Stupid things at work

ErinG93

My boss has a voice message to text program on his phone. His name rhymes with "babe." One time I was calling his cell and left a message saying, "Hi ______________, blah blah blah."

His phone translated it to, "Hi babe!" I'll never live it down. He had to call me and ask if I really called him babe. Um, no. I had only been working here for a couple of months.

lbarr088

Ooh Erin that's embarrassing!

AllAboutTheBenjamin

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_stupid-things-at-work?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:13b18ade-fa32-45d1-9318-4cd953b46526Post:4dfa440b-37dc-43ee-8dc9-fc0510650d4d">Re: Stupid things at work</a>:
[QUOTE]AATB do you have your voice back today? What do you do when you're all croaky?
Posted by pirategal03[/QUOTE]


I think I'll be okay today :) I'm a little hoarse but I think it's... sexy.

When I have a really bad cold though I'll just pass off my newscasts to the news director or my reporter co-worker.  Hacking through a newscast doesn't make anyone look good, and plus - germs and such, since we all use those mics.

HappinessByTheKilowatt

I started a new job as a receptionist my senior year of high school. Part of my job was to tidy and stock the kitchen at the end of the day, and start the dishwasher to wash the coffee mugs. Growing up, dishes were never one of my chores, and I was still living with my parents at the time. They always went to my younger brother. So I take the dish soap, fill the dishwasher, and press start.

Ten minutes later, someone came running to the front to tell me the kitchen was flooded and full of bubbles.

Yeahhhhh. That was the day I learned the difference between dish soap and dishwasher detergent. I didn't live that one down for a while, but I never made that mistake again!

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Haha I just remembered - during college I went home for the summer and worked in a bait shop at one of our state park campgrounds.  I got to do lots of portioning of leeches into cups and stuff and scooping minnows for our fishermen.

Anyway the minnow guy came like once or twice a week and when he dropped off a new shipment of minnows, you had to drain the minnow tank til it was almost empty - like just enough for the minnows to be submerged - and then fill it back up with fresh water.  I was doing this one day and while I was watching the tank the bait shop got really busy with people buying food and stuff, so I forgot about the tank while I was draining it.  Then my boss came in and I remembered and was like "oohh..... schit."  Yep.  All the minnows were dead.  I had to scoop them all out of the tank and bring them out to the fish cleaning station and throw them in the grinder.  It was like, this massive minnow funeral.  So sad, lol.  Luckily I wasn't the first person to do it and my boss was really understanding and even lots of the fishermen were cool, too.  Except the Hmong people.  They were pretty pissed off they couldn't get any minnows.

pirategal03

Murderer.

beerecks

On my first day in a temporary position that I was hoping to turn permanent, I helped myself to a Keurig coffee in a company mug and upon walking back to my desk, I spilled the coffee ALL OVER the brand new carpet. (and I mean brand new.) Not only did I have to introduce myself to the building manager by asking him to bring the carpet steamer up four flights of stairs, but I spilled it all over myself too...and reeked of coffee for the rest of the day, so that anyone who saw him bringing the cleaner up the stairs could clearly tell it was the new girl!

marriedfilingjointly

OMG AATB. Was it as gross as it sounds? When I was an intern, a senior manager came into the bullpen yelling about something. I sent an IM to the other intern that said, "Craig sr mgr is scary." He replied, "that hurts." Yeah, sent the IM to Craig, not the other intern.

brittanycurtisjohnson

Once my toner was getting pretty low in my huge copier, and the toner usually lasts FOREVER so I didn't have an extra one, nor have ever changed it. So I took it out and shook it, you know like ketchup, shampoo, lotion.... Why don't those things have warning signs??? Like 'DONT SHAKE THE GOSH DARN TONER, THERE IS A GINORMUS INVISABLE HOLE IN IT!!" 

Lucky me, my boss walked out just in time to see my intire copier, desk, computer, carpet, feet, hands, you know, everything within 3-4 feet, covered in black powder...... Awesome...

Other than that I seem to jam everthing in the office at least once a week and need help fixing it.

OR I'll be wearing a dress and trip over the scanner cord 2 feet in the air... 

Occasionally I ram my Elbow into his amrior type thingy that holds his printer in the office as I walk in.

Or send a chair or two flying when I kick them on accident.

I'm suprised my boss still shows up to work now that I think about it.... LOL.

mmmendi

A few weeks ago I sent a text to my boss. It was intended for my FI. (both names begin with the same two letters) It really wasn't appropriate for my boss. I called his office and said 'Just sent a text, please do not read and delete'. He said "No worries, I do that all the time!" Not quite like this...

I also have accidentally sent 'go tit' instead of 'got it' a few times.

cofkel

I do large presentations at my job (work at a university) for groups of 200 or so people. I was on stage, mic in hand talking about our programs and looked up and got momentarily blinded by the stage lights, annnd of course DUG it off the front of the stage (thankfully it was only like a foot and a half high). To make it better I was in a pencil skirt, ever try to get up quickly in one of those things? EPIC fail.

tlc35

I was annoyed with a guy in another office at work because I thought he was trying to dump work on me and said to someone in my office "erggg, I'm going to kill that guy."  I turned around and he was behind me.  Doh!