‘What was your most awkward workplace blunder?’ – 17 mortifying faux pas that would convince anyone to change jobs

10.

‘Texted a black work colleague “Have you gone home early?” and the predictive text changed the word “early” to “darky”.’
-virusofthemind

11.

‘Sent out an arrears payment to a client that should have been £60. Made a typo and sent £6000. My boss who authorised the payments missed it, so he got most of the blame.’
-Old-Ingenuity-4346

12.

‘Working on a construction site in the office. Asked for help from main office about ordering process for ‘willies’ instead of ‘wellies’ main office forwarded to my boss asking why I was asking for the men’s willy size – died.’
-cecyc

13.

‘”sorry to bother you, I know you must be very busty”‘
-mordhoshogh

14.

‘I once added an extra zero to the card machine. Emptied a customers account and the refund I immediately processed took about 3 days to get back to them. That was a bad one..’
-Alnonnymouse

15.

‘Due to a mixup between .co.uk and .com, one of my colleagues once accidentally sent about 200 important stakeholders a link to a swingers’ website. Our boss was not amused. (I was just glad it wasn’t me!)’
-KatVanWall

16.

‘Worked in an industry where deliveries were referred to as jobs

‘Emailed my client asking where the below job was (referencing the email chain)

‘I had a typo and missed out the ‘e’ in below.

‘So ended up sending an email asking where my blow job was…’
-Long_Wait_3078

17.

‘Sent a sarcastic reply meant for my mate to the whole department. The worst bit was watching everyone read it in real time, then getting a calendar invite titled “quick chat”.’
-trackowner

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