People are sharing their worst work related f-ck ups and they are brilliant
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Someone once thought the comments field on an automated payments system wasn’t actually used for anything, until we had an enquiry from hundreds of contractors asking why our cheques had “oy oy saveloy!” printed on them.
— Simon (@intruth) May 3, 2018
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Not me, but when working at Burger King, my friend (and colleague at the time) accidentally put mayonnaise instead of shake mix in the milkshake machine. We told no one and only had one or two complaints. Everyone else obviously loved their chocolate mayonnaise.
— Paul Thorpe (@bracestower) May 3, 2018
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As an intern, I got sent to review a film that quite frequently referenced Al Jazeera. I filed the review and immediately realised that every single time I meant to mention Al Jazeera – and I mentioned it a lot – I wrote ‘Al-Qaeda’.
It did not get published.
— Tom Webb Tom Webb Tom Webb Tom Webb Tom Webb Tom W (@Treiziemesalope) May 3, 2018
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Spent six months with the typo “kind retards” in my email signature. I was Senior Nurse, Learning Disabilities.
— Nic-o-la (@Nicnackery) May 3, 2018
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I was asked to speak to a family regarding end of life care for their relative as a matter of urgency. I was half way through the meeting before I became aware I still had Pudsey ears on because it was Children in Need day.
— Paul Harte (@PaulHarte15) May 3, 2018
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Was asked to make a really cheesy playlist for award winners at an annual do, but no one told me the actual winners. Cue the Islamic Society winning Campaigners of the Year to, “Do they know its Christmastime”.
Just that bit, on repeat. Very long walk to the stage.
— Sarah Kerton (@sarkerton) May 3, 2018
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I locked 300 people in a cinema, as manager I thought the last film had finished it hadn’t, fucking pirates of the Caribbean 3 which runs for a billion years was still going. locked the front door. Staff rather than calling me showed people out the fire exit. Did not end well
— Badgerclerkin (@ClerkinDan) May 3, 2018
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My first ever office job answered the phone with a ‘Hello *name of company* please can you help me?’
— Dearbhla O’Connor (@NotoriousD_O_C) May 3, 2018
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Had to type my network password into the main console while showing the Duke of Kent around our brand new computer system. It was “BOLLOCKS” and he guffawed in a most unroyal manner.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) May 3, 2018
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I used to do the live vision mixing for the news on Scottish TV. At the end, you zoom out, do a fancy bit of vision mixing accompanied by a suspenseful sound track, building to a crescendo of the Scottish TV logo. My first time, I accidentally ended on a still of a dead chicken.
— Jack McConchie (@Datapotatoes) May 3, 2018
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In a fit of anger, I once sent an email to a fellow colleague slagging off my boss. But of course in my rage I put my boss’ name in the ‘To’ and field, and not my colleague’s. Pressed send, realised 0.1 second later what I had done. Stomach emptied out of bottom immediately.
— Stephen Waller (@bruised_blood) May 3, 2018
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Early 1990s, worked in publishing. Sent finished proofs (hard copy) of a novel to the printers minus the last page. Eek.
2.5k printed (incomplete) copies arrived back…. On the plus side, the reviews were really good. Critics especially liked the cliff-hanger ending…
— Zoe O’Connor (@zoconnor) May 3, 2018
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We’d just landed a $20M dollar project, one of our firms largest ever & I was coordinating the risk management. The owner of the projects name was Hamish & as I banged away on my laptop in the airport, I didn’t realize that ‘Hamish’ had autocorrected to ‘penis’. I hit send.
— SRFletch (@SRFletch805) May 4, 2018
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Working at small agency & our big client was Greenpeace. An email came in from supporter asking what we were going to do about saving the whales. Sent group email to office saying “the plan is to eat them – the white meat of the sea” And yes accidentally sent it to supporter…
— Rob Manuel (@robmanuel) May 3, 2018
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