Worst thing you've done in a job without being sacked?

[tickler28]

Once went to the sick room as had a migraine. Fell asleep and woke up when it was time to go home....nobody cared

[SouthStandUpperTier]

7 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

I always wondered what security guards actually did.

 

Always seemed like an easy job.

[Free Falling Foxes]

When I was an apprentice, I pinched a reel of wire. I stuffed it up my coat and at the very moment I walked past the foreman to leave, it fell out onto the floor

This was on a Friday and I was sweating all weekend expecting I would be given the sack on Monday morning.

Fortunately for me, nothing was even mentioned.

 

[Foxmeister]

Away on a stock take I got very pissed, accidentally set off the fire alarm in the hotel at 3am, it had to be evacuated and they closed the North Circular as a result. Arrived at warehouse still pissed and fell asleep in the racking for several hours.
 

I was called to the MD’s office on the Monday and despite expecting the worse was given a £100 bonus for helping with the transport.

[Basingstoke Fox]

Had a supermarket job during my younger years which was for the most part great fun with mates I still have now. But I was absolutely fuming to finish one evening & see that a colleague went through with his threat to spray silly string all over my beloved first car. 

 

Handily I was in the perfect place to buy a few ingredients during lunch break the following day. So I went straight to his newly purchased, chavved up Beamer & baked a cake on it. Firstly with a few eggs, then milk all over (perfect for a boiling hot day) and flour to stick to the milk. Finally bananas up the twin exhaust. 

 

The lad was raging & started chasing after my car with a tyre iron before I got away & hid it nearby. When I returned, I saw him speeding away across the car park in a rage. He probably thought he looked cool with the loud exhaust (debatable ofc), but the noise was actually choking & spluttering because it was stuffed full of banana (which still makes me laugh now).

 

Although I'd covered up my uniform someone recognised me & grassed me into customer services. Was sent straight to the managers office when returning from the lunch break & suspended with pay. Part of me thought that was a result, but it was all sorted within a few hours anyway. We made up & had to clean up the car park floor that same afternoon. I can't imagine how ridiculous it looked.  

 

This was out of character for me even back then, but I bloody loved that Fiesta & had to put it right.

[FerrisBueller]

I used to regularly claim I was going out to a job site, then just drive to Birmingham or something, grab a maccies and then look at guitars.

[Lambert09]

My biggest screw up, (technically wasn’t me) 

 

I was drafting an important confidential email and used a template from another client and was just going to edit the numbers and names, usual stuff. But before I was able to change any of the stuff my cat  jumped on the keyboard and off it went. 
 

A real lesson to not put in the email address until it’s ready to go. 
 

is there any chance vestry’s dog has been hitting send on the team sheets on twitter and ruud has just had to stick with it? 

Edited Monday at 14:11 by Lambert09

[Aus Fox]

I was once the director of a fairly large business, I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing or how I got into the position, other than getting friendly with the new owners when they took over. Amongst my many fook ups along the way, I was in charge of purchasing large assets, all I had to do to complete the purchase was send off a fax before the deadline. 
I had no idea how to fax anything, and by the time I had got the cleaner in to help me fax it, it was 14 seconds after deadline. We still had to pay the substantial fee for the asset, but we’re not allowed to use it for the next 6 months until the next asset registration period began.

I have also been pretty poor in recruiting new staff, with numerous fook ups, including letting people go who the business needed, and keeping people around for a substantial amount of time, because they were good lads to have around.

I won’t go I to too many details of my fook ups, but still not been sacked yet!

 

[izzymuzzet]

Early in my career, prepared a briefing note on a politician my boss was meeting. Included an analysis of his approach to meetings, guidance on how to approach particular issues, loads of juicy gossip and rumours about his personal life.

 

Accidentally sent it to the politician rather than my boss.

[sylofox]

Punched the assistant manager at the corn exchange.

[Gamble92]

29 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Punched the assistant manager at the corn exchange.

We need more of the story than this 

[adejo92]

Lied and said i was a professional footballer for a laugh.

 

Ended up getting signed and given the No.20 shirt at some Midlands club.

 

Still pay my wages to this day.

[jonthefox]

Banged the bosses daughter and tried to give her the elbow on Monday morning 

[sylofox]

30 minutes ago, Gamble92 said:

We need more of the story than this 

He walked behind the bar and touched me up. So I shoved him back and punched him sitting him on his arse. He told me I was sacked so I corrected him telling him I'd just resigned. The manager stopped me walking out asking what was up so I told him and he told me to go back to work.

 

The assistant manager threatened to report us both to head office and the manager said fine.

 

Paul's reporting you for sexual harassment. He's got 4 witnesses and the punch will go as self defence.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I was a delivery driver for a glazer.

 

I pulled off without securing the glass.

 

You can guess the rest.

[Royston.]

put Sundae mix in the milkshake mix when i worked at McDonalds.

[The Year Of The Fox]

6 hours ago, davieG said:

Got two massive wooden crated parcels mixed up to Australia and somewhere in England (can't remember where)

Melbourne?

[SuperMike]

I once managed a Premier League club and only got 8 points from a possible 63.

 

But, phew, The bosses didnt even notice!!!

[The Year Of The Fox]

Used to clean offices as a part time job during my A Levels.

 

A PC had been left on so I logged into my MSN Messenger for a bit 

 

Logged out, but unfortunately for me it kept my username saved, which had my first and surname in it.

 

Hook, line, sinker

[Cincinnati Fox]

I placed 300 car keys into a box and then stashed that box in the boot of a car. That car was subsequently loaded onto a car transporter bound for an auction site in Edinburgh.

I had no idea which car I had put the box in.

Meanwhile, those 300 cars were blocking in roughly 1000 other cars directly or indirectly blocking access.

It took four days before the keys were finally found.

 

 

[sm1]

Decided to go work late one morning and instead went to the gym. Whilst there I got a phone call from my manager, they were all waiting for me in a meeting. I'd completely forgotten. Told here I was at the trains st, there was a delay, but she wasn't convinced. 

[Sly]

I was a graduate for a large machinery manufacturer in the early 00s.

 

I sent something to Mexico, instead of the US by mistake on a RORO boat. But that alone cost us about £20k. 
 

That in itself sound “that bad” but it was worth around £3m 

 

I couldn’t then get it re-exported, so I had to sort road transport from Mexico to Texas which came at another expensive cost. 
 

This took weeks and the customer was telling me he was losing 1000’s $$$$’s per day. 
 

All in all, all was forgotten as I was a good egg and generally the only person able to use a PC, as I changed everything to excel / email, to stop the reliance on a bloody fax machine!!! 

[Sly]

3 minutes ago, sm1 said:

Decided to go work late one morning and instead went to the gym. Whilst there I got a phone call from my manager, they were all waiting for me in a meeting. I'd completely forgotten. Told here I was at the trains st, there was a delay, but she wasn't convinced. 

I missed a virtual meeting last week as I was working from home and totally forgot about it. 
 

I decided to take my lunch break later, ans I’d been back to back all day, so decided to have 30 minutes and have a cheeky game of Fortnite.
 

I was down to the final 10 and realised as people kept phoning me to find out where I was.

I’d totally forgotten this other meeting.
 

I’m in charge, so I “was stuck on another call on one of my other phones”. 

[Parafox]

During a Saturday job when I was about 15 and working at a well know bakery, I pissed in a tub of glacé cherries that were due to be used to decorate cakes.

 

It was only a trickle but another kid said he'd seen me and was going to tell, so I shut him in the giant walk-in fridge until he promised to keep Stumm.

 

 

Edited Monday at 17:17 by Parafox

[StanSP]

Turned up hungover (probably still drunk to be honest) to work for a early morning shift. Got home about 3, started work at 7am.

 

Manager took one look at me and said 'I can see the alcohol coming out of your eyes'. She told me to work in the warehouse for the day as opposed to shoving me out the door and telling me not to come back again!