Most embarrassing work accident?

[Brian]

A week out of college, at my first real job. I was assigned to shadow a more senior engineer as she debugged some code on the Navy trainer we were developing. After she spent a couple of hours chasing a bug and writing in new code which should fix it, I turned my chair and my knee hit the circuit breaker panel on the instructor station, which removed power from all of the classroom computers and lost her fix. I could tell she was furious, but she kept saying (through clenched teeth), "It's okay, it happens to everybody," as she went off to take a long break. Nothing like making a good first impression.

 

[CookieMonster]

A week out of college, at my first real job. I was assigned to shadow a more senior engineer as she debugged some code on the Navy trainer we were developing. After she spent a couple of hours chasing a bug and writing in new code which should fix it, I turned my chair and my knee hit the circuit breaker panel on the instructor station, which removed power from all of the classroom computers and lost her fix. I could tell she was furious, but she kept saying (through clenched teeth), "It's okay, it happens to everybody," as she went off to take a long break. Nothing like making a good first impression.

Wow....thats awful. At least she tried to be nice about it.

 

[Brian]

The funniest part is, I learned that she was right. A couple of years later, I was the more senior engineer and a newbie accidentally did a deltree on her root directory, erasing all files on her hard drive. Thank heaven for backups, lol.

 

[ITL]

I broke my ankle on the second day of my first ever job back in 1985.

I was working as a storesman in a factory and was out in the factory yard (a huge one where all the Huge Bits Of Steel were stored) and got caught by a forklift truck which was on full lock as it was turning. One of those big outdoor forklifts.

I felt like a right idiot, I can tell you.

 

[Rarewolf]

I dropped a £4000 scanner once.

 

[Captain Shaw]

It was not me really but my work mate at a warehouse I used to work at we were asked to send out one of those big fridges with the glass door you see in shops and bars.
They also wanted some throw away plastic cups so we were told to see if we could get them in the fridge to save on packaging.
As my friend went to close the door after putting the cups in I notice a shelf sticking out but my friend slammed the door shut before I could shout and the shelf went straight thought the glass.
The whole warehouse went deadly quite you could have heard a pin drop then all at the same time everyone busted out laughing.
I will never forget the look on everyone’s face the moment they heard the glass go.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

A week out of college, at my first real job. I was assigned to shadow a more senior engineer as she debugged some code on the Navy trainer we were developing. After she spent a couple of hours chasing a bug and writing in new code which should fix it, I turned my chair and my knee hit the circuit breaker panel on the instructor station, which removed power from all of the classroom computers and lost her fix. I could tell she was furious, but she kept saying (through clenched teeth), "It's okay, it happens to everybody," as she went off to take a long break. Nothing like making a good first impression.

Her bad actually. Anything like that, you want to save your work ever few minutes or so.

 

[DanCPA]

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...

Oh, just admit your boyfriend gave you a hard spankin

 

[Lt_Wandrey]

I worked at the Renaissance Faire for a season and was in full peasant costume. As hard as I tried I couldn't shake the Irish accent I had developed. I'm half Irish but that's another story.

We had these little finger puppets on display. The third in command kept on telling me "Don't say 'would you like to finger our fairies!'" She told me this every fifteen minutes for two hours.

After opening up this middle aged lady comes up to me and I can tell she's interested in the finger puppets. What's the first thing I say? I open my mouth and in this Irish accent the words "Milady, would you like to finger our fairies?" come out.

I swear she, myself, and the third in command freeze. I'm standing there thinking "I am so many kinds of dead!!" The third in command is about ready to give me the yelling of a life time when the customer points at me and says, "You, I like."

 

[CookieMonster]

I worked at the Renaissance Faire for a season and was in full peasant costume. As hard as I tried I couldn't shake the Irish accent I had developed. I'm half Irish but that's another story.

We had these little finger puppets on display. The third in command kept on telling me "Don't say 'would you like to finger our fairies!'" She told me this every fifteen minutes for two hours.

After opening up this middle aged lady comes up to me and I can tell she's interested in the finger puppets. What's the first thing I say? I open my mouth and in this Irish accent the words "Milady, would you like to finger our fairies?" come out.

I swear she, myself, and the third in command freeze. I'm standing there thinking "I am so many kinds of dead!!" The third in command is about ready to give me the yelling of a life time when the customer points at me and says, "You, I like."

OH I needed that laugh....

 

[CookieMonster]

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...

Oh, just admit your boyfriend gave you a hard spankin

Nah this was in highschool. The really sad part was that I didnt even realize it at first. I walked up to the condiments counter to get some mustard for my pretzel and all the way back before anyone said a damn word.

The laughter....omg the laughter...

 

[Lt_Wandrey]

OH I needed that laugh....

**Bows** I'm glad I could help.

 

[Cheryl]

I work at a store that sells booze. I was asked to stock the shelves one day a few years ago so I went about making a list of what to bring up from the warehouse. I was looking at, I believe it was the rum section, and I took a step backwards to get a good look at the entire wall. I bumped into something that I at first thought was a low shelf behind me. Without looking I just put out one hand to steady myself.... I grabbed the guys crotch who had been standing behind me. I even squeezed a little before I realized what had happened. I didn't know what to do so I just apologized and VERY quickly left the sales floor and made sure that guy was gone before I came back.

LOL!!!!

 

[jamestyler]

I swear she, myself, and the third in command freeze. I'm standing there thinking "I am so many kinds of dead!!" The third in command is about ready to give me the yelling of a life time when the customer points at me and says, "You, I like."

Outstanding!

I can't think of anything terribly embarrassing. Well nothing I could disclose

The only thing I can think of was a couple of years ago for part of a DVD. Just.... no one told me I was being interviewed. I was drinking all the way through the show and finally decided I may need coffee. I was on my way to the cafeteria being very quiet as Graham was doing a recap. Someone grabbed me, whispered in my ear to go say something. I wasn't sober enough to realise it was a bad idea.

I rambled for a few minutes before I even realised what was going on and what he asked me. Thankfully it didn't make the DVD. No. He just put it on online, sent it off to the news sites and made it a download on his website - prompting my mother to start asking if I was taking drugs.

Beer was banned as a prop soon after.

 

[Goliath]

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.

I can sympathize.

This past fall, I was delivering a lecture to my first-year world-history class, when my guts began to churn. I tried to soldier on, but the spasms became more and more unbearable. Finally, I stopped, and with as much dignity as I could muster, I said, "I'm sorry, everyone, please excuse me, I'll be right back," and walked quickly out of the room.

I made it to the bathroom just in time. When I got back, I apologized again to my very confused-looking class, explained that I wasn't feeling well, and let them go early.

The next class, I started off by saying, "Okay, let's review what I was talking about last time, before I started spewing more than just words..."

 

[Captain Ice]

Cheryl, you're new here. We normally don't look real kindly on bumping threads more than a month or two old. Please don't let this happen again.