Most embarrassing moment at work?

[airtime143]

What is your most embarrassing moment at work?

A buddy just embarrassed himself at work, and I told him this story to make him feel better.

When I was a kid just starting out, my brother owned one of those day labor places.
I would take jobs on weekends to supplement my income when needed.
Wound up at a tool and die place that was staffed almost exclusively by Hispanics, it was a family business and many of them were family and friends.
Day one walking in, boss man shows me the breakroom and points me to the free soda stacked in the corner by the table of donuts.

I go about my day, and at 1145 2 of the ladies go in to the break room, fire up the stove and start warming up lunches for everyone.

I wander in there and grab a soda and a donut. One of the ladies asked if I brought a lunch.
I say no.
She grabs one of the foil packets off the table that she had warmed up and gives it to me...delicious enchiladas.
I gratefully take them and eat.

Next day, I walk in at lunch, grab a foil packet and go eat.
Next Saturday, same.
Next Sunday, same.

The following saturday i show up at my brothers office ready to roll.
He says..gotta send you elsewhere, they do not want you back.
I say "why?"
He says, "they told me you have been stealing lunches!!!"

..because of the free pop and donuts, because the lady warmed all the lunches and set them out, i thought they gave free lunch too...it was part of her own that she gave me.

As atonement, i sent them 8 pizzas the following saturday and never went there again.


What is your most embarrassing moment at work?

 

[airtime143]

Worst part of mine was, one day I didnt like what I picked...wound up eating a few bites and throwing it out!!

 

[Ares]

Damn airtime.... you asshole lol

I can't think of a real good one, honestly.

I have one, but it was more embarrassing for my co-worker and the security audit people who visited.

I will tell it anyways.

So at the time I was the Team Lead for IT Operations and we had a Manager for our Application Development team.

This Manager was with us for like 1-2 years and then resigned, decided to take a job in Ohio and move out there.

Apparently after a few months they couldn't sell the house in Chicago and he decided to come back and got his Manager position back.

He had been gone maybe 4-6 months, and at the time he and I reported to the same boss.

That boss was out for a week, and this Manager returned for his first day back on a Monday when we had an IT Security audit of our application/environment.

It was a bit of a shitshow and my boss asked me to cover for our IT Infrastructure/Operations while this Manager did his best to cover our front end stuff.

Ok now to the funny/embarrassing part....

We go into the conf room and sit down with like 5 people.... 2 of them are high level company IT people, SR Director and VP, 1 is a lower level engineer for our company, and 2 guys are independent auditors.

Now the Manager and I are sitting next to eachother and I should explain that he is an Indian guy who, I find fairly easy to understand, but sometimes his accent can be a challenge if you've never spoken to him before.

They start the meeting asking questions that I could answer and/or defer to our visiting IT Dignitaries.

Then they move on to asking about our front end servers and processes and such.

The Manager sitting next to me begins jumping in to answer questions, but the auditors and even our own people are finding it hard to understand him.

He repeats himself 2 or 3 times and finally I interject and simply say what the Manager was saying, but they can understand me.

They ask another question, and the Manager answers it.

Again they can't fully understands him and he tries repeating his answer and then they kinda look at me, and again I say the same thing, but they understand me.

They ask a third question that the Manager answers, and the 2 auditors and 3 company people all just turn and look at me, and I repeat his answer.

This went on for the rest of the meeting every time this Manager answered a question, they would listen to him politely and then turn and look at me to translate English to English.

I was embarrassed for them lol

 

[KittiesKorner]

Damn airtime.... you asshole lol

I can't think of a real good one, honestly.

I have one, but it was more embarrassing for my co-worker and the security audit people who visited.

I will tell it anyways.

So at the time I was the Team Lead for IT Operations and we had a Manager for our Application Development team.

This Manager was with us for like 1-2 years and then resigned, decided to take a job in Ohio and move out there.

Apparently after a few months they couldn't sell the house in Chicago and he decided to come back and got his Manager position back.

He had been gone maybe 4-6 months, and at the time he and I reported to the same boss.

That boss was out for a week, and this Manager returned for his first day back on a Monday when we had an IT Security audit of our application/environment.

It was a bit of a shitshow and my boss asked me to cover for our IT Infrastructure/Operations while this Manager did his best to cover our front end stuff.

Ok now to the funny/embarrassing part....

We go into the conf room and sit down with like 5 people.... 2 of them are high level company IT people, SR Director and VP, 1 is a lower level engineer for our company, and 2 guys are independent auditors.

Now the Manager and I are sitting next to eachother and I should explain that he is an Indian guy who, I find fairly easy to understand, but sometimes his accent can be a challenge if you've never spoken to him before.

They start the meeting asking questions that I could answer and/or defer to our visiting IT Dignitaries.

Then they move on to asking about our front end servers and processes and such.

The Manager sitting next to me begins jumping in to answer questions, but the auditors and even our own people are finding it hard to understand him.

He repeats himself 2 or 3 times and finally I interject and simply say what the Manager was saying, but they can understand me.

They ask another question, and the Manager answers it.

Again they can't fully understands him and he tries repeating his answer and then they kinda look at me, and again I say the same thing, but they understand me.

They ask a third question that the Manager answers, and the 2 auditors and 3 company people all just turn and look at me, and I repeat his answer.

This went on for the rest of the meeting every time this Manager answered a question, they would listen to him politely and then turn and look at me to translate English to English.

I was embarrassed for them lol

nobody cares

 

[Ares]

nobody cares

:crying:

 

[Fatman LOU]

This was when i was off work but at my parents business. Now i have to say alcohol was the blame here.
As i was walking in the door a real witch was walking out, i mean butt ugly with crooked teeth and all.
I dont know what led up to it but we started to make out , right outside the door i mean i was 20 or 21 and full of voodoo butter.
I noticed my Dad looking out the window watching us. I didnt think much of it because like i said i was shit-faced.
Well he gave me hell about it, and every 3,4 years would bring it up to me . About 3 weeks later i joined the army and told my dad i was
drinking alot and wanted to get straightened out. I was so embarrassed but made it seemed like i dont remember because i was drunk.
I felt so embarrassed i joined the service. Gawd was she a dog.

 

[Omeletpants]

Wasnt me, but one manager hired a model to jump out of a cake at a company party and make out with another male employee. Seated at dinner, they roll out the cake and out jumps the woman. She sits on the lap of the target and starts french kissing him. All of the sudden she rips off her wig revealing she is really a man. He jumps off his lap and runs out of the building

 

[BNB]

In a rush, I sent an email to a bunch of practice managers and medical directors I work with about their Flu Clinic information. I had a typo in the email, and it was....

"It's that time of year again! Please send me the details about your Flu Clinics and when you'll be getting your flu shits so I can update our Knowledge Base."

Obviously that needed to be "shots."

At least they had a good sense of humor about it hahaha

 

[number51]

I dropped a gallium arsenide wafer (semiconductor) worth $35K and it shattered. The place was very quiet and the sound is distinctive, heads popped out of offices and over cubicle walls. I wanted to get away. The people that worked for a month in a clean room to make the thing were pissed.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I had to record podcasts for a while. It just so happened that the room they let us use for recording had all glass walls. So I would spend 8 hours editing out footsteps, sneezes, farts, etc. I asked my boss to get us a room without glass walls, ideally with some egg crate sound absorbers. Boss said **** off.

We were on the 11th floor of a 16-floor building, and someone else I knew found us an entire floor with a room we could soundproof to our hearts' content. We said yay. When boss found out about it, boss said no, I will find my own new room for podcast editing, which ended up being another entirely glass-walled room on another floor, shutting down the overture my friend had made (and put through building services).

I was IM-ing with my friend and heard about the development and typed 'what a ****.' My friend asked me if I wanted to see the environment we could have used for recording and I said sure, and left my desk.

My boss came looking for me and read the 'what a ****' message, and promptly put me on probation.

 

[Omeletpants]

in the 80s, I was dating a beautiful blond at work. She lived 25 miles in one direction and I lived 15 miles in the other so we had no where to go to be alone after work. So, we would often sneak back into the sales office and have sex there. One night a guy walks in and sits down at his desk to do work for a half hour. We were 20 feet away naked so we had to hide behind a cubicle till he left. After he left were xeroxed all of our body parts and left copies in his desk.

 

[Omeletpants]

One of the married sales guys was seeing a married secretary. They thought it was a secret but we all knew. At Christmas one of the guys created a bunch of satire videos based on various situations at work and he showed them at a party. It was very obvious to everyone including the spouses. Next Monday the husband of the secretary burst into our office and demanded to complain to our Vice President. The VP sympathetically listened and said he would get to the bottom of it. When the husband left, the VP laughed it off and the sales guy created a satirical video about that encounter. That was the 80s folks

 

[Burque]

I briefly worked at a Dairy Queen when I was in high school. Of course this happened when there was a line to the door but I went to dip a cone in the chocolate dip and the the ice cream fell off the cone directly into the dip. By reaction I reached in and grabbed the ice cream out of the dip and, of course, immediately knew I'd made a huge mistake. Turned red and took off to the back with a freshly dipped hand full of ice cream.

I got a quick ass chewing but that was it. I believe my managers words were "You don't EVER put your hand in the fucking dip, I've got a lobby full of people out there throwing up."

I think I made it about 4 months at that place. Still though, to this day, I remember the flame grilled double cheese burgers from there were awesome.

 

[Ares]

I will try another one from my time working landscaping in between college semesters.

I worked for my Uncle doing landscaping on this lawyer's 5 acre property out in Frankfurt.

The first summer I did this, it was just me and him and the place was pretty bereft of any real landscaping, so we had some pretty big projects for just the two of us.

Often we would go to Home Depot and buy enormous quantities of mulch or top soil or paving gravel.

On one occasion me and my Uncle were finishing the start of this big garden that was going to take up the majority of the back yard.

We pulled all the weeds, put down double layers of that weed preventing fabric, cut the edging around the perimeter, and placed the edging stones to define the garden.

Last thing was my Uncle wanted to get top soil and lay that over the entire thing.

So we head off to Home Depot to buy top soil.... get one of those flat bed carts, pull it up to the pallet and he tells me we need 44 bags.

I load up 44 bags on the cart and wheel it to the checkout where this like 16 year old kid is working.

My Uncle walks to the spot to pay and the kid says "Hey there sir, so we got top soil... how many?"

My Uncle often decides to be a dick lol and he just replies "Yes."

The kid cocks his head like "Wtf? I guess this old fuk didn't hear me"

He tries again, "Sorry sir, I didn't catch that... how many bags of the top soil do we have here?"

I know what's coming and I feel awkward, but im also trying not to laugh my ass off.

My Uncle replies "Yes."

Lol now the kid grabs the portable gun and starts to walk around the cart trying to see if he can just count it up quickly, but he is struggling, he assumed my Uncle would tell him the number and he would just punch it into the computer.

He tries one last time as he is coming back around the cart, he is desperate "Do we know how many we have exactly?"

My Uncle looks him dead in the eye... "Yes."

Now I can barely contain my laughter... I finally just go "44.... there's 44 bags there"

My Uncle goes "Yes."

The kid sighs and punches 44 and scans one of the bags and checks us out.

On the way to the car I am laughing and I ask him why he did that.

My Uncle goes "Fuk him, they pay him to count the bags, he should count the damned bags."

Such a crotchety old ******.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Still though, to this day, I remember the flame grilled double cheese burgers from there were awesome.

My college roommate and I got tons of coupons for DQ food my last 2 years so we ended up trying it. We were always pleasantly surprised by the quality of the food there across the board.

 

[Burque]

I will try another one from my time working landscaping in between college semesters.

I worked for my Uncle doing landscaping on this lawyer's 5 acre property out in Frankfurt.

The first summer I did this, it was just me and him and the place was pretty bereft of any real landscaping, so we had some pretty big projects for just the two of us.

Often we would go to Home Depot and buy enormous quantities of mulch or top soil or paving gravel.

On one occasion me and my Uncle were finishing the start of this big garden that was going to take up the majority of the back yard.

We pulled all the weeds, put down double layers of that weed preventing fabric, cut the edging around the perimeter, and placed the edging stones to define the garden.

Last thing was my Uncle wanted to get top soil and lay that over the entire thing.

So we head off to Home Depot to buy top soil.... get one of those flat bed carts, pull it up to the pallet and he tells me we need 44 bags.

I load up 44 bags on the cart and wheel it to the checkout where this like 16 year old kid is working.

My Uncle walks to the spot to pay and the kid says "Hey there sir, so we got top soil... how many?"

My Uncle often decides to be a dick lol and he just replies "Yes."

The kid cocks his head like "Wtf? I guess this old fuk didn't hear me"

He tries again, "Sorry sir, I didn't catch that... how many bags of the top soil do we have here?"

I know what's coming and I feel awkward, but im also trying not to laugh my ass off.

My Uncle replies "Yes."

Lol now the kid grabs the portable gun and starts to walk around the cart trying to see if he can just count it up quickly, but he is struggling, he assumed my Uncle would tell him the number and he would just punch it into the computer.

He tries one last time as he is coming back around the cart, he is desperate "Do we know how many we have exactly?"

My Uncle looks him dead in the eye... "Yes."

Now I can barely contain my laughter... I finally just go "44.... there's 44 bags there"

My Uncle goes "Yes."

The kid sighs and punches 44 and scans one of the bags and checks us out.

On the way to the car I am laughing and I ask him why he did that.

My Uncle goes "Fuk him, they pay him to count the bags, he should count the damned bags."

Such a crotchety old ******.

I call bullshit on moving 44 bags of top soil in one load.

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[Xuder O'Clam]

Probably spent $200 on that soil, when he could have got a couple of yards for $40.

 

[KittiesKorner]

does omelet remind anyone else of a geriatric patrick bateman?

 

[Ares]

Probably spent $200 on that soil, when he could have got a couple of yards for $40.

Yeah my Uncle had a fairly blank check from the boss, but he got thriftier as we did more and more.

For the first year everything was bags of soil/mulch.

As we did bigger projects he would take the pickup truck to a place where they would fill the back with mulch and we would fork it out of the truck.

 

[Omeletpants]

does omelet remind anyone else of a geriatric patrick bateman?

Nope, just a cool guy with great dick control