Most Embarrassing Job Experience

  • bewarethenargles

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    ok i work at hottopic at a mall and it was my 4 day at work i work early in the morning so i went to the food cort as always to grab my cup of coffee well when i got to the store we had a shipement of hellokiddy stuff and domo well i was unpacking it and i was still tired and the box knife i had sliped and i cut my hand i had to get 22 stiches i felt so bad cus then my boss came to the hosptial and gave me a hellokitty with its hand cut and stiched back on and there was a card it said just so you remember what happen.
    April 17th, 2009 at 02:49am
  • Jewel Nicole

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    I was working at K-Mart in November, and there was this guy that had came into the store everyday for about two weeks. He would constantly tell me how pretty I was, and how much of a pretty smile that I had. He started asking my Co-Workers questions about me. So, every time my Co-Workers would see him they would tell me, "Hey, Your Boyfriend Is Here." And they would all laugh. Then one of my managers ran his license it turns out he was a registered sex offender. :shock: Then the manager that ran his license told him he couldn't come into K-Mart.

    It's funny because my manager always told me if I had a problem with any men to come straight to him. But he's the same way at least he jokes that way, but he's cool so it's not big deal.

    But the sex offender guy was really embarrassing. My Co-Workers never let me forget him.
    April 22nd, 2009 at 03:33am
  • innocent wolves

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    The retirement home I work at had some changes a couple of years back, and one of them included cutting out all kitchen personnel, leaving that to the nurses and the assistants. Well, I was stressed because I had unexpectedly been left alone with the dinner, and I was new to the whole food thing. We serve pre-made food that we just heat up, and I was absolutely convinced that one of the bags had 'mushroom soup' written on it. And that was also how I served it, as soup. It wasn't until I was about to serve the main course and started wondering why there was no sauce included with the delivery, that I realized that the "soup" I had been serving was in fact the sauce. One of the patients was like "This tastes just like a really good sauce!", and I was going all :omfg: inside. Luckily, no one really noticed that she was right. I just quickly melted some butter to go with the main course and acted like nothing.

    :shifty
    April 22nd, 2009 at 03:48pm
  • barely legal

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    I was stacking shelves in the pharmacy on a stool, and thanks to my outregeous cack-handedness, I managed to elbow an entire shelf and thousands of pill boxes came raining down on top of the assistant. :cheese:

    I apologized like crazy.
    April 22nd, 2009 at 08:05pm
  • OWL

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    I can beat you all.
    I work in a costume shop, and all these attractive 20-something-year-old businessmen came in to get hawaiian accesories for their tropical themed conference.
    It was a really busy day with lots of costumers, so my head was all over the place. I pulled them down some shirts and flower necklaces (called leis, pronounced lays) and ran back to them, shouting "WHO WANTS A LEI!?"
    They all turned around and were like "I DO!"
    Oh dear.
    April 27th, 2009 at 03:26pm
  • StayPerfect

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    I work in Tesco and we have stairs to go up the stairs to the lockers and staffroom and what not.
    I wasn't really paying attention and I tripped going up the stairs and fell down the ones I had already gone up, falling flat on my arse at the bottom. There's a security camera and all I could think was 'Christ I hope no one is watching that' Even though there was no one actually there, just think someone might have been watching that was enough for me to go bright red in embarassment.
    June 28th, 2009 at 01:10pm
  • Wonderland

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    There was a guy in the store and I asked him for ID cause he wanted to buy a six pack amstel (it's red), or so I thought. He was like "are you serieus" and I went "yeah, i am" and then the guy went "are you serieusly asking my ID for coke(also red)"
    So that was really embarassing
    June 30th, 2009 at 11:47pm
  • Rocket Queen

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    Nothing too major.. first day I began working at my job the floor was slippery (this was towards the end of the night when we're cleaning up) and as I bent down to pick up a sponge from the crate beneath the sink, I slipped on the floor (because my shoes didn't have enough grip) and slid straight under the sink.

    My boss freaked out because she thought I'd collapsed of heat exhaustion or something, haha. Thankfully no one remembered that incident. :tehe:
    July 1st, 2009 at 12:57am
  • the footloose doll.

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    I've worked at my job for a good 5 or so months. I was off for about a month. And like. I'm shaking all the time. I don't even realise I'm freaking out so I'm all 'wtf' at my hands. And it's even worse when I serve.
    :cheese:

    edit: I topped that today. I had to open the store, and we got a new security system in.
    And I was scared I'd set it off. And ofcourse I did. :cheese:
    It was fucking awful.
    And embarassing cause I put in the wrong number. :XD
    July 9th, 2009 at 02:48pm
  • blooming.

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    I can beat you all.
    I work in a costume shop, and all these attractive 20-something-year-old businessmen came in to get hawaiian accesories for their tropical themed conference.
    It was a really busy day with lots of costumers, so my head was all over the place. I pulled them down some shirts and flower necklaces (called leis, pronounced lays) and ran back to them, shouting "WHO WANTS A LEI!?"
    They all turned around and were like "I DO!"
    Oh dear.
    :lmfao :lmfao
    Oh my, that is the funniest thing I've ever read! That would of been so embarassing, but hilarious at the same time.
    July 13th, 2009 at 12:10pm
  • Fueling The Flame

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    Oh, I have embarrassing incidents on a regular basis at my job. I've fallen flat on my face in front of an entire department and I've actually passed out at the register. So yeah, I definitely entertain those I work with :).
    July 20th, 2009 at 06:47am
  • rumbleroar

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    One of my first days working we didn't have any clean rags so I asked my boss where they were and she brought me through one of the rooms with the inflatables and we were getting rags. Well when we were leaving I didn't think to open the door slowly, I basically just pushed it open, and I ended up hitting one of the guys that work there in the butt because he was bending over to tie his shoe. I was so embarrased after that.
    July 21st, 2009 at 09:50pm
  • Homicidal Maniac

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    my most embarassing job experience was walking into the interview with my shirt stuck in my fly.
    July 23rd, 2009 at 05:01pm
  • Kamina

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    Probably the times that involve something falling on me.
    Comic book store. Shifting. Of course, I was given the job of clearning the Indies section, cleaning the shelves (sick stoff you wouldn't expect to see...), realphabetize, and shift in the process.
    Half a shelf of comics fell on my head.
    Also, I was restocking the soda-machine once - one of those new automated ones that you get to watch the drink fall out of...Those things are Hell to stocck, and there were multiple occasions where I'd end up on the ground with Soda attempting to bury me.
    Also wandered around for a good four hours with my uniform inside out, once.

    Oh, the best embarrassment, though...
    We, uhh, were discussing Euphmisms at work one day. My Supervisor was also the type who wrote fanfiction, so we were talking about the use of horrible Euphmisms by the register.
    We were on euphmisms for sex and the female anatomy when a customer walked up. I don't think we realized how loud we were talking, or if he was just trying to listen.
    He looked rather angry. Instead, he ended up singing Salt&Pepper's at us. Doesn't change the fact that we were discussing erotica.
    July 24th, 2009 at 10:14pm
  • Bells.

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    bewarethenargles:
    ok i work at hottopic at a mall and it was my 4 day at work i work early in the morning so i went to the food cort as always to grab my cup of coffee well when i got to the store we had a shipement of hellokiddy stuff and domo well i was unpacking it and i was still tired and the box knife i had sliped and i cut my hand i had to get 22 stiches i felt so bad cus then my boss came to the hosptial and gave me a hellokitty with its hand cut and stiched back on and there was a card it said just so you remember what happen.
    :tehe: That's so cute! :cute:

    I was a paper girl for a while, and I was crossing the road once, and the piece of plastic that was around a stack of newspapers somehow got around both of my ankles. (I have no clue how it happened). I then fell on my face in the middle of the road and the cart also fell over and papers went everywhere. Thank God there were no cars around.
    July 26th, 2009 at 08:52am
  • liam payne.

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    I used to work at McDonald's and one time, my hair extension clip-on fell into the deep-fryer. Me and my co-worker had to pull like 8 million hairs out of every french fry serving we sold.
    July 28th, 2009 at 11:09am
  • Mischief Izzy

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    Okay so I just got a job a small cafe and it was my 2nd day today and I was clearing a table, but there wa so much on there I put one of the plates of the tray and it flipped and fell to the floor and smashed
    the atmosphere in the cafe went very quiet and these people on the table next to me the one I was clearing up were just staring at me in shock
    somehow I saw it coming
    July 30th, 2009 at 11:11pm
  • Newton.

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    I occasionally have to shave peoples arses. That makes a pretty embarrassing atmosphere.
    August 3rd, 2009 at 02:06pm
  • method acting.

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    It wasn't directly me invloved but these children were running absolute riot in the shop, pulling clothes off the hangers and throwing it all around. Then my friend Krystal said really loudly to me "Why can't they control their children? They're absolute fucking rascals." When the mother was standing right behind her.

    I had to stand there while the woman went to a manager as I was a witness to it. It was toe-curling.
    August 8th, 2009 at 02:38am
  • bob nathaniel bryar

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    I'd say it'd probably have been a month after i started working on a farm. It was one of them huge ones where there are hundreds of workers. But I had to scrap a walk way that was full of cow poo. I was getting ready for it and didn't noticed where I was walking and slipped in a HUGE pile of cow crap and a lot of the workers saw me because I had one of the first jobs to do.

    I wanted to run away.
    August 25th, 2009 at 11:13pm