Current Events > Biggest fuck up at work that you've done that was hilarious?

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One of my first jobs I was hired seasonally at Walmart. We were unloading a truck of shrink wrapped shelves (not a product, they were for the store) when all of a sudden it starts to tilt.

The driver bails and we all step way back and WHAM that shit lands on the ground. The driver busts out laughing is fucking ass off and he was a grown man lol. All of us laughed so hard that we could barely stand. We were all in our early 20's (I was 19 but whatever) and some were in their 30s and all of us were laughing like fucking 5 year olds.

For some reason it was so fucking funny.

Obviously they got rid of all of us eventually but we didn't give a fuck lol.

I was about three weeks in to my job as a barista before someone ordered an iced tea.

Unfortunately, in that moment I realized that nobody taught me how to make iced tea.

Even more unfortunately, I am a fucking idiot.

So that is how I, straight-faced, ended up handing a cop a cup of ice water with a teabag in it.

I was driving a 80hp backhoe down a hill, brakes gave out and I ran right off a 20ft cliff.

Two huge trees caught the machine with some help of 5 smaller ones that toppled over.

Busted all the hydraulic lines, bit a hole in the seat, and took 6 trucks and a couple hours to yank it back up.

Years ago working for Office Depot.

I was told never to move pallets of paper that were stacked on top of one another. One pallet at a time!

So, I decided to move a couple pallets of paper anyway. I was by the entrance, turned a corner, the top pallet tipped and fell right on top of the front display counter which was shoved about 5, which was enough to rip out all the data lines, pulled all the PCs off the counterphones, computers, glasseverywhere.

They said, just go home for the night, well talk tomorrowthey just needed time to print my last check. I earned it my firing.

Years ago I worked at a grocery store, and the hours worked in each shift would wildly vary from week to week. One day I came in for my shift at 4pm, and was getting stared at by my co-workers. When I punched in the floor manager came over and asked what had happend this morning? Apparently my shift was supposed to start at 11 am, and I had my dates mixed up.

I said "well, need help now? I'm here to work!"

He was like "no, go home"

I didn't get fired, but I didn't get promoted at that job ever either.

LincolnDuncan posted...

Years ago I worked at a grocery store, and the hours worked in each shift would wildly vary from week to week. One day I came in for my shift at 4pm, and was getting stared at by my co-workers. When I punched in the floor manager came over and asked what had happend this morning? Apparently my shift was supposed to start at 11 am, and I had my dates mixed up.

I said "well, need help now? I'm here to work!"

He was like "no, go home"

I didn't get fired, but I didn't get promoted at that job ever either.

Why didnt they just call you? Fucking managers man.

When I worked at Mervyn's, there was a flatbed dolly that the truck team would use to move lots of product around the store. I can't remember why, but I had to take it outside the store for some reason. I started trying to ride on it like it was a scooter.

The FUCKING HANDLE BARS CAME OFF AND THE FLATBED WENT ROLLING INTO THE PARKING LOT.

Me: *Running after it* OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT NONONONONONONO

The flatbed rolled right under a car, but didn't hit it. I was running hard AF and was able to stop it before it rolled into the street.

I don't think anyone else saw

Drunk Cobra posted...

hy didnt they just call you? f***ing managers man.

Seriously. Apparently, it wasn't something they did as a store and I do not know the reason. If you didn't show up for your shift it wasn't their duty to call you apparently, but they'd call you the fuck right up on your day off to ask you to work.

I drank a bottle of whiskey and kicked holes in the wall.

I still work there to this day and never got in trouble for it.

synth_real posted...

I drank a bottle of whiskey and kicked holes in the wall.

I still work there to this day and never got in trouble for it.

being a pilot is tight

CableZL posted...

When I worked at Mervyn's, there was a flatbed dolly that the truck team would use to move lots of product around the store. I can't remember why, but I had to take it outside the store for some reason. I started trying to ride on it like it was a scooter.

The FUCKING HANDLE BARS CAME OFF AND THE FLATBED WENT ROLLING INTO THE PARKING LOT.

Me: *Running after it* OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT NONONONONONONO

The flatbed rolled right under a car, but didn't hit it. I was running hard AF and was able to stop it before it rolled into the street.

I don't think anyone else saw

Lol a pallet jack? We used to ride those like scooters in the warehouse too

AlCalavicci posted...

Lol a pallet jack? We used to ride those like scooters in the warehouse too

This one wasn't a pallet jack. It was kinda like that except it was just a flatbed that didn't lift.

CableZL posted...

This one wasn't a pallet jack. It was kinda like that except it was just a flatbed that didn't lift.

Like those flat carts at Home Depot, I'm guessing.

DrizztLink posted...

Like those flat carts at Home Depot, I'm guessing.

Yeah

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I was working overnight in an office that had 24/7 operations. I returned from lunch around 2AM and the burger I had gotten from Wendy's was cold so I decided to quickly zap it in the microwave. It was wrapped inside out and I had forgotten about the foil on their wraps so it quickly caught fire. It never got out of the microwave but it singed it enough that I had left my mark.

My supervisor (she was hot) witnessed the whole thing and laughed her ass off and never let me live it down.

CornPop posted...

I was working overnight in an office that had 24/7 operations. I returned from lunch around 2AM and the burger I had gotten from Wendy's was cold so I decided to quickly zap it in the microwave. It was wrapped inside out and I had forgotten about the foil on their wraps so it quickly caught fire. It never got out of the microwave but it singed it enough that I had left mark.

My supervisor (she was hot) witnessed the whole thing and laughed her ass off and never let me live it down.

If you wanted a flame-cooked burger you should have gone to BK

Ill never live this down, but... in my very first job at 16... they told me to mop the floor. Well nobody said how. So I went back to the mop area, dumped in half a bottle of bleach and half a bottle of ammonia and went to mopping... in this tiny one room drive thru only burger joint called PD Quix. Somebody figured out what I did and started screaming. I got yelled at and they opened all the windows and doors.

Nobody died and I learned some chemistry.

The elevator at work got stuck. It happened often enough that we all knew how to fix it. Just go in the back and flip the power off and back on for it.

Well, we were really busy and my coworker started screaming at me to fix the elevator. I asked what was wrong with it and she went off yelling at me to to "Reset it NOW!!!"
So I went to the elevator and asked the people gathered in front of anyone was inside. They all said no. So I reset it and when I came back out there was a lady screaming and crying out front.

Turns out it was NOT empty. She was inside on the upper floor when I reset it and she thought it was going fall. My coworker had to take the rest of the evening off to relax because it was so stressful on her(lies to get out of doing anything). She also threw me right under the bus even though I admitted to what happened.

Management thought it was hilarious though.

Never really fucked up in a big way. When I worked at Subway, I undercooked a whole oven worth of bread, which was a waste of like 20 loaves.

Not a huge deal, and I was making minimum wage so fuck 'em.

was handling a girls account and when it came time to ask her "is there anything else I can do for you" i somehow managed to say "is there anything else i can do to you?"

we both laughed but it was p embarrassing