Once texted “I love you” to my District Ops Manager instead of my wife. Thankfully he had a sense of humor and decided replied “Aw love you too Pumpkin but we can’t tell the wives”
That's funny because there was this whole I love you virus, the bulk of the company got it, some two or three times. I listened to IT and didn't open it, there were only like 5 of us who didn't open it.
The one who didn't take a vaca for 2 years... Yup. And when I did go, it was chaos. I came back so stressed and frustrated. It was hell. Had to end up taking a few months off to recover. Good news, the company now knows and is focused on expanding the team to get more support.
I think the protocol is usually negotiating once an offer is extended. (Your comment says "interview" and I could be misunderstanding.) Still sucks that it happened though. :-(
I would love for this to become a series. Not that i enjoy these people feeling the pain of their mistakes (trust me I have them too), but it does help me keep myself grounded and to say that it isn't the end of my work-world.
1. Didn't leave a toxic company when it was destroying my mental health for TWO Years. 2. Forgot my work lap top every morning for 3 straight days at a new job. Took me like 45 minutes each day to go back to grab it
I was assigned to organize hotel reservations for a large event with so many participants. I didn't put every communication with the hotel in writing and had a major miscommunication and that caused so much inconvenience to the participants. I feel like a failure.
Ah, the joys of auto correct! This is not in the workplace, but I once proposed marriage to a lesbian by auto correct. "I'll meet you at the dog park" somehow became "I'll marry you at the dog park". That was a huge laugh. But seriously... Auto correct does many things, but it does NOT press the 'send' button. That's up to you. Maybe look at what's on the screen first. Note- Full disclosure, I had to go back in and edit out a spelling mistake I found after posting. Face palm.
My company has the word “public” in its name and we often mention the word “public” in our line of work. The amount of times people have left out that crucial L… lol
I once left the "a:" off of a format command (from the DOS days), and accidentally formatted my boss' hard drive. He was really good-humored about it though when I told him "remember you said you needed to clean a lot of junk off your hard drive...?"
I was delivering hvac parts to new apartments and the entrance was tight as the general contractor had parked in the entrance blocking half of it, i had to back up off a road with traffic and i tapped the back of his truck, not a lot of damage but it was my first time out solo with this company....beforehand i had a cdl with a clean record......im really beating myself up over it.
My boss once sent reply all without realizing that the previous emails between her and other bosses were sent in it. In the emails were rude comments about me. That was years ago, and I don't work there anymore(for other reasons) , she came to my desk and apologized in person, but it still hurts me to think about it today.
We were reminded multiple times to be careful about what was put in writing. That had been important for emails since forever but it was again emphasized when we moved from a more informal messaging app to using Teams for messaging in the office (in addition to meetings). The informal app did not save messages so you could have a b*tch session with a colleague and it mostly wouldn't haunt you but Teams messages don't disappear and apparently the powers that be can review them. However, bad as it would be to get called on the carpet about bad mouthing a client in writing, it would definitely would hurt more to see your own bosses talking crap about you.
I accidentally put through a customer’s $750 withdrawal as a deposit, and I gave her the $750, so my till was down by $1,500. I’d like to say that it was all sorted, but sadly it wasn’t. Once I had sourced the mistake and contacted the customer to correct it, she flat out refused to give the money back. We had video footage, but without audio so that was no help, and straight after I contacted her she shut down her bank account so the bank was also unable to retrieve the money. Guess whose pocket it came out of?
I used to temp a lot and I’d write out the phone script and company name right when I got to a job. Because dang your brain just starts answering the phone and forgetting what company you’re at after a while 😂
When I was 19 and in the military, we had an instant messaging system and I was talking trash about a coworker (she really did suck though) with another coworker. Instead of sending it to the intended recipient, I messaged the person I was talking about 😂
HI Loe. I've been an office intern for 4 and a half years. I had an idea, an effort in inclusion for the citizens with disabilities in my area(I am also a PWD) to bring their mobility devices,(wheelchairs, walkers, etc, to a location to receive repairs. I looped in our inclusion director and his assistant. I was told later that I shouldn't include staff in these emails, as the company as a whole didn't want to be involved (per the CEO) I'm still organizing this event, but with others, and I'm kind of angry/confused about what is/was wrong. I kinda thought that maybe 4 and a half years had earned me a little leniency. Apparently, I was wrong. Grrr
A company wide email went out for an urgent mandatory meeting. A coworker buddy thought he would have my back by letting the meeting organizer know I was out on PTO (paid time off) so couldnt attend. Unfortunately. He sent a message that "M won't be able to attend she is on POT". OK funny enough that he inverted the T and O but worse instead of just replying with message to the VP calling the meeting he had hit reply all and it went to hundreds of coworkers I didnt even know. Oh the responses were great and I got to see them all on my return. It is still a joke today when anyone takes PTO
I needed more shifts so i applied to another branch of a globally recognised fast food company that i was working for that had a different franchise owner because i needed to increase my income and 4-5 hours per day across 2-3 days a week was not cutting it. i was perfectly happy to work at both branches and only doing 2-3 days at each one per week so i could work 5-6 days a week with reasonable hours. i was chill with going "princess tiana style " (like in the princess and the frog animated film), and i thought my manager at branch 1 understood that as i wanted to get off welfare/financial assistance payments and step up for myself but i ended up not getting the job at branch 2 and haven't gotten a shift since like august-ish of 2023 and they still haven't sent me a severance email. it's a casual role and i love in australia so i don't even know if they're legally required to at least send one and fire me? what is it, quiet firing or something????
My Mum started a new job and on her first day she somehow deleted all the emails from the main inbox. Ooops! Luckily IT got it all back, but not a great first start..
i don't do a corporate job so mistakes at work could be as trivial as that time i overfilled my water bottle and then dropped it into the water and it sank, or as serious as that time we lost a kid or that time another kid got run over by a boat.😅
I read of a company which lost a contract it pitched for because the chief negotiator kept saying pacific instead of specific. The term used for this type of mistake is eggcorn which is taken from people mishearing acorn.
I followed a procedure without thinking about the prerequisites (there were technically none but one meter was reading broken, but it was just off-scale high). I ended up costing a few tens of thousands of dollars and causing a North American shortage of the product. Oh well, I made the company millions in the end so no big deal. I was technically following the instructions, but the instructions were not good.
I had just started a new job, and we shared an open office with the COO. I forgot to put my personal phone on silent. Went to print something and came back to hear my ex phoning me. I knew it was my ex because I had assigned him a personal ringtone. Sung to the sound of the wedding march. "You are a c£^t, you are a c£^t." I've never run so fast in my life 😂
I once added my husband's cell number to office letterhead as the fax number. Fortunately, the letterhead was made in-house, so there was no wasted printing.(And, yes, the numbers were similar)😂
Our team loves Bucees... So i decided to place the Bucees logo instead of the generic, company logo in our salesforce development instance... the morning my boss was doing an executive demo in our development instance. He wasnt happy then but today, its a fun story to talk about :)
Former Naval officer…. I missed the order for our ship to rendezvous with a submarine to provide escort duties for the submarine to the Suez Canal. We didn’t know until the submarine is calling us!
Even when it was at the business college I remember that I was making a movie and had them all preped and I thought at the end of the night I had it on my stick... Went to the college and realised it's not on my stick... So I had to go back, couldn't come back since I would traveling 3 Hours again with bus and train. And had to finished it up from home... That was embarrassing.
I was rude in reply to an anonymous message from a client, while logged in as colleague. The message was from the state head of our biggest client, who could have cancelled our contract with a snap. (I worked in admin so we had to log-in as the valuers to upload their reports).
Off topic I know. How would one go about telling my boss he is wrong in an assumption he has made. His assumption is causing a lawsuit, and he is STILL holding to his assumption and says "I don't care" as if he will be vindicated at some point.
made about 10 tests (3 hours each) wrong: the machine should be tared (balanced) with the empty crucible, not the crucible with the sample in it.... It fucked with all the sample data up to that point where a coworker made a comment about the procedure.... All of my blood left my face... it was about a months work, and im on a schedule....
I got a call from a new college to ask for help. In turn I rang my college I'd known for a long Time "Hi Dave Its Graham can you go take a look at this when your on the road its for a new lass upstairs she sounds F***king Gorgeous btw, so she gets a hand" I'd not hang up the first line, She didn`t take it well AT ALL
Yep, we all make mistakes. It's why one of my favorite interview questions is to ask them about a time they screwed something up. It's really informative to see how people respond. The best folks seem to be more willing to admit how they screwed up, and how they learned from it.
I had an interview question "do you remember a time when you screwed up at work and what you did to fix it?" I answered, "Yes." And I didn't say another word. The panel started cracking up when about 10 seconds had stretched on. I was offered the job but opted not to take it because it really did not fit into my career plans at the time.
Once texted “I love you” to my District Ops Manager instead of my wife.
Thankfully he had a sense of humor and decided replied “Aw love you too Pumpkin but we can’t tell the wives”
wholesome good sport
This cracked me up 🤣
That's funny because there was this whole I love you virus, the bulk of the company got it, some two or three times. I listened to IT and didn't open it, there were only like 5 of us who didn't open it.
Lol 😂😂
That is fabulous! Love a little humor.
The one who didn't take a vaca for 2 years... Yup.
And when I did go, it was chaos. I came back so stressed and frustrated. It was hell. Had to end up taking a few months off to recover.
Good news, the company now knows and is focused on expanding the team to get more support.
Last time I interviewed, I tried negotiating the salary for an extra $5k/year. The interview was immediately ended by the company.
You dodged that bullet 👍🏼
They did you a favor.
I think the protocol is usually negotiating once an offer is extended. (Your comment says "interview" and I could be misunderstanding.) Still sucks that it happened though. :-(
This made me feel less alone. Please continue with these type of videos.
I would love for this to become a series.
Not that i enjoy these people feeling the pain of their mistakes (trust me I have them too), but it does help me keep myself grounded and to say that it isn't the end of my work-world.
People that dont make mistakes, arent doing anything.
And not doing anything is a mistake! 😊
Wow 🤯never thought of it that way
1. Didn't leave a toxic company when it was destroying my mental health for TWO Years.
2. Forgot my work lap top every morning for 3 straight days at a new job. Took me like 45 minutes each day to go back to grab it
So many of these are relatable... Im glad I'm not alone. We aren't alone!
I was assigned to organize hotel reservations for a large event with so many participants. I didn't put every communication with the hotel in writing and had a major miscommunication and that caused so much inconvenience to the participants. I feel like a failure.
Ah, the joys of auto correct! This is not in the workplace, but I once proposed marriage to a lesbian by auto correct. "I'll meet you at the dog park" somehow became "I'll marry you at the dog park". That was a huge laugh.
But seriously... Auto correct does many things, but it does NOT press the 'send' button. That's up to you. Maybe look at what's on the screen first.
Note- Full disclosure, I had to go back in and edit out a spelling mistake I found after posting. Face palm.
When the Trump hotel was opening in Toronto, I received an announcement giving the opening date or open house as November 31st...
My company has the word “public” in its name and we often mention the word “public” in our line of work. The amount of times people have left out that crucial L… lol
I work for a County governmental office and you wouldn’t believe how many times i typed it without the O!
I once left the "a:" off of a format command (from the DOS days), and accidentally formatted my boss' hard drive. He was really good-humored about it though when I told him "remember you said you needed to clean a lot of junk off your hard drive...?"
I was delivering hvac parts to new apartments and the entrance was tight as the general contractor had parked in the entrance blocking half of it, i had to back up off a road with traffic and i tapped the back of his truck, not a lot of damage but it was my first time out solo with this company....beforehand i had a cdl with a clean record......im really beating myself up over it.
My boss once sent reply all without realizing that the previous emails between her and other bosses were sent in it. In the emails were rude comments about me. That was years ago, and I don't work there anymore(for other reasons) , she came to my desk and apologized in person, but it still hurts me to think about it today.
We were reminded multiple times to be careful about what was put in writing. That had been important for emails since forever but it was again emphasized when we moved from a more informal messaging app to using Teams for messaging in the office (in addition to meetings). The informal app did not save messages so you could have a b*tch session with a colleague and it mostly wouldn't haunt you but Teams messages don't disappear and apparently the powers that be can review them. However, bad as it would be to get called on the carpet about bad mouthing a client in writing, it would definitely would hurt more to see your own bosses talking crap about you.
I accidentally put through a customer’s $750 withdrawal as a deposit, and I gave her the $750, so my till was down by $1,500. I’d like to say that it was all sorted, but sadly it wasn’t. Once I had sourced the mistake and contacted the customer to correct it, she flat out refused to give the money back. We had video footage, but without audio so that was no help, and straight after I contacted her she shut down her bank account so the bank was also unable to retrieve the money. Guess whose pocket it came out of?
I absolutely did 1:32 before. My manager was standing right next to me and she started laughing. “Old habits die hard.”
I used to temp a lot and I’d write out the phone script and company name right when I got to a job. Because dang your brain just starts answering the phone and forgetting what company you’re at after a while 😂
I know im probably far from the target audience, but it's amazing how much of this still hits close to home.
When I was 19 and in the military, we had an instant messaging system and I was talking trash about a coworker (she really did suck though) with another coworker. Instead of sending it to the intended recipient, I messaged the person I was talking about 😂
TI in my company stands for the Trading Insight dept.
HI Loe. I've been an office intern for 4 and a half years. I had an idea, an effort in inclusion for the citizens with disabilities in my area(I am also a PWD) to bring their mobility devices,(wheelchairs, walkers, etc, to a location to receive repairs. I looped in our inclusion director and his assistant. I was told later that I shouldn't include staff in these emails, as the company as a whole didn't want to be involved (per the CEO) I'm still organizing this event, but with others, and I'm kind of angry/confused about what is/was wrong. I kinda thought that maybe 4 and a half years had earned me a little leniency. Apparently, I was wrong. Grrr
A company wide email went out for an urgent mandatory meeting. A coworker buddy thought he would have my back by letting the meeting organizer know I was out on PTO (paid time off) so couldnt attend. Unfortunately. He sent a message that "M won't be able to attend she is on POT". OK funny enough that he inverted the T and O but worse instead of just replying with message to the VP calling the meeting he had hit reply all and it went to hundreds of coworkers I didnt even know. Oh the responses were great and I got to see them all on my return. It is still a joke today when anyone takes PTO
*hot to see them all on my return!? 😀
I needed more shifts so i applied to another branch of a globally recognised fast food company that i was working for that had a different franchise owner because i needed to increase my income and 4-5 hours per day across 2-3 days a week was not cutting it. i was perfectly happy to work at both branches and only doing 2-3 days at each one per week so i could work 5-6 days a week with reasonable hours. i was chill with going "princess tiana style " (like in the princess and the frog animated film), and i thought my manager at branch 1 understood that as i wanted to get off welfare/financial assistance payments and step up for myself but i ended up not getting the job at branch 2 and haven't gotten a shift since like august-ish of 2023 and they still haven't sent me a severance email. it's a casual role and i love in australia so i don't even know if they're legally required to at least send one and fire me? what is it, quiet firing or something????
My Mum started a new job and on her first day she somehow deleted all the emails from the main inbox. Ooops!
Luckily IT got it all back, but not a great first start..
i don't do a corporate job so mistakes at work could be as trivial as that time i overfilled my water bottle and then dropped it into the water and it sank, or as serious as that time we lost a kid or that time another kid got run over by a boat.😅
I read of a company which lost a contract it pitched for because the chief negotiator kept saying pacific instead of specific.
The term used for this type of mistake is eggcorn which is taken from people mishearing acorn.
It was the 70s. I was in retail and a teenager. One boss came up to the Cash register and kissed me on the neck. I did nothing. I knew his wife
I followed a procedure without thinking about the prerequisites (there were technically none but one meter was reading broken, but it was just off-scale high). I ended up costing a few tens of thousands of dollars and causing a North American shortage of the product. Oh well, I made the company millions in the end so no big deal. I was technically following the instructions, but the instructions were not good.
I had just started a new job, and we shared an open office with the COO. I forgot to put my personal phone on silent. Went to print something and came back to hear my ex phoning me. I knew it was my ex because I had assigned him a personal ringtone. Sung to the sound of the wedding march. "You are a c£^t, you are a c£^t." I've never run so fast in my life 😂
I once added my husband's cell number to office letterhead as the fax number. Fortunately, the letterhead was made in-house, so there was no wasted printing.(And, yes, the numbers were similar)😂
Our team loves Bucees... So i decided to place the Bucees logo instead of the generic, company logo in our salesforce development instance... the morning my boss was doing an executive demo in our development instance. He wasnt happy then but today, its a fun story to talk about :)
Former Naval officer…. I missed the order for our ship to rendezvous with a submarine to provide escort duties for the submarine to the Suez Canal. We didn’t know until the submarine is calling us!
Even when it was at the business college I remember that I was making a movie and had them all preped and I thought at the end of the night I had it on my stick... Went to the college and realised it's not on my stick... So I had to go back, couldn't come back since I would traveling 3 Hours again with bus and train. And had to finished it up from home... That was embarrassing.
TI could it be Texas Instruments?
Within my first week at a company I deleted the entire Y drive on the file server.
I was rude in reply to an anonymous message from a client, while logged in as colleague. The message was from the state head of our biggest client, who could have cancelled our contract with a snap. (I worked in admin so we had to log-in as the valuers to upload their reports).
This was great!
Off topic I know. How would one go about telling my boss he is wrong in an assumption he has made. His assumption is causing a lawsuit, and he is STILL holding to his assumption and says "I don't care" as if he will be vindicated at some point.
Sounds like you've already mentioned it. That's all you have to do. Can't save everyone from their own mistakes.
I irreversably contaminated thousands of dollars worth of chemicals.
made about 10 tests (3 hours each) wrong: the machine should be tared (balanced) with the empty crucible, not the crucible with the sample in it.... It fucked with all the sample data up to that point where a coworker made a comment about the procedure.... All of my blood left my face... it was about a months work, and im on a schedule....
it was my first week of work and i was 15 and someone said smt i didn't understand and said "ur mom?" as a joke
"not taking vacation for 2 years" is this something I'm too European to understand? 🤔
In the USA exhaustion is seen as Status. As if driving yourself into the ground at work somehow makes you a better person
Good morning❤😊
The person with 2 years of no vacation. I think I work with them, if so, they're still just as miserable after a 2 week holiday to tropical weather.
That lamp is inappropriately out of proportion and I absolutely love it 🫶🏽😂
I got a call from a new college to ask for help. In turn I rang my college I'd known for a long Time "Hi Dave Its Graham can you go take a look at this when your on the road its for a new lass upstairs she sounds F***king Gorgeous btw, so she gets a hand" I'd not hang up the first line, She didn`t take it well AT ALL
Yep, we all make mistakes. It's why one of my favorite interview questions is to ask them about a time they screwed something up.
It's really informative to see how people respond. The best folks seem to be more willing to admit how they screwed up, and how they learned from it.
I had an interview question "do you remember a time when you screwed up at work and what you did to fix it?"
I answered, "Yes."
And I didn't say another word. The panel started cracking up when about 10 seconds had stretched on. I was offered the job but opted not to take it because it really did not fit into my career plans at the time.
Good morning
Narcissists? I have met one....no name but it was B, S. Pure butt juice....watch out for then