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REVEALED | Biggest gaffes employees have made at work

Biggest gaffes employees have made at work

With people spending a large portion of their time in the confines of an office, it is likely that mistakes will crop up from time to time. For example, they might forget to complete an important task on occasion or send an email to the wrong person. 

A recent Twitter thread unearthed some of the biggest mistakes that employees have ever made at work. Some of them are completely mortifying.

User @gingerbreadmiss explained that she once put a client’s paycheque in a ‘super safe place’ but later forgot where the secure hiding spot was. She said she still can’t remember to this day.

Another user @kyleejohnson admitted to wiping the passwords for every user on a departmental email server. “I had to visit each person individually over the course of two days to give them their new password,” the person explained.

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