33 People Share Their Biggest Work Screw-Ups
No matter how badly you may have screwed up at work, one Redditor’s mom made a mistake that fired up the entire neighborhood.
While working and living on a farm, her daily chore of burning weeds took a turn for the disastrous when the wind had a better idea of where the flames should go, and led the blaze out of the ditchbank she thought was containing it. The fire not only ended up destroying a neighbor’s home, but inspired a phrase minimizing future blunders in the Redditor’s family thereafter: “I may have screwed up, but at least I didn’t burn the neighbor’s house down.”
Accidental arson is one of many ways Redditors have majorly screwed up while on the job. Other wild mistakes include swearing on live radio, making an oopsie with hundreds of thousands of dollars and deleting half of the voicemails in the state of New York.
