in front of me, who'd come over to talk about something else.

I was bright red.

Not mentioning FP gigs... ahem smile

Getting to the other side smile


Kathain_BowenGood Ol' Yarn For Hair
422 posts
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA


Posted:
Lol.

Ok, check it out. I'm scrubbing this saltwater tank at work and accidentally kicked up a dust cloud from off of the sand bed. Well, it was just a basic scrub down, so I just followed the glass with my hand and keep on scrubbing.... until I suddenly felt a sharp prick in my finger, like being stabbed with a syringe. However, with all the dust and murkiness to the water, I couldn't see what I'd gotten popped by.

Immediately, my gut instinct screams that I've just been stung by a cone snail. Cone snails pack a powerful punch of venom, sometimes enough to take down a person in under 40 minutes. So, I stupidly immediately think that is what has happened. I grab my the "stung" arm just below my elbow and squeeze as hard as I can, pushing down on as many of the obvious blood vessels as I can. The best and only thing I can do in this situation is tie off my arm at the shoulder with a belt when I get to the kennel and shove my hand under hot water in some hope to break up the venom until help arrives.

I get to my feet as fast as I can manage and start running to the kennel shouting at the top of my lungs, "Wendy, Wendy, cut on the hot water!!! Get Danny!!!"

However, at this point, I finally look down at my hand that had been stung by the deadly, deadly cone snail and notice something strange. A long, thing, black thing sticking out of my finger. It's a one inch sliver from a long-spined sea urchin. I stung myself with a sea urchin.

*face palm*

For those of you who don't follow, think of it this way. Ever see City Slickers 2? If not, there's a part when one of the characters accidentally sits on a cactus and is convinced he has been bitten by a rattlesnake.

redface

"So long and thanks for all the fish."


BrennPLATINUM Member
Will carpal your tunnel in a minute.
3,286 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
 Written by: Rozi


A mate of mine drove a forklift through a piano once. smile Apparently it makes a good sound.





ubblol !!!!! That and the Jaguar dropping posted by Faithinfire have to be the funniest i've read so far biggrin

One embarassing moment I recall was when I started working in IT support. I hadn't been properly trained in using the MUTE button on my headset and unwittingly had a caller hear my frustrations when I thought he couldn't hear me redface ....

That isn't the case now though! ubblol

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~Leah~GOLD Member
addict
584 posts
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia


Posted:
today at work I went splat face first into the net, getting net burn on my face and elbow. I work on a flying trapeze with a group of professionals, which I am not. They got a huge shock and I was just embarrased. Ew I'm going to be sore tomorrow!

Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.


GitasGuyPooh-Bah
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane


Posted:
*covers mouth with hand* *giggles uncontrollably*

Umm sorry to hear that. I hope you don't have any long lasting injuries that i could see in a week. Hehehe biggrin ubblol ubblol

:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! ubblol ubbtickled

Homer rocks!!!! ubblol ubbrollsmile


Pink...?BRONZE Member
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
My most embarresing moment would be when i first started, about 2 weeks in, a conversation about ages was started. One of the older male colleagues turned around and asked me how old i thought he was. He looked about 60, so i thought play it safe and guessed early 50's.



Turned out he was late 30's redface eek



They still tease me about it now, over a year later!

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...


psycotic_furbyBRONZE Member
Hehe, you said 'Member'
105 posts
Location: Lydiate, nr Liverpool, United Kingdom


Posted:
Working in the Fair, on a water ride, and falling in...

...in front of a full queue (~50 people) of scallies and kids...

...to whom I had to give the standard warnings about not standing up, etc, in case they fall in... umm

Eww, Liza Minelli...

The communists gave my mother a job, teaching sculpture to limbless children.


MikeGinnyGOLD Member
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA


Posted:
I was in medical school and we were rounding through the pediatric ICU. Now I wore these shoes called Danskos at the time, which are great, really comfy, but really thick-soled. So sometimes you just sort of fall off of them.



Well we're rushing through the unit and I chose that moment to fall off my shoes. Normally this is a quick stumble, but this time the timing of my stride was just right so that I sprawled face-down on the floor. The contents of my white coat (which is a lot, including reference books, reflex hammer and tuning fork, pens, penlight, etc.) went flying out in front of me in a fan pattern.



A 17-year-old patient was intubated and saw it all happen and started laughing while intubated. Of course, ventilators don't know what laughter is, and so that sent it into an alarm mode. Everyone was laughing at me.



I wanted to crawl in a hole and die...



Or there was the time that I had finished stiching a kid's forehead closed and on the discharge instructions I wrote "return for redness, swelling, or pussy discharge." The nurse came back to me and said "You really should change the wording..."

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura


georgemcBRONZE Member
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand


Posted:
 Written by: _Clare_


... noticed the feet of my boss in front of me...


ooh ooh, Clare; that reminds me - so drunk one time that I couldn't walk to the toilet and was crawling down the corridor (this was when I was about 6 months into my Air Force life) - mid crawl suddenly found a pair of nice shiny black shoes in front of me and connected to nicely pressed blue SD trousers and following the creases up found the legs were connected to the Orderly Officer - potential deep [censored] material. So, trying to appear casual, I stagger to my feet, try and salute (forgot to say I was only wearing my grunds...), stagger around him fall back down and continue crawling off to the loo (to be violently ill [again]). My mate said the Orderly Officer had watched the whole thing and nearly pi$$ed himself!

Actually maybe doesn't count as embarrassing as I certainly wasn't worried about it at the time footinmouth

Plenty more wee stories like that unfortunately! redface

Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread

I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
grin


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
*rofl*

Did you get to fly hornets in the airforce? i want to fly hornets!!!!! bounce

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


georgemcBRONZE Member
Sitting down facing forward . . .
2,387 posts
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand


Posted:
Not in the Hornets Rougie - we just shot them down when they came over to play with us. We just had our shonky old Skyhawks (and now we don't have any jets frown.
The choppers were still the most fun to fly in though - but the Hornets certainly had the looks.

Written by: Doc Lightning talking about Marmite in Kichi's Intro thread

I have several large jars of the stuff. I actually like it... a little. And don't tell anyone I admitted to it.
grin


_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
ubblol

Nice one George...

hug

Getting to the other side smile


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