“What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever made at work?” – 15 toe-curlingly awful examples
We only have to cast a cursory glance in the direction of the UK cabinet to appreciate that mistakes can and do happen at work. None of us are exempt, if we’re being honest.
Steve Doherty, founder of Giddy Goat Productions, had a nail-bitingly awful example of one of his own foul-ups.
What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work? I once accidentally erased a section of the master tape for a Radio 4 Afternoon Play. It still haunts me.
— Steve Doherty (@SteveDoherty1) February 27, 2020
We can probably all imagine the horror of that moment. Certainly, these people can, because they’ve definitely felt it too.
1.
I once took the wrong dad into the operating theatre. He sat there quietly watching somebody else’s Caesarean Section. Neither him, nor the mother, said a word until the very end when I congratulated them both. 🤷🏻♂️ https://t.co/4CtxO0MwUu
— Dave Jones 🏴🏳️🌈 (@WelshGasDoc) February 27, 2020
2.
I've said on here before – years ago I left a cell in a spreadsheet empty instead of inserting a "1". This led to eight million dollars being spent drilling an oil well in the North Sea that shouldn't have been drilled.
— Count Mysterioso (@MysteriosoX) February 27, 2020
3.
I took a patient to the consultation room who was caring a white cane.I helped her by saying she could hold my arm & follow me in which she did. At the end I apologized we didn't have any braille leaflets, reader it was at this point I realized she was carrying a curtain pole🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/s1kVIy07EU
— Birmingham Emma (@memoirsoftlp) February 27, 2020
4.
Interviewed John Inman. Forgot to press record. So went back to interview the very annoyed John Inman again. Forgot to press record.
That and asking a non pregnant woman in the audience how many months she was.
— Meryl O'Rourke (@MerylORourke) February 27, 2020
5.
I sent statements of everyones accounts to 1 customer. He printed them all out & put them through the letterbox of one of my directors https://t.co/B2mzqKXkUo
— Roxy Hart (@Roxy_Hart) February 27, 2020
6.
Stripped the entire Foxhunter radar system out from the nose-cone of a Tornado F3.
The wrong Tornado F3 https://t.co/7AcOZpHzi4
— #Marcher (@MarcherLord1) February 27, 2020
7.
I was recording a dramatized audiobook. Amateur cast of 4. 1 doesn't arrive, but I say we can double a part. I forgot that this meant actor 2 is going to have to have a long argument with himself, repeatedly interrupting and finally stabbing himself to death with a paperknife.
— Graham Brack (@GrahamBrack) February 27, 2020
