Laughing Through Workplace Embarrassment: A Survival Guide

This video highlights the importance of humor and resilience in the workplace, reflecting on past mistakes and fond memories of a pet lizard.
[57:05-58:34]
Speaker shares a humorous and embarrassing incident at a corporate event involving an inappropriate message to a 75-year-old woman.
Oh, my God. So I'm telling this 75 year old lady I have pictures of your dick. I have. No, no. She's got the pictures. But if that doesn't do it for you, I got a dick for you that can take care of anything you need. I am dying. I sit down. I'm like, I need to put my 2 weeks in right there. I look like I'm done. They all started laughing and Gary's Garrett. My boss is dying and he's, he's, he's narrating what I'm doing. I sat down and I'm, I know I'm white. I'm like, I'm getting fired. Oh my gosh. That comes HR next. Yeah. Right? But she's an older lady. She had a great sense of humor. And so we go to the, like a few weeks later, we had the big giant hardware show. She's there. And the whole time she's parading me around the entire show. And only the people, obviously the story got out to all the other people that work for the company. They're just smiling ear to ear. And I could see them laughing. It was like the most embarrassing thing I've ever done in my life. Especially in corporate America, that just, oh my gosh. Yeah. So for this poor lady sending an awkward message to her boss, it'll be okay. That's the bottom line.
[58:36-58:58]
Speaker reflects on the lesson learned from mistakes, emphasizing the importance of proofreading emails.
It'll be fine. could be worse it doesn't kill you makes you stronger that's it that's it i will tell you i learned my lesson and i will always i i always proofread my emails before i send anything and usually i read it 2 or 3 times so lesson learned right oh my gosh yeah
[59:54-60:55]
Speaker humorously discusses the absurdity of a past mistake and the challenges of life, sharing light-hearted anecdotes.
You're sending 75yearold women, making unsolicited things to a seventy five year old woman and you're going to lose your job and you're going to lose all your livelihood but once you pan out a little bit you're like hey this is just actually kind of funny Devin are you speaking like a cam guy and you didn't want to tell us yeah Trust me. No one wants to pay to see this. My poor wife. There's reasons why the lights are off. Sorry. I'm horrible. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Anyway, there's just a few of them, but I can't wait to see what happens the rest of this week with more of these things coming in. I may do this, try to hit a few of these every night. I don't know. This is a fun thing. I appreciate you guys jumping on here and being my backups when it comes.
[63:24-63:57]
Speaker fondly reminisces about a pet lizard, highlighting the joy and longevity of the pet in their family's life.
Well, you know, so we've had, to get serious on this, we've had lizards. Actually, one of my son's, one of our best pets I've ever had in this house was actually my son's bearded dragon. I love that thing. Poor thing. You know, it lived, oh, Oh, man, 10. I think it was almost 11 years, maybe even 12. I mean, because you had Smog before you moved to Utah, right? I can't remember. I think maybe we got him right before we moved to Utah. And he barely died last year. Yeah, last year. So he lived to be ten years old.