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30 Contenders For The Award Of Worst Mistake At Work, As Shared In This X Thread
In childhood, we’re conditioned to think that mistakes will always get us into trouble. But, throughout the years, we learn that there are varying degrees of mistakes that lead to an even wider variety of consequences. And it’s all very dependent on a lot of things.
So, even if you manage to destroy a very expensive machine at work, nothing might happen or a lot of things can happen. It all depends on the manager, the boss, the insurance, the age of the machine and loads of other things.
But it’s because of how we were conditioned, the mistakes might still haunt us. And not too long ago, folks on X were sharing these stories.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Would probably taste better after overnight in the fridge. A lot of things do.
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Erla Zwingle 2 years ago
That's actually terrifying. I gather you weren't fired? Punished? Admonished? Put on unpaid leave? Or does everybody just laugh off something like this?
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Rachel Pelz 2 years ago
Strong believer in politely questioning a cashier if you think they made a mistake in your favor.
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Natasha Arruda 2 years ago
Assuming it's one of the stores known for offering trade-in games for belly lint, good, F that store, but I hope the lady didn't end up in trouble. Though knowing that store... She probably did. Though could they not contact the info on the pre-order ticket and demand they pay?
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Little Wonder 2 years ago
We got shown" Animal Farm" when I was about 5 or 6. I guess it looked like a fun cartoon movie for kids?
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
We had a truck driver backing up to the loading ramp of the store I worked at and he managed to hit the building, rip off the rain gutter at his attempt to reposition and then destroy the metal stairs of said loading ramp on his second attempt
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TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
I nearly blew up a whole building by switching off a wrong button on an oven in a backery - turned off the flame but not the gas valve, luckily my mistake was noticed right away
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Deleted the entire wifi network of a school, put it back in under 10 minutes and nobody really noticed, but my brain likes to bring it up any time I start feeling too confident. :p
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I destroyed a pallet of fabric softener by not lowering it in time to miss an AC unit; another time I was lowering a pallet of #10 cans of tomatoes with a pallet of pasta on top of it, and the nails of the tomato pallet pulled out so the pasta and half the tomatoes fell from about 5 feet up
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I nearly blew up a whole building by switching off a wrong button on an oven in a backery - turned off the flame but not the gas valve, luckily my mistake was noticed right away
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Deleted the entire wifi network of a school, put it back in under 10 minutes and nobody really noticed, but my brain likes to bring it up any time I start feeling too confident. :p
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I destroyed a pallet of fabric softener by not lowering it in time to miss an AC unit; another time I was lowering a pallet of #10 cans of tomatoes with a pallet of pasta on top of it, and the nails of the tomato pallet pulled out so the pasta and half the tomatoes fell from about 5 feet up
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