What's the most spectacular way you've seen someone screw up at work?

A grad student was invited into a professor's office for a meeting and was left alone for a moment.

There was a pile of cumulative exams on the professor's desk that had just been graded.

These are subject exams for grad students. Wickedly difficult and you need to pass four to

continue in the program.

This moron decided he'd take a look at the stack of exams. Then upon finding that some of his

fellow students did poorly, he took pictures of their grades so he could use them to ridicule them

and pass the results around the department. This was a big deal because numerical grades

aren't ever given out for these exams, only pass and fail.

And also, it's a pretty big FERPA violation to distribute others' personal academic information like that.

Ferpa is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

He was found out almost as soon as he sent the picks around and was dismissed and forbidden from campus immediately.

Someone else had to pack up his desk because they were that serious about him never setting foot in the building again.

Good frickin' riddance. I'm so thankful none of my classmates and my grad program with this petty and cruel.

It's hard enough with everyone being supportive and awesome. The sheer idiocy of that dude is breathtaking.

A co-worker received a promotion and a large raise.

They were told they should thank the CEO as he initiated the entire promotion.

My co-worker went on a rant about not asking for any of it, so he's not thanking anyone,

and it escalated from there.

By the end of the day, he was fired. My co-worker actually

turned a promotion into a termination. One of my coworkers at a grocery store accidentally

locked the only master key set into the security office, then attempted to break the door down

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