Bad Day at the Office

B2 – Upper Intermediate

When you accidentally send a text message to your boss but was meant for your boyfriend or girlfriend, what do you think is the best way to deal with it?

BBC asked the question, “What is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you at work?” via Quora, a question and answer website. Below are some of the interesting answers.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150402-bad-day-at-work-top-this

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is the most embarrassing moment you’ve ever had at work? How did you recover from the humiliation?
  2. What do you think are the benefits and setbacks of painfully losing one’s pride in the office?
  3. How would you describe your office? Do people get along well or is distance kept?
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2 replies on “Bad Day at the Office”

1. I had to share this presentation for a pitch with my team. I prepared the mail carefully, reviewed and when I sent it… I noticed I had confused a mail account of one of my colleagues with one of our clients. Then I had to send an appology mail asking them to ignore that mail.

2. If it is not very serious or risky, I think it can help your mates see you more as a human and close. However, if it provokes a difficult situation to handdle, it can make you even loose your positions and find yourself in dire straits.

3. Our team is relatively small and young, so it is easy to be friends with everyone and have a cordial relationship.

Good job writing your answers to this lesson’s discussion questions.

Here is one sentence you can revise:

Then I had to send an appology mail asking them to ignore that mail.

Then I had to send an apology e-mail asking them to ignore that one I previously sent.

Keep going with this exercise.

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