Slip ups at work

When I was working at a depot for a electrical cable company I finished unloading a truck and the truck driver gave me the paper work, after I filled it out he stuck his hand out. I though a little weird but ok and shook his hand. Then he says "um yeah I just want my pen back".

This isn't so much a slip up, but another Time a a typical big burly truck driver came in while I filled out the paperwork inside. On the wall was one of those low rent Titty calanders. Truck Driver says "I wish you fellas'd take that picture of my wife down" I say "your wife? that's my mum...Dad?" He says "son?" and scoops me up in a huge bear hug.

I worked in book design at a vanity publisher and one of my friends (who also worked there) was going back and forth with a customer service rep over changes an author wanted to make but didn't want to pay for. after a day of this, the VP of operations (our boss) ends up telling my friend to just make the requested changes. Well, my friend accidentally sent an email to the customer that read: "Baby gets what baby wants."

The customer was not happy.

fortunately for my friend, the secretary pre-read all of the CEO's mail and made sure our boss (the VP) got the letter instead. For whatever reason, our boss didn't really freak out.

To this day I assume that the email was meant for the customer service rep -- we often had a tense relationship with them.

I work at my college. It's an art school and the largest program is audio production. I work in the department that's responsible for checking the studios, booking and signing equipment in and out, etc. It's a really laid back environment and taking into consideration the shear number of pure idiots that attend the school, I've said many things to students while I'm working that I doubt I'd be able to get away with most anywhere else (lately I've been resorting to calling them stupid right to their face. The first time I did that, my supervisor looked shocked, then actually smiled and said, "He's getting better!").

Anyway, I have the tendency to go off on random tangents quite often and see them through to their ends. A couple weeks ago, I was working and there had been some new hires, so my supervisor was training one of them that day. I interrupted them to tell my supervisor about this idea I had to declare the office its own country (I know, far from original). I explained that we 'd have new rules, such as student transactions would no longer be free. We would charge $9.95 plus one baked good per transaction. If they didn't have a baked good, we'd still take the money, but deny them service.

Then I went on to describe the country's flag. I was all excited, explain how it would have a monkey on it. Now, in my head, I envisioned this monkey as being a pirate monkey. Instead of simply saying that, I conveyed it to them by shouting "And it's got an eye patch!" If you worked where I work, you'd be used to hearing weird stuff like that all the time and not just from me, but what made this situation different was that I somehow neglected to realise that the new guy being trained actually had an eye patch sort of thing (I don't know how to describe it, so let's just call it an eye patch). Everyone in the office immediately looked at me with this shocked expression. So I figured I could fix the situation by saying, "And it's got a little monkey sword... because the monkey's a pirate...pirate monkey...keywords being sword and pirate...not eye patch."

It didn't really fix the situation. Luckily, everyone I work with knows I have an almost complete lack of social skills. And the eye patch guy was fired within a week. And he smelled really bad. As a result, I didn't feel too bad about it for very long.

How about the useless asshead behind me, sleeping half of the graveyard shift away while I'm knee deep in cybersex chat logs? I'd call that a slip up.

Douchebag.