Let’s admit it: Weallmake work mistakes from time to time.
So when redditoru/Midtown-Furasked ther/AskRedditcommunity toshare their own work blunders, tons of employees weighed in.
Here are their worst and most embarrassing mistakes.
“I drove a semi-truck full of mail from Providence to Boston with the trailer door open.”
Two minutes into talking again, I did it again."
u/redmooncat15
3.
“I was 16, pushing grocery carts outside a grocery store.
She points at this display of Entenmann’s Snack Cakes that were freestanding in between some aisles.
And I can see that this toddler had clearly projectile vomited all over it.”
“I was working for an investment manager.
He gave me an order to sell $80,000 of Microsoft in a client account.
I wasn’t thinking and entered a sale of 80,000 shares.
MSFT was selling at $100-plus per share at the time.
u/MissSnuggelsxz
5.
“I needed to cut a two-inch rubber hose.
Sometimes the brain just doesn’t work.”
u/IcedT_NoLemon
7.
“I’m an assistant.
When I was bringing it back to his house, I dropped it and cracked the screen.
Thank god it was a small crack, and my boss is the most chill person on the planet.
We lost about two-thirds of the directory before I was able to cancel the deletion.
u/Twinchad
9.
“I forgot to turn the sign to ‘open.’
After that, my coworkers greeted me until I resigned with, ‘Are we open?'”
“I put an adrenaline needle through my thumb.
I was basically messing around with returned stock at a pharmacy while destroying old medication.
I felt like such an idiot.
The needle wasn’t actually used; it was just out-of-date stock that a patient had returned.
I still think about what could have happened quite often, nearly 15 years later.”
u/ruobrah
11.
She thought she was muted the entire time.
Almost five minutes into the call, we heard the toilet paper rolling in the dispenser.
She went dead quiet and left the meeting a second later.
This was also not a work-from-home position either.”
I was trying to order D batteries for Maglites.
I wanted to order about 38 cases, which were 380 batteries.
I misread how they came.
I thought it was by individual battery, so I ordered 380 batteries.
That was the first mistake.
For the second mistake, I actually fat-fingered it and ordered 3800.
To compound the error, the unit of issue was by the case.
I ended up with 3,800 cases of D batteries while at sea on an aircraft carrier.
It sucked so bad.”
u/hurtmore
13.
Midway through my snack, I realized and ran all the way back to paint everywhere."
“I work in payroll, so having $510k mistakes isn’t uncommon.
u/Familiar_Cow_5501
15.
I was at Disneyland and didn’t bother looking at it; I just pushed it.
Needless to say, the former employee locked all our computers, 25,000 of them.
“As a new manager trainee, I had to sit through death-by-’90s OSHA videos.
It was all stuff I had seen before, and I was incredibly bored of it.
I’ll never get back.’
He goes, ‘Did you not enjoy it?’
I said, ‘Yeah, I didn’t at all, but like, I get it.
Safety comes first, so it’s necessary, but the videos are so common sense it hurts.
Anyway, can I help you real quick?
u/FormerStuff
17.
I should’ve tried the new medicine at home first.”
u/Silver-Reserve-1482
19.
“Teams meeting, thought I was on mute.
I sent my out-of-office email to the litigation team, and he replied all with ‘Pothead slacker.’
He was gone the next day poor guy.”
u/sloppy-secundz
21.
“I practice criminal law.
However, without realizing it, what I actually said was ‘circumcised.’
On break, the court reporter asked me why I said what I’d said.
I didn’t believe her.
She played it back for me.
I’d said it.”
He was wearing a cream linen suit.
u/Littlened
23.
“I delivered funeral flowers to a hospital room where the person was very much alive.
