32 Wild Mistakes That Ended Someone’s Career
‘Sinking the company’s boat’
If you’re going to make a mistake, I can’t recommend enough not doing it at work. It would be ideal, of course, to never fuck up in your entire life, but good luck with that. You just have to hope that when you mess up, it’s hopefully private, and hopefully somewhere like a bathroom where it’s easy to clean up.
When you make a mistake at work, it’s impossible to forget. I mean that literally, because it’s probably now recorded for eternity in a series of scolding emails. If you beef up bad enough? That work might not be your work at all anymore.
Below, Redditors share mistakes that cost them careers, spanning from deserved to deserving of sympathy.