terrible mistakes
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- stewart
have you ever made a terrible mistake at work that cost you or your boss A LOT of money?
i did, last week...
- unknown0
expand on that please.
:P
- unknown0
I meowed like a cat at a grocery store I worked at when I was 16 years old and got fired because of it and the woman who complained said she was never shopping there again.
Does that count as "cost the boss alot of money?"
- stewart0
you meowed like a cat?
and do you look like Ralph Wiggum too?!
- cruz_azul0
i have checked out euipment to students that was then lost ....cost around $2000
- yeah but surely that is the students fault, not yoursautoflavour
- stewart0
i'm drinking a lot of beer @ the moment to forget what i did last week.
bwargh.
- BonSeff0
i fucked up some film for print about 5 years ago, boss was pissed. gotta a rookie mistake exception though. if i did that now id get sent packing prolly.
dont take it too hard though, if you are still around there, yer boss isnt too pissed
learn from it and move on
- Bio0
yep. i feel you man.
the bad thing about my job is that if you screw up with a large format print... then you screw up bigtime. this shit is expensive, and when we have to reprint over a small error, it sucks.
- ave0
when I was 15 I worked at a local A&P stocking shelves and the like. One eveing I cleared all the pop bottles off the shelf, picked up a mystery cleaner and proceeded clean off the shelving, made that thing all sparkley clean! I put all the pop bottles back, lined them up like toy soldiers, best looking isle ever...
until about five minutes later, I heard "pfszzzzz" noises coming from the pop isle. I stepped over to the isle to see about 100 bottles of pop spraying little streams of pop all over the place. It turns out I had used oven cleaner to clean the shelves, big mistake! Oven cleaner eats through plastic! Funny as hell, even at the time. :)
- k0na_an0k0
when i was about 13 or 14 i worked on a farm. the guy who owned it had a pretty cool bobcat (farm machinery, not an animal).
one day i was doing chores and cleaning the cow lot with the bobcat. after finishing i was screwing around at the front of the barn on the gravel making it do reverse wheelies and spins. well i had the bucket up all the way and wasn't paying attention and during one spin the bucket caught the machine that sends the hay up into the hay loft. it tore most all of it off of the barn. it was terrible.
when he came home hours later i said i was pulling a couple hay racks and one of them caught the edge. he was still pissed as all hell.
- unknown0
When we were having a little after school party in high school on a Friday, naturally there was always the worry of cops sniffing out alcohol and kids out of school early.
Always on point, I was looking out the front windows to a cul-de-sac after someone said they saw a cop car. I pulled back the curtain only to hook a collectors plate belonging to my friend's mother, toppeling it down onto the window bottom and obliterating it into about a million pieces.My friend took the blame to his mom for it. I think it was part of a set that could only be bought as a full set. I felt awful.
- stewart0
nice stories.
- unknown0
no terrible mistakes til now. i have been lucky. lets cross the fingers
- stewart0
can't believe it, jg...
=)
- unknown0
you know what i think about what you believe or not
- pascii0
i am doing monthly reprints of about 10000 flyers because of stoopid mistakes. damn.
- stewart0
what's the monthly damage in USD, pascii?
- unknown0
be careful with your answer pascii
- Blofeldt0
When I was a post office manager, we had all this stuff lying around the office that had fallen out of envelopes and parcels that weren't wrapped properly. One object that always attracted amusing attention was this little science-y looking object called a particle accelerator or something. Posties would point it at each other hollering curses and pretend to zap each other with it.
Well, after a while all this stuff piled up and I sent it all to Belfast where they deal with lost items. But I forgot to include the particle accelerator, so rather than fill out a load more forms I thought "Fuck it" and binned it.
A few weeks later I went to this factory who said they'd lost something, when I got there a guy in a lab coat held up The Particle Accelerator! And preceded to inform me it was worth a cool £500,000!
Very coolly I denied all knowledge of the item and gave him a the Belfast office phone number and heard no more about it.
- Danski0
Does overwriting client A's site with client B's site, then not noticing for about a half an hour count?
Thank christ that (a) I keep backups and (b) It was the middle of the night, hence the confusion, and hence me getting away with it.
- stewart0
and that's why you're not showing your real name in the "Personal Properties", Blofeldt...