greenmangostudio

I work in the finance industry - specifically at a hedge fund. I am on the marketing/investor communications team and handle a lot of stuff that goes out to clients constantly. Today, I was preparing our invitations to our firm's webinars. I diligently went through the invitation, double-checking all the dates, making sure there were no typos, and, in general, being very careful to ensure nothing was wrong. I felt accomplished with the final result because it was error-free. I continued the usual process of preparing these materials, sending them out to our external distributors, etc. I also prepared the same thing in our program to send to specific distribution lists. I could have sworn I checked everything twice. I could have sworn it was all correct. I sent it out only to start receiving a flurry of emails pointing out that I had the same date twice for both webinars instead of the two separate dates. I am gutted; I feel like I let my team down. I am hiding in the bathroom beca...

Just remembered this little incident while flicking through comments. I used to have a job where I went to businesses, schools, etc to empty the sanitary bins in ladies toilets, as well as other things like refill air fresheners, replace urinal mats etc. Not a glamorous job I know, but it's better than being on benefits and it kept a roof over my head. Anyway, one place I went to (everyone had set routes that were either weekly, fortnightly or monthly so we were the regular service operative for said place we went to) was a little office and I pressed the buzzer to get let in. As I was waiting, I looked around and saw the word "receptionist" underneath the buzzer. Usually in situations like this, they answer and I just say "I'm here to do the bins". But today I had a complete brain fart and as soon as someone answered I blurted out "I'm here to do the receptionist.....sorry, the bins! I'm here to do the bins!" To say it was awkward whe...

Last night I got off work early, had dinner and was looking around trying to decide what to do with the several hours before I had to be in bed. I didn't want to watch TV, play games, read or stare mindlessly at my phone and I wasn't particularly interested going outside seeing as it was absolutely pouring. Lacking anything better to do I started reorganizing my yarn. Well I come across some yarn I had forgotten about and it sparks a memory of a pattern I had been looking at, so I pull up the pattern to check if it was the correct size yarn and it was! Now I've figured out what I am doing for the evening. I put on a podcast in the background, get out my knitting needles and cast on. I get so into knitting that it isn't until the latest episode of my podcast end and it switches to a random one with a deeply annoying presenter that I shake myself out of my zone, front panel of the sweater half knit. I stretch and check the time only to realise that not only have I c...

Today I was giving a remedial class to one of my grade school students and I must have pasted something from my clipboard by mistake, because next thing I knew a porn image was showing on the screen. I frantically deleted it from the blackboard but a good 5-6 seconds must have passed. I have no idea if the student saw it (the webcam recording showed that they were looking down at the time) but I checked and it was definitely in the class recording that is going to be accessible to my course coordinator, school admin and the student. I quickly texted my department head and principal to apologize and to take the recording down. Nobody has called me yet. I sit silently in my chair, anxiously awaiting my demise. I know that I will probably be fired, taken to court, sued for everything I'm worth and quite possibly imprisoned. But the worst thing in all of this is that I showed it to a minor and possibly scarred them for life. I knew being a gooner was going to ruin my professional li...

Obligatory this did not happen today, but almost a decade ago, just thought I’d share! I wear glasses and for a period of a few months back when I was 15 I decided to try out contacts. I loved them! However, I needed regularly apply eye drops to avoid dryness. During this time, I was also treating my cat for worms using a dropper around the same size as my eye drops. You see where I’m going with this. Cue me, in jazz band, front and center lead saxophone. In the middle of us playing a song where I didn’t need to play for a long period of time,I reached into my back pocket to apply some drops to my eyes real quick. As soon as I did so, my eyes started burning HORRIBLY. It took me a second to realize this wasn’t normal. So I looked down and, you guessed it, I had squirted CAT DEWORMER into my eyeballs. I screamed, everybody stopped playing, and I had to admit to everybody what I had just idiotically done to myself. I was such a fool. PS. I haven’t seen any worms floating in my eyes s...

This happened on this past Friday, I got home at 11pm excited for the weekend, I wanted to relax my ankles and calves so I went into the hot tub, the water was about to my hips. I chilled in there for about 5-6 minutes and got out, I took a few steps and my vision and breathing were not normal, I tried to brace against the wall with my arm to catch my breath, but next thing you know there is a pool of blood on the ground, I fainted and the full force impact of hitting the hardwood floor left me dazed and confused with pools of blood everywhere. I started moaning and I was still trying to process what happened.. after bleeding out I got to my door and called for my mom for help... Oh gosh the horror and scream she let out, she doesn't like blood so just imagine the scene. She called an ambulance, I had to wait in the waiting room of the hospital for 5 hours while there was a huge gash in my lip, (top lip looked like it was falling off) and a huge gash in my nose, got hit with a $5...

TIFUPDATE : I forgot to mention we actually have good insurance, and my dad isn't neglecting his own dental health lmaooo he has sparkling white straight teeth like my mom and my little sibling - I think it's in our genes - buuuttt the last time we went in December, they said I had a little tartar on the crevices of my 4 bottom front teeth, and they said they could do a deep clean which wasn't covered by insurance, specifically because they said it wasn't enough of a concern since there wasn't much tartar, and my teeth are all clean except for that, and they were asking for a huge sum of money. But today we went to the dentist and apparently because I already did half the work and stabbed my gums, the insurance covered a deep clean 😭they removed the rest of the tartar, and told me not to use the needle on my teeth ever again. They gave us sensodyne, and said it'll be fine. Thanks to whoever gave advice ❤️😭 TLDR: I'm fine and since I hurt my own gums the ...