Friday the 13th | The worst things employees have done at work

With today marking Friday the 13th, many people will be avoiding mirrors, ladders, black cats and drain covers for the duration of the day. While the morning work routine has changed for many over the course of the pandemic, we still use mirrors to get ready for work in the morning and in days gone by will have tried to shy away from drain covers when heading into the office. As a day that is associated with things going wrong, HR Grapevine has collated some of the worst things that employees have previously done whilst at work. Mocking a radio guest In 2020, former Radio 4 producer Steve Doherty admitted that he’d once erased a section of a master tape for a Radio 4 afternoon play, as well as mocking a radio guest – unaware that they could hear every word. As reported by the Daily Mail, he tweeted: ‘I also took the p*** out of a guest who was waiting to go on air. I flicked a switch I *thought* would link me to a colleague in the next studio… but I spoke into the headphones of the guest who was down the line, somewhere.” ‘I’m not your mum’ Cosmopolitan shared