25 People Share The Weirdest Thing They Ever Got In Trouble For Doing At Work

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October 13, 2021, 6:47 am

Being at work often feels like 20 percent actual work and 80 percent getting criticized by management types with control issues. Even if you keep your head down and do your work, you’ll end up in their crosshairs eventually. That’s why there were so many responses to a viral tweet from writer Katie Harrington, who wondered what the weirdest thing her followers had gotten criticized for at work. She even gave her own example.

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“What’s the weirdest thing you ever got in trouble at work for?” they wrote. “I was accused of being disrespectful because the six people I CCd on an email weren’t listed in order of seniority.”

What’s the weirdest thing you ever got in trouble at work for?

I was accused of being disrespectful because the six people I CCd on an email weren’t listed in order of seniority.

— Katie Harrington (@katieharr1988) October 4, 2021

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That is pretty wacky, but plenty of the responses are even weirder. It’s pretty shocking that some of these people manage to do their jobs at all—but I do hope they’ve moved on to working somewhere better.

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Working as a teen in a bakery. On my break, I doodled a flower in a scrap of paper. I got a call at home on my phone 2 days later by the area manager, yelling at me for dossing on the job. The branch manager had passed her on the doodle with bad intentions.

— Iseult (@Dogbowl31Medb) October 5, 2021

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I used have great fun working with a guy who was fascinated with my mental arithmetic. He used to love racing me with a calculator when we were checking figures

— Thérèse Kinahan (@Kinosay) October 5, 2021

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New boss asked me to cut & paste some info in a Word document & was aghast when I did so using the, er, cut & paste function. Swore at me, then made me print the doc out, cut it up with a pair of scissors to move paragraphs around & then re-type it from scratch in the new order.

— Annie Kirby (@DoctorKirbs) October 5, 2021

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I got told off once for receiving an innapropriate e-mail too, I did point out that I had received it and hadn’t asked for it and had deleted it immediately, this was at Derbyshire Building Society

— Tula Hoob (@tulahoob) October 5, 2021

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I was once asked if someone on my team should be fired because they looked sleepy all the time. It was just her eyes were hooded. I am not firing someone for their face!

— Just Risë (@ResaRisaRise) October 5, 2021

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I was later kind of apologised to by a junior manager for not being dead.

I had no fucking clue what was going on for a bit under an hour.

— Chops of Alec (@RLokomotiv) October 5, 2021

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Oh, my boss told me off for “not cc’ing him on all of my emails” so I did it until he begged me to stop. That is how severely he underestimated my workload.

— Buberella (@buberella) October 5, 2021

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It was once written in an annual review that I was too happy.

— MáireT (@MaireTNC) October 5, 2021

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Had something similar said to me once (not by a senior colleague fortunately). I told him it was fine, because I couldn’t stop looking at his comb-over.

— Nicky (@somersetbagpuss) October 5, 2021

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*First Published: October 13, 2021, 6:47 am