People Are Sharing The Biggest Mistakes They’ve Made At Work And Oh My God
"I once deleted the BBC comedy website."
After being asked to share by Steve Doherty, people on Twitter are publicly airing the biggest fuck-ups they’ve made at their jobs, and it’s chilling stuff.
We all probably know this feeling to some degree. You commit to the daily grind, go to work and do your best, but inevitably at some point you make a mistake, and have to deal with the consequences. We spend so much time at work, it’s virtually impossible to remain flawless. It can feel awful, and like it’s the end of the world. That’s why the responses to Steve Doherty’s callout, asking people to share their biggest mistake, is so damn good.
What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work? I once accidentally erased a section of the master tape for a Radio 4 Afternoon Play. It still haunts me.
— Steve Doherty (@SteveDoherty1) February 27, 2020
It shows us that we are not alone in the world, and that even if you make gigantic, sometimes unforgivable mistakes, life will go on, and you’ll live to share the tale online. Next time you fuck up, just remember, a newspaper will probably never write a pun headline about you.
21 years ago I reviewed a Meat Loaf gig for a newspaper without attending the gig (I was ill/an idiot). An hour after publication the paper called to inform me that the gig had, in fact, been cancelled. I was sacked. The Sun wrote a piece about it. The headline: “MEAT OAF”.
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) February 27, 2020
And you’ll probably never cost a company millions of dollars while simultaneously wrecking the environment.
I’ve said on here before – years ago I left a cell in a spreadsheet empty instead of inserting a “1”. This led to eight million dollars being spent drilling an oil well in the North Sea that shouldn’t have been drilled.
— Count Mysterioso (@MysteriosoX) February 27, 2020
Or delete everything.
I once deleted the BBC comedy website.
— Kat Sommers (@dogwinters) February 27, 2020
You might spill or break something, but it’s not likely you’ll accidentally publish an ad featuring parts of the vagina instead of a car, or totally destroy the place.
Night editing a paper I let an ad-feature for Volvo slip through in which every mention of the car maker’s name had been autocorrected to vulva.
— David Banks (@DBanksy) February 27, 2020
I once tried to print a large document 180,000 times which lead to both me and the printers having a meltdown, it took IT hours to solve.
— Aletta ? (@Lettybird) February 27, 2020
I once started a fire when giving a fire safety lecture to my staff team
— Bernard Pearson (@BernardPearso19) February 27, 2020
And you almost definitely won’t kidnap a small child.
17ish years old and had a summer job as a summer scheme leader. In the first week we took a bunch of 6-10 year olds to a balloon festival. I counted them off the bus then back on and only realised when we got back that the small crying child wasn’t one of ours.
— Linda at SeaSugar Confectionery #propersweets? (@seasugarsweets) February 27, 2020
Oh yeah, this is the good stuff. This is what we go to Twitter for, to hear these kinds of stories and feel better about ourselves. It’s worth checking out the whole thread, especially on a day your boss yells at you.