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What is the worst thing YOU have done in work?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭padma


    sopretty wrote: »
    Were they not raging that you didn't bring them to the pub? :eek:

    I never asked they seemed happy with it, plus it was a midweek early afternoon. I looked upon it as a last team building exercise...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    padma wrote: »
    I never asked they seemed happy with it, plus it was a midweek early afternoon. I looked upon it as a last team building exercise...

    I suppose anything is better than work! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Most of my screwups are caused by me being afraid to screwup in another way...

    Anxiety can be a bitch

    Most of them are petty anyway in hindsight, but the fact that I'm a social retard doesn't help.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Dartz wrote: »
    Most of my screwups are caused by me being afraid to screwup in another way...

    Anxiety can be a bitch

    Most of them are petty anyway in hindsight, but the fact that I'm a social retard doesn't help.

    Lol

    Yes, the fear of f**ping up is a wee bit of a disaster for the old anxiety. Entering the extra digit that one time made me paranoid about entering figures into anything binding. Sweet Jebus I'd have to check and check and check until I was seeing zeros in my dreams at the end! :D


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,992 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    I once sent off an international funds transfer request form with a decimal point in the wrong place, changing the amount from 75k to 750k. Luckily at the time these transfers were still faxed up to a department and put through from there, so as soon as I saw the fax confirmation and realised what I had done, I rang them and got them to pull the request before they wired the money. I actually nearly shat myself when I read the fax copy. Even thinking about it now gives me the heebie jeebies and this was about 10 years ago.

    In one of my old jobs I worked in a diy store with a garden centre. Towards the end of my time there was starting to lose the will to live, the job was crap and a lot of the nice people who worked there had either left or gotten transferred. Anyhoo there was this section down the back where the indoor plants were, and they had a load of those trestle table/ bench things with the fancy plants displayed on them and then more plants on the floor in front of the benches. I spent a good portion of my day hiding under the benches behind all the plants playing my game boy, even managed to get in a few naps. Good times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭thefishone


    Remenber, if you **** up at work, don't panic and keep quiet, cause give it a week and someone esle will have ****ed up more and the attention moves away from you :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Dartz


    sopretty wrote: »
    Lol

    Yes, the fear of f**ping up is a wee bit of a disaster for the old anxiety. Entering the extra digit that one time made me paranoid about entering figures into anything binding. Sweet Jebus I'd have to check and check and check until I was seeing zeros in my dreams at the end! :D

    Been there.

    It's hideous. There is something definitely wrong somewhere in the back of my head sometimes because I can't put my finger on what it us...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Dartz


    thefishone wrote: »
    Remenber, if you **** up at work, don't panic and keep quiet, cause give it a week and someone esle will have ****ed up more and the attention moves away from you :o

    Doesn't work when there're only two other people in the office....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭growleaves




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  • Posts: 883 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to work on Motorways as a project manager.


    Some days if I was near home I would head away and do all my calls at home. I was earning 60 euro an hour at the time and would be at home watching TV taking around a call and hour, then head back to see the office lads and head home.


    Ah I miss 2006 !!!



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Allowing myself to be relentlessly bullied by my new boss to the point of being suicidal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Putting up with an obnoxious prick for over eleven years. When I think back on it I really did have the patience of Job to put up with all his nastiness for so long. Nowadays I'm in a different department, just one floor up from where I used to work with him. I blank him now any time I see him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭Durag


    Not really 'in' work but I once went on an almighty bender and called in sick the next day. Hadnt slept at all, continued drinking all day, left the pub in a bad way in the middle of the day, guards were called, I was arrested and thrown in cells. Had to appear in court, received a large fine and a conviction. The local newspaper happened to be there, printed the case in the paper and noted the date which was the date I called in sick. Boss seen it and the rest is history. G'luck job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭eggy81


    Wasn’t a million miles from burning down the library in Ucd back in around 2007 ish. Lucky escape.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,350 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    doing other peoples work!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭onrail


    I once spent €808,000 on a printer that couldn't fit in the door of the printing room.

    The boss promoted me and increased my bonus that year. My next job was to manage the development of a children's hospital....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭Samuri Suicide


    Oh how after hours/boards has fallen since the update



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    It is hard to find topics now. And it doesn’t list the topics chronologically



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    Posted in 2014. Wonder where he is now. Either in jail or signing on regularly in his local Garda station, I should think.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭onrail




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,577 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Not work, but back in the late 80's I was volunteering at a Christmas party in a nursing home (State owned), when I was 14 or 15. There were two buckets of punch; one alcoholic, one non-alcoholic. I was wheeling these around and doling them out in paper cups to the residents who were bed ridden. There were two different coloured stickers on the beds and one crowd were supposed not to get alcohol under any circumstances. Sometimes to do with medication, some had dementia, some were life long Pioneers (Teetotalers).

    Dozy bollix that I was at 14, I wasn't paying attention to what the nurse said and I got the colours mixed up.

    I was going around with some idiot in his 50's from the local Rotary Club, he was also Captain of the local Golf Club and an all round egositical tosser. He did nothing, just shook hands, I did all the work.

    20 minutes in and the first people started to get sick, or go mad. One of the nurses copped what was up and came after me. (The residents who were allowed to drink alcohol were also complaining that their punch was crap as there was no alcohol in it). There was uproar, I was getting berated by the tosser from the Rotary Club until one of the nurses told him that he should have been paying attention and then they started to blame him. I was told to go home.

    I'll never forget walking back through the wards, the smell of vomit and people roaring at each other after a few mouthfuls of alcohol. never heard anything about it after that, but I never forgot it either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Lil Fred




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 truthseekerxz


    I often call into the office at night to poo or rouse my own toilet paper



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,080 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    I deleted emails I was supposed to open and answer. let the wind blow away files one time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Took cocaine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    Oh actually when I was 18 years old, I worked at a café.


    One day while I was mopping the floor, one of the plugs from the rice cooker fell fully into the mop bucket, submerged fully in the water.


    I was terrified of getting into trouble, so I didn't say anything, and the next morning I watched the woman who worked with me, take the plug and put it in the wall as normal and she got a huge shock...


    Awful I know!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,894 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Wtf



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