Oh what a blunder.

[Bedfordblue]

Anyone care to fess up to any embarrassing work blunders?

Worker sacked after calling customer 't***' in email mix-up awarded £5k

Meliesha Jones, an administrator at a curtain and blinds company, accidentally forwarded an email calling a customer a [Poor language removed] to that customer instead of a colleague.

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Personally - many moons ago when tasked with fixing some mini trunking to a ‘wall’, drilled a hole to fix a self tapping screw in to a metal panel only to discover it was a radiator panel.
That itself wasn’t too catastrophic as we were able to isolate the feed, however the next day it appeared the heating had come on over night and back filled the system and ½ the ceiling had come down on the ground floor where the water had got into an adjacent riser
Was some big wigs office at BT too.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Anyone care to fess up to any embarrassing work blunders?

Worker sacked after calling customer 't***' in email mix-up awarded £5k

Meliesha Jones, an administrator at a curtain and blinds company, accidentally forwarded an email calling a customer a [Poor language removed] to that customer instead of a colleague.

news.sky.com

Personally - many moons ago when tasked with fixing some mini trunking to a ‘wall’, drilled a hole to fix a self tapping screw in to a metal panel only to discover it was a radiator panel.
That itself wasn’t too catastrophic as we were able to isolate the feed, however the next day it appeared the heating had come on over night and back filled the system and ½ the ceiling had come down on the ground floor where the water had got into an adjacent riser
Was some big wigs office at BT too.

When you realise your folly, dig down to the pipe/radiator, use a brass screw and 'patch' the hole then cover with fresh plaster asap. Paint. Run.

 

[Bedfordblue]

When you realise your folly, dig down to the pipe/radiator, use a brass screw and 'patch' the hole then cover with fresh plaster asap. Paint. Run.

That was more or less ultimately the fix that was applied, a screw and some mastic.
The site security team got it worse than me as they clearly hadn’t been doing their rounds or adequately reported the initial damage.
Honestly walking round to the lifts to go upstairs in the morning and being confronted by the carnage of about 20 desks covered in destroyed / waterlogged suspended ceiling tiles and water was a proper head in hands moment

 

[Rita_Poon]

That was more or less ultimately the fix that was applied, a screw and some mastic.
The site security team got it worse than me as they clearly hadn’t been doing their rounds or adequately reported the initial damage.
Honestly walking round to the lifts to go upstairs in the morning and being confronted by the carnage of about 20 desks covered in destroyed / waterlogged suspended ceiling tiles and water was a proper head in hands moment

You learned for next time, just like I did

 

[Eggs]

….that moment when you press ‘send’ on an e-Mail and realise it has gone to the person you least wanted it to go to.

I had a very expensive & professional IT Consultant working on my team. I got a message from him that was obviously meant for his ‘bit on the side’, it went into serious detail about what he was going to do to her that weekend. Needless to say, he was so embarrassed when he realised what he’d done, especially as I couldn’t resist showning it to a few colleagues.