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Have You Ever Been This Embarrassed At Work?

Sometimes when you make a show of yourself, you need to share the shame. And Dermot and Dave are more than happy to take some of the shame on. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2022/04/13091511/HickeyEmail_1304.mp3"][/audio] We got this anonymous email in from a listener. Hi Dermot and Dave, I had an an embarrassing office issue during the week that I feel I need to tell someone.I work for a large company and I have a senior enough role in the company.  I manage approx. 200 people and am involved in meetings with all departments in the business.  Last week we had strategy meetings which is with senior management and I was probably the least senior manager there.  These meeting were for 2 days and started on Monday in a hotel room.This is what happened.I am 46 so not a young fella.  Anyway I got up on Monday morning and was getting ready for the meeting.  I liked to be prepared for these meetings so I don’t look like an eejit.  Anyway, I was having a shave when I noticed something on my neck.  I knew what it was but it took me while to accept it…The wife gave me a love bite by accident (seriously).  I am flipping 46 I have a meeting with the senior team and this is embarrassing.  What will I say to work? We are past the stage of going to coppers shifting people every weekend.  By the way my wife also works for the same company and we are happily married with kids.  Anyway like a ninja I wake the wife and say “look what you done to me, how can I go to work like this?".  Anyway after using toothpaste, makeup this thing was not for hiding.  So I did the right thing and wore a polo neck.  Now, it was warm last week so you can imagine I am sitting in a room trying to be taken serious with sweat flying out of me in a hotel room and my fellow managers saying you must be cold (have you Covid) etc.That wasn’t the end of it.  When I was getting ready that morning for work l wore my “going out clothes” to the meeting with my polo neck.  I knew the leg of my trousers was not sitting right on me.  As the meeting went on I was moving in stealth what I though was a sock only to my surprise to find out out it was a rather colourful pair of my wife's underwear which was caught in my trousers when they were in the tumble dryer. .  I think no seen me removing them and like the wind I whipped them into my laptop bag.Like a flipping oddball, I am sweating in a hotel room with my bosses with a polar neck on and pulling colourful ladies underwear from the bottom of my trousers.  I wondering when I'll get the call from HR asking if was ok.  I am working here 18 years and so is the wife.The neck is finally healed and Mrs Dracula has been warned that I will have a headache going to bed if this happens again.I wonder how many embarrassing office issues your listeners or you may have had.Great show lads and Maria.Please keep my name anonymous It turns out he is not alone, and you can listen back to the craic in full by clicking play above see more