“Worked as a student in a bank-agency.  Once, a customer wanted to enter, but one can’t just walk into a bank, you have to ring a bell, and have an employee open the door for you by pressing a button under the front desk.

Long story short, he rang, all employees were busy, so I went to press the button. I check under the desk, shit, 3 buttons.

The man was looking at me, looking pretty pissed by the waiting-time, so I just press a random button.

Turns out it was the motherfucking alarm button.”

“I incorrectly labelled about 30 pairs of shoes as being $80 instead of $150. That was not a good day.”

“A woman accidentally glued her own eye shut after trying to reattach a fake nail with industrial strength heavy duty super glue and then subsequently rubbing her eye.”

“I work at a pet store. I accidentally threw a snake away. I was cleaning the bedding and didn’t see him buried in his blanket.

I dumped it. 2-3 days later my department manager brought it back to me after finding it in the receiving garbage. Somehow I didn’t get in trouble. Snake was fine.”

“I was working in a sterile hood when a massive sneeze hit me out of fucking nowhere. The force of it caused me to duck my head under the hood and blow mucus everywhere inside.

The whole lab froze and eyes slowly rolled my way in disbelief. I contaminated every sample and they had to call in an outside company to resterilize.”

“I used to work at Chuck E. Cheese and was taking a pizza from the kitchen to the customer. At the time, it was extremely busy and there were little devils running everywhere; and this lady was at the far end so I had to zigzag through the games to get to her. 

Well turns out there was a 2 year old kid crawling right in front of me. I tripped on the kid, the pizzas went flying and hit another kid, and both of the kids were crying because I stepped on one and nailed the other with pizza.

After about 45 minutes of parents yelling at me, they pressure my manager to fire me. My managers a cool guy so he said no, but he pulled me aside and told me he would have to pretend to go bat-shit crazy on me to make the parents happy.”

“I used to run charges on credit cards as part of my job at a bike parts vendor. One day I mistakenly charged a bike shop over $1000. It made the owner of the shop go over their credit limit and get a bunch of fees. I was fired soon after. The only job I was ever fired from.

I later moved to the town where that very same bike shop resides. I spoke with the owner and mentioned that I had worked for the vendor long in the past. She told me in detail about the time that her card was charged by accident. I feigned ignorance.”

“I used to work manufacturing large televisions. The company had just received a shipment of 50 104” screens from a vendor. A brand new employee was charged with transporting and stacking them. Just as he stacking the 50th screen it slips out of his hands.

It falls and shatters all 50 screens. In his first 4 hours of work he manages to destroy more than $2 million in material and set back production by weeks.”

“I got bored at work and I stapled a cell phone battery. It spewed out battery acid and then exploded. My manager was dissapoint.”

“I worked at a car dealership several years back. There was a new mechanic who was there barely a week, and tasked to go fill all the brand new, top of the line, biggest diesel trucks on the lot.

Diesel.

The guy filled all the trucks with regular gas. At the gas station down the street. Then drove them back to the lot.

He was fired pretty quickly after that.”

“I used to work as a maid in a motel and our usual supervisor was out sick. The person who took her place that day mixed ammonia and bleach in a window cleaner bottle and poisoned me with ammonia chloride gas fumes when I sprayed the bathroom mirror.

If the maintenance man hadn’t come by and found me unconscious,it could have killed me. For several months after I had respiratory problems,vision issues and a lingering burn in my nose and throat.”

“I didn’t see it in person, but there was a video I saw on Reddit fairly recently where somebody emptied the used deep fryer oil into a plastic bucket. Needless to say, it didn’t hold.”

“A guy I worked with got fired from his 120k a year job because he was stealing juice from the stock room.”

“One time a member of my dev team was given a task to cancel a few credit cards (less than 10) directly in the database.

They cancelled 17 million, the mistake was only caught when the company helpline started to receive millions of calls the next day from all over the country with people asking why their cards were not working.”

“One of my coworkers in a marina was relatively new. He didn’t ask if the guys boat took gas or diesel and he just handed him the diesel hose. I noticed around 250 gallons in that it was a boat I knew took gas. The boat owner was cool about it he paid for the diesel, the fuel pump out, the gas, and even tipped the guy. Could’ve been a big disaster, though.”

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Ruined Two Trainees’ Christmas.

“I was in finance, handling pay for 30 trainees. One Christmas Eve, while on leave, I got a call: two trainees hadn’t been paid. One was crying down the phone to their manager because they’d been counting on it. It was 100% my fault and too late to fix.”

Bleached All the Tables. Entire Restaurant Stank.

“I used to work in a restaurant and instead of spraying the tables with normal cleaning stuff, I sprayed it with bleach and we couldn’t get rid of the smell. The customers kept complaining and everything.”

Didn’t Answer On-Call Phone.

“Wasn’t a sysadmin but got put on call. Phone was off while charging, so I missed a bunch of calls while grabbing breakfast. Manager was furious and gave me a written warning. Left the job five months later.”

Didn’t Measure Twice. Blew $10,000.

“I blew 10 grand because I didn’t measure correctly.”

Deleted the Entire Database.

“During work experience at a tiny startup, I accidentally deleted the entire database while making a change, rookie move. There was a recent backup, but some data was lost, and the boss had to fly to Canada to smooth things over with the client.”

Sent Confidential Docs to the Competition.

“Accidentally sent highly confidential info to a guy at a competitor, meant to send it to a colleague with the same first name.”

Forgot to Mute. Cursed Out Manager. Everyone Heard.

“Guy in a virtual team meeting said: ‘Oh f*** off this is b*llsh*t’ after a manager made an announcement thinking he was muted.”

Sent a $95K Order to the Wrong Country.

“I sent an order worth 95k to the wrong country once. Had to get it returned to us, then ship at again to the correct country. Costed the company 5k in shipping fees overall.”

Ham Sandwich Set Off Fire Alarm.

“Used toast pockets to heat up my ham sandwich at work, didn’t realise the toaster was full of dust from barely ever being used. It set off the fire alarm, evacuated the whole building, and the CEO had to continue his meeting outside, absolutely fuming.”

Snapped the Internet for All of Northern Ireland.

“Years ago, while on a ship anchored in Belfast Lough during bad weather, the anchor dragged before we could get the engine going and it snapped an undersea cable. That cable happened to be Northern Ireland’s internet connection to Britain.”

Deleted the Entire Manual.

“Me and the project manager once accidentally deleted the entire completed O&M manual for a brand-new plant: no backup, completely gone. It was Christmas week, so we spent three 16-hour days rewriting it all from memory.”

Posted a Retirement Pic. Management Called It Bad News.

“A long-time employee retired after 20 years, and his manager posted a nice farewell photo internally. I thought it was lovely and shared it on our public socials, got loads of likes and kind comments. Management asked why I’d post “bad news” without checking.”

Clogged the Wrong Toilet. Improvised. It Got Weird.

“Was working in a woman’s house, took a dump while she was out, and then found out the toilet didn’t work, couldn’t flush it at all. Had to… improvise. Turns out she used the one out in the garden shed. Like I was supposed to know that!”

Called Out My Company Online.

“Posted about my companies covid strategy (or lack thereof). I was promptly told not to return to the office. Ever. My belongings were shipped to me in a brown paper bag.”

Truck Rolled Back into a £50K Engine.

“I used to move 5-ton flatbeds out every morning, often starting them without sitting properly. One night, a driver left a truck in reverse with a timer delay, and when I closed the door and moved on, it rolled back loaded with scaffolding into our most valuable truck’s engine, about £50K in damage.”

Intern Unplugs the Entire Factory, Then Goes on Vacation.

“I was an intern. Plugged the wrong AC adapter into a small network hub I used for IT work… This was in the same room as the production line AS/400 (large mainframe offered by IBM). Shut down the entire plant’s production line while I was on vacation.”

Took a Mystery Painkiller. Passed Out at My Desk.

“It was just two of us working. I’d hurt my back over the weekend and was in pain, so my co-worker gave me some painkillers her boyfriend had left with her. While she was out with a client, I passed out at my desk. She came back, thought she’d killed me, and started calling an ambulance.”

Hid a Bad Word in Artwork. It Went to Print.

“A friend snuck a bad word into artwork as a joke, expecting his friend in quality control to catch it. Nobody noticed, and it went to print. A customer spotted it, the whole product line got pulled, costing hundreds of thousands. The artist got fired, and the quality checker ended up on an improvement plan.”

Dropped a 2,000-Year-Old Gold Artifact. Museum Still Hurting.

“Someone I once worked with dropped a solid gold 2 thousand year old museum object onto a tiled floor.”

Toppled an Entire Pallet of Industrial Glue.

“Knocked over a pallet of industrial drums of glue…”

Ordered 200 Cases by Mistake. Cue the Fabric Softener Flood.

“I was a sales rep who always double-checked orders. One day, way behind schedule, I accidentally entered 200 cases instead of 20 for one product. No one caught the mistake, and a whole trailer full of fabric softener showed up. I got seriously grilled for that.”

Scratched. Broke a €1K Precision Tool.

“I broke a €1k precision measuring device by scratching my ars* with it.”

Contaminated a Million-Euro Pharma Batch.

“Not me, but a friend forgot to clear pipes before adding chemicals at a pharma plant, contaminating a batch worth over a million euros.”

Gave a Stranger My Boss’s Business Card.

“Met a guy on a train, gave him my boss’s business card by mistake, and got called out about it later.”

Leaked 200+ Emails. Residents Formed a Hate Group.

“Sent a service update email to a building’s residents but CC’d instead of BCC’d, exposed all their emails. They formed a hate group against the company.”

£500 Bulb Shattered. Wrong One, Naturally.

“While training a colleague, I mixed up the bulbs and accidentally smashed a brand-new xenon projector bulb instead of the spent one, £500 gone in a single hit.”

Dropped a Screen on a Royal Chandelier. Literally.

“While packing down a big projector screen at a fancy venue, I let it fall like I was supposed to, only I hadn’t checked the space behind it. It smashed into a priceless chandelier gifted by the Queen Mother and took out five crystal arms.”

Set Off the Fire Alarm with a Burnt Bun

“Burnt a hot cross bun in the toaster at work, set off the fire alarm, and evacuated the whole building right in the middle of a strategy meeting with all the global heads.”

Oops, We Gassed the Atmosphere with 6 Million Cubic Feet

“We tried to blow down one of our gas plants but didn’t realize there was an unmarked connection to the supplier’s pipeline. Ended up venting 5–6 million cubic feet of gas into the atmosphere before we figured it out.”

Missed My Flight, Burned My Boss’s Budget

“Missed a work flight because I mixed up the date, was in bed thinking it was the next day when I got a “you here yet?” text from a colleague at the airport. Had to rebook using my boss’s grant money.”

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