moment in work stupidity
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- ephix0
The other one that comes to mind is the Boeing annual report. There's a section with a graph.
== 110% ahahahah. this went to print.
- neue75_bold0
I've never made a mistake...
- pascii0
working late and weekends for asshole accountants and clients
- Stugoo0
part of my job is a fall back server admin, for when people go on holiday, quick support stuff etc.
Now before this job I had never even seen a line of unix. 3 months in I was asked to move a directory from one place to another, but I missed out a space or a minus or something and moved the half of the webservers files into one directory bringing down about 50 websites.brown pants regroup.,.. luckily the boss was on hand to sort me out.
- uncle_helv0
Me too Dancer, plus I got caught printing my folio at work, it a while ago, I was in-house and I hated it, my boss dragged me into his office and asked why I wanted to leave, so I told him my feelings for the place, I proper let rip as well, I was shaking!, his face was a picture though (c*nt), he then told me to get out his office and said "you look for a job in my own time, and that the companies work was not my property" I went back to my desk and continued to print out my portfolio... needless to say I got a new pretty soon after!
- Fook!!! when I started writing this Dancer was the last post!uncle_helv
- haha...neue75_bold
- haha i remember spending most of the mornings at one job e-mailing other studios my portfoliomodern
- I been there +1Iggyboo
- mistermik0
Once sent an email to new female client that said 'nice tits'.
I was actually replying to mates email re some bird he meet on holiday. Ah the joys of autofill address.
- MrMackem0
I deleted my entire work folder.
- detritus0
In my first job, I turned up one Sunday morning to publish two regional newspapers online - something I did every week. Except this time I'd been up all night boshing E and speed at a psychedelic trance night, so hadn't had any sleep and was in pieces.
I got about a third of the way through and got completely flummoxed by the simplest of things, so left a note affixed to the monitor saying little more than 'got confused, left'.
Awoke on Monday morning with the terrible realisation of what I'd done. Thankfully, I'm .. or at least was .. vaguely competant otherwise, so they didn't sack me. Not clever though.
I vaguely remember, in a different job, losing 6 weeks worth of site builds for a big online game we were working on well known TV brand, by cancelling a Cut'n'Paste of folders between servers (it was taking far too long). Little did I know that'd actually cause a problem. Thankfully, this episode was mostly resolvable and the hit was taken by the IT department who hadn't been doing their backups properly.
- fugged0
Not me, but years ago my wife was a CD at a technology company. She'd put together a whole bunch of stuff for a trade show they were going to. One of their products at the time was this "Atomic Clock" dealie.
On the second day of the event it was brought to my wife's attention that one of the brochures for the product had a typo on the front. She'd left out an "L".
There it was in big letters across the brochure. The Atomic Cock.
I still don't understand how everyone could have missed that one - But apparently they did.
- Fariska0
^^
More or less same thingworking on this interactive cd for a cliend called Dealers Kit
Just the day before going on print i realized that was Deakers KitAnd i was looking at that thing for at least 1 month.
And not just myself.
- fugged0
A few years ago I built a pretty complex web application for semi conductor company in China. It was (and still is) probably one of the most complicated apps I've ever done. The client wanted their app to perform like a desktop application, so there was lots and lots of AJAX and fancy widgets built on a custom JavaScript library. Debugging was difficult and I had lots of debug statements to help make sure everything was working.
A few weeks after launch I get a frantic email from my boss, wanting to know what "BBOYS MAKING WITH THE FREAK FREAK" meant. A debug alert I'd forgot to remove. Luckily the customer didn't speak english well...
- Fariska0
Once i had to amend a flash app made by someone else
who used as placeholder text on dynamic text fields "bad motherfucker", which sometimes wasn't replaced by text.
And this was for a major brand of credit cards.
- sleepyfatso0
Working on a tourism site for the Isle of Wight, there was a section on why you should visit certain towns. Before we had the right copy, I had all the towns (20 or so) text to read "Visit Newport because it's shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit." "Visit Shanklin because it's shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit." and so on. We launched the site and it took a few weeks before someone wrote in saying, "I live in Newport and I don't think your description online is very accurate."
- blaw0
If there is a lesson to be learned here, it's that you should refrain from exercising your wit in written form. Lorem ipsum is the standard for a reason.
- ********0
mistakenly sent email calling client a fucking retard to said client
- ********0
This was when I was about seven and at junior school, my teacher told me to copy some text out of a book, I took what she said literally, and I looked at all the type in the book and copied it, it took me 1 Hour to do Four words.
THE CAT WAS LOOKING.
- AdamC0
Not me, but someone I used to work with.....
- ********0
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- ********0
walked into the womens locker room
- moment of "brilliance" perhapsharlequino
- my thoughts exactly.********