WORKPLACE SCREWUPS

(October, 2020) Reddit ran a thread asking for Workplace Screwups. Here are a few:
– “I was a bartender. I knocked down the entire top shelf. Thousands of dollars in liquor.”
– “I worked at a McDonald’s and accidentally fell in the ice maker right at the beginning of my shift. They had to close the restaurant for the rest of the day to dump out and sanitize the machine.”
– “On my first day of teaching chemistry I set my classroom on fire after mixing sodium, water and a glass tank. The glass tank exploded, there was shattered glass everywhere and hit the students, who were all wearing safety glasses. A column of water grew from the glass tank to the ceiling and the ceiling started to burn. The fire died out, but the fire alarm was loud and I had to make sure all of the students were ok. Which they were.”
– “I measured something on a construction site and was off by a foot. It wasn’t discovered until it cost $150,000 to remedy the mistake.”
– “During the first week of my first job in animation I had to move a bunch of scene files from one server to another. I accidentally put them in a wrong area and without thinking just deleted them. I lost 5 minutes of full animation, my direct supervisor worked for 21 days straight to help redo all the animation.”
– “I decided it would be funny to play a prank on the line cook. I set all five of our microwaves to go off at the same time. Only problem is they were empty, and I set them all for a minute each. They all caught fire.”
– “I worked in a nice steakhouse. First week, I accidentally put salt in the sugar bowls and sugar in the salt shakers. Customers started to complain about their sweet steaks and salty coffees. My last day as a waiter.”
– “I slammed a forklift into a Camaro.”
* See? There are dumb people all over. You are not alone.
* Imagine if a radio DJ left his mike on and, like, dropped his phone and the glass cracked and he cursed and cursed and cursed until one of the engineers turned his mike off! Ha-ha-ha-ha! I can’t believe how much it cost to fix that phone.
* Here’s a workplace screwup: “I was supposed to make sure Trump wore his mask inside the White House, but after awhile I just stopped trying.”
* There should be a law that you don’t have to tell anybody your name until after your first week on the job, in case you screw up and need to make a clean getaway.
* PHONE TOPIC: What was your worst Workplace Screwup?