Stupid things you've done at work

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So after having a rather nice lunch at work I've successfully managed to spill half a hot chocolate over myself and my shiny keyboard that I had to beg for :p

My colleague got me rather 15 tons of tissue, soaked it all up, and the keyboard still works (logitech, built to last!) and my shirt now has a nice brown circle on it, so I'll be wearing a jacket for the rest of the afternoon :p

what stupid accidents have you done?
 
I'm always spilling my coffee. Its on a USB coffee warmer and I'm always knocking it off.

My usual gafs are me forgetting things. A while back I forgot to pack my work trousers in my bag, so I had to spend the whole day in my cordua armoured trousers. That was nice.
 
Ive put a plumbers glove filled with water on my head, only to be caught by my supervisor.

Acted dead when my boss came in and pretended to be looking for a pen.

Also singing "Relax" when i was bored and my boss walked past. Only to find out he was gay later on that day.
 
Actually I've got a good one. My pens used to go missnig quite often, so I bought one of those shock pens.

The next person to try and use one of my pens just happened to be one of the company directors, who my boss's boss reports to. :o
 
oh yeah, I told my boss to shutup this morning - whoops :p

thought we was someone else who I normally (jokingly) tell him to shut up, turns out it was my boss...whoops, he saw the funny side though :p
 
I asked the accounts department of a company what they were selling :o

Well he was indian.
 
I used to work in a call centre (shudder) and we used to get these pieces of work come round known as manual work. They were lists of membership numbers of people who hadn't paid, cancelled their direct debits etc. We had to manually dial them, and get them to pay etc,

Anyway, it was the time of the month where the waste of time employee magazine came round so I decided, as usual, to deface all of the directors and big bosses pictures. I drew about 4 or 5 massive penises coming out of their heads with a biro and went over them again and again to make sure they stood out. They were pretty detailed too. When I sat back to look at my fine art, I noticed that because I had pressed so hard I had transfered these images of penises all over the manual work, which goes round to everyone, including the boss. I actually cried with laughter for about 5 minutes and then proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes re-writing out all of the details on a new sheet.
 
I worked in a garage over the summer moving the cars around in the car park for the service department when i was younger.
Got in one car and thought to myself "hmmm it's an automatic never driven one before, how hard can it be?" Started it, i knew you need to apply the brake to start it, hovever i didn't know the importance of it until i took my foot off, to my absolute shock the car moved on it's own into the rear bumper of a hire vectra :eek::D luckily there was almost no damage only a couple small scratches.
To this day I refuse to drive an automatic, no loss there i suppose ;)
 
When I first started my new job (within the same company)

I reset one of our main AIX root passwords to something completely random, I thought to myself "I will add that to our documentation in a second". A few hours later someone tries to log in and it doesn't work.

After a few minutes worrying I had a clever idea of resetting it using the AIX CD, unfortunately the CD case was empty. We then went to restore it from the backup tapes only to find out the backup device couldn't read from it. Contacted the company that provide the support for the hardware/software and it took 3 site visits and 5 consultants to actually sort out the issue. They said it was the strangest problem they had ever seen!

In the end I was sort of glad it happened, I found out that if we couldn't restore from backups in a disaster recovery situation.

Lesson learnt though, as soon as you change something make sure it is documented somewhere and always test your backups/restores :p
 
I set myself on fire at an interview by mistake. Got the job though.

It was a special effects company :p
 
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I was sending a rather amusing message to my colleague via email about a comment our manager had just made. The email was only slightly insulting, but I accidentally sent it to my manager instead. He didn't comment!
 
Almost forgot about this one. First day I ever worked in a proper job, first 5 minutes I had been there I managed to knock a coffee all over my boss's desk all over his work, keyboard and leg :D
 
Whilst dealing with a group of Businessmen from Erlangen, me and a workmate decided to go and get a coffee. Anyway, there we were happily slagging off the Germans because they lost the war and generally acting like Basil Fawlty when we noticed two of the buggers standing in the doorway with the sort of look on their faces that said, "Du englisch solltest gegen eine Wand oben gesetzt werden und auf Dämmerung geschossen werden."!
 
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