Most embarrassing work accident?

[Jono]

Back when I use to be a bouncer I tripped over a chair while breaking up a fight. Two guys were wrestling/fighting on the ground and I grabbed one to pull him off the other. He turned around to punch me and I instinctively stepped back and into a chair they knocked over. I fell backwards and landed hard on the legs of the chair, which really hurt. After I kicked them out the bar staff asked if I was okay as they saw me fall and I had to admit I tripped over a chair...they laughed.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

A really funny thing happened to me.
First thing you should know is that I'm a skinny guy. I was actually finished work and I was offered to take a box of supplies into another room from shipping and recieving. It was too heavy for me to lift, and the shipping and recieving clerk, who was very cute and about five or six years younger than me (she was in her first year of college), asks if I needed help. I said no I'll be all right. Each time I tried to carry the box I had to put it right back down again, so she came over and was able to carry it for me.

 

[Bloodwhiner]

Spilling a gallon of concentrated acetic acid in the darkroom. I had to mop it up wearing a resperator.

But my wife had it much worse.. Standing up front writing on a display board she let out a loud ripping fart.. Did I mention she was a school teacher and it was the first day of classes?

 

[Holdfast]

I can't tell you my most embarrassing work accidents for fear of launching a fleet of a thousand medical negligence suits.

 

[Roshi]

I opened a door, and in the course of that door was a sprinkler (design flaw that was never spotted). I inundated the whole floor + the five floors below us. It took an hour and half to stop the water coming out of the pipe. Needless to say I was proud of me...

 

[backstept]

I can't tell you my most embarrassing work accidents for fear of launching a fleet of a thousand medical negligence suits.

your wardrobe will come alive?



*crickets*




when I worked at a gas station, my drawer was short 50 bucks once, because a guy wanted to buy a tank of propane, but the lock on the cage outside wouldn't budge, and I had already rang up the sale, but didn't take his money because we physically couldn't give him the propane tank . . . nothing was stolen, but my boss still bitched at me . . .

 

[Kirkman1987]

Well, at school once, I hit on a girl sitting next to me the first day of class, all well and good........until she stood up and annouced herself as the professer.

it all worked out though, we've been dating over a year now

 

[ed629]

Wrecked a car, but it was on the skid pad.

 

[Omnius]

I once got locked in at the office. When I tried to leave, I ran into the cleaning lady that was wielding a butter knife because the alarm had been tripped and she thought I was a burglar...
She was quite a charming girl, we ended up going on a couple of dates.

 

[ScottDS]

I feel bad at work today because I sent a couple of orders to the wrong addresses and this thread has brought a much-needed dose of humor to my day.

(FYI... I'm just a temp. I work at Simplex, a division of Tyco. People call me to order timecards and ribbons for time clocks and on two occasions I copied the wrong account information from the computer. And we have to take a loss when that happens since it's apparently a laborious process to generate a new invoice for the correct customer.)

As for my own embarrassing moments at work, nothing immediately comes to mind but that's probably because I blocked them all out. When I worked at Target, I had to replace a watch battery even though my boss told me not to do it (in case something went wrong). It turns out I re-screwed the casing upside down or something and the woman came back a week later with a leaky watch full of water!

 

[Mistral]

Some years ago I'm working in a Mom n Pop bar/diner and I'm training two brand new prep cooks. After pedantically lecturing them about safety methods in the use of kitchen knives, I go to show them how to cut an onion and slice my watchband in half and shave a thin strip of skin off my wrist. For some reason they never took me seriously again.

 

[Timewalker]

Of course, one of my favorite boo-boos was this year, when someone in HR sent out an email to HUNDREDS of people (including the corporate office), saying "Your shift for today has been canceled." But he forgot the 'f' in shift.

It wasn't exactly an accident. I had the morning shift at the cafeteria in my dorm. I had to roll all the cinnamon rolls and pastries into the oven and out on the line for a special breakfast for the coaches and staff by 6 a.m. I was waiting for them to get done, waiting and waiting and cursing because they wouldn't cook. I ended up waking up the general manager of the cafeteria and the head resident because I knew they wanted those pastries made and out there for the coaches in time. I complained for half an hour; the influenza ridden head resident came trudging in, looking none too happy, in her bathrobe and pajamas. She said it would be helpful if I turned on the fucking oven.

I'm not a morning person.

My own embarrassing work accident happened a long time ago, when I worked at the interpretive centre at the local wildlife sanctuary. We were having a special Easter event for the kids, where they could color an Easter egg. We had boiled eggs for them, and in addition to my usual duties in the bookstore/information desk, I had to give out the eggs.

But we ran out of boiled eggs, so the person in charge decided to give the kids raw eggs... I just had to remind them that the eggs were raw. So things went okay and I gave out raw eggs, reminding each kid not to eat them unless they were cooked, and I continued to one kid, "And be careful not to drop it..."

...and as I said that, the egg I was holding slipped out of my hand and splattered all over the floor, the chair legs, and my shoes...

"...like I just did," I continued, as I got the kid another egg and then went in search of something to clean up the mess.

 

[TheBrew]

As accident prone as I am, I am actually accident free work-wise. When I did salad prep at a restaurant for 6 months, the worst cut I ever got was a small nick in my thumb in my 2nd week. After that, no problems even though I was wailing on that lettuce with a cleaver every day.

 

[CookieMonster]

So many.

I was squatting down to pick something up in my old worn in work pants that were quite frankly the most comfortable pants I owned. You guessed it *RRRRIIIIPPPP* from the middle of my left thigh up to the crotch.....I tried duct tape it was far too uncomfortable so I went to wardrobe and got a needle and thread. Sat in that bathroom for 20 mins sewing my pants back together.


There was some water on the floor I couldnt see becuase of the high gloss wax job and of course me the clumsy one finds it...the hard way....I had a wet spot all over my rear end for a good hour or so.


I was at my old job (auto parts store) and I was pushing a generator box on my knees so I could get more oomph. I slipped and landed face first into the box......on camera.


Sooooo many. :blush:

 

[smeos]

When I used to work at RadioShack, me and my friend would work the weekend shifts because the boss wouldn't be there and the security cameras didn't work properly. So all we would do is sit in the back of the store, drinking beer until we heard the bell ring whenever somebody came in.

Towards the end of one shift, I'd had a few too many and tied my tie around my head and then walked around the store claiming to be "Office Rambo". It was fine while the store was empty, but then a customer walked in and looked at me as if I was from the dark side of Mars.

 

[apostle83]

It would have to be the time I was doing a presentation to a small church on a church plant proposal. I had diarrhea, and I had to run out of the room towards the can.

 

[SmoothieX]

I've got a desk job so it limits the embarassment factor. Here's a good one though...

I worked for a small firm out of college. The engineers did a lot of the stuff a secretary might do. This included changing the copy cartridges. The copier was out of toner. This was a big heavy duty complicated copier. To change the toner was a 10 step, 5 minute process. I zigged when I should have zagged and somehow a lid came off the cartridge and black toner powder came out and got everywhere. Very fine dust, stained everything in sight, took hours to clean. I looked like a chimney sweep afterwards.

Most of my big gaffes have been technical in nature. Things like calling for sewers to flow uphill, or notes saying to seed and mulch the travel lane of a highway.

 

[DanCPA]

So many.

I was squatting down to pick something up in my old worn in work pants that were quite frankly the most comfortable pants I owned. You guessed it *RRRRIIIIPPPP* from the middle of my left thigh up to the crotch.....

That happened to me

Another was the time that we were eating at the picnic table at work and someone spilled soda, and of course just enough spilled over the edge to make it appear as if i had peed myself.

I've also reclined on a freshly painted car

I've done a lot of them!

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I've got a desk job so it limits the embarassment factor. Here's a good one though...

I worked for a small firm out of college. The engineers did a lot of the stuff a secretary might do. This included changing the copy cartridges. The copier was out of toner. This was a big heavy duty complicated copier. To change the toner was a 10 step, 5 minute process. I zigged when I should have zagged and somehow a lid came off the cartridge and black toner powder came out and got everywhere. Very fine dust, stained everything in sight, took hours to clean. I looked like a chimney sweep afterwards.

Man, what kind of copier IS it?? I work in a copy shop, and I haven't met one yet I couldn't change the toner on, on my first try. Was this one an antique, maybe?

Most of my big gaffes have been technical in nature. Things like calling for sewers to flow uphill, or notes saying to seed and mulch the travel lane of a highway.

You don't do government contracts, do you? If so, I'd be worried about people actually FOLLOWING those instructions!

 

[CookieMonster]

So many.

I was squatting down to pick something up in my old worn in work pants that were quite frankly the most comfortable pants I owned. You guessed it *RRRRIIIIPPPP* from the middle of my left thigh up to the crotch.....

That happened to me

Another was the time that we were eating at the picnic table at work and someone spilled soda, and of course just enough spilled over the edge to make it appear as if i had peed myself.

Yea I have spilled plenty of stuff in my lap. Possibly the most embarassing in that regard was sitting in spaghetti sauce while wearing white pants...

Tripping on my own 2 feet on the freshly waxed floor in the lunchroom falling face first into my tray....milk and food everywhere....:blush: