Ooops

[Paul 584]

Ok, so I work one the phones at BT. While trying to sort out an engineers appointment for a customer I found a date and informed the customer to expect The Undertaker on the 20th of the month..........:oops

 

Mind, Draven Cage told a customer to look on WWE.com for information on BT Broadband......

 

So, any work related stories from you guys and gals?

[Guest Craig]

I called my dog John Cena once.

[Evil Gringo 279]

I once whilst starting out at my job at Baines & Ernst made a credit card debit of £10,000 disappear of a clients file and they had to tinker around with the software to bring it back on record otherwise we wouldn't have paid anything off it at all....

 

That is too date my only mistake in a workplace ever....

 

But £10,000 is a pretty big one lol....

[Guest Inno]

When I was working at Starting Grid (car parts shop) we used to change the blades on windscreen wipers for peeps if they looked idiotc enough. My first day, I watch John the manager do it a couple of times, then volunteer to go and do one myself. Pull up the arm, listen for the click, take the old blade off, let the arm go, change the blade, no problem. Off to the other side, pull the arm back, listen for the click and take the old blade off and let go... only there apparantly wasn't a click. The blade-less arm (now just a piece of steel) whapped back towards the windscreen, putting a huge crack in it.

 

We had to pay £280 to get it replaced, as it was a weird fancy dan volkswagen type thing, and that was with our friendly autoglass man doing it cheap!

 

Not a good first day.

[Guest Saz]

I put someone off accidentally asking if they wanted a coffee and they lost £1million in a transfer for a well know affinity card bank.

 

That was a very, very quiet day.

 

Saz

[Guest Reality Checked]

When I was working at Starting Grid (car parts shop) we used to change the blades on windscreen wipers for peeps if they looked idiotc enough. My first day, I watch John the manager do it a couple of times, then volunteer to go and do one myself. Pull up the arm, listen for the click, take the old blade off, let the arm go, change the blade, no problem. Off to the other side, pull the arm back, listen for the click and take the old blade off and let go... only there apparantly wasn't a click. The blade-less arm (now just a piece of steel) whapped back towards the windscreen, putting a huge crack in it.

 

We had to pay £280 to get it replaced, as it was a weird fancy dan volkswagen type thing, and that was with our friendly autoglass man doing it cheap!

 

Not a good first day.

 

nasty! :lol

[Guest Bluestiger99]

I had a friend who worked at an auto shop with me. A guy brought in his car for an alignment and to have his tires rotated. Well my friend was assigned this job. After he finished they guy who's car it was, (whom had to be at least 60) made a left hand turn and his right rear tire fell off. My friend had forgotten to tighten the lug nuts. He still hasn't heard the end of that.

[Guest cenarules]

I called my dog John Cena once.

 

Don't you just hate it when your dog does the Five Knuckle Shuffle?

[Guest MrFill]

People who know me are used to me saying the wrong thing as my mind often works a LOT faster than my mouth, so my clients are now used to it. :P

[Guest Gothic Angel]

I accidently let out a scooter from my work, which had already broken down once, to a member, the women got half way to the shops and it started to jerk her about, it jerked her that hard it made her back worse! ooops.

[Guest MojoPogo]

I was finishing off a call, and thought the customer had hung up, and spilt piping hot coffee on my "sensitive region" suffice to say provoking a high pitched squeal and burst of swearing to rival any Richard Pryor rant.......only to met with a burst of laughter at the other end.....boy, was i embarrassed. Just as well, the customer seen the funny side. Bloody sadist, my spuds could have been boiled!

[K.J 71]

One time i was pulling a cable from under a kitchen unit to above the worktop, I had to chop out some of the wall above the worktop so I had my clubhammer (quite a heavy hammer) out and I placed it on the worktop, crouched down and started pulling this cable through, all the while pulling the hammer off the worktop which smacked me on the head, leaving me sitting in the corner with claret streaming down my forehead. Classic reaction from this tiler working nearby as he turned around gormlessely, looked at me and just went "sh*t"! To this day my only regret is that I never took any pictures before seeking first aid.

[Guest Leeza]

I work in a care home on nights. One morning I was making toast for breakfast and had to answer the call bell. I was chatting to the client when suddenly the fire alarm went off. Frantically rushing to find the cause, the awful realisation dawned. The toaster was faulty, and I had put some bread in to toast when the call bell rang. The toaster had failed to pop up and had burnt the toast which in turn had set off the fire alarm :eek Funnily enough no-one noticed the dreadful racket. They must have all taken their hearing aids out to sleep :lol