Most Outrageous Stories (c-Stories) (TM):  Technology Faux Pas

I was in the middle of a conference call from my home with my team of agents. My husband signaled me at my office door and I put the mute button on (so I thought) He was in his underwear and said, "Come on, I've been waiting forever!" I replied, "Honey, I'll be there in a minute. Your sex (I used a different word) awaits you! I returned to my call...only to hear uncontrollable laughing on the other end of the line...no, i did not mute the phone! Talk about being embarrassed for a loooong time!

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An engineer I used to work with was a phenomenal employee. A Type A, get the job done, multi-tasker. He was instant messaging a female co-worker back and forth on a project. At the same time, he had another window opened where he was instant messaging a woman he met in a chat room. The instant messaging got pretty hot and heavy. He must of got pretty excited, he ended up sending, lets call it a quite aggressive flirtatious instant message to the wrong person, his coworker. His coworker was appalled. He got the ax.

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I felt great. I had just finished an awesome presentation to about 250 people. I went in the hall to call my husband to remind him to pick up our daughter from her softball game. He thought I had already picked her up..a frequent misunderstanding in our household, unfortunately. We had a few words and then I went back to the meeting area. All of a sudden some wise guy cracked, "So who is picking up Angie?" Yep. Forgot to take off the microphone!

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I just was in this website and rushed to tell my coworker about it as she is in HR. I thought she would enjoy the humorous stories and want to help answer the advice section. I distracted her, and she accidently instant messaged a frustrated and under payed frustrated employee evfryone's salary while I was describing the website! Oh my Gosh, this just happend! The website created its own story! Timing is everything!

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A woman sent out a voice mail to her boyfriend explaining about what they would do together in the hotel room at the upcoming National Sales Meeting. Two issues that tell the rest of the story. She was in Marketing at the home office, he was a Sales Manager in the field. 1. Her message went out to the whole Nation thinking she was responding to one of his messages. Eveidently he had responded to one of her messages that went out to the Nation. So her response went to everyone in the organization! 2. They were both married to other people. Soon after, they both left the company. We never knew if it was their choice or the company's direction

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This is a two part story. 1. It was the first day of kindergarten for my twins..boy and girl. We were all excited, of course, and I was also on the verge of tears. We waited at the end of our driveway for the bus. "Here it comes!" I said, camera ready to snap the pictures of them getting on the big, yellow bus. Then it passed us right by! I called the transportation dept. and they sent a white van. Those are my pictures..not of the big yellow bus! 2. Same day. I awaited their return and smiling faces. My son came to the door, holding back tears with his sister right behind. "How was your first day?!" I asked. He couldn't speak. Then, "What's wrong?" I, of course thinking my son was molested or something horrendous like that. My daughter spoke up. "We went outside for a fire drill and had to stand on the sidewalk. Then we went back in and Ricky didn't come. I tried to tell the teacher that he was still outside and she wouldn't listen!" Finally, she took a roll count and figured out that he wasn't there. That's when she again piped up to say he was still outside! (he was last in line and must have been watching the birds or something) Needless to say, I was on the phone with the teacher and my daughter always felt that she would not be listened to by her teacher.(It actually created a fear in her.) She always kept a careful eye on her brother after that. What a first day!

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Funny! Your story reminded me that a news anchor went to the bathroom with her microphone still attached! This was a few years back and she was absolutely demoralized! They heard everything! And of course it was on many networks!

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The instant message error with this website made me rememember what a co-manager did at one time. He completed an anuual review and sent it to the entire company. He than sent out an email saying please delete the email without reading. That was like telling a teenage boy not to look at a Playboy Magazine sitting in his room

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My cousin asked me to repair her computer. When I opened the CPU, I saw more than 10 coins inside. Her son made the CPU a piggy bank.

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When I worked as a data encoder, we were not provided with Internet connection. The only person allowed to access the web was our supervisor. Due to my grave desire to surf the net during office hours, I opened my supervisor’s PC while she was out then copied the files needed to have a connection. I installed Internet Explorer to my worksite and to my friends’ computers. We kept it to ourselves even after I shifted to another career.

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