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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 15, 2009 11:55:05 GMT
What's your biggest work embarrassment?
I have so many it's hard to pick just one...but I think when I criticized a client's 'stupid idea" in an email in great detail, and then instead of forwarding it, I hit reply and sent it back to her was perhaps one of the worst.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 15, 2009 12:38:59 GMT
That's priceless!
I think mine would be when I got stuck in the toilet at work in the middle of a night shift (I was working as a data entry clerk for a magazine at the time) and it took about half an hour for them to unscrew the door so I could get out!
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 15, 2009 18:41:27 GMT
DrewsMom - I did that e-mail-to-wrong-person thing once.
I was trying to forward an e-mail from this stroppy woman to my boss, and I wrote something like:
"X is really not happy. She's been nipping my head all day, so we need to give her an answer to shut her up" , pressed send and then IMMEDIATELY realised I'd sent it to X and not my boss.
I phoned X immediately and X was gracious enough to admit that she had been being a pain in the arse and we said no more about it. But that horrible, sinking feeling when you realise you've sent it to the wrong person . . .
Oh and I once set off a fire extinguisher by sheer clumsiness. Which was equally cringe-worthy.
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Post by everso on Jan 15, 2009 23:22:59 GMT
DrewsMom - I did that e-mail-to-wrong-person thing once. I was trying to forward an e-mail from this stroppy woman to my boss, and I wrote something like: "X is really not happy. She's been nipping my head all day, so we need to give her an answer to shut her up" , pressed send and then IMMEDIATELY realised I'd sent it to X and not my boss. I phoned X immediately and X was gracious enough to admit that she had been being a pain in the arse and we said no more about it. But that horrible, sinking feeling when you realise you've sent it to the wrong person . . . Oh and I once set off a fire extinguisher by sheer clumsiness. Which was equally cringe-worthy. My daughter did a similar thing (I guess lots of people have). I'd love to have seen the fire extinguisher thing.
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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 16, 2009 1:54:55 GMT
The fire extinguisher thing would've been hilarious!
I went down the back stairwell once as a shortcut to get to our office building's deli. Right at the bottom of the stairwell, I dropped my money. I bent down to pick up the scattered dollars and as I lifted my head I ended up knocking myself unconscious by hitting my head on the metal stairway railing.
When I woke up, people were staring at me and I told them I thought I had been mugged!! It wasn't until my coworker "friends" told me what really happened that I remembered what a clumsy idiot I am.
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Post by beth on Jan 16, 2009 3:09:05 GMT
In my 20s, I worked for a power company in the personnel office. One day, my husband was going to pick me up for lunch. I looked out the window and saw him parking his car, so I went back in the lounge to put on lipstick and get my jacket. The bell over the door rang and I called out - "Hi honey. I must say you look very sexy today." or something like that. Then I grabbed my purse and hurried back in the office where one of the outside repair boys was standing, his face beet red. I was stammering around trying to explain, my face equally red, when my husband walked in the door, looked from one of us to the other and . . . frowned. I finally got it ironed out. Everyone had a good laugh. But, just thinking about it after all these years makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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Post by mindy on Jan 16, 2009 3:50:15 GMT
My biggest work embarrassment was when I was 9 months pregnant and working with a male co-worker. My water suddenly broke. I said to the co-worker, "I think my water just broke." And he said, "Please No!" Then, my water started breaking more and more and this feeling scared me since I had never been through a pregnancy before. I went sprinting through the building to the bathroom holding my croch. The onlookers paniced, and by the time I had gotten back to the bakery, an ambulance had already been called and was on it's way. Needless to say, one hour later I gave birth to a baby girl. I've yet to live down the story of my water breaking at work and me sprinting through that building 9 months pregant.
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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 16, 2009 10:40:58 GMT
I thought everything that could possibly happen to embarrass me has already happened to me at work...but you all have proven me wrong!
I'm very grateful that I've never been:
Locked in a toilet Set off a fire extinguisher Mistaken another man for my husband Or, had my water break at work!!!
You all brought smiles to my faces as I was reading these...thanks!!!
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Post by sandra on Feb 14, 2009 6:29:02 GMT
During a class on beginning to work at the hospital, I was asking a staff member a question. The rest of the class left to go back to the classroom. When I left the room I went down the wrong set of stairs. It was the fire exit stairs and they were locked at every door when you are on the stairwell. I was knocking on a window until someone saw me and opened the door.
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Post by sandra on Feb 14, 2009 6:38:34 GMT
I had a couple of mouthing off to doctors that made everyone run in the opposite direction. One doctor said "this chair is broken" One of the staff likes the chair as close to the floor as possible. I quickly said in a condescending voice "no it isn't. See this lever, if you push it the chair goes up". Another time, same doctor, wanted the test results for a patient. I looked them up on the computer and I couldn't' find them. I called the lab and got the results. He scornfully said to me "Why couldn't you find them". I said in the same tone he used with me "because computers only know what you tell them and YOU said the test was done on Sunday which is what I put into the computer. In fact the test was done on Saturday so of course the computer wouldn't tell me the results". Another time a doctor came to get he patient for the OR. The patient wasn't ready when the doctor expected. When he was leaving the floor with the patient he said "if they add up all the neurons on this floor it might make one cell. He was down the hall and near the elevator and I yelled down the hall "does that include you because you are on the floor right now". I don't know if he heard me.
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Post by drewsmom595 on Feb 14, 2009 12:06:21 GMT
Thanks for posting these, Sandra. They are hilarious!!!
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