Today I made a fool of myself at work!

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Today I was calling my friend Hope on my mobile phone. She continued to interrupt and talk over me and my time was getting used up. There was something I really needed to say to her so I asked her to be quiet and listen. She refused and continued to interrupt me. finally out of frustration and desperation I yelled at her over the phone telling her to "be quiet and listen" and "shut up". I was in a hall way outside the office area, but everyone could hear me. Two of my bosses came out to see what was wrong. They thought I was having a physical fight with someone.

Let's make this a "Who humiliated themselves at work today?" thread!

I fell down the stairs (no harm done, only a bruise) and let out a surprised yelp that brought the doorman and 2 older ladies to me, going, "Are you ok?" "What happened???"

Why can't people just shake their heads, have a chuckle, and leave us alone?

Sheesh.

I slung on my backpack as I was leaving the office without realizing that one of the pockets was unzipped. My compact slammed up against the wall and sprayed powdered makeup on a coworker. The sad thing was that I didn't even notice that anything happened until several people started chasing me down the hallway! Fortunately, the coworker that got "snowed" adores me and didn't get mad over it.

At the end of my first day in a new office I said Goodnight to everyone and walked
into a storage room by mistake.

I work at a daycare center and frequently bang my head on some of the awkwardly mounted cabinets in the room. I've become very good at smiling through excruciating pain so as not to scare the little toddlers I work with.

I decided to wear a muscle shirt to work. I'm not a big guy, so it is hard to pull off. I ended up putting it on backwards. No one said anything. Maybe no one noticed, but I still felt humiliated for making this small mistake.

Also, emberassing at work (bit of an old story):

I had just spoken with my wife and signed off by saying "I love you, goodbye" before going on a call with a female co-worker. When I finished my call with her, without thinking, I also said "I love you, goodbye".



Fortunately, she and I are pretty good friends so it was a non-issue, but still...

Also, in the same vein (I talk on the phone a lot as I work out of my home), I once started a call with my MALE boss, the owner of the company, with "Hello Dear".

thankfully I have done nothing to make myself look like a fool at work.

This happened last year. I had one day in particular where I made myself look like a really clumsy fool. Things just kept happening all day. I was working with a lady who was not my normal assessor and we were doing community home visits.

Before we went out on the house visits, we had a clinic to run. I came striding into the office/consulting room having been out to fetch some new blood bottles from the stock room, and tripped over the phone wire, resulting in the expensive fax machine/phone crashing to the floor with me following closely behind. It was very embarassing, but thankfully, my assessor thought that it was hilarious and just casually put the phone back on the table in the hope that the doctor would not notice anything. This was in front of a patient.

So... on to the home visits for the day. One of the first houses we went to, my assessor knocked on the door and was answered by a call of "come in". She tried he door handle but it was stuck, so she knocked again. She was then answered by something similar to "just pull a litle harder, the handle get's stuck".So... I was given the task, and I pulled the bloody handle right off the patients front door. It was so embarassing. My assessor thought this too was hilarious.

But it was not over. I thought that nothing else could possibly go wrong, how wrong could I have been! The last house we visited that day was very full, there were lots of people there and I was uncomfortable to be so surrounded. There was a baby crying, and dogs barking, it was hell! And in my haste to get out of the front door on completion of the visit, I swiftly backed into the patients dog. To make it worse, I trod hard on its foot and the howl it gave was horrifying. I was mortified, the poor thing looked like I had tried to kill it, it was favouring its paw and whining. I was so shocked that I went crashing backwards into the door and ended up on my backside surrounded by a crowd of giggling kids.

I think that that was my most embarassing day in work ever. I cringe thinking about it. The assessor I was working with that day certainly had a good laugh at my expense. Thank goodness no one asked me to pay for what I damaged that day.