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[wook77]

True story from the workfiles of wook -

I was sitting at my desk, innocently listening to my very large playlist. I'm working on balancing payroll and my boss, his boss and a member of our oversight and financial boards come into my office to go through our payroll balancing spreadsheet and an overview of what I work with.



I should backtrack and say that my playlist on iTunes has quite a few songs on it. Some are not really worksafe but I have those turned off of automatic play on my library. What i didn't know was that they don't turn off on the custom playlists. I happened to be listening to one that is my "perk me up" list.

Right after everyone assembles close to my computer, with music pouring through my speakers, "Look at my Enormous Penis" comes on the playlist done in a barbershop sort of way.

Everyone exchanges looks and I start looking around for a hole to swallow me up in. As there was no hole readily available, I turn beet red, redder than I have ever turned and they all started to laugh these nervous embarrassed twittering laughs and I just turned off the speakers.

No one's said anything yet but I'm sure that my boss will. I cannot believe that this happened to me. OMG i'm SO embarrassed.


To make me feel better, what embarrassing as fuck things have happened to any of you at work? Please to be sharing.

Comments

[irrevokable.livejournal.com]

Oh Wook hahahaahah oh god I would have died xD

[wook77.livejournal.com]

It was awful. The board member just left and my boss came over and laughed at me and then asked for a copy of the song.

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i feel this is beyond *facepalms*!!! i would have sunk into my seat as well. i guess this is a lesson in always turning off music before your boss comes into the office...

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was AWFUL. It was unexpected that he walked in. It was just all of a sudden, he was right there and the music was playing. Just sooo much embarrassment there.

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

I would've exploded from the inner-heat radiating through my body!!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Oh it was awful. The only thing that lowers the mortification rate even a little was that my boss asked for a copy of the song.

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

Hee. Oh, that sounds embarrassing, but also very funny ... since it didn't happen to me.

I'm not sure anything that embarrassing ever happened to me at work. If it did, I've repressed it.

Oh, one time years ago I called a co-worker "Mom" in a very annoyed tone of voice. I had just been talking to her on the phone. I got made fun of for that for a long time.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Everyone seems to be laughing at me and that's alright... at least it made someone chuckle. ficlette was rolling and I'm sure makign these little hiccuping noises and shit.

You called a coworker mom? That rocks. *giggles*

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

And did I mention the co-worker was male? I don't think I did.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brockssnow.livejournal.com]

That would be something that would happen to me.

Last week I dropped breastmilk all over myself. Worst problem was that it wasn't my breastmilk. There was no one there to be embarrassed in front of but a six month old baby.

Hope your day is going better.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

OMG, it wasn't yours? *snirt* That rocks hardcore.

Boss came and poked fun at me and all is well in the world. Now we'll just see what boss's boss has to say about it.

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

omg. hahahahaahhahahahahahahhahahaaha!! I'm so sorry. But what a story! Now, how do you think your boss will react later? What can he do, really? It was an innocent mistake, and you probabaly would have turned it off if you'd had the door open in your office anyway, had they not shown up.

♥

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Everyone else left and boss came in, laughed at me and then asked for a copy of the song.

The worst part was that I had my door open but it was on reallyreally low so no one could hear it outside my office.

He's still, every once in awhile, laughing and I'm sure it's at me.

[klynie1.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Do you think you could salvage the situation if you told them that you've seriously been considering a sex change operation and you were doing research?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

*ROARS* Um, no, somehow I'm doubting that might salvage the situation *giggles*. Though, my boss and my boss's boss are both part of the BGALA "crowd" as my boss is gay and my boss's boss is a lesbian so they're actually fairly open minded. I'm sure I'll be dealing with LOADS of teasing for the near future, however.

My boss is still randomly laughing and I think it's at me.

[klynie1.livejournal.com]

Well thank god it's not random cursing. I think you're right - you're in for a long, looong tease. Um, no pun intended.
*g*

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's funny but very embarrassing for you, certainly. If it makes you feel any better, I once sent an instant message to my boss instead of to my coworker, criticizing my boss's taste in music. Oops. :-/

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Err, oops? Actually, that's extremely funny and the sort of thing that would happen to me. How did the boss react?

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

As I recall, she didn't say anything at all. I eventually took another look at the name on the IM window and freaked out when I realized who it was, but decided since she didn't say anything I'd better just let it go. God, I was mortified. *blushes again just thinking of it*

[froggie.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience when I was doing my college applications a few months ago. I had my playlist on "shuffle", and my mother came in to peer over my shoulder. I was listening to "Novocaine for the Soul" by the Eels, and the beginning of the song is really quiet, so I didn't notice it was turned up. The first words of the song came on: "Life is hard....and so am I..."

Could not stop laughing.

A more embarassing one?

Leaving my sketchbook in my school's art room, coming back, and finding my teacher and two already-graduated-but-visiting students looking right at a SLASH picture I'd drawn. I wanted to die a bit.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

OMG AWESOME!!!! That is frikken hilarious! Both of them totally made me laugh!

What did your teacher think of your art?

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor wook!

I know embarassing things have happened to me at work, but I can't think of one. I can share one about a friend though. When we worked together, we had this supervisor who was really hot and really a flirt. So he was doing our perfomance reviews individually in one of the mini conference rooms. When my friend Dawn went in there, she was nervous and she was rubbing her foot up and down on what she thought was the leg of the table. Until Andrew asked if she was trying to play footsie with him. :P

I'm glad your boss seemed amused by it. And you can laugh about it now, right, so it's not all bad?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

*snirt* she was totally playing footsies and didn't know it? TEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

OMG, that's hilarious!

I am laughing about it cause if you can't laugh at yourself then who can?

My boss totally was mocking me and when I went up front, one of my good friends said to me "can I see your enormous penis?" and I giggled. So, yeah, it's all in good fun.

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

yeah, it was awesome. Her face was so red when she came out of there.

The bad thing about it being all in good fun? You're not gonna live it down until someone else does something to steal the attention. *g* *imagines coworkers asking you six months from now to see your enormous penis*

[wearethestars.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA. I love you.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's priceless! Sorry.

I didn't have anything embarrassing happen, per se, but my supervisor recently discovered my "pile of fright", which is that pile of things that you don't have time to deal with that just keeps growing on your desk...

I anticipate getting a nasty ass chewing for it. *sighs unhappily*