25 Mistakes That Ended Up Really Benefitting Someone

‘My paycheck was supposed to be $443.21, but a zero got added to it’
25 Mistakes That Ended Up Really Benefitting Someone

There are times that you want everything to go exactly as intended. Surgery. Putting in a window air conditioner. Using a Schick to clear-cut your southern woodlands. Other times, like when a bank employee is smacking the zero key to fill in a check total? You might pray for a fat-fingered keystroke.

But it’s not just a bank employee’s extra-zeroed oopsie. Some mistakes can turn into something genuinely positive — like an accidental pregnancy that ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to the parents, or when the Cap’n Crunch factory accidentally filled all those boxes with only crunchberries. Maybe the former will even end up enjoying the latter watching cartoons on Saturday morning, in a cooperative celebration of unintended glory.

The following Redditors know a little something about this kind of unintended glory, and shared firsthand stories of the fudge-ups that benefited them.

Necessary_Row_4889 10mo ago We had our manager get fired and then the company had a hard time filling his job. Managers of other locations didn't want our office tacked onto them since we had terrible numbers and the manager never got bonuses. So we'd report to some guy working a few towns over who we might never see in person just via phones and email, then we'd get handed off to another boss who we'd never see. The first time we got a new temp boss | called him to ask how much time off | had left, he told

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