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Article created by: Rugilė Baltrunaitė
“If I got a paper cut, that’s a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole… that's comedy,” said Woody Allen (sadly), to illustrate that humor is often a matter of perspective. Most of us have messed up, but dropping a plate at home feels a lot different from sending an angry email to the wrong coworker.
So we’ve gathered a wonderful list of stories for those seeking some second hand embarrassment, this time about people’s on-the-job fails. Get comfortable as you scroll through, double check that you aren’t sharing your screen, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments down below.
- Read More: 44 Times People Failed Spectacularly At Work
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#1
Synchronized my menstruation app calendar with the company's calendar and everybody received the notification about my ovulation
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#2
I thought I was on mute on a company team call and I farted so loud and so long everyone stopped talking
#5
I wrote a profile for a teacher candidate that said she "enjoyed torturing students with special education needs" when I meant to type "tutoring". It went out to hundreds of schools. 🫢
#6
"Accidentally" printed everyone's payslips to the office printer during Covid Someone else found it looked at all of them and made complaints of others salaries. We all god a pay rise. A win is a win.
#7
Forgot I was sharing during a meeting and a woman on the call was talking about her small town and where she lived. I zoomed in on her house and she said "yeah that's it" 😭😭😭
#8
Instead of selling gas for 2.80 a gallon I accidentally sold it for 28 cents .. ALL DAY 🤦♂️
#12
I printed multiple huuuuge banners for a conference that said "fossil fuels are our only chance" instead of "fossil free is our only chance". I work for a renewable energy company ...
#13
I reused the format of a Memorial Day email but didn't change the subject line so my Juneteenth email said, "honoring those who served"
#14
I was a lawyers assistant and accidentally went to the bathroom to take a dump and flushed the usb stick that was supposed to be taken to court in less than an hour 😭
#15
I went to quit the worst office job of my life and was waiting till the end of the day so I could still get paid for that day Imao but I accidently printed out my resignation letter to every printer in the office at like 1pm .. the way every printer started gsshhk gsshhkking
#16
I was new and I fired 3 people instead of validate their vacation because I used the wrong option in the software.
#17
first day at my bank job i pulled the robbery alarm on accident because i didn't know what it was well it was silent so i didn't even know i pulled it until the cops pulled up 😭
#20
I used to work in private psychiatric hospitals. Once I accidentally walked off with the keys, didn't realise. It's the equivalent of walking off with prison keys 😭 Whole hospital went into lockdown whilst they tried to get in contact with me. I had to get escorted around for a month and redo security training and clearance 🙂
#21
my email profile picture was THE SNEEZING PICTURE FROM BOJACK HORSEMAN for sooo long and one random tuesday I realized i've been talking to my boss, HR and EVERYONE with this.
#23
I worked for a photographer and he came back from doing this extensive job at Disney. He was hot, exhausted, and said "I'm so glad that's over" and then I accidentally deleted every single picture
#25
Forgot I was sharing my screen and started to type on teams about how the person we were in a meeting with was useless 😂 was messaging the CEO who also replied "I know" 🙈
#26
I left the Teams meeting on my computer but forgot to hang up my cell phone, which was using for audio. I walked around and talked to a bunch of random coworkers about company gossip. Turns out, Teams was adding all my interactions to the meeting transcript and Al added a post-meeting summary section with a bullet point to summarize each thing I gossiped about.
#27
Shared my screen in a client meeting, after I was done I forgot to stop sharing and then proceeded to shamelessly scroll on Pinterest for 10 minutes until someone finally said "are you trying to show us something or ...? "
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