- Sarah Biggerstaff
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Funding what?
At a previous job I was at I was running the news homepage. One of my headlines was meant to say "funding cuts". Instead it said "funding c.....", you get the drift... Luckily it was picked up quickly by my colleague but not before he took a screenshot and had a chuckle. I'll never make an error like it again.
- Heath Moore
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Great prank, wrong target
I had started at a new job and my good mate was the sales manager so I decided to prank him on the Monday morning Sales Meeting by tying a piece of string to his keyboard and this went over the back of his desk and then underneath to his chair where it was tied off. So the plan was when he pulled the chair out it pulled the keyboard and cleared the desk of his items. Great plan, it was all set and ready to go, the others in the team were awaiting this. Then the company owner came in and said "I will be taking today's meeting...". I didn't get the chance to yell "stop" and he pulled the chair, knocked his coffee all over the desk and on to the computer. Computer screen fell off desk and cracked the screen. Little to say I was not in good books.
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- Grant Marshall
Doppelganger
I was at a meet the candidates during one of our local body election campaigns when the wife of one of the candidates asked me what I was doing there. I was a bit surprised as it was a public meeting and I also went in a work capacity. I later found out she thought I was the Mayor of Christchurch, Lianne Dalziel.
- Nikki O'Leary
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Wrong number, babe
I was working with a digital agency and my contact was this guy called Chris. What happened was I was texting a female friend of mine and saying how great it would be too catch up and that I had missed her so much and calling her love and babe as I do and made a lunch date. Off I go to where we arranged to meet, looking for her and she wasn't there, but sitting in the back was Chris waving at me and giving me a big welcome hello. For some reason my phone saved his number under my friends. It was quite a shock and I went through the uncomfortable lunch without mentioning my mistake. Thank goodness he left the company I was dealing with and have never heard from him again. I think he thought he was in... definitely not!
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- Fleur Allan
Definitely a hit
A close friend who I worked with left to do breakfast with BK on Classic Hits in Tauranga and we were all listening for her big break. She started with "Classic Clits 95BOP FM" became her most notable voice break ever!
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- Tracey Blake
Tinder ghosting gone hilariously wrong
I had a phone meeting scheduled with a promoter named Mitch, get into the meeting room with my manager and dial the number. He'd mentioned he's at the airport, so when he answered we asked where he's flying to which he said "Brisbane, then back to Sydney". We we're like that seems odd, but didn't question it too much. Continued with the chat and asked if he'd got the contract; it was when he asked if we'd emailed or posted it I realized we weren't talking to Mitch the promoter, we were talking to Mitch a previous Tinder date who I'd ghosted and just so happened to be a flight attendant. I panicked, said 'sorry, wrong number!" and hung up as fast as humanly possible. Mortifying. Still gets mentioned to this day.
- Willis Fouwler
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XOXO
I texted a colleague once telling him I am leaving and will be home soon "babe"! And have also texted another colleague once about work and ended it with a big X (normally how I end most of my personal texts). Luckily I knew them both well enough for them to not dob me in for harassment!
- Bek Wall
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That time the body guard had to pull out a gun
In my first real job after I left school, I worked on the press for a Hamilton-based daily paper owned by the opposition. We had a visit from the then Governor General and I was showing him how we plated up. I reached in my inside pocket for the plate spanner and his "body guard" reached in his inside pocket and pulled a gun and I said some naughty words in front of Sir Keith Holyoake. Oh how we laughed afterwards. NOT.
- Dean Taylor
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Burnt backsides
Many many years ago I was in the lift during my first week at work talking to a friend about why I struggling to sit on my chair that day, when a man also got in the lift and asked why - I explained I'd had my first sunbed experience and sunburned my behind so bad I couldn't sit down. After he got out of the lift my friend enlightened me that that was our commercial director at the time #thinkbeforeyouspeak
- Kylie Telford
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