Facepalm moments at work

[Makhaira]

Well I'm going to go on the GD tradition that if I share my idiot moment, hopefully others will share theirs and entertainment will be had as things no doubt get ever more outlandish...

I was sat in a fairly senior meeting today, and got asked a question that really needed to be answered by one of the engineering specialists. I looked up, couldn't see them, so tried to field the answer as best I could.

Got halfway through, glanced back around the room for eye contact, and there he was, sat straight across from me where he had been the whole time, looking slightly amused and bemused as to why I'd just tried fielding the question since "there weren't any engineering specialists present". Other equally bemused people staring at me wondering why I was trying to answer the question.

Selective blindness . Massive facepalm.

No doubt there have been worse, speak up GD!

 

[Makhaira]

Does getting someone to bring me a jug full of steam count? Because they were stood for a good 5 minutes at the coffee machine trying to fill a jug with steam before someone asked what they were doing

Haha, I feel better already .

Similar sentiment to sending someone to get a tin of elbow grease .

 

[Makhaira]

I did spend a good minute trying to remove a stable from a copied sheet of paper with those staple remover pincers to eventually realise it was a copy of a staple. Made sense as to why I couldn't grab the ******!

Genuine lol

I composed a email to some banking exec's that were a client of ours.

proceeded to sign the email off as Retards instead of Regards. didnt notice for a few hours...

Seen that done before, possible the greatest typo possible on a qwerty keyboard!

Cheers for these guys, thread has already delivered for me