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What is the worst thing YOU have done in work?

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  • 18-03-2014 1:37pm
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    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭


    Is there anything you have done while in work that really, really should have gotten you fired on the spot?

    I don't have a guilty conscience or anything :D haha as I am always the model professional in the workplace. Actually, I am on here while at work! :-/

    Dying to hear some juicy stories...


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    **Paging Dav**


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    hairyprincess
    Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    You show me yours and I'll show you mine


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    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    py2006 wrote: »
    Is there anything you have done while in work that really, really should have gotten you fired on the spot?

    I don't have a guilty conscience or anything :D haha as I am always the model professional in the workplace. Actually, I am on here while at work! :-/

    Dying to hear some juicy stories...

    I once took a penny and never put one back. I think I might have started this whole recession thing lads.


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    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    I did see a workmate fall for opening an attachment that shouts your watching porn full blast over the speakers.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Set a fridge load of cheese destined for McDonalds in Holland at +19C instead of -19C and blamed it on the driver. (By rights, he should have checked it) By all accounts there was a sea of cheesy sludge all along the A66 in England.

    That's not the worse thing I've ever done, but the worst I'm admitting to here at lunchtime on a sober Tuesday.


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    on the river
    Registered Users Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭on the river


    had some 'time to myself' and got caught. very embarrasing.


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Set a fridge load of cheese destined for McDonalds in Holland at +19C instead of -19C and blamed it on the driver. (By rights, he should have checked it) By all accounts there was a sea of cheesy sludge all along the A66 in England.

    That's not the worse thing I've ever done, but the worst I'm admitting to here at lunchtime on a sober Tuesday.

    Pity it was McDonald's. If it had of been nacho cheese, it would have been nacho problem.

    /runs. :o


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    work.


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    AndonHandon
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    Wanked.


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    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I used to do night security in a factory which was falling apart, full of workers and management who hated security, and which paid really badly. I had access to the canteen store room. Crappy as it was, I never wanted for Special K, sugar or mustard while I worked there.


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    syklops
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    Cue three pages of "One of the guys in work was telling me..."


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    Tzardine
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    Sarky wrote: »
    I used to do night security in a factory which was falling apart, full of workers and management who hated security, and which paid really badly. I had access to the canteen store room. Crappy as it was, I never wanted for Special K, sugar or mustard while I worked there.

    As a night security officer was it not your job to protect the Special K, sugar and mustard ? :)


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    Deise Vu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭Deise Vu


    I didn't spot a pricing error made by a junior colleague for about 18 months by which time the customer owed us an additional €120K over what had been billed. I'll never forget the day I spotted it, I now know where the phrase 'my heart ran cold' comes from. It was a lot of money to my employers (though obviously not crucial!). We eventually got €90K out of the bollix of a customer who were merrilly paying us a rate they knew was wrong. I was dead man walking from that day until I left with my tail between my legs.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Sarky wrote: »
    I used to do night security in a factory which was falling apart, full of workers and management who hated security, and which paid really badly. I had access to the canteen store room. Crappy as it was, I never wanted for Special K, sugar or mustard while I worked there.
    Did you know that you could have put Special K in your tea as a sugar substitute because there's that much sugar in it? And you would have been a 1/3 less guilty of stealing in the process?
    :pac:


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    littlelulu
    Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭littlelulu


    Accidentally put an envelope into the external box (for the post office) instead of the internal box to the external buildings.

    The envelope contained receipts..... LOTS of receipts and invoices that we had to submit to the finance department for bills to be paid and for our department to be reimbursed.

    That envelope is probably still on its way around Ireland looking for the recipient :/

    I never admitted to it and assured them I had put it into the right box.


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    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Leave to study for a Masters degree just before the recession. :(


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    #18
    rockbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,548 ✭✭✭rockbeast


    She was called "Big Jen" and to this day I get abuse for it...

    Shame on Rockbeast


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    Northern Monkey
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Set a fridge load of cheese destined for McDonalds in Holland at +19C instead of -19C and blamed it on the driver. (By rights, he should have checked it) By all accounts there was a sea of cheesy sludge all along the A66 in England.

    That's not the worse thing I've ever done, but the worst I'm admitting to here at lunchtime on a sober Tuesday.

    I know someone who did that with a container load of frozen chickens!


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    on the river wrote: »
    had some 'time to myself' and got caught. very embarrasing.

    Go on... *heavy breathing* :P


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    rockbeast
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    on the river wrote: »
    had some 'time to myself' and got caught. very embarrasing.

    Is that you "Sticky"? :D


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    razorblunt
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    Louise Kennedy glass vase, £800 (2000) price tag, top shelf 15 feet up, gravity.

    None of the glass spilled out of the box, put back up, pushed to the back and never spoken about again.
    For a first job that's not bad!


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    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    Wanked.


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    rockbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,548 ✭✭✭rockbeast


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Louise Kennedy glass vase, £800 (2000) price tag, top shelf 15 feet up, gravity.

    None of the glass spilled out of the box, put back up, pushed to the back and never spoken about again.
    For a first job that's not bad!

    Razor Sharp there, so you were!:cool:


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    #25
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Swapped the tyres off the company van with my own.


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    razorblunt
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    rockbeast wrote: »
    Razor Sharp there, so you were!:cool:

    That was the blunt era!


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    on the river
    Registered Users Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭on the river


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Go on... *heavy breathing* :P

    where do i start (sigh)

    after the deed was done the boss told me never ever do that during office hours.

    she said i was free to do anything during overtime because she woundnt be their .

    i know the boss (a women) has been too kind after that and always gives me overtime. :cool:


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    rockbeast
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    on the river wrote: »
    where do i start (sigh)

    after the deed was done the boss told me never ever do that during office hours.

    she said i was free to do anything during overtime because he woundnt be their .

    i know the boss (a women) has been too kind after that and always gives me overtime. :cool:

    Supervised by her? :eek:


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    left the tap running on the floor in a nightclub I worked at, upstairs, for hours.

    Hmm I think that cost in the 10's of thousands of damage. :-o


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    rockbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,548 ✭✭✭rockbeast


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    left the tap running on the floor in a nightclub I worked at, upstairs, for hours.

    Hmm I think that cost in the 10's of thousands of damage. :-o

    The Ocean Bar?

    I heard they closed down recently:pac:


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    Sir Chops
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 133 ✭✭Sir Chops


    py2006 wrote: »
    Is there anything you have done while in work that really, really should have gotten you fired on the spot?

    I don't have a guilty conscience or anything :D haha as I am always the model professional in the workplace. Actually, I am on here while at work! :-/

    Dying to hear some juicy stories...

    Found a lass's hair bobbin on her desk. Put it around my balls and lower shaft and had a fap in the jax. Handed it back to her. She put it on her hair. Thought it might have some affect on her but no she stuck with her bf.


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