An innocent mistake by the lift that left me fearing for my job

Something incredibly traumatic happened at work the other day and now I fear I'm going to get sacked.

- Steve Canavan

I was waiting for the lift in the building where I work.

What could possibly go wrong, I hear you cry?

Well, pipe down a minute and let me tell you.

First you need a bit of context to understand why what happened, happened.

In my workplace there are white pillars rising from the floor up to the ceiling, there - in case you're struggling with the concept - to hold the building up and stop it collapsing, which as we all know is generally considered crucial when it comes to buildings.

Anyway, it had been a long day (I'd had to complete an online questionnaire about safety in the workplace in which one question was - and I'm hand on heart not making this up - 'is it safe to carry a hot beverage along a public corridor if one of your shoelaces is undone?'

Naturally I clicked 'yes' as a kind of futile protest about the utter stupidity of this exercise ... only to find this protest spectacularly backfired as because I'd got one question wrong I had to go back and retake the entire 25-question test again).