what's the dumbest/most embarrasing corporate thing you've done

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Tell us what's something you did in a corporate setting that was either extremely embarrasing or just downright stupid.

When I worked at Quicken Loans as a Systems Support Specialist, there was a mass email sent out by someone that me and a friend of mine didn't like. I went to forward the email and in the process got distracted by a problem. When I came back to the email, I clicked reply to all on accident and typed out "forget it, he's gay" (Bender quote) and hit ctrl + enter to send. It went out. Yes, it went out to all of the upper management, all the distribution lists. Most of the company. Pretty much anyone who was anyone in the company got it. I immediately tried to recall the message when my friend looked over the cube at me and said, "why did you send that to everyone?" I said what are you talking about thinking he was kidding. Then I looked at the sent file and said "OH SHIT!" Well, one 2 day class on "communicating with tact and discretion" later and I was back to work. That was fun to say the least.
 
I know I'm not the only person to do something dumb. Al has to have done something!
 
I haven't done anything worthy of sharing, but I have a few from co-workers and employees:

We do interviews for new hires as a management team, with the 3 Managers as a panel interviewing a potential hire. In the middle of a fairly long interview with a Sales Rep, our finance manager actually fell asleep. I had noticed that she was nodding off, so I kept trying to wrap up the interview, but she would kind of wake up for a second and ask another question! When she finally was out to the point that she was almost snoring, I loudly wrapped up the interview.

Another one was by a client service rep who worked here. He had a particularly needy client who kept making silly requests. When he received one of them via email, he forwarded it to the client's inside sales rep with a note that said "Another one! These guys are fucking annoying!”

Yep, you guessed it. The sales rep forwarded it to the client without reading it, and asked how they could help.
 
Someone was calling my phone interoffice to tell me I had a call. Instead of it picking up the interoffice call, It picked up the ringing line.. I answered the phone "what the fuck do you want!!" because it was a co-worker that we always fuck with each other. It was my regional boss on the line and I just hung up lol
 
One morning I wore my sweater inside out, and backwards. It was about 6:15 am and a couple of us earlybirds were getting coffee and our group primary pointed it out to me. Thank God he is a nice guy and that one never got out! It was winter and I think I put it on in the dark, and it was dark outside and in the car so I really never even noticed it. That and I really dont wake up untill about 1-2 hours after I get to work. :lol:

I felt like such a dumbass!!!!!
 
I was at a meeting about the implementation of a new initiative for the company I worked at and the room probably had about 100 managers in it. Anyways the Regional VP was explain how we were going to go about the change and the labor requirements to pull it off. Now me with my get tact started running the numbers and they didn't add up. ie the labor model he was proposing would give us a way higher labor percentage then we would normally run and drop our net profit. So me in my infinite wisdom decided to call out the RVP on his numbers and the plan and when he answers my questions I dug deeper and started questioning off peak hours and slower units...... to make a long story shout I ended up having the Senior VP of Operations take me out into the hall way and scold me stating this wasn't the time or place. Of course all these decisions were made by upper management well before hand and no matter how right or wrong I was he could change anything he was up there informing us of the new program. I learned a lot about diplomacy that day and moved my career back about 2 years and by the way I was 100% correct and I did bring that up a year later when the had to implement changes. Some of the upper management liked my bluntness and honesty but most didn't they like people who didn't question them or make them look stupid they want sheep. I think the only thing that saved me was the fact I did my job better than almost anyone else not my ass kissing abilities.


Looking back I really would have wished I had better ass kissing abilities, but it hard for me to fill someone with BS rather than the truth.
 
QUASAR said:
One morning I wore my sweater inside out, and backwards. It was about 6:15 am and a couple of us earlybirds were getting coffee and our group primary pointed it out to me. Thank God he is a nice guy and that one never got out! It was winter and I think I put it on in the dark, and it was dark outside and in the car so I really never even noticed it. That and I really dont wake up untill about 1-2 hours after I get to work. :lol:

I felt like such a dumbass!!!!!
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So you went in to work without a shirt on? LOL
 
CMYZ28 said:
Someone was calling my phone interoffice to tell me I had a call. Instead of it picking up the interoffice call, It picked up the ringing line.. I answered the phone "what the fuck do you want!!" because it was a co-worker that we always fuck with each other. It was my regional boss on the line and I just hung up lol
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yours is better than mine! LOL
 
stalker said:
So you went in to work without a shirt on? LOL
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huh? It was inside out and backwards. I must have looked like a retard with the tag hanging there under my chin!!! dit de deeeeeeee
 
Here's a good one I was on the phone with a fellow manager from another location and we started bitching to each other about the incompetence of our boss.

Now I knew this guy I but I wouldn't say he was one of my friends from work and didn't know he would stab me in the back to try and advance his career.

Anyways 10 minutes after hanging up my phone rings and it was my boss, and she was pissed. I don't know what he did either she was there, called ore he called her once we hung up and told her what I said. She laid into me for a few minutes than I was like fuck this and I let her have it I listed out everything I said and backed it all up with facts of how incompetent she was she started to squirm and apologized to me but avoided me after that for a while (more than normal) less than three months later she was fired for not doing her job. :roll:
 
L98Terror said:
Here's a good one I was on the phone with a fellow manager from another location and we started bitching to each other about the incompetence of our boss.

Now I knew this guy I but I wouldn't say he was one of my friends from work and didn't know he would stab me in the back to try and advance his career.

Anyways 10 minutes after hanging up my phone rings and it was my boss, and she was pissed. I don't know what he did either she was there, called ore he called her once we hung up and told her what I said. She laid into me for a few minutes than I was like fuck this and I let her have it I listed out everything I said and backed it all up with facts of how incompetent she was she started to squirm and apologized to me but avoided me after that for a while (more than normal) less than three months later she was fired for not doing her job. :roll:
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i worked at autoworks one time as an assistant manager and ended up fucking one of the girls that worked for us on a stack of washer fluid boxes and in the managers chair after we had closed.

apparently they monitored the CCTV recordings. who knew?
 
Hmmm. I guess the dumbest thing I have done was the company I work for now. We have a backup tape rotation that goes from the bank and than a fire proof room and are cycled back into weekly rotation after so long. Well I take the daily tapes to the bank to start that tapes rotation every day and well one day I had left them ontop of my sunroof and was driving thru the parking lot with 7 tapes stacked ontop of eachother while everyone is watching. Luckily someone in the lot made me slam on the brakes the the tapes went falling thru the sunroof and onto my lap. :lol: It was pretty embarrasing.
 
MxRacerCam said:
i worked at autoworks one time as an assistant manager and ended up fucking one of the girls that worked for us on a stack of washer fluid boxes and in the managers chair after we had closed.

apparently they monitored the CCTV recordings. who knew?
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did they let you have the tape?:dontknow:
 
stalker said:
I know I'm not the only person to do something dumb. Al has to have done something!
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Come on, why do you have to use me as an example?

Anyway, when I was working sales at Nordstrom in Somerset I was seeing a few girls who also worked in the mall. Well, it became common practice to take said girls up to the second floor of the stock room and have "relations." :lol: Well, a few minutes in to one of the sessions I hear the door to the stock room open up. I look down (the floor to the second story of the stock room was like very thick perferated metal) and see my manager (also a guy and a cooze hound) below me looking for a shirt for a customer. We went quiet, but still proceeded on. She let out a moan and my boss just stopped...but didn't look up. 10 minutes later I hear a snicker and look behind me to see 6 people (including my manager at the time) watching me go to work on this fine young lady. My manager did hear us, went back out to the floor, rounded up 5 other employees and they came into the stock room and very quietly made their ways up the stairs. When we finished up and walked out of the stock room everyone on the floor was standing there chearing and clapping...even the 3 female employees, the gay guys, and a few people from the SUIT and also the SHOE departments. I turned red and started laughing, she made a B-line out the store and into the mall. Needless to say that girl NEVER came back to my department for anything, not even to come get me to go to lunch. I always had to go to her. :lol:



CMYZ28 said:
lol when i read sweater I thought that too haha
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Yesterday I found my camera...which was last used for my party...
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I have funny story about an old co-worker that has since passed on.

John had this family of deaf folks. He would take them out on the lot to show them cars. When anyone else would walk by he would start yelling "Are you gonna buy this fucking car or what?" or "Don't jack me off you tire kicking bastards".

He did this everytime they got a new car and every time he would get someone with it.

He also would turn the radio up all the way when he pulled the car around. He would have it on a rap station or something crazy. He would make sure to turn the bass way down<so the couldn't feel it> and roll the windows down.

We use to laugh our asses off.


RIP John Mondin :(
 
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