Embarrassing moments at work

by damselfly 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  misanthropic

  Dams...."The last thing I wanted to do at this point is have the "erections are a normal reaction to a massage talk."

  Now that was funny!!!!
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  chrissy

  Last year I walked in on my boss using the restroom... he was sitting down and reading the newspaper! ... it was mortifiying!

  I could not stand the guy and I am fairly tolerant. Some background...he was loud, arrogant, cocky, and just plain annoying. oh and he was a pig...married and always making obscene gestures at coworkers, flirting with younger girls, basically all the makings of a boss from hell going on here. Oh and he wore sweater vests. enough said already?

  So I walk in on him sitting there and he looks over from his paper and smiles and says "hi" in a very oddly non-shocked manner. I say "omg...pat i am so sorry!" and i cannot find the handle to the door to close it again so the moment truly seems to last forever.

  Because of his notorious reputation I have the best time reciting the story to everyone at work whom I'd ever even made eye contact with once. hehe. I was leaving a few weeks later, I had nothing to lose.
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  thom

  I work at home so I have to go to a customer to embarrass myself.
  One time I was flying out of Shanghai after a few weeks working there and I was waiting to pass through immigration. It was taking a long time and a woman came and asked if I was on United flight whatever and I said yes so she took me to the front of the line. A little old Chinese man was there and I was put ahead of him and I said thank you in Chinese (I know almost NO Chinese, just a few phrases). Then he busts out laughing, says something to the woman and she starts laughing, then everyone around me is giggling.
  I didn't know what they were laughing about until hours later sitting on the plane I realized that I basically said "You're welcome", as I had used the wrong phrase. I thought it was funny then, but still a bit embarrassing.
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  damselfly

  Dams...."The last thing I wanted to do at this point is have the "erections are a normal reaction to a massage talk."

  Now that was funny!!!!

  Misanthropic~ No! It's mortifying. I've managed to avoid this talk so far. I'm hoping to never have it!

  Dams
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  vitty

  I was on FS, talking to a guy who seemed really interested in what I had to say and didnt seem in to much of a rush, then when we came away from the door my "friend" told me my blouse was undone, all the way down to the waist!!!!!!! and I hadnt even noticed the draught.
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  arwen

  working as a pharmacy technician for the first time, a customer, a young guy came to the counter with a box of condoms....I said to the pharmacist quietly," Is there tax on condoms?" He laughed out loud and said loudly,"No, there's no tacks on condoms, they stay on by themselves!!!!" I was mortified and quickly rang them in with NO tax and put them in the bag and the customer and I never made eye contact. I later married the pharmacist and he is still as crazy, funny as ever.
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  damselfly

  Hi Arwen! You have a pm in your inbox!

  Dams
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  BrendaCloutier

  I was on FS, talking to a guy who seemed really interested in what I had to say and didnt seem in to much of a rush, then when we came away from the door my "friend" told me my blouse was undone, all the way down to the waist!!!!!!! and I hadnt even noticed the draught.

  Tacks on condoms

  

  

  
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  BrendaCloutier

  Typical both of my feet in my mouth:

  I was working for the property management company of an office building. I had to show the painters some work that needed retouched in one of the suites that was being remodeled. Only, one of the painters I had dated and was no longer dating. I felt rather uncomfortable in the elevator with him and his co-worker, and felt I had to say something:

  "Gee, I just love going down in elevators!"

  And the moment it was out of my mouth I realized what I said and that it wasn't what I meant. There was a stiffled choke, and dead silence until the elevator door opened and we were able to exit.
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  misanthropic

  When I worked at an apartment complex, we would get some of the mail parcels for the people who lived there inside of the office. We didn’t have any mailboxes that could accommodate larger packages.

  The mail carrier often forgot to place a slip in their box to let them know to pick up their parcel inside of the office, so I would try to be aware whenever they would come inside to rent movies or whatever.

  On several occasions I would say really cheerfully, “YOU HAVE A HUGE PACKAGE!” It didn’t help that it almost always happened to be a man I said this to. And my eyes would get huge as I realized how this sounded. I gave out the parcel as fast as I could and everyone in my office would laugh so hard after the guy left. Every time was as embarrassing as the last but I just could not stop myself from saying it!