Stupid things you've done at work

I was on the phone to a customer and blurted out "yea but you're gay" I was talking to someone else forgetting I was on the phone.
 
Made many, many thousands of pounds worth of instruments that failed final inspection and required stripping and rebuilding to bring upto spec. It comes with the job though.
 
Gman said:
where I used to work the MD had his own special toilet that generally only him and 'special' people use. I wasn't told this and used the toilet and somehow managed to block it, didn't realise at the time i'd blocked it, when the next guy went in (who was a some high profile customer they where trying to impress) the whole bathroom was filling up with water and flooding out the door into the corridor.
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Rofl, hilarious.
 
Cancelled a meeting i organised for about 40 people, i had 9 lines of phone calls waiting to ask me what i had done, fixed it in the end silly MS Outlook error!
 
erm, quite a few years ago now I was just starting being oncall for one of our customers. One of the large production finance clusters had an issue and despite my best efforts I couldn't get the cluster back up again. After trying for several hours I had to call my boss at 02:30 to get him to take a look.

It took him about 30mins to get the system back up and running and once it was up I thought i'd use command recall to see what he'd done. Unfortunately i was on a dodgy modem link through a slow terminal server and I managed to recall and execute the command to shutdown the cluster (urk!) ... cue a call from my boss asking what I had just done (erm errr) ... fortunately he was ok about it and it only took 15mins to get it back up again ....
 
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Was sitting at work doing some renders and whilst that was going on, backing everything up to our 4 Lacie hard drives that sit on the shelf. So, to set the scene, I'm sitting in front of a bank of monitors, with 3 or 4 machines bustling away at various tasks, occassionally glancing up to check the drives.

Mr Electrician walks in (building was undergoing some work) and looks at me - I registered him and went back to work. I watched him cross the room to the breaker box, at which point he looked at me again. I just didn't click and sat there looking quite content.

So, having no reason not to he flipped the breaker and the whole shooting match went down in one giant "Clik-chrrrrr" of hard drive platters.

Boo-yah! :D

No damage done (fortunately) barring a few interrupted transfers and unsaved files but I just couldn't believe I didn't log what was going on and intervene!
 
Gaijin said:
I got caught throwing a melon on the roof once. Had trouble explaining that one.
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miscellanious peices of fruit and my old friend the box crusher come to mind, that and my boss walking in on me on one of his extraordinarily in-frequent trips out of his 'office' (where i've seen him playing flash games, and eating easter eggs he hasn't paid for, but hey, my crushing fruit thats had to be taken of the shelves and cant be sold is far worse :p).

have also insulted my queer supervisor while he was standing behind me (rest of the week was not pleasent)

told a manager to **** off when i thought they were out of earshot, wrong :(

had a customer walk into me (after i'd already moved out of her way to let her pass), who promptly told me to "cut your ****ing hair", to which i replied "you're a rude ****", she said she wanted to speak to my manager, so i got him and she promptly walked off in a huff.

when i worked in the freezer section for some reason or another i was angry at something or someone and punched a stack of boxes, only to have the top two (aprx 40 litres of ice) fall straight on top of my head- cue mild concussion :(

thats about it :D (this is all in the same job, i'm surprised they haven't fired me yet :p)
 
Broke the only paper shredder in the office by overloading it with too much paper lol! Work had a right go at me cause it cost a "few hundred pounds"
 
just thought of a great one I was sat on poolside and one of the other lifeguards was asked if they could help a customer find their goggles, but they were due back on poolside and asked me to do it and at the same time told me the customer was being really difficult about it when theres little we can do.
Cue me saying I dont want to deal with it and just tell her theres nothing we can do unless theyve been handed in little did i know she could lip read and was not impressed, though when she complained i think the manager just found it quite funny that id been caught out like that :o
 
my old job, working at roadchef, i decided to fool a work mate, well he wasnt really a mate, no one really liked him, but anyway.. i poured him a drink of sprite while he was at the toilet, there were some laxatives on the counter from another member of staff having 'problems' in that area, so yeh, you guessed it.. the laxative was placed in the drink, he got back and drank it. I got suspended for a week, then quit after that.. go me :D
 
In my previous job as a techie, I had to go to an insurance company to fix a few damaged RJ45 terminals in their board room. It was urgent so I was in there whilst there were a load of big shots in the middle of a meeting.

I had been out on the drink the night before and was feeling very dodgy so was just keeping my head down and getting on with it.

I stood up to go over to my toolkit, grabbed a screwdriver and went back into the corner and bent down to get on my hands and knees so I could get at the terminals. As I bent doiwn an almighty BOOM came out of my ass. It was absolutely ear shattering. I had been holding it in for the best part of half an hour and it all came out at once. A few people went quiet and looked around. I was scundered but tried my best to pretend that nothing had happened.

No luck though, it was rancid. I almost considered leaving the room as I couldn't stick it.

That was pretty stupid.
 
Scuzi said:
In my previous job as a techie, I had to go to an insurance company to fix a few damaged RJ45 terminals in their board room. It was urgent so I was in there whilst there were a load of big shots in the middle of a meeting.

I had been out on the drink the night before and was feeling very dodgy so was just keeping my head down and getting on with it.

I stood up to go over to my toolkit, grabbed a screwdriver and went back into the corner and bent down to get on my hands and knees so I could get at the terminals. As I bent doiwn an almighty BOOM came out of my ass. It was absolutely ear shattering. I had been holding it in for the best part of half an hour and it all came out at once. A few people went quiet and looked around. I was scundered but tried my best to pretend that nothing had happened.

No luck though, it was rancid. I almost considered leaving the room as I couldn't stick it.

That was pretty stupid.
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Fantastic:p
 
Scuzi said:
In my previous job as a techie, I had to go to an insurance company to fix a few damaged RJ45 terminals in their board room. It was urgent so I was in there whilst there were a load of big shots in the middle of a meeting.

I had been out on the drink the night before and was feeling very dodgy so was just keeping my head down and getting on with it.

I stood up to go over to my toolkit, grabbed a screwdriver and went back into the corner and bent down to get on my hands and knees so I could get at the terminals. As I bent doiwn an almighty BOOM came out of my ass. It was absolutely ear shattering. I had been holding it in for the best part of half an hour and it all came out at once. A few people went quiet and looked around. I was scundered but tried my best to pretend that nothing had happened.

No luck though, it was rancid. I almost considered leaving the room as I couldn't stick it.

That was pretty stupid.
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LOL
 
Scuzi said:
In my previous job as a techie, I had to go to an insurance company to fix a few damaged RJ45 terminals in their board room. It was urgent so I was in there whilst there were a load of big shots in the middle of a meeting.

I had been out on the drink the night before and was feeling very dodgy so was just keeping my head down and getting on with it.

I stood up to go over to my toolkit, grabbed a screwdriver and went back into the corner and bent down to get on my hands and knees so I could get at the terminals. As I bent doiwn an almighty BOOM came out of my ass. It was absolutely ear shattering. I had been holding it in for the best part of half an hour and it all came out at once. A few people went quiet and looked around. I was scundered but tried my best to pretend that nothing had happened.

No luck though, it was rancid. I almost considered leaving the room as I couldn't stick it.

That was pretty stupid.
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Thats amazing lol.

Stupid things would be...
Telling the manager who allocates shifts to **** off.
Swearing down the PA system at Tesco.
Breaking the PA system at Tesco.
Working for Tesco (and not leaving sooner)
 
I had been out on the razz the night before and as usual in the morning i had a jippy tummy so i decided to go to the toilet for a number 2, but i had forgotten to lock the door. Yes you guessed it my manager just strolls right in, never seen him move so fast on his way out though :D
 
Lashout_UK said:
Was sitting at work doing some renders and whilst that was going on, backing everything up to our 4 Lacie hard drives that sit on the shelf. So, to set the scene, I'm sitting in front of a bank of monitors, with 3 or 4 machines bustling away at various tasks, occassionally glancing up to check the drives.

Mr Electrician walks in (building was undergoing some work) and looks at me - I registered him and went back to work. I watched him cross the room to the breaker box, at which point he looked at me again. I just didn't click and sat there looking quite content.

So, having no reason not to he flipped the breaker and the whole shooting match went down in one giant "Clik-chrrrrr" of hard drive platters.

Boo-yah! :D

No damage done (fortunately) barring a few interrupted transfers and unsaved files but I just couldn't believe I didn't log what was going on and intervene!
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lol - I thought it was just me that had moments like that ;)
 
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