30 Workplace Confessions: Employees Spill the Beans on Epic Fails!

Roy

2 years ago

Prepare to cringe, chuckle, and question humanity’s collective intelligence! In this expose, we’re unveiling the mind-boggling workplace blunders that redefine the term 'career suicide.' From email catastrophes that redefine embarrassment to office fails that leave you questioning how these employees even got hired, these confessions are a goldmine of dark comedy. Ever wondered how someone could mess up a task so badly it becomes legendary? Well, wonder no more. Grab your facepalm emoji because these confessions will have you questioning the hiring process worldwide.

employees confess I watched another firefighter open a hydrant too early during a training exercise. The idea is to drop your hydrant man off, he wraps the hydrant with the hose and the engineer drives away, the hydrant man then screws the hose to the hydrant and waits for the engineer to tell him to open the hydrant, he's supposed to wait because the engineer needs hook the other end of the hose to the pump. We carry 1000 feet of 5" or supply hose on the top of our engine, there's a coupling every 100'; my buddy went ahead and opened the hydrant before the engineer could uncouple the section of hose he needed and hook up to the pump. Before he could run back and turn off the hydrant about 700 feet of hose fired off the top of the engine, like a giant black snake firework, only weighing hundreds of pounds.

employees confess Serving. I once dropped a salad plate ON a baby's head. It left a small bruise. I've never felt more shitty. It was so, so awful, and so awkward. The family stayed to eat the rest of the meal. Fortunately my manager had another server take over the table. I didn't get fired, I just got a sitdown lecture about how I can't just go dropping plates on babies. They took the baby to a doctor later to make sure everything was okay. I never heard anything else about it, so I guess everything was alright. This is one of those things that I'll remember that makes me want to crawl in a hole and hide. I'm cringing so hard right now just thinking about it.

employees confess I'm a teacher. Early in my career a student went missing after second recess. I looked around and realized he never came back. NO ONE could find him. Called parents: no answer. Searched the playground: nothing. Bat signal: no response. School wide panic. Superintendent office was called and security & police came. He never came to school that day. I missed the fact that he was gone all day when I took attendance first thing in the morning. Mom called in a panic wondering why she had 10 missed calls and cops were at her door when she got back from the prearranged doctors appointment she made for her son. To be fair another kid, Sebastian, told me he saw him jump over the fence and leave at recess. Sebastian lies a lot.

employees confess I took the sunroof out of a vehicle and was waiting on the part to come in, so I covered the big hole in the roof with crash wrap. (Crash wrap is flexable plastic type material that is supposed to cover holes in vehicles to keep the elements out of the interior.) Parked the vehicle outside. Part came in a few days later. I went out to the vehicle and saw that the rain from a couple days prior had pooled in the center of the crash wrap and formed a perfect semi-sphere. The water acted like a magnifying glass and focused the sun onto the car's rear seat and burnt a big line across it as the sun moved in the sky.

employees confess I was a receptionist at an obstetrics office. I took a phone call from a patient who was, at the time, eight months pregnant and had a ruptured disc in her back. Well, I typed the message into the computer and sent it to the doctor. Except I reported that the mother-to-be had a ruptured dick. And that is now in her medical record, with the correction. Her doctor found that hilarious. The moral is: proofread. Always.

employees confess Was working for a tree service company last summer and almost got myself killed or hospitalized. Stood under a tree putting a fall rope back into its bag with my back turned to the climber as he cut a limb off about 4 feet long and 8 inches wide from 20 feet up and landed and inch away from my feet and missed my head by a hair. Yeah pretty dumb of me.

employees confess One of my co-workers at a grocery store accidently locked the only master keyset into the security office, then attempted to break the door down with a clawhammer before anyone could find out. Ten minutes of furious attacking only succeeded in attracting the attention of everyone in the store, breaking off the handle and bending the entire lock, making it inoperable by the locksmith brought in later.

employees confess I work at an entertainment company in LA where ever executive has an assistant. The head of the company has had floor Laker tickets for the past thirteen years. The waitlist for those tickets is over a decade long. Executive told the assistant that he also wants four non floor tickets for a certain game. Assistant thinks he means instead and switches his floor seats for non floor seats releasing these precious tickets forever. The exec screamed so loud that the floor above us came down to make sure everyone was ok. (I am not joking) Aparently the tickets were worth over a million dollars and he gave them a way for free. The exec had to shell out for other tickets but not the same ones so now every game he goes to he has to stare at the people in his precious seats.

employees confess When I worked at GameStop, my district manager paid for a prostitute with his company card (store manager conference in Vegas). He still works there though (I don't).

employees confess I was working at a pizza place back in high school and was training a new guy. After showing him a few times how to take pizzas out of the oven with the paddle and move them over to the cutting board, I let him have a go at it. He was trying to get a large cheese pizza out of the oven, but it slipped off the paddle. As it was falling, he made the terrible decision to try and catch it. He succeeded, but unfortunately it landed cheese side down on his bare arms. He had to go to the hospital for some pretty severe burns.

employees confess Guy drops a glove in a deep fryer, sticks his entire hand in it before realizing it's on and set to 350 degrees F. My current job is a lab technician at a major university, and we had a new guy unplug the small -80 degree C freezer full of recombinant DNA because he wanted to charge his phone.

employees confess Doctor wrote prescription for 80mg of blood pressure meds instead of 20mg. Lady came into the pharmacy because her husband couldnt get out of bed and his blood pressure monitor wasn't giving a reading. Called an ambulance right away and thankfully he was ok.

employees confess I worked at a nice Chevy Dealer a couple years back. It was right when The Corvette ZR1 was just getting released. We got one in that was a pre-order from one of our wealthier clients. It was one of the first off the line. (Jay Leno actually has the first) Anyways one of the salesman though it would be a great idea to take it for a quick spin. I don't know what he was thinking! How he would account for the miles on the car. This by the way is unheard of and never really happens. Well you guessed it, he crashed it. A $120,000.00 car (at the time), super charged v8, ordered a year in advance for a customer..

employees confess Coworker of mine was on a big project. The client sent us an email with some request which resulted in some re-work for us. She mistakenly replied-all and said "Client is such a anal-retentive asshole. He needs to just make up his mind from Day 1". You guessed it, client was on the reply-all. This was a multi-million dollar account too. Luckily the client thought it was hilarious and replied to all of us with - - "My wife calls me an asshole all the time!" We kept the account (by some miracle).

employees confess We had a girl poke herself with a dirty needle during the first week of her infection control externship. She was being closely supervised by our lead dental assistant Mary, who has trained dozens of new people. I didn't witness it but Mary told me that this girl tried removing an uncapped needle by grabbing it like she's trying to open a jar, stabbing herself in the palm. Mary was about to carefully explain the proper way to dispose of sharps but the new girl just instantly went to grab it before she could tell her not to. Granted, our doctor is constantly leaving out used needles without re-capping them so it's partially his fault for being so careless. But basic common sense suggests that you should NOT try to grab a used needle.

And there you have it, 30 jaw-dropping workplace confessions that make us seriously ponder the future of humanity! As we bid farewell to this cavalcade of errors, let’s marvel at the incredible talent some folks have for turning the workplace into a comedy of errors. It’s almost impressive, really. From accidental 'Reply All' disasters to unintentionally insulting the boss, these confessions have given us a peek into the chaotic, sometimes hilarious world of work. So, here’s to hoping your colleagues aren’t featured in the next edition of workplace blunders!

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