Landed a big promotion after lots of out of state interviews. Came home and viciously bailed on a small time potential freelance client sort of by accident. What’s your “wow I’m unprofessional” story?

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My 1st job was as a publicist in publishing. I had a REALLY difficult author who had a request I needed to fwd to a colleague, for help/answers. I fwd’d and said something like “sorry for the urgency, this guy is a notorious asshole.”

When my colleague gave a response, I directly forwarded it to the author...... with my note about him being an asshole exactly one email down in the chain 🤮😵😫 I realized my mistake immediately and PANICKED.

My solution was to resend the email about 80 times, with each subsequent version deleting the line about him being asshole. I then sent an email like, “so sorry if that note just sent a million times, email glitch over here!” My strategy was that he’d read the first one, see he got it a zillion times and delete the rest.

Very unprofesh, but it fuckin worked 😎

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@vp1 has anyone told you today that you’re a genius? I just would have quit on the spot

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Vp1 if I ever do this again, which is something I try very hard never to do, I am going to use this technique and think of you. Absolute brilliance.

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On my first set talking with the crew and agency partners early in the morning before shooting. Opened my laptop casually and didn’t pay attention to what was on screen. Producer goes “uhhhhhh” behind me and I realize I had left my laptop on full-screen porn mode from the night before. I closed it and played it off. Got laughed at by my boss for the whole rest of the trip 😓

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I was once offered more money than I asked for in a job offer. So then I asked for 25% more and said “actually this is my number now” with now explanation

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Not me but a colleague thought he was on mute on a conference call with clients and yelled something to the effect of “that’s because you are all fucking idiots,” and the client said, “um, excuse me?” And the guy excused himself off the call and said he momentarily lost his mind. They surprisingly didn’t fire him. How awkward that was for him for the remainder of the project since literally everyone knew about it 😂

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I was at a presentation with a pretty high up client and a colleague. The colleague leaned over and said something about how the client had lost a bunch of weight and I said quietly (so I thought) "yeah, that's because he's been really sick". He totally heard me and was not amused.

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Freelance gig: thought the guy never responded to my email about rates, looked in my draft box 6 months later... realized I never sent my email and I’m the one who ghosted him.

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How can you viciously do something by accident?

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