terrible mistakes
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- dstlb0
I once used a graphic of a toilet as a temporary placeholder on a multinational corporation's website, then proceeded to forget about it when the site went live.
Only found out it was still there when they held a massive conference and a few thousand people viewed that particular page. Much shit on fan. No more toilet placeholders, ever, ever again.
- Blofeldt0
The joy of public service is that such matters just "go away."
- stewart0
it's just an 1/2 point, Danski.
but it is very easy to really f* someting up like this with digital media:
"are you sure you want to overwrite the selected documents? YES/NO (this is not undoable)"
- Blofeldt0
A designer I work with designed staionary for a dot com years ago, sent it all to print. When we got it delivered it looked great, until we realised he'd left off the web address and email contact! Doh!
- stewart0
classic.
- MarkH0
I ust to cut lawns for I living while I was at college. And got fired for breaking a broom, (the end fell off when I picked it up)
I got a image of a games developer from Japan back to front (Japanise type>>> so I did'nt notice). Everthing went to print none noticed.
Went to Japan >>> and they noticed
luckally the client took the rap as they approved the artwork without showing it to Japan.... Whew!!The best story I know is someone (no me BTW) use a morce code type as a overlay and typed "fuck bugger bastard" ect over his artwork.. Morce code NOONE WHOULD EVER KNOW!!! sent the artwork to Itally the itallians did'nt insatall the font, replaced it with helvetica. could'nt read english and the Billboard was printed with "fuck bugger bastard" all over it..
Moday morning he cleared his desk.
Mac temps awaits!
- Blofeldt0
I play the drums and once drove 200 miles to gig only to drive straight back. I'd forgotten my bass drum. hmmm
- Nairn0
I deleted about 2 months work of our teams' work for our client, Bravo TV a couple of years back. Turned it on my employers by having a go at them for not having a decent data security policy.
More recently, I ruined a perfectly useable (brand new, high-spec) pc by spilling a cup of tea over the keyboard. No great shakes there, of course - but it was after a very, very long (bad) day, so i lost my rag and kicked the pc. Hard. Apparantly in one fell-swoop I buggered the HD, motherboard and graphics card. The rest was salvagebale, mind.
- Christ, I don't remember this.
Well, the latter bit - I remember tthe first fuck up.detritus
- Christ, I don't remember this.
- unknown0
so they're sending something worth half a million by first class post? Did you ever come across a flux capicitor or a bullshit regenerator?
funny tho.
- bjladams0
last week we finalized an order and sent it to print. i've looked over the paperwork this morning, and realized that i've made a pretty glaring error in the quantities needed, only ordering half what the customer is expecting. the order has just come in, with a note from the printer:
"we've accidentally made a mistake and printed double the quantity requested, hope your customer could use the extra :-)"
i'm sending on a check for the extra.
- The universe tends to give you a wink and a smile when you keep getting the day-to-day stuff right. Nice job.melq
- sine0
i worked at an agency a good few years ago with my brother...
he fucked something up royally after he'd just been working there for a few weeks. had to go upstairs to the boss's office to explain... double-volume loft style office with glass so everyone can see into the boss's office from downstairs. he was very nervous, and after the boss gave him a thorough ear-full, on his way down the stairs he tripped and rolled head-over-heels down 2 flights of stairs. too funny.
- qTime0
This thread could turn into the 'Who not to hire' thread.
- arne0
i did not kiss her.
- sothere0
I was a plant delivery guy as a student. mostly old ladies who came in to the nursery and buy flower plants. being too old to carry them home we would show up at their house with what they had purchased. They always seemed to have small dogs and would say: 'don't worry he wont bite'. This was usually followed by a bite to the ankle.
After a day delivering and about the fifth bite to a blood red ankle I could take it no more. A small dog when in for the ankle so I kicked it in the head. It's tooth got caught in my bootlace and it ripped out. Unfortunately the dog belonged to the wife of the then deputy prime minister. She said I would be in every black list she could think of getting me on.
Never really recovered.Is there a prize for this?
- elahon0
At a newspaper job many years ago, to play a joke on our proofreader, I replaced one of the Obituary photos with this:
and changed the persons name to "Deady McMaggot", and left the text of the obit alone. I saved the ad, printed it out, and we all got a good laugh. I went back to the ad and put the original photo back in, but forgot to change the name... and the fucking ad ran... with "Deady McMaggot" as the poor fellow's name...
Didn't go over well, to say the least. Hello, unemployment!!
- bliznutty0
Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 before the film could be rendered for theaters...
- sleepyfatso0
I was building the earlier version of this site (http://wightlife.com/) for tourism on the Isle of Wight and I didn't have all the content for the descriptions for the Towns and Villages. I just put in, "This town crap crap crap crap crap...." for the descriptions and then we went live with the site. I didn't notice until we got an email from a lady that said "I live in Sandown and I sincerely disagree with your description".
- Funny no one from Shanklin called in to correct their description, wasn't it !!?? :)mikotondria3
- autoflavour0
didnt get me fired, but at my first job i had to access the mainframe server room, which was crazy secured (3 access doors) .. anyway, U had to do database dumps on this beast directly thru the Novell server hanging off it..
anyway, as i managed to accidentally wipe the boot partition on this server which had been up and running for like 6 years..
needless to say, they didnt have a copy of the license handy and it took about 4 days to get it reissued (this was 1996, so back when everything took forever)
it basically crippled about 9 peoples working abilities until it was fixed, not to mention fucked up the monthly reports and blah blah
who cares.. it was fucking terrible job and i quit shortly after..