And on a less serious note...

I used to make medications for children, animals, hospice patients, etc., etc. I got a script in one day, looked at the name on it, and thought, oh, ok, this one will be easy enough. I made the medication, checked and double checked everything, then sent it out to be checked by the pharmacist, and passed on to the patient. About an hour later the pharmacist came back and asked me what flavor I had made the medication. Ummmm, I used fish oil, it was for a cat. No, it was for a 2 year old little girl! Oooops! I quickly remade the medication, and flavored it with tutti frutti instead.*L* I really don't know what made me think the patient was a cat in the first place.

Not sleeping with the boss. He fired me for 'noncompliance'!*sigh* But it worked out ok. I just made friends with his wife, took her to lunch to a place I KNEW he husband frequented with with more 'compliant' ladies, and three months later HE was out of a job (and divorced) and the wife was in control and I had my job back! LOL The benefits of working for a 'family' company! ROFL

I shared in a discussion a while back about the time I turned up at work in my slippers, but I've also blasted someone on the phone for about 5 minutes and then realized I wasn't talking to the person I thought I was! Why the heck they took my abuse for that long and never said anything is beyond me, but they did take it! lol.

Hmmm. Stupidest? Mis-entering one of my staff's sick absence as 12 months when it should have been 12 days. She didn't get paid that month. That cost me a lot of gin!

Well, many many misatkes. Once I almost broke a monitor at my co-workers desk. Once I misprinted a number as 1 million when it really was 10 million. You know small 0 can make bigger effects! Once I have given an email to the program director when It was for only my department head.

That's a tough one. I can't really think of stupid mistakes as much as embarrassing mistakes. I've tripped over wires, fell backwards in a chair when the back gave out. I screamed out when one of my students rolled a small ball under the desk near me and cried out "Mouse". You've got to love student pranks lol. It's been interesting, to say the least. Namaste-Anora

The dumbest thing I have ever done at work or about work as the case might be is to forget a vital piece of work technology such as a notebook, something to write with or batteries for my tape recorder. Luckily I can get these things when I get to most places. Although having to by extra is a strain on my budget that's not always welcomed.

Sounds like a back to square one type of thing. I know lately that with the downsizing of our company and more demands being made of us. There isn't any one thing that stands out on mistakes wise, but I do know that I am making them, luckily though I usually catch them. But mistakes are being made that normally wouldn't even had been made had I not been overwhelmed with work.

hello dawnald oh my gosh! years ago, i used to work as a receptionist for a cpa here in town. lol it is a wonder that i didn't get fired. i had been there for years, and the longer that i was employed there, they would keep adding things for me to do during the day. well, they had taught me to back-up all of the computer files in the afternoon's at the end of the day. so, afternoon my boss comes and says, i want you to back-up the computer files this evening before that you head home. i was the only one that was going to be there that afternoon, so, i said ok, what else was i going to say, lol, right?, well i backed-up the computer files ok, instead of backing-up the computer files, i hit the format button by mistake, lmao, and i wiped everything out for the day. oh my gosh! i realized what i had done when all of the computers in the back office started making weird sounds. well, after i done that, i thought well, i might as well look for me another job. lol so i left the office and headed home. when i got home and walked through the door, my telephone was ringing. i answered the phone, and of course it was my boss, and not mad at all, he said why didn't you call me to let me know what you had done. lol i was really surprised about the whole situation with my boss. he told me it wasn't any problem because he knew how to recover the information. lol so i went on in to work the next morning like nothing ever happened, he didn't mention it anymore and i didn't say anything else to him about it either. lol take care and have a beautiful afternoon.

Wow, the stupidest mistake... unfortunately there are quiet a few to choose from! Some of my highlights include: the phone ringing and me picking up my coffee cup and almost talking to it, then the reverse of that - going to take a drink of coffee and picking up the phone instead. That actually happens quite often. I once got mixed up and said 'good morning, placeIwork' to a customer standing right in front of me and then immediately after that answering the phone and just saying 'hi'. One of the more serious ones was transposing two numbers on the debit machine and ending up shorting the company $140 dollars.

My mistake was done in innocence - like all of my mistakes really. It was my first day of teaching in a new school in a new country and I was really scared.I entered the classroom with a smile and introduced myself to my students who were standing. I then told them 'Good Morning" and in a very cheery bright voice told them that they coud now put their backsides down as we were about to work. There was pandemonium. The teenage boys were laughing and the girls were laughing too but were pretending to be embarassed. I did not know what I had done wrong. complete uproar in the classroom. I left and almost in tears went to the Principal and told him that I did not know what I had done wrong and that the class was laughing at me. He asked me what had I said and when I told him he too fell about in laughter. Evidently the word backside is VERY VERY RUDE and should not be used in polite company. So I went back to the classroom and told the children that where I came from it was considered to be a polite word not a rude curse word. I blamerd my husband that evening as I felt that he should have told me. However, he laughed too!

Trip over some server wires and cause the boxes to explode.