Most Embarrassing thing at work

Quote from Maleficent : You give lectures. What more does it take to be a lecturer?

Lecturers don't do research and aren't tenure track. It's a different position... something between a professor and an adjunct.

Quote from dalokgawd : Lecturers don't do research and aren't tenure track. It's a different position... something between a professor and an adjunct.

Picky, picky!

I used to be the art director for a children's museum and our local NBC affiliate would ask me to go on about once a month, either in the early morning or at noon. I would bring the materials to do a quick art or science project. One morning, at 6:00 in the morning, I was trying to make "slime" and Silly Putty. Thank God that I had brought pre-made examples, because neither project worked. Not just didn't work, EPIC FAIL.

It was great to see people for the next week, all. over. town. who had seen my flub.

Quote from dalokgawd : Lecturers don't do research and aren't tenure track. It's a different position... something between a professor and an adjunct.

And the only people to which any of those titles matter?

Professors, Lecturers, and Adjuncterierors. And maybe a TA here or there.

What of those 3 you listed are Teachers?

Quote from Curtieson : And the only people to which any of those titles matter? Professors, Lecturers, and Adjuncterierors. And maybe a TA here or there. What of those 3 you listed are Teachers?

I think all are considered teachers. I consider myself a teacher anyways and refer to myself as such. And it's not like it's a big deal I was just making a simple correction. It's like if you were a computer programmer for a company & someone said you were a tech support person, you would probably correct them, no?

Quote from thearteest : I used to be the art director for a children's museum and our local NBC affiliate would ask me to go on about once a month, either in the early morning or at noon. I would bring the materials to do a quick art or science project. One morning, at 6:00 in the morning, I was trying to make "slime" and Silly Putty. Thank God that I had brought pre-made examples, because neither project worked. Not just didn't work, EPIC FAIL. It was great to see people for the next week, all. over. town. who had seen my flub.

So that is where they got the movie idea for flubber, eh?

i have managed to avoid embarrassing personal situations at work, but i've done some cringe-inducing things while doing my job:

during my first few months at my first tech job (student worker at a university), i was sent to rack some servers. being very new at the enterprise level, i didn't check the full timer's power math, and when i switched on the 2-3 new servers, most of the rest of the rack went dark. we got everything back up pretty quickly, but i'll never forget the empty and lonely feeling i got while hearing all those hard drives spin down on production servers.

during one of the first days at my current job, i was told to log onto a server with a service account and check something (bad practice; we no longer do that). they neglected to mention that this was the service account that ran everything for the internal company portal that users check constantly. the password was 12+ characters and complex, so i fat-fingered it and locked out the account. i didn't have access to unlock it myself at that point, and being too embarrassed to ask one of them to do it, i went to my next task. about five minutes later, we started getting calls that the portal was down. i figured it out about ten seconds before one of the guys found my machine in the lockout logs, so i got to anticipate him calling my name out in front of everyone, which he did.

Thought this was appropriate...from the funniest pic thread:

Quote from ashcampbell : So that is where they got the movie idea for flubber, eh?

Haha! What's really funny is that I was working as an instructor at a technical college at night! I eventually went to work there, full-time.

Quote from thearteest : Haha! What's really funny is that I was working as an instructor at a technical college at night! I eventually went to work there, full-time.

bow chicka bow wow. wait wut?