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Your Office Horror Stories
Posted by ThriftShopRomantic • 1/21/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: humor, office horror stories, the office, work
I was recently writing up one of the most embarrassing moments in my work career--
A last-minute mistake I made in my supervisor's Powerpoint presentation NOT ONLY got pointed out to everyone in the room, but he even pointed ME out to them in the crowd!--
And this made me wonder-- what's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in a work situation?
Any good/funny office horror stories to share?
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i dont really have any, one day i was walking from my desk to the fax, and every step there was a penny that somehow landed at my foot, i look around for who could of been throwing pennies at me, kept happening everytime i took a step, wasn't till 10 minutes later i realized i had a hole in my pocket-
Pennies from heaven, eh?... Or, er, in a trail behind you all through the hallways.
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A few months ago I was sat in a local council office waiting to see someone and there was a girl about 17 sat next to me dressed in a pink tracksuit and rocking a baby in a buggy while she ate a bag of chips and texted someone on her phone.
So after a while one of the council people walked over to her and pointed up to the wall above her head where there was one of those signs that have a knife and fork in a crossed out circle and the girl looked up at it and went "I'm not using a fxxking knife and fork!!!! I'm eating them with my fingers!!" And then held up her ketchup stained fingers to prove her point.-
Niiice. Somehow I don't think the circle/slash "No Fingerfoods" sign will be terribly easy to get the gist of.
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Well yeah that could be easily confused for a "No nipping!" sign.
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hmm...not really a horror story, but one time this guy "Tito" burned some popcorn in the microwave and smoke was wafting through the entire building. We had to exit the building while the fire chief cleared the building.
Tito didn't know there were such things as 'popcorn buttons' on microwaves, and he set the popcorn for 5 minutes on high before leaving the kitchen to return a phone call. He never lived down the nickname 'popcorn'.-
Heh- oh gosh, it sounds like an episode of The Office. Too funny!
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Working out of my "Home Office" ... I would say the most horror story I ever had was when I was in a client meeting and my cat was all over one of my client's parka. The client said .. "oh that's okay, he probably smells my cat" .. but, then my Zeussie Pussy Cat nested and then did a hairball on the parka!~
Good thing it was waterproof and a hot wet paper towel cleaned it off and he's quite familiar with hairball incidents // but .... yeah - I lock up the animals when he comes over again and we have meetings.-
A hairball on the parka... now that would be memorable. Thank goodness the client didn't say, "That's my cashmere coat!"
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I've personally never had an office faux pas I'm sure my day is approaching. I did however sit next to a girl who was prone to coughing spells. During one of said coughing spells she peed on herself. It took a lot to stop from laughing. She looked to pitiful I couldn't say a word of it. Later when she turned out to be a major itchba I totally told everyone.-
I kinda think she probably shouldn't have confided that little tidbit of info, eh?
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That would have been one to take to the grave but then again it's kinda hard to hide a pee soaked chair.
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Hmm.. that was more Xtreme Pee than I was envisioning when you first described it.
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Yeah I guess I should have prefaced with the fact that she was doing weight watchers or one of those things and had one of those ginormous 64 ounce canteens on her desk at all times.
It was more like a waterfall-o-urine. -
What an image! (cringe)
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One of my old jobs, I later found out that the Boss had the entire company installed with spy cams
and listening devices. Good thing I wasn't one for office sex but I can't say the same for some of his employees.-
Oh boy... probably a bit too much information about your coworkers!
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TSR...I know, I had to use clorox bleach on my desk and phones before I sat down to use them. YUCK
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@Juenelle funny you should mention that I just posted about this a wk or so ago....did you know that 40% of working women are having office affairs. Maybe your boss wanted to catch these things, was he a voyeur?
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faithsju243....Big time voyeur and a pervert. I didn't last too long there, I got another job somewhere else quick.
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I worked in a tiny office of a very large multi-location corporation and the bathroom door didn't lock. A closed door meant no one was in and an opened door meant available. One day while I was on the throne the president (billionaire) opened the door on me but his head was turned away, carrying on a conversation. I reached as far as I could and tapped his hand and scared the bejeebers out of him.-
I have to say, you managed to handle it with some style at least. I think I would have been shrieking like a banshee.
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During one job years ago, I did modeling on the side. One was a set of pictures done by a stuffy French photographer. Another coworker (the wife of the Owner) found out about those cheesecake photos and so I brought them inn for her to see.
But a sleezeball driver found out about those pictures and sneaked one of them to the field supervisor. He was on the phone when he showed him the picture. He reached for the photo and went, "OOOOOH! OOOOOOOH!"
He didn't find out till that evening that the photos were that of me as a female and I was working as a male at the time. He wouldn't talk to me for a week!
Ever since then I NEVER bring in photos of myself no matter how much people ask...even if related to the Owner!
I also retired from modeling in 2004.-
As if not talking to you was proper punishment for him sneaking them in the first place... (shakes head)
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Now that the sexual harassment laws are so strong on this kind of thing, I don't even tell people at work that I modeled.
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I hadn't considered that, but I imagine that's wise. It's so hard to know how people will react these days.
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Good question. Being self-employed and working alone, I haven't had any embarrassing office moments. But perhaps embarrassing is that I've never been able to get hired as an employee in my entire life except when either a) I was the only applicant and the position absolutely needed to be filled, or b) I and every other applicant were all hired.
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Awwww.... geez, Aoi. Maybe they just had some regulations about hiring ceramic cats. :)...
Too potentially risky for injury on-the-job, they'd have to pay too much insurance and medical?
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Hi, check my blog for lots of 'em: SurvivingInBureaucracy.blogspot.com -
I was allowed to have a radio at my desk (in a former job) & thoughtlessly brought in some Guns 'n Roses to listen to one day. As the boss walked past, Axl was in the middle of a profanity-laden tirade. Fortunately (relatively speaking,) the plant was closing in a few weeks, anyway, so he didn't even bat an eye. *whew* -
Treachery and betrayal.
Interesting discussion. Will keep listening
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