Most Embarrassing Job Experience

It's not that funny, but I've cried twice in front of my bosses. One of them became my personal psychologist basically

Probably the time when I was emptying one of the Iced Coffee urns out for the night. I usually balance it between the compartments on the sink and let it empty while I do stuff - this particular night, I turned around, and the thing fell over, dumping iced coffee all over my pants and shoes. I had to replace my shoes because the coffee smell was FOREVER STUCK.

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Not really embarrassing but my first bar job was at a gay bar, with me being a straight guy. I got groped a lot, mostly by guys.
I also had to clean the ladies toilets a few times a night and it took me a while to realise why there was always bloody toilet paper everywhere. I still don't understand how it always seemed to be left on the sink though.
It was an unusual work place.

I went off my medication for about two weeks and during that time period not only did I cry in front of my coworkers, quit my job but I also forgot how to count change for one of my customers. She literally had to help me and walk me through it because my brain just would not work. She was really nice about it and completely understanding which sort of lessened the embarrassment but I still wanted to disappear. Melt in to a puddle. Run away. Anything that would get me out of there.

A woman gave me twenty pounds and I typed in ten, and only realised after I'd pressed enter. I apologised profusely but she laughed and said it was alright.

Also that time where I got a job, loved my first day and then had to quit two days later? Yeah, that's embarrassing. I don't think I can go back in there, to be honest.

When I worked in fast food I accidentally spilled the ice cream mix all over the machine instead of inside the machine, and then when I went to mop up the mix I knocked over the bucket of water and got that all over the floor too. Then that same day I accidentally insulted a customer which was great.

I was working on a charity event as a bartender/waitress and I was clearing away a pile of plates and bowls and stuff and I tripped over the microphone cord they had. I nearly dropped all my plates and practically ripped out the cord. I just kept thinking that they'd think I hated charity...

I had so many embarrassing moments when I worked at a hotel last year. To list a few:

. A group of ladies left a naked, life-sized blow-up man in their room so I had to walk across the hotel floor with this man in my arms in order to leave it in our department office landing area where it would later be taken out with rubbish.

. I knocked on a room door and stated my purposes a few times, as we do, and heard no response. So I went into the room and didn't realise until I'd walked all the way up to the double bed that two people were still snoring away in the bed.

. Knocked and stated, received no reply (as above). Opened the door with my card key, and immediately see a credit card left on the side table. I quietly tut to myself and look at it, about to take it away to place in a plastic bag which would then be taken into the department office for safekeeping. Then someone suddenly grunts and sits up in the bed of the room, startling me. Realising I looked like a thief, I apologised and said I'd return later, to which he just mumbled something like "yeah" or "OK". I think he was drunk or half-asleep.

Also had many embarrassing moments when I worked for a furniture supply and installation company, but those are anxiety-related and so less funny and more unpleasant to remember.

I also nearly broke a computer monitor of Argos's by mistake while trying to swivel it around so that the customer could see while I searched for relevant products in their interest. It was the customer I had to thank for saving my life when she luckily caught the monitor just before it fell.

I did break a candle in storage when trying to collect a box of them from the very top storage shelf while on a ladder. The box that the candles were in, stupidly, wasn't a simple square box, and I couldn't see that it had a shorter side at the back which the candle unfortunately slipped through in the process.

Trying to help a customer haul a Christmas tree across the store and then basically leaving them to struggle on their own because I couldn't leave the store to help them any further was awkward. I can't remember if I suggested Argos delivery for them but I hope I did. Maybe they refused.

It's really awkward, frightening or embarrassing at the time, but after some time it can serve as a funny event to look back on and laugh about. My brother told me that he accidentally called someone who was obviously a woman "Sir" when he was on meet-and-greet for a DIY and garden products store.