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And though it isn't THAT BAD (ie, it could be much much worse), my boss is going to make a bigger deal out of it than she needs to or should, and I feel like a tool. I can fix it to some degree - or at least amend it - but she's going to flip apeshit anyway.

Fuck.

Am I the only one who does this shit?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Wet your pants.
No matter how badly the earlier fuck up was, wetting yourself in plain view of everyone will make them forget about it.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You're in big apeshit trouble.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're gonna post a work-related thread on ilx, you need to get with the program and blame somebody else for your problems.

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope this doesn't have anything to do with you removing your bloody bra.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

No, you're not the only person who fucks up at work.

I have to say, whenever I fuck up at work I always think "oh, fuck, the boss is going to go apeshit". And, he never actually does.

(And my boss *does*, sometimes, go completely apeshit. But not, so far, at me; usually at the middle-management of other divisions who try to blame the IT department for things caused by their own incompetance)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - it doesn't. I just filed something at court I thought she wanted me to file on the same day she told me to file other things, and it turns out she wasn't done editing this particular one and so it shouldn't have been done.

I can amend it or dismiss it with no trouble as it hasn't been served, but she's still going to lose her mind.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's a bad one. But really the worst case scenario is that you're out the messenger's fee, no?

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Not even that - a couple other things were already going, so this one was just piggybacked along with them and didn't cost any more.

It's going to cost me hours of time in which she tells me I fucked up while i nod at her and admit it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bring in a big box of donuts. People love donuts.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

She's on the phone, too, so I can't even go in and confess and get the lecture started. I feel like I'm sitting outside the principal's office.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. Sneak in a small set of headphones and then that way you can listen to music while you're nodding.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you do, don't bring up instances in which she has messed up or acted similarly.

― identity theftor (deangulberry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You should double-check; maybe you filed the bra instead of the unfinished brief.

(Have you started the brief dismissal process yet so that at least you can say you're handling it before she starts her lecture?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No, because I don't know whether she'll want to dismiss it or just amend it.

FUCK.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If it makes you feel better, I completely forgot (misread "Tu" as "Th" on a due date) to do an assignment for a class I am failing.

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Try strangling her with your bra.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, BRA.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

BRA BRA BRA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

BRA BRA BLACK SHEEP HAVE YOU ANY BRAS?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, that's better.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been brapwned.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Or I have.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Just felt like talkin' 'bout bras.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Strip, set your desk on fire and push over the water cooler. Scrawl "I'LL SEE YOU ALL IN HELL" on the conference room rug with printer toner.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

set your desk on fire and push over the water cooler.

This seems somewhat self-defeating.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I fainted at work today. It wins you some sympathy.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

my boss went pale and stammered when I handed in my notice today

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Explain to her that you are COMPLETELY FUCKING OVERWHELMED BY HER JACKASSERY. Try doing it in A REALLY LOUD MANIC VOICE AND PICK AT YOUR SKIN WHILE YOU DO THIS. And then tell her her ass looks fat in that outfit. And she can eat your tits and die. See? Easy peasy.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Je4nne wins.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I filed a printer cover page with my initials and employee number on it with the court a couple years ago. they had to file a motion to strike it from the record. whilst completely fucking humilating, it wasnt THAT BAD.

good luck.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Cry, and then start stammering about your overwhelming and heretofore hidden personal problems. Heretofore hidden personal problems that proved a momentary distraction at work.
Cry more, fall to your knees and hug her around the legs and start repeating "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry" in a wretched voice.
Generally works for me.

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I went in and said 'yes, I did fuck this up. I'm sorry, and I'll be more careful in the future. Meanwhile, I can dismiss it or we can amend it, which would you rather?"

She said 'dismiss it.'

And so I have.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

People not throwing hissy fits when you expect them to and get all amped up to prepare for it, c/d?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud (but still, hooray!)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still gonna set my desk on fire.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oh! i thought you said "i just got fucked up at work" and was like please, i did that all the time! also, i fucked up at work all the time which is why ive been fired so many times. hope you dont get fired. xoxo

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

DID U LEZ UP

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's the setting desk on fire thing that's important.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i almost fucked up big one time. I quoted a client $9,000 on an ad....... which turned out to be $30,000.

― battlin' green eyeshades (Homosexual II), Thursday, 28 October 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just fucked up really, really badly.

For your SQL nerds, I ran an alter table on a usage table containing hundreds of thousands of records on a production database. FUCK.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(it's 5:45pm here, btw)

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it this means you'll be there till midnight waiting for it to stop or something?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Or it's killed access to the DB?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

People not throwing hissy fits when you expect them to and get all amped up to prepare for it, c/d?
Man I do this all of the time & get so paranoid & nervous. Inevitably it is never that bad, but the feelings beforehand are just awful! Glad it was all ok Luna.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 October 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's better to lose a job than have one...what I mean is that it is better to always have a job as opposed to losing. People always talk about losing as if its bad. We won the war in Iraq and we are going to win the peace. Losing as bad is just a way of saying that you doin't support democracy. Mission Accomplished!

― aimurchie, Thursday, 28 October 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've probably said this before, but a friend of mine booked a full page ad in Vogue and then forgot to send them any copy.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I publicly insulted my colleague's project in a meeting. Even though I am not involved in it, I do think it is a waste of time and money, of nil conservation benefit. I just forgot that I shouldnt say this out loud. And now he hates me and is slagging off everything I do, which is probably equally crap now I think about it.

ARRRGH. I wish I could do that again and keep my big mouth shut. If no one notices your fuck up then that is always good. Just avoid your boss for a while.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Just got busted on ILX. Boss came in to hand me something, I reduced screen but she asked "What were you just working on?" Tried to play it off but had nothing on desk, eventually said "I was checking my email" (which I'm not supposed to do either). Fortunately, I think she's in a good mood, just said "No checking email during work" and walked away, and this is the first time I've been busted here. I am a terrible liar, I started blushing and shaking. Now I feel kind of sick.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My work is pretty relaxed about this sort of thing - ILX, email, etc. but one time I was in the middle of changing CDs and I had two CDs stuck on my fingers. I was sitting there obviously looking like a total douche and my boss came in to tell me that I had been promoted. HA.

― THAT Adam Levine (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...
Huge fuck up and I have interior designers calling me every 10 minutes to tell me how they "can't possibly make the deadline." I want to go far, far away. Angry interior designers = hell in a handbasket.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Blow them up. This is my new solution for every work related problem.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Angry interior designers" actually does sound kind of scary. You're going to come home every day for a month and find your couch along the wrong wall and a new lacquer screen that totally clashes with your drapes.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 25 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My cousin is an angry interior designer.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading this thread back, I've realised that I have *absolutely no idea* what I fucked up back in October to make me post to this thread. So, clearly, work fuckups are nearly always unimportant after a few months' perspective.

(the other part of my post - middle management in other divisions trying to blame IT for their own mistakes - is still a constant, of course)

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 26 February 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)


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