You flip through your Instagram feed and wonder how amazing people are. They work hard, try to motivate the rest, and they succeed. In 95% of cases, this is just the perfect picture. We are all living people who from time to time make mistakes. Surely, each of us has some kind of “working” error, for which we are still ashamed both in front of ourselves, and in front of our colleagues, and in front of our superiors.
Please relax. We say: this happens to everyone. The Australian portal MamaMia interviewed 19 women of different ages about their work or training “jambs” and gathered a whole bunch of fascinating antidepressants.
Enjoy it!
Accidentally spent another's 20,000 dollars
“Once I worked in a special electronic program with the budget of our company and pressed the wrong button. I would like to get rid of a computer breakdown, but I lost 20 thousand dollars in two days. Awesome. I’m still proud of myself. ”
I forgot that I hold cider in my hands while I put the children to bed
“During the holidays, I somehow moonlighted in a boarding house. One of the working nights during the break, my partners and I decided to have a drink, marking the beginning of the weekend. After the break, it was necessary to put the children to bed and check whether the lights were off everywhere. We probably would not have remembered this if a senior teacher hadn’t called me in a week and showed me a video recording showing me putting the girls to bed with a bottle in their hands. Good thing it was just cider. In any case, I was terribly ashamed. It's amazing that I wasn’t fired then. ”
I accidentally drank my boss's car while driving.
“I worked in a cafe. The boss once asked me to go to the supermarket in her car to pick up the ordered ice cream. The trip almost ended in an accident. The fact is that at that time I had a "preliminary" driver's license, so a few hours earlier I calmly tasted alcoholic cocktails. There were no stickers about the lack of rights on the car (P-plates), so it was real drunk driving. ”
Lost a barrel of beer
“I worked at a bar. One evening I needed to replace a keg of beer. By that time, I had no idea how to do this, but I believed in myself and my ability to deal with it. The first few attempts resulted in me being completely drunk. Then I decided to turn the barrel over, and the beer just spilled out of it. I was brought to the limit, so I stopped my torment, returned to the bar and told everyone that we no longer have this kind of beer. A few months later, during the audit, someone mentioned that some idiot had lost a whole barrel of beer. In the end, everyone decided that they didn’t bring her, but I just nodded in agreement. ”
My plane flew away while I was sitting at the checkpoint
“Trite. I missed my working flight to New York while I was 10 feet from the turnstile. Back to him. "
Put the Coke in the microwave
“I was fired from my previous job because out of boredom I put a can of Coke in the microwave to see what happens. It was an extravaganza. ”
Organized a club of losers
“At 15, during school holidays, I helped my mother by working as a receptionist. I had to correspond with people applying for different positions who could not pass the first stage of the interview. Letters were always created according to a standard template, but each had to be sent separately. One day, the boss told me that I was spending too much good time. He proposed a method for sending letters to the “esteemed applicant” in bulk.It is really convenient, but I was 15, and I was not very well versed in all these programs. Therefore, I randomly selected all the applicants and sent them a letter with a group refusal, that is, they saw all the applicants for the place. In response, I received a bunch of angry messages about my lack of professionalism. Fortunately, my boss just laughed at me and asked me to delete messages and not tell anyone about it. ”
Gave a killer juice to a client
“I worked at Boost and accidentally dropped a plastic lid into an ice bucket. Without correcting anything, I took out a few cubes and broke them into ice crumbs. The client received her drink with sharp plastic splinters. She got so angry that she threw it in my face. I still don’t understand what came upon me then. ”
My boss found a record of my dance
“I worked in retail. One day, my boss invited me to her office and invited me to watch a fun video where I was learning choreography from the Childish Gambino video clip “This is America”. The main office was delighted with my movements, they even noted the plasticity of the dance, and my minute of fame would have been just magnificent, if not for one “but”. At this time, I had to close the store. "
Stuck in cement
“On my first day at the new school, I toured the classes that had just been renovated. I went out onto the terrace and found myself in fresh cement on the ankle. Another time, while taking a shower after the gym, I accidentally turned on a fire alarm. I had to evacuate with purple shampoo on my hair. ”
80 Hugo Weaving
“I worked as a registrar for a large wig company. My responsibilities included sending out invitations to events. Having decided to facilitate my work, I formed a large list of recipients and sent letters to everyone. Only then I realized that the invitation should be personalized, and 80 people received invitations in the name of Hugo Weaving. ”
Spent $ 70,000 via phone
“There was no Wi-Fi in my house, so I had to use a work phone as an access point to distribute my three children to educational couples during the school holidays, when I myself worked. My name is among the three most popular users in a company that deals with remote access points. It cost my company $ 70,000. Naturally, I no longer have a working phone. ”
I had a fight with math
“I bought, therefore, 20 canvases measuring 2 × 2 meters, which turned out to be quite expensive. The seller several times clarified whether I am confident in the order. When a huge truck arrived for transportation, I had to think about it. Naturally, I needed 20 canvases 20 × 20 centimeters. A very awkward moment. ”
Called a psycho boss a psycho boss
“I got a new job after being fired from the previous one because of the nutty boss. We will call him M. Six months later, I wanted to complain about him again, and I sent a very rude and indecent text to my friend named M. Guess what happened! Of course, the letter was received by my former boss, who immediately reported this to our organization on corporate etiquette and complained to my new employers. 11 years have passed. I'm kind of alive. But I'm still sweating when I think about it. ”
Threw cash desk
“I worked at Boost quite a bit. The day came when I needed to close the department myself. The next morning I was met by a terribly evil manager. It turns out that when she opened the store, she saw that the cash register, full of daily revenue, was open. I forgot about her at all. ”
Placed my client’s competitor number in the ad
“Engaged in graphic design. Once I filled an order for a newspaper ad for a bank and accidentally added the number of their competitor to it. I was mistaken in just one figure! Needless to say, our client was not thrilled? ”
Burst into a naked Brazilian
“I accidentally entered someone else’s office at work while my boss was doing the procedure with Brazilian wax to a regular client from Brazil. Fortunately for me, the client turned out to be with humor and was not at all upset. The boss didn’t scold me either, because I scolded myself. ”
Invalid account
“I drew up an invoice for the client and indicated the wrong bank details on the invoice, making a mistake in two numbers. Awareness came when a very important customer had already paid for his order. I urgently had to explain to him that I had ruined everything and asked him to pay everything again. I think he is a saint because the payment to the correct account took place without unnecessary proceedings. And then we were able to return the money. "
Ordered too many swimming trunks
“When I was a junior employee in a bathing suit manufacturing company, I made a mistake in calculating an order for a manufacturing fit. As a result, hundreds of pink 14DD large swimming trunks were formed. Fortunately, this color was in the catalog and was popular with buyers, and everything turned out not to be so scary. But I'm still shocked by my stupidity. "
As you can see, we are all not without sin. Take stupid mistakes easier. In the end, finding a new job is easier than repairing nerve cells.