Office Gossip23mo
by SqueakyWaffleSoftware Engineer
SnoozyUnicorn
Student
What's your most embarrassing moment in your office
15mo ago
TwirlyMuffin
Morgan Stanley15mo
2010 first day at project I join after training. Desk allocated next to boss but work not allocated yet. Take the newspaper out of the bag cross legs open it wide and start reading. Sniggers and gasps on the floor. Everybody knows a fresher had joined 😅
SqueakyTaco
KPMG15mo
Everybody knows a fresher has joined.
Assuming you didn't know you were sitting beside your boss and ignoring the "cross-legged" body language.
If you were to advise your younger self, 13 years into the workforce, what would you suggest he should have done instead?
TwirlyMuffin
Morgan Stanley15mo
Would not have advised anything. It's not in my list of regrets.
FuzzyMarshmallow
Stealth15mo
I work at tcs.
QuirkyNugget
Stealth15mo
It's good only :)))
JumpyRaccoon
Indian Army15mo
You're fine, mate. As long as you aren't filling timesheets for a 70 at Infy.
QuirkyNugget
Stealth15mo
Was sitting without my shirt but my camera was off. I started my screen share and opened a new tab and a new meeting tab opened by mistake. Everyone saw me through screen share even though my camera was off. It was embarrassing.
BouncyCupcake
Stealth15mo
Was discussing an outdoor creative for an International marketing campaign : The marketing lead (a female) said on call : A white guy and a black guy would be best.
Everyone sniggered
The project manager replied : I am gonna pretend I didn’t hear that.
MagicalNarwhal
Stealth15mo
Assume my name is Rahul. Not embarassing but funny, joined a meeting of around 40 people and the speaker said "Hi Rahul" and I unmuted and with the top of my voice said "Hi Rahul" back, everyone including me burst into laughter right after.
ZippyDumpling
LivSpace15mo
Being asked to share my screen in front of seniors and work on an Excel… “Now apply this formula, now sum up diagonally” etc. etc.
I would literally be shivering internally because I’d feel so stupid
DerpyBoba
Student15mo
You work in program management or something? That requires this heavy excel? Sounds terrifying
JumpyPotato
Deloitte15mo
I was interning at a mid sized firm. On one end of the office, there was MD’s cabin, adjacent to it was meeting room, adjacent to it was washroom and adjacent to it was cafeteria.
First 3 days of internship, used the washroom I mentioned above.
On the 4th day, when I left the washroom, got stopped by the cleaner and he told me “Ye MD sir ka personal washroom hai. Employees washroom bahar hai”
I had been using MD’s personal washroom for 3 days💀💀💀. Funnier part is, the way to the washroom goes through all the sitting spaces. Fking employees saw me using that but never stopped.
SwirlyBoba
Stealth15mo
I don't think it would have been as much of a taboo for the employees. If say all stalls of employee washroom are filled, the company will prefer me going in the MD washroom over HR's pet plant in lobby.
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by SnoozyWaffleData Scientist
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