Worst mistake you have made at work?

[miamae]

Feeling like the worst mistake I made in my job right now is applying for the job in the first place

I feel you so much on this one

Agreeing to go full time. I’ve come to the conclusion that full time work is just not for me but bills to pay and all that

 

[hol20x]

When I worked in retail years ago I took a fake £20 note because the counterfeit tester pen wasn’t working and I was told I’d be doing a disciplinary interview the following week. But I quit before I had the chance to do it cos I knew they wanted to sack me.

In my old pharmacy job I accidentally ordered in 12 boxes of a controlled drug cos I was trying to print the sheets that go inside the blister packs and they kept coming out wrong, every time you print an item the computer automatically orders it in for the next day. I didn’t get it deleted off in time so the order was sent and 12 boxes came in the following day. I got a bollocking cos you can’t send them back to the supplier and they wouldn’t all fit in the safe. Oops.

 

[Moanyoldwoman]

Not setting fire to it!

 

[jawidjanqndn]

The amount of mistakes I make could probably get me sacked (I work in retail) luckily no one ever notices

the main ones are:
Sleeping with the only male that I work with - luckily he’s gone back to uni for a few months so there’s no tension at the minute
Not noticing someone hasn’t paid until they’ve walked out the shop.. this has happened multiple times. I think of how amazing it must feel to look at your bank and realise you were never charged for the shop you did a few days ago
Giving back notes that the customer has given me (luckily always caught myself)
Letting multiple shop lifters go because I was the only one on the shop floor and didn’t feel like getting kidnapped
Accidently taken the key home before so no one could unlock the cabinets

I’m begging to be fired

 

[Flowergirl14]

Worst mistake I've made at work.....sleeping with a colleague. Wouldn't advise it. Never tit on your own doorstep

Me too! Big big mistake!!

 

[jawidjanqndn]

Me too! Big big mistake!!

Second this

 

[Taetae95]

Thankfully nothing insane but:

- Sleeping with a colleague. We were young and working retail so nothing too crazy but it made things awkward especially with another girl who then said she fancied him and had it in for me after that

- I'm a clumsy tit so broken a lot of things in all the jobs I've worked lol

- Forwarded an email chain to a client when my boss was slagging them off in an earlier email. Boss should really have deleted the history themselves before sending to me but they were abso fuming with me after that

 

[WeepingCassandra]

Worst mistake I've made at work.....sleeping with a colleague. Wouldn't advise it. Never tit on your own doorstep

First thing I was told when I started my first job in a nightclub/pub (rhymes with Boyds and very well known across the UK) was "Don't poke the payroll". I'm not really that way inclined, so I did not partake in the poking of the payroll, but there were some staff who were like bloody rabbits and seemed to take it as a personal challenge...

This was the same place where one of our GMs fell asleep in a booth in the back of the nightclub/pub on a busy Sunday afternoon because she was so hungover she couldn't stay awake. And one of the guys I worked with not only took a plate out with the plastic vegetable steamer packet on it still, but also in the panic of trying to remove said plastic, threw an entire large sunday lunch over a lady including a pot of gravy.

Good times.

 

[Happy Lady]

When I used to work at H.Samuels (the jewellers) back in the 90s, I accidentally sent a tub full of watches to be crushed and recycled because I thought they were broken (unrepairable) or discontinued stock.

Turns out the tub should have been sent to a branch in Scotland. Nothing wrong with the watches at all. But because these tubs are constantly in use someone from a previous consignment forgot to remove labels and paperwork from this particular tub, hence my mistake.

Anyway, it was fortunate the watches were relatively low-value (Swatch, Timex etc). But the value that ended up crunched came to around £3,000!

Don't worry my lovely, as there are many people who would pay a lot more then £3,000 for one watch.

 

[Debtex]

Going for a job interview at a Disability Service . Went to the toilet a bit flustered and accidentally pulled the cord that ‘summoned assistance’ instead of flushing the toilet .

 

[Rxt156]

Worst mistake I've made at work.....sleeping with a colleague. Wouldn't advise it. Never tit on your own doorstep

Sameies but 2 people
Neither of them knew tehe

 

[cuttle90]

Sameies but 2 people
Neither of them knew tehe

I don't mean to judge but neither of them knew you slept with them, that seems like a bit of a concern ... or they didn't know about the other person...!?

 

[Rxt156]

I don't mean to judge but neither of them knew you slept with them, that seems like a bit of a concern ... or they didn't know about the other person...!?

About the other one .. duurrrrr

 

[Chickenandgravy]

Worst mistake I've made at work.....sleeping with a colleague. Wouldn't advise it. Never tit on your own doorstep

Same....but try 7 of them luckily I've calmed down now and moved job...where I proceeded to sleep with one there but now we live together and have a baby

 

[Giggling Squid]

Sleeping with someone at work worked out pretty well for me too, 8 years later and we’re getting married next year

 

[Libertine1975]

Accidently sent a legacy to a beneficiary twice, to be fair not 100% my fault as I had ended the form on the system but the changes didn't save (there was a known error which noone told me about). Luckily it was only £1000 and the guy sent it back.

In a letter wrote not instead of now. Client was a grouch and complained to me but did not make a formal complaint. It was a typing error but he made such a fuss over it.

 

[HoGi]

Accidently sent a legacy to a beneficiary twice, to be fair not 100% my fault as I had ended the form on the system but the changes didn't save (there was a known error which noone told me about). Luckily it was only £1000 and the guy sent it back.

In a letter wrote not instead of now. Client was a grouch and complained to me but did not make a formal complaint. It was a typing error but he made such a fuss over it.

People who make a fuss about human errors that have no impact on them reeeeeally grind my gears

A colleague sent a letter put last week addressed for example to Mr David James but his name was David James Smith. And he kicked up such a fuss. I said on the phone your name is David James, so strictly speaking it isn't addresses to the wrong person, we didn't include your surname. We won't do it again and I apologise. But he went on and on for about 15 minutes

 

[conrea37]

Me too! Big big mistake!!

Me three, I dated someone and it ended VERY badly (he was awful at the end), luckily time has passed now but I had the worst dread for months.

 

[Sailorontheseasea]

I used to Nanny for some very rich people (they were holes but besides the point) who lived in a big old house with awful doors and windows that were really hard to open/shut/lock etc and often shut and got stuck or locked behind you. They had no family around and I had their spare keys which were inside the house. They had 2 under the age of 3 and the mum was heavily pregnant with twins. She went off into London for the day for some shopping and I was in sole charge. She’d asked me to do some stuff in the garden while the kids were asleep so off I went…the back garden door slammed shut behind me and was fully locked. I had no keys on me, no way of getting in and the kids were on the third floor asleep

I had to call the mum and let her know what had happened and ask if there was any spare keys outside or with a neighbour…which was a no, nearly sending her into early labour. She then called her husband who talked me through breaking into the house (they literally had only 1 downstairs window of the approx 280 windows on the bottom floor of their house that didn’t have a security catch lock on it). He wasn’t very clear in his instructions and the signal so was awful as they were right in the country so I couldn’t quite hear what he was saying properly so I ended up breaking not 1…not 2…not 3 but FOUR of their downstairs windows, climbing in (by climbing I mean literally having to shuffle my large a in to a broken gap that was definitely not made for 6ft 1 large built humans) and literally plummeting face first into their antique bookcase with lots of expensive posho nicknacks on it…that mostly all broke/got chipped The whole ordeal took about an hour and when I finally got in the kids were absolutely sound asleep and the mum got home literally no longer than 10 minutes later. Let’s just say that job did not last much longer. Thank god.

 

[emm]

I used to Nanny for some very rich people (they were holes but besides the point) who lived in a big old house with awful doors and windows that were really hard to open/shut/lock etc and often shut and got stuck or locked behind you. They had no family around and I had their spare keys which were inside the house. They had 2 under the age of 3 and the mum was heavily pregnant with twins. She went off into London for the day for some shopping and I was in sole charge. She’d asked me to do some stuff in the garden while the kids were asleep so off I went…the back garden door slammed shut behind me and was fully locked. I had no keys on me, no way of getting in and the kids were on the third floor asleep

I had to call the mum and let her know what had happened and ask if there was any spare keys outside or with a neighbour…which was a no, nearly sending her into early labour. She then called her husband who talked me through breaking into the house (they literally had only 1 downstairs window of the approx 280 windows on the bottom floor of their house that didn’t have a security catch lock on it). He wasn’t very clear in his instructions and the signal so was awful as they were right in the country so I couldn’t quite hear what he was saying properly so I ended up breaking not 1…not 2…not 3 but FOUR of their downstairs windows, climbing in (by climbing I mean literally having to shuffle my large a in to a broken gap that was definitely not made for 6ft 1 large built humans) and literally plummeting face first into their antique bookcase with lots of expensive posho nicknacks on it…that mostly all broke/got chipped The whole ordeal took about an hour and when I finally got in the kids were absolutely sound asleep and the mum got home literally no longer than 10 minutes later. Let’s just say that job did not last much longer. Thank god.

on the plus side, thank god you had your phone with you