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Survey Results: Embarrassing Office Moments (and How to Avoid Them)

False assumptions

Everyone knows what happens when you assume…

I was working as a temp and hoping to be hired permanently. I was in the kitchen getting coffee when the CFO walked in. He had a coffee mug with a picture of two young boys. I asked him how old his grandchildren were. He glared at me and said, "Those are my sons."

I was a new hire and had to deliver something to one of the leaders in the organization. He was having lunch with his wife, who looked like she was about seven months pregnant. I congratulated her. She was not pregnant.