Spotted on the morning news…What innocuous mistake at work made you wish the earth would swallow you whole?

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1. I used to work in a kitchen, where of course you refer to the chef as ‘Chef’ at all times: yes Chef, no Chef, thanks Chef. I once asked Chef where something was, and he told me it was on the shelf. ‘Thanks Shelf’. Think about that most days.

2. I’m surprised things like this don’t happen more often on live TV. Especially a program that has no ads, means that the make up team etc have very short windows to rush on between each break to sort out everything

3. Nothing beats the time that feller turned up for a job interview at the bbc and ended up on telly talking about the environment or something like that

4. Glued a latex glove to a patient’s head by mistake. Just as the piss-taking security team walked past.

   For ages they’d walk past me wearing a glove on their head. Great bunch of lads – they taught me a lot of self defence and were a good laugh on a long night shift.

   (If you want to know, you can glue simple wounds with medical adhesive. At home? Superglue works just as well. Just be careful the glove you are wearing while you hold the wound edges together doesn’t get glue on it…)

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6. *Insert Homer hedge gif here*

7. I never understood this. When I hear people saying it on tv shows I cringe so hard. What an absolutely egocentrical (is that a word) way to refer to somebody in a work place. If I was the head chef the first thing I would say to everyone is for the love of god call me by my name. I could never work in a kitchen that’s for sure lol

8. When I lived a much more rock and roll live than I do now I did pretty much what happened here at the London Astoria. In my defense I’d been doing acid the night before so wasn’t really in any suitable condition to be left in charge of my body.

9. Guy Goma is the best! What a legend

10. Stop…………fade away 🤣

11. Driving my forklift into a bunch of kallax units on the night shift at IKEA because I was to busy arguing with the tilt button.

12. Gotta love these funny news slip-ups Always makes the morning better

13. I was farted so loudly everyone stopped and turned around.

14. I work for a national newspaper (not a journalist; everyone’s next question) and made an error that made it to print in the paper released the day after the Queen died. Now held in the archive of the British Library for all time.

15. Knew a fella that worked with Camelot a lot, they were a client of his.

    His phone used to sometimes switch their name to ‘Cameltoe’ when he sent an email.

16. I usually work from home, so letting one rip isn’t an issue.

    Was in the office one day, noise cancelling headphones on, let one fly…by the vibrations on my chair I knew it had to have been heard.

    I’ve have never stared at my screen so intently in my life

17. Was chatting to someone at work who was on his way home, as he was walked out the door he finished the conversation by saying ‘bye, love you!’

    I just pretended I didn’t hear it but if that were me I’d have been mortified