People Are Cracking Up At These 70 Painfully Embarrassing Things That Happened At Work

We were super busy, I saw a pair of girls sitting clearly hadn’t been talked to yet and I had noticed them earlier so it had at least been 10-15 minutes I went up and started blaming whoever sat them didn’t write them down and it was that persons fault they had been waiting awhile (really at this point everyone was taking tables there was no clear sections, and I was trying to save my tip) and I don’t know why but to make it believable I asked who sat them and they go “you”.

I let someone leave and forgot to take their iv out. My manager made me call them and ask them to come back. Their response? “Nah that’s ok. I’m leaving it in. Click”.

This morning. I went to work with a split in my pants and didn’t notice… my bare cheek was out for all to see. A man had to pull me aside to let me know.

I was grating cheese onto this guy's pasta and got it ALL up in his wine glass and didn't realize, so I just walked away when I was done with the cheese and left him with cheesy wine.

Sent 10K to the wrong bank account on my first day.

I answered 911 during a tornado and the caller said a tree had fallen on his house and he couldn’t find his wife. Out of HABIT, I asked him what his house looked like (so I could give a description to the officers responding), he responded the house with a tree in it as soon as I said it I regretted it.

When I first started serving I thought a Shirley temple had alcohol in it and a little boy asked me for a Shirley temple. I laughed and said “nice try” and walked away.

I walked into a pt room and said “good morning sir!” and it was a chemo woman. I still feel horrible.

Not me but when I worked at a funeral home, someone cremated the wrong person.

I charged a patient $13,968 instead of $1,396.80 & the bank wouldn’t let her touch her account for a week.

Two people came into my sandwich shop — a feminine looking one and a masculine looking one. I asked the first one, “what would you like ma’am?” She answered. Then I asked the other person, which I thought was a guy, “and for you, sir?” Then they started talking, it was a higher pitched voice, I was like “oh sorry, ma’am” then they looked kinda annoyed, then I said “oh, sir, sorry.” And they still kinda looked annoyed.

A customer with his family offered to pay for “the woman over there’s meal” and pointed in the direction of a single mom and her 3 kids who they commented on how overwhelmed she seemed, i went up and told the mom excitedly that the gentlemen paid for their food, turns out he meant he wanted to pay for his teenage daughters food who was in the same direction as the woman.

I taped the wrong box up because of how fast and stupid I was moving and literally sent a lady home with an empty one. This was at a pet store. I was supposed to be selling her a pet rat.

I dropped a plate of nachos on a baby.

i interrupted their prayer to ask if they needed refills.

I forgot my belt and my pants fell down as I was walking away from my table. Luckily I was wearing boxers, but they were space jam boxers… like bugs bunny. The lady went “oh!” And I just profusely apologized. Mortifying.

I gave someone change for $100 instead of the $50 bill they gave me.

Working in retail I was handling a return and it was like 15 items and I said “wow that’s a lot of clothes, nothing worked I see”, he said my wife just [passed away] and I’m making the return back to our card.

I had a diabetic patient that refused amputation of the foot and his foot got sooo bad… when I took his sock off his toe fell on the floor. When it happened I was like “yoooo”.

A customer (I’d never met) told me (over the phone) he had won a weight loss challenge. He said he had lost over 100lbs, to which I said, wow, you must’ve been huge.