5 horrifying workplace blunders

3. The horrific porno

My best friend had just given birth the weekend before and sent loads of cute baby photos to our group messenger. I was showing my manager the pictures on Monday morning when I swiped one photo too far back and a horrific, pornographic photo involving an obese woman and a lot of bananas captioned 'it’s Friday c***s, let’s go bananas' popped up. Someone had sent it to the group ages ago as a joke and I’d completely forgotten. We both screamed and I started apologising profusely, saying I had no clue what it was doing there as this was my girly school group messenger! It was so cringe-worthy I was completely speechless and we were both completely shocked silent for a couple of hours. After I got a stern talking to about private affairs at work.

4. The crossed wires

On my first day as an intern, I was asked if I could go out and get a plunger as we would need it later that day. Without questioning why, I went to buy a toilet plunger and put it in my desk next to my boss, feeling satisfied I had completed my first task of the day. Later on, my boss asked me to make coffee for the meeting we were having, but then looked to my desk and asked me why I had had a plunger sitting next to my computer all day. It turns out she had meant a coffee plunger for the cafetière!