What was the most embarassing thing you have ever done at work?

[MeanLaureen]

I know we have talked about the most embarassing things we've seen at the parks and it was hilarious, but it's time to confess up.

There has to have been something you have done at work, whether recently or early on in your work career, that to this day makes you cringe when you think of it.

Out with it people!!

I can remember going to work for Hallmark when I was 15 yrs old. I worked there on Saturdays and during the summer during summer vacation from High School. We were having a problem with shoplifting so the assistant manager was trying to "teach" me the fine art of watching out for shoplifters.

She saw a lady enter the store with this huge tote bag wide open. They told me that was a big sign of a shoplifter - a big bag ready to hide things! They said "FOLLOW HER!" and follow her I did.

Of course when you are 15 you might need a better definition of follow her and that definition might not include stay within 3 feet of the person as they are shopping.

After about 10 minutes the lady approached the asst. manager and told her "Look, I'm a frequent customer of your store and I'm not here to steal anything.. can you please tell her to get off my back and stop following me wherever I go?"

I turned about 36 shades of red, sunk into the ground and ran into the stockroom. Thank goodness I was in too much shock and don't remember what the lady looked like or I would have died when she came back in to shop - IF she ever came back in to shop!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I was hit full force in the left eye with one of those heavy packing tape dispensers at work in front of a store of customers. I was ringing someone up, and a fellow employee behind me yelled to another employee across the store to throw him the tape gun. Well, he did, alright. It hit me so hard in my eye that it had a HUGE cut and was black and blue for almost 3 weeks. My eye also turned a nice shade of red. There's a pretty big scar under my eye to this day.

I think I was more embarrassed about screaming and crying right there on the floor. The employees thought it was funny until I pulled my hand off of my eye and revealed the giant boo boo.

I do not like large flying objects, and duck away from them all now.

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

This was not me, and did not happen at work, but here goes. My sister went on an employee trip to Shea Stadium several years ago. Her firm had several rows of seats in the same section. My sister was seated in the first row of people from her firm, with several rows of her co-workers sitting behind her. She was wearing a Cincinnati hat, and a Cincinnati t-shirt underneath a sweatshirt (she had recently been here visiting). At some point, a man several rows back from where my sister was seated yelled "Hey Cincinnati, I like your hat!" My sister stood up and said oh yeah! And pulled up her sweatshirt so she could show off her t-shirt as well. However, she pulled up both her sweatshirt AND t-shirt to reveal, well, everything! My sister is the sort who does not like to bother with confining undergarments on weekends! Believe it or not, my sister is not a drinker, so she could not blame it on the beer vendors. From what I understand, it took her a while to live that one down.

 

[discoduck]

this didnt happen to me but a fellow co-worker was in a job johnny that was lets say not exactly empty on a very very windy day. uhh use your imagination what happen . thankfully it wasnt door side down but WOW what a mess . he went home for the day after that believe me it was in everybodies best interest i know i have more let me think

 

[Michelemouse]

Nothing I've done has been as bad as DH's most embarassing moment. He had just finished talking to me on the phone and we had ended with our usual "Love you, Bye!'. The phone rang and it was a co-worker. They had their conversation and as DH hung up he told this gentleman "Love you, Bye!" He said he sat there for a while just wondering what he should do. He eventually called the guy back and let him down easy! LOL

 

[Talking Hands]

I was interpreting in church one morning and knocked my glasses off and they landed 3 pews back. Entire section of deaf people were laughing at me and I had no escape. I had to just continue until the service was finished. Now I make sure my glasses are securely on before I interpret.

 

[MeanLaureen]

I thought of one that happened to a coworker of mine that I still laugh about.

Picture it - Hallmark - late 80's. Back when those really full mini skirts were in style.

We had a big box of product that needed to go out on the floor to the register but it was extremely heavy. My coworked tried to empty part of it out so she could pick it up but it was still too heavy. She decided that instead of picking it up, she would just push it out. (Yes, in a miniskirt - - never said it was a smart coworker) Well that wasn't the embarassing part!

She was pushing the box to the front and it was a foolproof plan...until. Did I mention that the people that had just recarpeted the store didn't do a great job and there were several bumps in the carpet? Yep, box hit bump, box stops, coworker who had worked up quite a speedy pace did not. Whoomp. Head first into the box, feet up in the air and gravity did it's job on her skirt.

 

[TigerBear]

How about a school story? I was in 11th grade, taking a human physiology class. Reading outloud, I substituted a wrong (but similar sounding) word when reading "organism". The only one who laughed? The teacher - male, of course. Luckily, no other students were even paying attention.

 

[bumcat]

I had one of those days where my dh was calling and driving me nuts. The phone rings a man starts talking and I swear I thought it was my dh. In a rather loud nasty tone I said, "WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?"
The man on the phone tells me in a very nice voice what he needed. Gulp, it wasn't my dh. It was an administrator from one of our nursing facilities. I told him how sorry I was and that I thought he was my dh.
He sat there for a few seconds and said, "do you always talk to your husband like that?". Uh, no sir. I had more explaining to do. Thankfully he did not get mad.

 

[Jaimee]

I have one about me and one about another about a co-worker. Like a year ago someone in management sent out an email regarding our schedules or something that I wasn't happy with. I intended to email fellow co-worker and Dis'er Noel, but I hit reply instead. I said something about negative about the email, and since we don't have smilies at work I added a sarcastic remark and typed "rolleyes" after it. I was SO embarassed, but the guy responded nicely and never brought it up at all.
This one is about a co-worker. We work in a call center and answer phones all day. It happened to be a slow day and she was reading in between calls. It was apparently a romance novel because she answered the phone "thank you for calling *****, my name is Sue and how can I love you?

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

This is not really at work, but it is to one (OK, several!) of my DH's co-workers! Where DH works, they have trunc lines, so no matter who calls from what number, caller ID ALWAYS shows the trunc number. Since DH is normally (notice I say normally!) the only person who calls me from his work, I generally pick up the phone with "Yes??" or "Hi, babe; what;s up?" You would think after 4.5 years I would learn, but no! I have called everyone from his officemate to his boss and his boss's boss "babe" or "hun". I suppose it is a good thing that we all get along really well with each other (spouses too!).

 

[AZKathy]

Okay, I work in an Operating Room. I usually scrub Orthopedic surgery, a lot of them being total joint replacements. Well, there is an aspect in a total hip replacement where a screw is placed and sometimes it isn't depending how solid the component is once placed. I try and stay a few steps ahead of the surgeon, so instead of asking, "are you going to put in a screw?", I said in a hurry and asked, "do you want to screw?" Man oh man, I did not live that one down for a very long long time. <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_18_5.gif' border=0></a> The surgeon was still joking around telling them I propositioned him weeks later! I was truly embarrassed!!!!!!<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_13_17.gif' border=0></a>

 

[lisajl]

A young lady at work (she's 21), wears thong underwear.

How do we know this? Well..the scrubs she wears are the kind that you tie at the top (not the elastic kind), and they always go down when she bends over to weigh a dog.

Yep...one of our clients got to see them too! We were all so embarrassed for her.
She still wears them, though. Everyone once in a while she still accidentally flashes our customers.

 

[Serena]

Mine just happened last week. I was talking with some customers, and they were joking around about presents for valentines day. The woman was complaining about not needing chocolates or lingerie, and then I said something I shouldn't have. They started laughing and I turned three shades of beet red and that just made them really crack up.

 

[Tinkbell]

Oh, mine is easy. I used to work at Jacob's Field during the Indians games. Back in 95 the team was red hot and every game was a sell-out. Part of my job was to deliver birthday greetings to certain fans. We were supposed to do this between innings if possible. One day, I had a large amount of greetings to get through. As I was walking quickly up the steps to get to the next fan, I tripped and fell. Imagine birthday bags flying and me face down on the steps! Oh, there were only 42,000 people there that day. I'm sure nobody noticed.

 

[CamColt]

I think I have a 3 way tie.

One day I was wearing a skirt with a slit. When I went to step over a box and I ripped the skirt right up the back. A coworker had a sewing kit so she had me take off the skirt, wear my jacket, and she sewed it. This actually happened the day of DH & my first date, so it made great conversation when he asked how my day was, LOL!

Then there was the time when DS was just an infant. I needed to go downstairs to get something so I stood up at my desk and announced "Mama be right back".

My bank was being bought out by another and for months whenever the big wigs were over visiting we were to be on our best behavior. There was 1 guy in particular who had a lot to do with my department and we were all supposed to be "scared" of him. So the merger was taking place over the weekend and I had to work a Saturday for this(I never worked Saturdays). The guy was in our area and I got a phone call from DH. He told me DS wanted to tell me something(DS wasnt quite 2 yet). With this, the guy walked near my desk and DS told me "Poop in potty". Being an excited mother, I repeated quite loudly "You did poop in the potty???"....then I realized who was infront of me. It didnt matter much as I was leaving the company once the merger took place, but still, I was embarrassed.

 

[MeanLaureen]

I stood up at my desk and announced "Mama be right back

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

 

[CindysGusGus]

Tinkbell, I remember that..I was there.........LOL...just kidding! Mine is pretty easy and Im still hearing about it. I was online at work and was looking a menus for my trip to Orlando. My friend and I were raving about Corleons on I-Drive. So I went to a website and found a link to theirs. I clicked on it and it turned out to be a gay porn site. To make matters worse is that I work in a Christian organization and they were monitoring internet use that day. I was mortified. I told on myself to my supervisor who to this day still picks on me about it. I called the restaurant and asked to speak to the mgr. Apparantly the webmaster was fired off the account and he owned the domain so in revenge he did that. I think they are still tryng to get it off. Im afraid to look.

 

[DopeyRN]

Last week I wore 1 brown shoe and 1 black...did not notice until 1/2 hour before closing...I was mortified!

 

[Charleneluvsdisney]

My most embarassing moment at work was not showing up for work! I car pool with a co-worker and over slept that day and never picked her up. The embarrasing part of the whole situation was that it was a summer day and I had the air conditioning running in the bedroom. We do not have a phone in there, so when she kept calling my house to find out where I was I didn't answer because I didn't hear it. To make a long story short, another co-worker drove to her house and then to mine. They started ringing the doorbell, and when I finally answered, in my pajamas, I just stood there staring at them when they asked me if I was going to work. I replied, what are you doing here? It's Saturday!!!

They still talk about that one - I don't know what is worse, having my co-workers see me in my pajama's or not being awake enough to realize that is was a work day and that I overslept!