Most embarrassing moment at work

[Dustbuster]

Let's hear your story. I was on 3 rd shift on break talking w my girlfriend, when I came out off break I heard this rap song by nwa and then I saw my car:





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[NRA]

for real?

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

says Laredo PD.. so .. no.. its a joke

[runco]

I believe in the original movie Robocop, I remember a scene with a police car on blocks with the wheels stolen.  Or it could have been another mid 80s movie.

[Monkeyman2500]

Knew a bunch of metro pd guys back around 2000. All came in the deli I worked at. They had a new guy with them and one day he's on a call in the getto and chases after a guy leaving his car behind. When he gets back the locals had stripped everything they could get off it. Being a rookie he caught a hard time.

[Dustbuster]

The Laredo thing probably happened not to me though


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[Mark A]

Back in my restaurant days when my bartenders got slammed I would get behind the bar and help. Usually I worked the service bar so the regular bartenders could work their customers.

After finishing a couple of drinks I sensed someone out of the corner of my eye. I spun around and said: " yes ma'am... Sir... Ma'am...


Needless to say, she wasn't happy with me. Toughest looking girl I've ever seen...


Mark

[NoBanStan]

I was approving Windows updates for install at an office. I sent out an email to all of the users letting them know "Windows updates are being installed this evening. Please be sure to save all your work before you finish your sh*t". Apparently I missed the f in shift. It went to around 500 people.

[jcj]

Not mine, but our receptionist sent out an email about a lost piece of jewelry. The email ended with "Please the security guard immediately to identify and claim the item." Bet the guard was happy...

[Guest TankerHC]

I was in a launch meeting with the VP of Comcast, the regional VP, my boss, my boss's boss, VP of Marketing, and a whole lot of other people who's title began with "VP of". The meeting was a launch meeting that was covering the whole State when we moved from @Home to our own servers and service. I knew about this meeting for 2 weeks before it was taking place, everyone was arriving the night before and staying in hotels. I lived 100 miles away from the location of the meeting and figured, eh, Ill just get up early and drive on down. I woke up later than expected, had to shower get dressed and take off. Made the meeting with plenty of time to spare. Went in the conference room and sat down. So the meeting is going on and I and marketing are bumping heads, I lean back and had my hands clasped together in my lap, crossed one leg of the other and "What the hell, I wore black pants to this meeting, and I have on a brown shoe, could have swore I put on my black shoes". I was moving fast to make the meeting. To look, I crossed my other leg over and I had on one black shoe and one brown shoe! Now this might not seem to be the biggest problem to anyone, but ask anyone here what happens in a meeting like that if they were to see one of their coworkers with one black shoe and one brown shoe, and the worst part was this wasnt one black and one really dark brown I could get away with, this was light brown, nearly tan shoe and black, almost patent leather black shoe and on top of that they were two entirely different types of shoes, the brown one had a brass buckle and the black one was loafer style with the flopped down tongue and the little dangly things. These two shoes had no relationship to each other in any form or fashion.   At that point I no longer became a participant in the meeting, I spent the next 45 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to do two things. 1. Get out of the meeting without anyone seeing my black and brown pair of shoes, and 2. I knew what was coming at the lunch break, because it was always the same. And that was, the VP was going to ask the regional VP where a good restaurant was and we were all going to have to go. So my plan consisted of Phase 1. If I waited for everyone to leave first then I move fast enough, I can keep them from seeing my shoes. and Phase 2. I came up with an excuse why I needed to take my own truck, rather than pile in with everyone else in several SUV's,  which would allow me just enough time to get to Walmart around the corner to grab a pair of black shoes. 

 

Phase one failed. I waited but the GM, Regional Engineer and VP of marketing wouldn't leave, at least not with enough time for me to make a pit stop to Walmart They kept talking. Then the GM of course says "Everyone can ride with me". They all got up and I sat there with my Laptop still open, tried making some excuse about having to answering an Email or something. Didn't work. Had to get up. Didn't take 3 seconds and the Marketing VP burst out laughing and the GM gave her the funny "What are you laughing about" look and she just pointed down and I'm standing there with the VP of Marketing, the Regional Engineer and the GM all about to piss their pants from laughing so hard. 

 

I figured well, this is it. Not only is the Company VP going to know, so is every "VP of" everything and since that VP was the owner of Comcast's son in law and once a month they all held a "State of the Company" video/calling conference for every employee where the employee's could call in and get questions answered from the top, I had no doubt the VP would make a joke out of it.

 

I left in my car anyway, ran and got another pair of shoes from Walmart and since I had not time to try on any shoes I ended up the rest of the day in meetings wearing shoes a size too small, so unconformable I seriously considered just going to the remainder of the meeting with my two completely different shoes, but didnt. It was never mentioned again above the regional VP level, but it made for a lot of laugh's at my expense in several meetings afterwards.

 

Fortunately it never got out of the realm of management. Because when those Line Techs, Installers and Service Techs found out something about one of their fellow employees...well it was brutal (Funny brutal).

You can sit in a meeting and defend your position on why you should or should not do something. There is no defense against wearing two entirely different shoes to work, especially in a meeting like that.  

Edited January 27, 2014 by TankerHC

[seez52]

Dang, I thought it say "Lebanon" on the car!