‘What’s the biggest f**k up you’ve made at work?’ – 21 answers that will make you feel like you deserve a promotion
12.
‘I once accidentally locked someone in the pub overnight when I worked in ‘Spoons.’
–TomDysonMusic
13.
‘Pressed the wrong button on a mixer and let out a 800kg tsunami of mango purée that went up and over the wellies of the two owner/directors and their silent partner/dad.’
–Simon_the_Great
14.
‘Let the 14-year-old work experience lad drive the off-road Kawasaki mule on the golf course which he quickly put on its roof with him trapped inside.’
–drh4995
15.
‘Promoted to using the petrol driven grass cutter at my summer job at an airport, I fired it up and let off the clutch only to have it shoot away from me and demolish some piece of radar equipment. Ironically, the sensitivity of the equipment was the reason why we had to keep the grass short.
They had to close the airport whilst repairs were effected. This delayed all flights by 45 mins which meant the UK Prime Minister was late getting to a vote in parliament, which made the news the next day. I was fifteen. And I was back on the scythe.’
–mellotronworker
16.
‘Many years ago I forgot to close a valve on three occasions within a week and total of 36 tonnes of washing up liquid went down the drain.’
–Anonymous_LT
17.
‘Had a colleague at a job who worked in the phone sales team. She used mute judiciously when dealing with frustrating customers, to cover up her insulting them. I was fixing something nearby one day, when she had a cold. She muted, coughed, and unmuted. ‘Nasty sounding cough you’ve got there’ the customer noted. Turns out her mute was broken, and she had no idea how long for, nor how many customers she’d unintentionally insulted to their face.’
–Twirrim
18.
‘I drove into one of those green cabinets and wipped out fibre for an entire village. What makes it worse is they are a direct competitor to who I used to work for. The CEO gave me a fist bump and a wink on the way out, that was pretty cool.’
–MedievalDevelopment
19.
‘Not me but one of my good mates: was 17 and tasked with locking up the Gloucester city centre branch of Halifax, put the keys in the door to lock it and got distracted and walked away leaving the keys in the door. Police were alerted by a member of the public at about 1am that night. Lost his job.’
–zimzalabim
20.
‘Misloaded a 737 causing flight instability. Tough day at the office for me.’
–british_grapher
21.
‘Not really a job, but I was turning pages for an organist in a cathedral, on Easter Sunday, and managed to turn off the organ with my knee, in the middle of the last organ piece of the service.’
–PoshTigress
22.
‘Bank holiday bakery at Asda, took about five grands worth of stock out of the freezer to get to stuff out the back, took the stock I needed and never went back to put all the other stock away.
Higher ups wanted to sack me, but my manager covered my arse because he pointed out that I was working the bank holiday shift by myself because we were short staffed and the duty manager didn’t check up on me.’
–MastodonRough8469
23.
‘Thought I was messaging a colleague about a nasty client with a full character assassination ending with a query about whether she was fat or pregnant. Sent it to the client. Went on leave. Came back to carnage.’
–smallflirtylady
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