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JoshuaZ · Oct 4, 2005, 07:46 PM

Whats your most awkward or embarassing work moment?

I just had mine today. I borrowed a co-workers flash memory stick so I could move a photo between a work computer and mine. When on my computer I clicked on the wrong image file and saw that a nude woman appeared in the preview bar. Home made picture. I ignored it, and gave him the stick back.

Later we were using said stick again to print off some photos and he was helping me with the printer, and the printer software showed a bunch of pictures that were on the drive. Once again, certain photos came up. Yeah. Kind of awkward for him and me. He quickly deleted them from the drive.

How about you guys and gals?

MaxPower2k3 · Oct 4, 2005, 07:53 PM

Being around when other people are fired is never fun.

SirCastor · Oct 4, 2005, 08:28 PM

I like to sing a lot. Regular stuff, show tunes, whatever. So back in Montana was doing Web stuff for a company and they stuck me in an office while they were setting up my cubical. I sang in there until my boss came in and said "Hey... you're being kind of loud, can you keep it down?"

That was a little embarrasing.

TheMosco · Oct 4, 2005, 08:41 PM

This wasn't at work, but at school. I was sitting in the campus center doing some work with one of my friends. We were table sitting for "penny wars". So i borrow this other kids ibook to do mastering physics. Mastering physics is this online physics homework thing. So i opened a new window and started typing. He had google as his default page, so the "mas" got typed into the search bar. Auto-completion turned it into "massive co*k". I just start laughing and so did my other friend. We didn't tell the kid.

PS. penny wars is a game where a team (mostly frats) has a cup that people either put pennies or other money into. Pennies are worth positive points and everything else is negative. You can pick what cups you want to put your change or dollars in. The team with the most points wins and gets to pick what charity the money goes to.

paul w · Oct 4, 2005, 08:45 PM

I dated my boss, before i knew she was my boss.

Face Ache · Oct 4, 2005, 09:02 PM

Going to a party and finding out the company secretary from work (who was also dating my boss) was gang banging my mates out the back.

besson3c · Oct 4, 2005, 10:46 PM

I accidently pooped in somebody's cubicle once.

Cubeoid · Oct 4, 2005, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

I accidently pooped in somebody's cubicle once.

Me too. What are the odds?!

besson3c · Oct 4, 2005, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by Cubeoid

Me too. What are the odds?!

pic?

Cubeoid · Oct 4, 2005, 11:10 PM

I got thrown out by security before I could arrange a camera and a bunch of photographers. But trust me. It did happen. People were not amused or happy.

ThinkInsane · Oct 4, 2005, 11:11 PM

While doing a report at work last week:

Me: Ma'am could I have your name please?

Lady in question: Thomas XXXXXXXXXX.

He wasn't in drag or anything, just really looked like a chick. A very ugly, ugly chick.

Probably not the most embarrassing, but the most recent anyway.

MM-o4 · Oct 5, 2005, 12:06 AM

I was working for a small design studio for a newly married couple.
I was looking for some files on my male bosses computer with him over
my shoulder. It was in the iTunes library where you don't normally look
through with finder and yeah when I went to click on the wrong folder
he kinda jumped. This made me think what could it be, really, it's a
work computer. So as soon as he went away I couldn't help myself.

Well it was pics of my female boss all laced up not one pic but a whole bunch.
I only look at one, that was enough. I wish I could unsee that.
She isn't what I would term attractive. Needless to say the folder disappeared
quickly after that.

Why is that kinda stuff on a work machine anyway?

MM

legacyb4 · Oct 5, 2005, 12:41 AM

Still begs the question... how does one *accidentally* poop... in an cubicle???

Originally Posted by besson3c

I accidently pooped in somebody's cubicle once.

Cubeoid · Oct 5, 2005, 12:43 AM

By thinking it's his own of course.

Tesseract · Oct 5, 2005, 12:43 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

I accidently pooped in somebody's cubicle once.

In your clothing, or on the floor?

Cubeoid · Oct 5, 2005, 12:45 AM

Originally Posted by Tesseract

In your clothing, or on the floor?

On the floor in my case. I got some on my pants and shirt too.

cheery7upper · Oct 5, 2005, 12:49 AM

hmmmmm were you drunk? A few years ago a friend of mine peed on my dorm room floor because he thought the loft ladder was the toilet ( snickers )

besson3c · Oct 5, 2005, 01:10 AM

Well, sometimes I don't always know where the proper pooping places are... most people find this quality endearing in me, but some people don't like me because of this.

Cubeoid · Oct 5, 2005, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Well, sometimes I don't always know where the proper pooping places are... most people find this quality endearing in me, but some people don't like me because of this.

I totally understand.

besson3c · Oct 5, 2005, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by cheery7upper

hmmmmm were you drunk? A few years ago a friend of mine peed on my dorm room floor because he thought the loft ladder was the toilet ( snickers )

What did you do about it?

Hugi · Oct 5, 2005, 04:32 AM

My most embarrassing moment was several years ago. I was doing a sales presentation of my software for some bigwis from the then largest bank in Iceland and had a slip of the tongue, It doesn't translate of course, but basically I told them that my software had had amazing sex for the past few years, when I was going to say it had developed a lot.

In Icelandic: "stórstígum framförum" vs. "stórstígum samförum".

There was a lot of laughinh, but I soooo wanted to evaporate into thin air at that moment. Damn you Freud!

Ratm · Oct 5, 2005, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

What did you do about it?

Can't you read? He snickered... and the smell eventually went away.