• Replies 9 replies
  • Subscribers 9 subscribers
  • Views 5052 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related

Workplace mishaps... or HR Confessional...

Steve Bridger

I would normally wait until Friday to post such things, but it's almost Friday so here we are.

This piece appeared in today's Guardian...

Famous workplace mishaps, from sleeping through alarms to mistaken identity
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/29/heathrow-boss-live-tv-mishaps

It reminded me of a few discussions we have had over the years.

Eleven years ago we opened up to share  Most unusual item found? 

I'd love to bring this up-to-date with a post-pandemic edition. 

Any takers?

Parents
  • I spent months accidentally putting the pension contributions into employee rather than employer because I'd put them in the wrong spreadsheet column and as I simply copied the format each month, it never got corrected. Had to pay the pension scheme admin fees to undo what I had done so now I am probably unnecessarily slow and careful because there is no way I'd let it happen again! It was soul destroying at the time :')
Reply
  • I spent months accidentally putting the pension contributions into employee rather than employer because I'd put them in the wrong spreadsheet column and as I simply copied the format each month, it never got corrected. Had to pay the pension scheme admin fees to undo what I had done so now I am probably unnecessarily slow and careful because there is no way I'd let it happen again! It was soul destroying at the time :')
Children
No Data