The 12 Most Outrageous Things People Got Away With At Work
By Rachel Hodin
1. equationevasion
Left the front door to my store open overnight.
2. SylverV
Accidently emailed one of the directors, calling him a prick, thinking I’d emailed someone else. He was a prick… but he actually took that in good humor, so credit to him.
3. zerbey
I deleted 4 years worth of data from the Training Manager’s desktop upgrading it from NT to 2000. The data was unrecoverable. I got away with it because she had been told repeatedly not to store her data on the desktop. She tried to get me fired but ended up being given a write-up instead for not following company procedure. Win.
4. anonymau5
Misplaced a decimal while doing some work for one of the top 5 banks in the world. Cost the U.S. about $87 billion. The company who designed the software was faulted.
5. DarrenEdwards
I was photographing a sapphire broach and left it in my pocket. I discovered it in the dryer. The boss was looking for it and I slipped it back under some papers on his desk. He called me down immediately to shoot it again. It sold for $80k.
6. SPIDERBOB
Pulled wrong plug. Cost a few million. My boss is the shit at protecting his people.
7. WhoSpiltTheBeer
I by accidentally sexted the manager at the Swiss Chalet I worked at thinking I was talking to my girlfriend. He didn’t have my cell number so he must’ve been really confused when he got a text from a stranger that involved removing his clothes.
8. KanpaiWashi
I was inputting stuff into our main database, bunch of important documents and adding notes to the accounts. The note was pretty much the same, so I just copied and pasted it all. I took a break and started browsing online for something and copied something. I completely forgot about that and went back to doing my work and I was about a couple accounts deep when I realized the note said, “Roll That Shit, Light That Shit, Smoke That Shit.” It’s been 2 years since and I think I’m in the clear.
9. cuntyfuckbags
Won’t say what it was, but I got out of it by forging a manager’s signature…and fooled the manager with it.
10. Jaquezee
An extremely allergic to soy customer came into my tropical smoothie. I failed to note “no soy,” on her order that was sent to the smoothie station. I hope she is alive.
11. SonOfPlinkett
Accidentally spammed all our clients and all their email contacts with a newsletter that was only suppose to go to one of our clients.
12. OctopusGoesSquish
I lost over £4,000 one day. Basically, I entered a ‘Y’ in a box that should have been ‘N’ before giving out just over a grand to a customer. Our system believed that I had therefore taken money instead of lost it, so I was 2k down. I went to a colleague to ask to fix it, but, being a fuck-up himself, he doubled the problem, and then confirmed the figures so it couldn’t be amended.