“I Got Fired The Next Day”: 34 Unexpected And Awkward Times People Saw Something They Weren’t Supposed To

Saw an “I love you” message from the intern to my coworker when he was showing me something on his phone. He is her direct supervisor and she is 18 year old.

Edit: this coworker is 28 and when the message popped up the interns names had a heart beside it.

I have the same name as a friend's girlfriend and she accidentally sent me [revealing pics] instead of her.

I was about 12 years old and unbeknownst to my dad I was following him down the stairs down to my mom. All the sudden he stops on the stairs and opens his robe and quick closes it. Little did he realize there was a mirror at the bottom of the stairs and he flashed is preteen daughter.

When I was a receptionist, the boss's wife would take over the front desk when I took lunch and use my computer. When I returned one afternoon, she was still logged into the computer when I sat back down. Up on the screen - her Ashley Madison profile.

When I was in like the 4th grade we read this book about a kid who accidentally sees the count for the contest where you have to guess the number of jelly beans in the jar, and to coincide with this book the teacher was running her own jelly bean jar counting contest. This other kid and I were looking at the jar and we took the lid off and written under the lid was the number of jelly beans in the jar. The teacher saw us and stepped in quick but we had defiantly seen it.

I threw the contest, the other kid did not and he went home with the jar of jelly beans.

Walked in on my brother and his “not girlfriend” last week when i didnt even think he was home and my boyfriend left his airpods in my brothers room.

When I was a satellite TV tech I went to a customers 2nd floor apartment, scouted my termination points indoors, and then went out to setup the ladder. The unit on the first floor had nothing covering the sliding door (it did face an empty field) that provided me with a clear view of the tenant on her couch going to town with a battery operated boyfriend. Just propped up my ladder and climbed.

Different than most, when I was in USMC boot camp I was lucky to be part of a small group of recruits that were selected to wake up early, make our beds, go to chow early, come back and clean the squad bay before everyone else got back from chow. It made boot camp a lot better. In each squad bay is a small office where the drill instructors do their thing, me and some other guys were talking about what might have been in there and someone dared me to go in.

What I found was a small sheet of laminated paper with the week’s schedule. It was big enough to fit in a breast pocket and I remembered seeing the drill instructors refer to it often. It was more or less a survival guide to boot camp. I memorized most of it after 10 minutes of constant scanning. It had some rules and regulations the drill instructors had to follow, like no PT within a certain time after chow and down to the exact minute that we would be in class or practicing drill. The drill instructors would always threaten that they would [mess] us up after chow because we did something wrong, it never phased me because I knew they legally couldn’t.

I knew when the schedule was too tight for any of that and more importantly I knew when the schedule allowed plenty of time for some one on one time with a drill instructor. Every Monday I would b line straight to the office when no one was around and take a long look at that sheet and never got caught.

I was visiting a school for an audit and going around inspecting their property. Walked into a building where some equipment was stored i needed to inspect, and the employee there (librarian/teacher?) was watching gore videos on the computer, and quickly swapped tabs when he realised i was there and could see it. Probably shouldnt do that on a school site buddy...

In the era before digital, data being presented to high ups was via slides projected on screens. Art department and others would create the content and I was in the photo dept at 19 and I would shoot all slides shown to execs. All the REAL truth behind things like life expectancy of employees they were trying to buy out, real accident reports, and data being sent to NRC about a nuke plant under construction that looked different than slides shown to execs. Eye opening.

I was young and seeing the ugly corporate beast from the inside ruined my opinion of any corporations. I don't trust any, as they really do not care about people - except the investors. I escaped the corporate life and was self employed for almost 30 years until medical retirement.

Sent my wife a [revealing] photo of myself to spice up her day but didnt know she was at the nail salon. Let’s just say her best friend and the nail salon lady saw everything.

I couldn’t have been any older than 7/8 years old and I walked into the bathroom and saw my Grandfather, completely [bare], shaving his pubic hair.

I was on a flight home from Bali. This lady in front of me was going through her go pro footage on her laptop. I was watching through the seat crack on the window side. She was at the monkey forest and this monkey tried to climb her and grabbed her tank top and pulled on it to reveal her [chest] She paused and took a screenshot and then continued looking at the footage.

I was playing on the beach with my kids. A woman next to me was changing in a pop up tent. The wind whipped the front of the tent up and I saw everything.