I was telling my boss (V.P. of the company) about a girl that I had picked up over the weekend. I mentioned the local bar where she worked. He asked her first name................. Paul Harvey would have said; "You already know......the rest of the story."

I went into the restroom at a new place of employment and urinated into the thing in the room that most closely resembled a urinal. A guy in tie came in behind me and said "That's not a urinal" as walked into the next room where the urinals and toilets were.

WOW

Uh... loaded $45000 worth of sales wrong. Missed a full year's worth of sales from a vendor because they reported them to someone else in the company... All of which were easily fixed.

My spouse however gave away around 50,000 ebooks due to a email miss-read. The company had no choice but to shrug it off.

I was giving a theft report to our very high powered, big name businessmen Board of Directors audit committee. I mentioned that there had been a defalcation (a good word meaning fraud) but my enunciation could have been a bit better, because what they all heard me say was a defecation in our company. I NEVER lived that one down with them!!!!

I work in IT, and in the past have worked in roles that involved maintaining company servers.

My worst screwup was the night I accidentally wiped the data off one of the production servers for our biggest client.

For those who are curious, I was replacing a failed hard drive in a server with a RAID-1 array. When it failed to recognize the new drive, the tech on the phone told me to pull the drive, reboot, put the drive back in, and then reinitialize the RAID-1 array. Unfortunately, in my 2 AM sleepless stupor, when I reinitialized it I selected the option to make it a RAID-0 array. So, all data for the array got BLOWN AWAY in the process. This is why you take backups...

I had an email that started out as a company generated email and then some personal comments were added to it later. Since our company has a policy against use of company equipment on company time for personal matters I forwarded the email to my home email address since I had the home email address of the coworker I was having the discussion with (intending to finish the conversation later on my own time), and since I was in a hurry because I worked in a call center where calls and stats mean everything, I did one of those "too quick to click" mistakes and sent the email off without realizing that there was a lone SSN in there! I realized it the SECOND it happened and sunk in my chair, heart pounding, sweat pouring. Fortunately the company firewall is programmed to look for things that resemble SSNs and snag them before they leave the company Intranet, so no one's private information was ever truly at risk. Unfortunately, my company decided to assume the worst about me and fire me anyway. Probably just making an example of me, but 6 months later, I'm still out of work.

had an issue with a co-worker...just rubbed me the wrong way. one day i was listening to a song on my desk dvd player and he walked by and said something like, 'yeah, i figured you'd like a cheesy song like that.' i lost it...picked up a heavy metal hole-punch and hit him on the head over and over until he was lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood and...other things. yep...you guessed it. i was fired!

I accidentally my entire company.

While in college I worked at a convenience store. One time the fountain drink machine stopped working. I called the local coca-cola bottling company to request that they come repair their machine. Per policy, I am supposed to write down the time and date I called and the name of the person I spoke with. So, at the end of the conversation I asked for the lady's name that I was speaking with. She replied, Ms. Coke. Then she quickly asked what my name was. I replied, Mr 7-Eleven. She screamed back, COKE, spelled K-O-C-H!

I hung up.

My worst mistake:

Not putting a fist into the mouth of my supervisor the day that I quit.

When I was a server in college I was carrying drinks to a table where the two owners and manager of the restaurant were seated. I realized about half way there that the bottom of the tray was wet and as carefully as I tried to unload the drinks, the tray slid and hit one owner and splashed iced tea all over everyone. I was embarrassed in the moment, but later find humor in it because I really disliked the owners.

My best friend and I used to work together, so I had her work email address saved in my personal email account. She left the company but I never deleted that email address. I sent a scathing email to her outside of office hours about another co-worker in an attempt to find some humor in a bad situation. (That other co-worker was really making my days horrendous.) In error, I sent that email to her old work address, which I later found out got forwarded to the VP of her old department. That VP contacted me and told me to "be more careful." I was eventually laid off from the company, and got a good reference, but I suspect this incident was made known to the powers-that-be.

I was cleaning out an ex-boss's desk, as we were moving. He wasn't in the office; we were packing his stuff. My co-worker and I were opening drawers and putting things from his credenza into boxes when suddenly, something fell out. I didn't know what it was at first glance, nor did my co-worker, but she picked it up. Immediately, she realized it was a used condom. We could not imagine what that was doing there, considering he was married and we were the only 2 women in the office (neither of us had any interest in a man in his 60s like him), and we hadn't slept with him. VERY awkward, and gtross.

Not really MY fault, but I was working in a photo lab, in charge of ordering supplies. We were low on 8x10 color paper, so I ordered 10 100 sheet boxes (this material HAS to be refrigerated, or it's worthless...) Got a call about 2 weeks later from shipping asking how I wanted the photo paper delivered. Told him I would drive over and pick it up - told me to bring a semi-trailer. ME: "What?! For 10 boxes?" HIM: "No, 10,000!" --he had a railcar full of paper, refrigerated. Can't imagine what that cost to send back....

Ordered light bulbs sometime later for spotlights. Needed one- got 100 . At our rate of usage they would have lasted 4,000 years.

I was foolish enough to believe in the "open door policy" and spoke with my supervisor about not being happy at the job. Needless to say that open door ended up being in the floor. The boss met with me a week later and told me he heard I wasn't happy and was letting me go because of it. Those were literally his words. Here it is over one year later and I am still unable to find work. Never again will I trust an open door policy!

I had 500 postcards designed and printed to handout at a major tradeshow touting a new product. After a day of handing them out, my boss realized that the web address was wrong.

To painful ..

First phone call on a new job at seventeen years old: (ME) "Hello, this is Gene >>>>>, may I help you?" "I need to speak to Dean>>>>>" "May I ask who is calling?" "Eugene Johnson." "No, I'm Gene >>>>>." I spent five minutes trying to convince this person that I was not Gene Johnson. Duh.

Oh, and in the middle of a meeting, at a moment between speakers, and without a warning or even a stomach rumble - I farted. I saw people start to giggle so I just said, "Well, there you have it."

I sent a letter to the state department of public health and left the 'L' out of the word public....it was posted on their wall of shame. HEY! I've worked a very, very long time.

Now is a nice time to be OLD.

I've worked for about 42 years now.

I know that I've made a multitude of embarrassing mistakes over the years but I can't remember any of them.

I was kissing a woman on board my cruise ship and ran it aground.....Oooops...

I failed to check blood donors to see if they were on the "lifetime deferred" registry over a period of time. They test for diseases anyway but then they wonder "how in the hell did that person even make it through". It involved not clicking on a specific box or clicking "no" for everyone. Before I was fired I sugested they make their new software more user friendly & not make u click a bunch of tedious menus.

They werent happy as they had to notify people that recieved blood that it could have come from someone with something awful; but not to worry because hopefully they screened it out! Its just something where u dont think of the full effect of ones actions down the road. They still need more user friendly software!

I'm a doctor. I once did open heart surgery on a patient and accidentally replaced his heart with his liver. He died:(

I created a fake email address under a gmail account to play a game called spyVSspy which is a game played with Nerf guns. I invited a few guys I work with to play the game where you basically try to "assassinate" people playing the game in secret around the office. One of them didn't realize it came from me and forwarded it along to our IT department as a potential security breach. I almost got fired over that one.... :(