I've been caught singing to myself a few times. I'm outgoing enough there's teasing instead of awkward silence. But I never had a painkiller blackout. That kinda trumps Killer Queen in the stairwell. (Guitar Hero before you ask/burn)

When I first started with the university that I work at, I was in a help desk position as a student worker.

I was sitting at my desk (in the front office area) one night working on homework and answering phones when I looked up and to my left to see a bat hanging from the ceiling in the corner. Bats aren't exactly a normal thing in northern Illinois so I wasn't exactly sure what to do. I devised this plan of calling our office manager to inform of the situation then rigging up a garbage can so that I could hopefully sneak up and slam the garbage can against the ceiling tiles to trap the bat, slip a piece of cardboard between the ceiling and the garbage can, then proceed outside to dispose of the creature.

My plan worked flawlessly. *Slam*, contain, and then proceeded outside.

The problem was that when I went to go release the bat outside nothing came out of the can. Stumped, I got a flashlight to see if I had accidentally killed the bat.

Turns out that the "bat" was really a plush beanie baby frog that was black/dark green that someone had stuck up in a ceiling tile to hang out and provide amusement for passing by staff.

I have yet to live it down.

Last week I tripped on my own (unbeknownst to me untied) shoe lace as I was sitting down and hit the panic alarm button under my desk with my knee. Of course it's silent, so I didn't realise until two security guards arrived moments later. Sorry guys!

Recently, when I clicked on Idgaf's "Teabagging Women in Gears of War" thread and I had my Firefox browser minimized.

My boss came over, glanced at my desk, and to my dismay all that showed on the minimized bar was "Teabagging Women".

So I'm sure he thinks i'm pretty much a deviant at this point.

Been caught singing multiple times. The most embarassing one I can remember was my second day in this job. They'd called me in as a contractor, so I wasn't even really hired yet. I had also been asked to sing at a wedding the next month and the bride had changed the song on me yet-a-fargin'-gain and I was trying to learn the new one so I plugged in the CD and was listening to it over and over in my headphones.

Unbeknownst to me, the headphones weren't in all that securely so they were in a weird spot where I was hearing it in my headphones, but it was also coming out of the speakers at a volume that could pith frogs. The receptionist let that go for a good 45 minutes; she must have thought I was stark staring nuts. Now that she's known me for over five years, she's dead certain.

In the office I work at, we have a central conference room that is quite large. One of the nice features of the conferece room is that there is a large window just next to the door that can be used to check and see if people are actually using the room when the door is shut. Its a nice little feature. Anyways, after hours, several of us occasionally use the room to play board games and such. One night we were in there, and I needed to check my computer for a list I needed for the game. Well, on my way back into the room I wasn't paying attention, reading the sheet I had just printed out. As I turned the corner to enter the room *BAM* I ran straight into the window. Luckily it was after hours and only a handful of people saw it, but they managed to pass the word around the next morning. It took a while for me to live that one down.

My keyboard thanks you for the wine shower you just caused.

I had a similar experience though a bit worse. I was taking a break and surfing around, checking GWJ, and other various sites. I purposely have my monitor faced away from the door so when people stop in unexpectedly I have time to minimize if need be and pop up email or whatever. Well, unknown to me, apparently some joke/video/picture website someone linked me to had given me one of those pop-under porn ads (I'm not trying to be all innocent like I've never surfed porn sites, but that is not something I would ever do at work.. anyway). So our new QA guy who had been with us for maybe a week walks in to ask a question, I minimize, and turn to talk to him. He asks his question, glancing over my shoulder a couple times, I answer and he leaves. I then turn back to my screen and I'm presented with a nice window of 2 transvestites enjoying each others company.. vigorously. Terrific. Luckily he was fired a week later so the awkwardness didn't last too long.

That would have been amusing, but no, he was just really really bad at his job. Sometimes I wonder how someone can go through with 2-3 interviews with HR and managers and get hired for a position, but then I'll be in a room with them for 5 minutes and immediately know this person is not right for the position and are completely clueless. It took management another 3 weeks or so to reach the same conclusion. This guy was literally making up tech terms and words in meetings to sound like he know what he was doing. I think he'd maybe watched too many episodes of 24 and was just throwing random *%*^ out there. It worked for a while but you can't fool the BSers with BS for long.

That you sip wine while you peruse internet boards is pure class. I just can't get the mental image of someone posting from a laptop while in a huge armchair by the mantle, wearing a smoking jacket, monocle and with a glass of wine in one hand.

My embarrassing moments at work these days is being seen walking in to work.

I work at Walmart.

I just remembered one. A while back, I was working Camp Security for Bears' Training Camp. The only shifts I got were the 11pm to 7am ones. My boss was (and still is) a real dick. There is literally nothing going on where I was from 2-5, but he insists that I remain alert and not read a book. So there I was reading a book when he pulled up in his car, rolled down his passenger window and called me over for a dressing down for reading. So I get up and head over and promptly trip in a pothole I didn't see and just about fall through the window into his car. He tells me I'll be alright and has me walk on it so the sprain will go away. Then, he forgets to send a cart for me in the morning (I'm on the corner of the campus) so I have to hoof it the half-mile to the security trailer to punch out, then walk the quarter mile to where we had to park. Shortly after, in the emergency room, the doctor tells me I've torn all the ligaments in my right ankle, and I spend one week in crutches and a couple months with a splint on at all times. I'm friends with the douche's secretary and she tells me she heard him tell HIS boss (a long friend of my father and great guy) that I'm milking it.

It didn't happen to me but i witnessed another guys moment. Few years ago i started working at a start up mortgage company. We started off small but since i was the first person they hired i got to see most of the new people they were hiring and training. We were trying to hire an extra assitant for our accountant and the guy was being trained and ended up farting with the girl training him right next to him. I was working in the cube across the aisle and even heard it. I then heard him excuse himself and leave. He not only left to goto the restroom but left the building and job. He never came back.

I wont go into detail, but I was in a very important client meeting once, and ten minutes into it, I had to go to the bathroom in the worst and possibly most explosive way. And was not sure how to get out of the meeting, let alone not sure if I would make it to the bathroom.

I felt really, really bad for the cleaning crew that day.

Seriously, they should be glad the guy never came back. Yes, it's embarrassing, but it's not something so bad you can never show your face again. If he had that reaction, it's good to get rid of him... unless it was a shart, then I can understand