I made a terrible mistake
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This is the decision you make about 12 minutes into the episode of the sitcom, where despite good intentions you defy expectation and somehow manage to make it worse.
You could go down two roads. The first you somehow stick your foot in your mouth again.
The second is slapstick. A spilled cup of hot coffee and you wind up sitting in an emergency room wondering where you went wrong.
No, this is the Kramer sideplot you only hear from once because God forbid we have to stop seeing what Jerry and George are up to.
Only tell one person, the big office gossip. Then one of two things will happen, word will get around an someone will pity you and fix the card, or word will get around and they will snicker and laugh at you as they watch it unfold.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
You wrote it in red pen, and nobody else in your office noticed what you'd written?
Either you work with some really inattentive people or nobody there gives a fuck if you look like an ass.
Either you work with some really inattentive people or nobody there gives a fuck if you look like an ass.
I did this last week OP.
Luckily, I noticed halfway through... finished the message but didn't sign it. I wrote in different handwriting and pen elsewhere on the card and signed beneath the new message.
Hoping that someone who was absent might get the blame. Yeah, I'm a bad person.
Luckily, I noticed halfway through... finished the message but didn't sign it. I wrote in different handwriting and pen elsewhere on the card and signed beneath the new message.
Hoping that someone who was absent might get the blame. Yeah, I'm a bad person.
I hope you don't ever have a beloved aunt who dies!
There's only 16 of us in the building though.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Lol
The Big Bang Theory did that exact thing a little while ago.
If someone brings it up, just say that you weren't paying attention and that you didn't intend to write that.
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
Have you tried faking your own death?
plasmasd
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This is the part where you hatch a scheme with Jerry to fake a funeral for a loved one that you just lost. You then use this a leverage to tell the person face to face that you are even because you lost someone as well.
When they do not go along with your plan, you once again sign a "congragulations," while forging their name, on the card that the office sends to you. You then show this to the office to make yourself look like the victim.
When they do not go along with your plan, you once again sign a "congragulations," while forging their name, on the card that the office sends to you. You then show this to the office to make yourself look like the victim.
PeakPointMatrix
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Just ask yourself- what would George Costanza do?
Probably pretend a relative of his died and spread the news in the office, fake card and all, and then blatantly read what people wrote in front of the original office mate and have a laugh about a mistaken comment (that he wrote himself)in a failed attempt to neutralize the tension.
Extra Sauce
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At least it wasn't a card for someone who was just diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Parmadillo Marshmallow
Member
She probably didn't even read the card. I would ignore it unless she brings it up or starts acting really weird towards you, and then you say it was an honest mistake.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
So you're just going to steal an intro gag from The Office (US) like that, huh? Shameless.
Actually in my old job I got put on a new team and I had a bad cold. I mentioned it and our new team leader looked terrified and said don't come near me with that. I assumed she was joking and I said "its only a cold, no ones gonna die from it"
Someone later whispered to me that she was undergoing chemotherapy. I've never ever felt so bad/embarrassed.
King Tubby
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I remember someone once saying they couldn't watch a sports game with the fellas because he was sitting shiva and I confused it for shomer shabbos and make a Lebowski joke.
motherxwolf
Member
oh man i signed a similar card yesterday and almost wrote that too! i always read what other people write to make sure i write something that falls along the same thing
So you're just cursed to be an accidental asshole?
backflip10019
Member
You know what you have to do: intercept the card from the postman and replace it with one that's almost identical.
How do you know it wasn't just a birthday card poorly timed to coincide with a death in the family?
I'd just pretend it was a birthday card, and that neither incidents were related unless brought up by said person of why I wrote something odd in a sorry for your loss card. Then apologize, say you thought it was a birthday card and their luck was just really bad around their birthday, ask them how they are doing and offer a hug.
I'd just pretend it was a birthday card, and that neither incidents were related unless brought up by said person of why I wrote something odd in a sorry for your loss card. Then apologize, say you thought it was a birthday card and their luck was just really bad around their birthday, ask them how they are doing and offer a hug.
Extra Sauce
Member
How many times did you ask a non-pregnant woman when the baby is due? This week I mean.
Permanently A
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Oh shit, I did that before. Fortunately my friends got on my case about it and I was able to track it down and white out that shit.
John Kowalski
Banned
they noticed
bonesmccoy
Banned
I've been writing 'Good effort!' on office birthday cards for a few of years now.
"Tres Bien!"
You really think...they won't notice?
Maklershed
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Bernadette on the Big Bang theory did this.
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