Small things in life that gravel your ass

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by Bwana

I worked for a giant company years ago and that happened to some poor bastard. He had an X rated joke he intended to pass onto "a few friends" and things went terribly wrong.

He hit the reply all and thousands of people got his joke, from the CEO on down. The regional ended up saving his job, but there was a catch.

The guy had to get up in front of the entire company at the national meeting and not only apologize, but he had give a 30 minute lecture to thousands of people on how to be a PC and the error of his evil ways.

The poor bastard was up there stuttering and was sweating like a whore in church, he was in full panic mode. It was so bad that I seriously thought he was going to have a grabber and drop dead up on the stage.

Wow....that's tough.

We all have the "stupid" moments at work where we wish we could have stopped ourselves. I once accidentally forgot I was leaving a voice message on the phone of our HR person. While I was talking I noticed that a team member I had an earlier counseling session with left me a "lovely" note on my desk telling me she quit. It was not your normal goodbye letter, including some personal insults that crossed the line. I had forgotten to end my voice message so my "that b****" was caught on the VM by the HR person.

Needless to say, I was called to the office and properly chastised. I don't blame the HR person for what she had to do, especially since she cut me some slack after reading the note.

But I had to complete an online course as a punishment...which really wasn't all that bad.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

Wow....that's tough.

We all have the "stupid" moments at work where we wish we could have stopped ourselves. I once accidentally forgot I was leaving a voice message on the phone of our HR person. While I was talking I noticed that a team member I had an earlier counseling session with left me a "lovely" note on my desk telling me she quit. It was not your normal goodbye letter, including some personal insults that crossed the line. I had forgotten to end my voice message so my "that b****" was caught on the VM by the HR person.

Needless to say, I was called to the office and properly chastised. I don't blame the HR person for what she had to do, especially since she cut me some slack after reading the note.

But I had to complete an online course as a punishment...which really wasn't all that bad.

Yeah, I think I would have broke out the Johnny Paycheck and told them to take this job and shove it, before I stood up in front of 1000's of people and I don't even mind public speaking.

As far as your deal, I think everyone has had one of those oooops moments at work at one time or another. As time has passed, everything has become a lot more PC and the HR people are a lot more involved.