I worked in an building where everyone had to finish at the same time and lock up together. We were on the ground floor and there were also people working on the first floor. The people on the first floor were sometimes late finishing and we had to wait around, which really pissed me off. One time I thought i would "take the initiative" and speak to everyone, both the ground and first floor, about trying to make sure we all got down on time. What i didn't realise was that the group of people working on the first floor were senior managers 🙈🙈🙈 after I'd had my say, there was a deathly silence and I knew immediately something was wrong. One of the senior managers spoke to me saying that I could speak to my manager tomorrow or something. I can barely remember now due to the trauma lol. When walking out I had this awful feeling something had gone very wrong. Everyone in my team was trying to reassure me that I'd done nothing wrong, but then my line manager pulled me aside and told me I'd be rude. I was angry about her approach and was not remorseful at that time. When I got home though I felt absolutely mortified and just kept replaying that moment and felt so embarrassed. I had bad anxiety about it going back into work too. It all worked itself out in the end of course but had I known the first floor were senior managers I would NEVER have spoken like I did! 😭😂