‘What’s the dumbest thing you’ve done at work without getting fired?’ – 17 blunders that somehow didn’t get the boot
10.
‘Came to work hangover ended up falling asleep the whole 8 hour shift’
-Horror-Mud7552
11.
‘Coworker (friend) sent a company wide email stating that he would be coming in after lunch. I replied to him insinuating that he was finally getting circumcised. Started hearing random giggles, people coming up to me telling me “good one”. To my horror I realized I REPLIED TO ALL. Went to IT to see if they could retract my email, they laughed and said Nope!
‘I was so nervous the rest of the day, but nothing happened.’
-ricgreen1
12.
‘Not me but a friend. I’ve shared this before so people might recognize the story.
‘My friend worked for a consulting company that did work with companies for their automation in factories.
At the time he was tasked with working at a beer manufacturing company, one of the largest in North America. Anyways, the task was something simple like swap out a temperature sensor and update the program with the new gear. Well buddy gets a little ambitious and thinks he knows a better way to optimize the code. So he deletes some stuff, re-codes some stuff, apply, save, clocks out and goes home. Job well done, right?
‘Well no.
‘Something he did to the code ended up causing it to no longer take reports from the temperature sensors. As a result I guess a few giant vats of fermenting beer over heated and the yeast died or something. Effectively he ruined somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 – 100,000 gallons of beer.
‘He somehow did not get fired. He got ripped off that job and immediately got sent to a different job in a different province.
‘The job? Manning the water pumps at the bottom of a potash mine. He literally got punished by being sent to the mines. Fkn hilarious.
‘….but how he didn’t get fired from the beer massacre I have no idea.’
-aussydog
13.
‘Went to work while fully tripping on lsd. It was a fancy restaurant. I was a server.’
-alf0nz0
14.
‘My coworker who trained me gave me tasks to do besides doing the main helpdesk roles, one task was installing monitoring software across the different servers so we could get alerts over hard drive space and temps and CPU usage and so on.
‘I ran into a snag, and found the program already installed, without looking at the server name, I asked my trainer what to do and he said to just uninstall and reinstall. Well, I uninstalled from the home server, which is a 5 hour process to setup but takes 5 seconds to remove entirely…..’
-creegro
15.
‘Wrote “help me, I’m trapped at Little Caesars Pizza” in the top of a pizza box when I was in high-school and folding boxes at the start of my shift.
‘It made it to the customer and he called the store. Everyone laughed and I was told I was lucky they didn’t call the cops.
Ahhh… 1996.’
-Own_Grapefruit_710
16.
‘Not necessarily all on me–I used to work silkscreen and we used to do a bunch of frat/sorority t-shirt runs. The client supplied the artwork and my boss would create the positives to burn the screens. I printed about 300 of them. when the client came to pick them up and the boss showed her, we realized they said “Some Dance to Rembember, Some Dance to Forget”.
‘The girl had made the error, my boss had recreated the error and I had looked at them for about three hours printing them and none of our brains had registered the misspelling. I think we gave them to her for half off’
-C-3Pinot
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‘Downloaded torrents at work.
‘I had just started at my job and I was still in college at the time. So I would be given tasks during the day and I’d come in super late at night to work on them. Since no one was there and the internet connection was pretty decent, I just took my laptop that I used for school and set it up to download movie torrents all night.
‘I guess the company got notified by their internet provider and I got a stern talking to. My supervisor even wrote me up and put a “permanent letter” in my record that “could affect future advancement.” At least that’s how he put it.
About a year after this all happened everyone except me got fired in my department including the guy who chastised me with the permanent record bs.
’10yrs later and I’m still here and no one else is. I’m a department of one. I’m also full time work from home now so I can download torrents whenever the fk I feel like it! Lol’
-aussydog
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