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“That Area Is Now Sealed For The Next 100 Years”: 30 Of The Worst Mistakes Someone Has Made At A New Job
Mishaps at work can range from minor inconveniences to screw-ups of grand proportions. Major calamities often happen to the newbies, as they usually have less experience or training. Or plain luck, in some cases.
The r/AskReddit community discussed the misfortunes someone new at their job had to encounter. Part of the examples don’t even sound real but sadly (for some—more than for others), they are. Ranging from absolutely terrible to unbelievably funny and everything in between, they prove that la vie is not always en rose when it comes to work.
These examples are far from the only ones covering some unlucky people just trying to do their job. For more, make sure to browse Bored Panda’s previous edition of horrible mistakes people made at work that their coworkers never forgot.
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#1
Certainly not the biggest mistake I've ever seen, but this sticks out in my memory...
When I was an RN working in the ICU, every July we'd have a fresh crop of residents (doctors fresh out of med school). Many were very nice, one or two were (and often would stay) flaming a******s, and most felt nurses were just waitresses. This superiority complex usually died down substantially in the first 2-3 weeks when the nurses in my ICU would prove their knowledge and earn their respect, but it would often be a rough 2-3 weeks for us nurses.
One July on the first day they began on the unit, I assisted one resident in putting in a central line (internal jugular IIRC). He inserted it and then said to the patient, "All done!" but he very much was not.
I made some excuse to talk to him outside of the room; something like, "Doctor, could you help me choose the right supplies for the next phase of the procedure?" or whatever. Out of earshot of the patient, I whispered to him that he needed to suture the line in place. He had no idea what I was talking about (sheesh, men never read instructions) so I told him how to do it. Luckily for me he was nice and didn't go off on me for correcting him - we went back in the room together and I made some transitional statement so the patient would never know the doctor omitted a pretty important part of the procedure. The resident put in the sutures as I instructed and there was absolutely no harm to the patient.
After, he took me aside and said, "My wife is an RN. She told me nurses would save my a*s. I just never guessed it would be on my first day - thank you."
Jeff Gabrisl 2 years ago
When people say things like men don't read instructions, or real men don't need instructions, it must mean Im not a man. Any time I work on the car, I have the manual out, just to make sure I don't miss a step. Same thing goes for plumbing or other home improvement things. I'd rather be the guy who does it right, than the man who does it twice.
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Phil Boswell 2 years ago
This is a nice one: he messed up, took his correction like a pro, and thanked the OP afterwards. I'd prefer someone who worked like this than someone who thinks they never mess up in the first place…
Poppy 2 years ago
I had to have a central line fitted to my neck due to kidney failure and I needed dialysis urgently. The on call doctor fitted the line and put a dressing over it. I went down to dialysis and the two wonderful dialysis nurses who stayed on past the end of their shift just to make sure I had dialysis (or I would have died, the potassium levels in my blood was near lethal levels) looked at my central line and the dressing and said 'Who the hell fitted that dressing?' I told them it was the doctor and they just said 'Typical'. Apparently it was folded underneath itself and didn't really protect the central line. They took it off, cleaned around it and placed a fresh one on correctly. I'll always be grateful to those nurses as they had done a full shift and then stayed on until 2am just to care for me.
Mere Cat 2 years ago
In my country, the medical school professors/seniors frequently tell the students the importance of listening to the nurses, and that often when you don't know something, they do.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
I wish they would also tell them to listen to the patients, because not all doctors do.
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debora shuger 2 years ago
My late husband was a junior officer on a US aircraft carrier. He said much the same about senior enlisted men.
Quentin ingulfumble 2 years ago
he might not have read the instructions, but he took instruction well enough. fair play to both of them!
Cora C 2 years ago
I am a doctor. I once wrote paracetamol (acetaminophen in the US) 5000mg, instead of 500mg. "I am not sure if I have misunderstood." a nurse reminded me by sounding like it was her fault. I learnt a lot of soft skills from her.
Elizabeth Rose 2 years ago
Yes, there's a lot of value in being gentle, almost more value than being assertive. If we all just treaded a little softer we could solve a lot of issues in society at break neck speeds, I believe. There's just a tension that all life is feeling right now. Politics doesn't belong in healthcare. It's literally about one thing, caring for your health. Life in America will change you.
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#2
I had a new guy ring me for some tech support. He didn't like the answer I gave him so he gave me a mouthful of abuse and then slammed the phone down. We worked for different departments in a global company. I don't know where he though I was located but the ten paces that took me straight to his desk must have been quite a shock.
arienne libbrecht 2 years ago
OP was in the same building as the dude who just screamed abuse at them, so they surprised him by walking right up to his desk.
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AspieGirl88 2 years ago
He definitely could’ve been written up for that by his manager, as he’s basically creating toxicity in the workplace with such an attitude & it won’t go down well with higher-ups if he decides to be like that with clients; & could result in immediate termination, depending on how strict/lax things are when involving management. That’ll be karma, though. 🤷♀️😏
#3
My vet tech instructor worked at a zoo in the past, and there was a co-op vet tech student there who had just finished her program. She was very head strong and did things the way she wanted them done.. not the proper way. Well there was this rare possum (last breeding male in captivity of its species) who had a cold or something, so they had it in the icu so it would have the best care, as it was so rare, and it was very important he didnt die. It was time to give him his pain medication. For those not from the medical world, this drug is given sub cutaneously. In animals it is given anywhere under loose skin you can lift and inject underneath. This is commonly done at the base of the neck. Tent skin, inject, done. So my instructor is in charge of the co-op student, both in the icu. The student insists she can give the injection, so my instructor gives her the go ahead as it is a simple procedure, and she's been trained. You really cant mess up... easily. So this girl goes to inject at the base of the neck but isn't lifting the skin out of the way. Instructor says how to do it correctly and the students refuses and insists she was taught at school that she didnt have to tent the skin. After a mild dispute the instructor says whatever, he will be fine. And the student proceeds with the injection. Well doesnt the possum start siezing. She had given him the injection into his spine. You couldnt do that so easy if you tried. At worst she could theoretically given the injection into muscle... not the spine. Anyways.. he died soon after. The LAST BREEDING MALE IN CAPTIVITY DIED because of this students ignorance..
Im pretty sure my instructor wrote her name down so she would never accidentally hire her in the future.
Uncanny 2 years ago
The 'instructor' also hugely at fault here. Should have been way more insistent on proper procedure being followed. That poor possum.
Annie 2 years ago (edited)
Agree. Instead of letting a student work on not only incredibly rare but irreplaceable animal, the instructor should have done it herself. Both were absolutely negligent & I hope that student doesn't go on to become a vet with her headstrong attitude because becoming a veterinarian is about caring & healing, not feeding one's ego.
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Karen Grace 2 years ago
When she refused to do it correctly the instructor should have taken over or had someone else do it. I don't understand the "what's the worst she can do" attitude. Oh, and the student should have been dropped from the program.
AK to LV 2 years ago
Especially the last male of the species in captivity. That just screams a whatever/let's wing it attitude. SMH
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ISeeWendiGo 2 years ago
Seems to me that yes, the student is to blame but the supervising instructions should have a large part of the blame on their shoulders since they gave the go ahead to the student. That's why they're there, to prevent procedures from being done incorrectly and I don't care if the student had done this a million times before "their way", wrong is wrong. They both caused needless pain, suffering, and the death of this creature. Poor possum...😢
Annymoose 2 years ago
Couldn't find any record of this (what possum species??) and it's incredibly difficult to inject IN a spine, not to mention incredibly reckless to let someone do something so important who is new AND let them do it WRONG.
Mjskywalk 2 years ago
Well, I found a Wikipedia article about the Leadbeaters Possum in Australia that is critically endangered. It said that in 2006 the last captive specimen in Australia died, but didn’t say how…
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#4
A couple years back, a guy started at my work and on his first day was reading through all the SOP's and various other job specific stuff, when he fell asleep. Now granted this isn't good, but the new boss made him come in at 4:30am to match her insane schedule for some reason. His new boss walked in, and the following conversation took place:
* New Boss: "Hey, wake up!"
* Guy: "Sorry about that, this stuff is just so boring."
* New Boss: "Really? Because I wrote those SOP's..."
* Guy: "...."
* New Boss: "Well, I don't want this job to get in the way of your sleeping schedule, perhaps you should go find something more suitable"
So yeah, dude was fired within the first 30 minutes. But, PLOT TWIST, that new guy wasn't the one who made the mistake!
A couple years later (pretty recently), that dude shows back up at our place as an auditor (I'm in the biotech industry, and we have audits from our customers on a regular basis). He was now going to spend a day auditing the New Boss who had fired him for something that we all (the rank and file scientists) saw as pretty petty. Anyway he performed the audit and got way up her a*s on even the most minute details, and the audit went so bad that his company eventually started buying product from a different company.
So, her callousness at something minor (at least in our eyes) a few years back ended up costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars a few years down the road.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
I support that guy. Being honest toward an abusive boss then getting avenged. Good
Biofish23 2 years ago
Getting offended because someone called your SOP's boring is ridiculous. SOP's are boring. They are supposed to be boring. Being a new hire who has been put at a desk and told to read them for hours on end sucks, and would put almost anyone to sleep.
Maltaros 2 years ago
Especially since she made him come in at 4:30 AM to read them.
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In fairness all SOP's are dead boring. The first 3 pages - at least - are just abbreviation, scope, BS.
Kiss Army 2 years ago
Agreed. I write SOPs. I know they are boring... if someone told me they were boring, I would wholeheartedly agreed and not be offended one bit. (I have to review the SOPs yearly and they bore me enough to make me want to nod off.)
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NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago
I get it. As an HR/Safety Director in the field of Manufacturing I have yet to read or write an SOP that wasn't boring. They all are. It's in their nature to be. Lol
David 2 years ago
Many SOPs >>ARE<< boring. In the reactor plants we worked long hours but much of it was babysitting machinery and taking hourly log readings. Hot, noisy, monotonous. The only reading material allowed in the plant were the operating / procedural manuals. A whole bookshelf full of 4" binders of just about every SOP and emergency procedure you can think of. They were thorough, accurate, usually well written. But one thing they were NOT was entertaining.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Ugh. I hated reading SOP's when I switched positions; incredibly boring. I still haven't read them all; very few even apply to me in my position.
Id row 2 years ago
Sorry, but I'd fire someone who fell asleep at work on their first day, too. It's not a minor thing. I would absolutely expect to get fired if I fell asleep at work, especially on the first day.
Sonja 2 years ago
Would you also make them come in at absolutely ridiculous and unreasonable times and make them read extremely boring instruction manuals for hour on their own and call that training? If yes, then the people you fire have dodged a bullet. It's reasonable to fire someone who falls asleep during the job under normal conditions, but that boss was setting the guy up for failure. There's dedication, and theres human nature. If you set up tasks in an unnecessarily complicated and difficult way just to bother your employee and make it harder, it's on you when they fail.
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Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well, he really should have apologized (but also tried harder to stay awake - have a coffee dude) and made something up about how much he was trying to get through.
#5
I'm only in my second year of being a teacher, but last year I witnessed a big mistake by someone who has been teaching for a really long time.
This person had been teaching for nearly 30 years, but most of that time was spent as a music teacher. I don't know why they felt the need to make a jump into being an instructional teacher, but they did. One day we are taking our students out to P.E. and they were asking me how everything is going. I said that it's going fine, but I am just having a tough time trying to fit in all the subjects and all the standards.
The teacher says "Do you know how I've saved a lot of time? I've stopped teaching reading." I laughed initially because I thought they were joking, but they were not. At one point they decided that teaching reading wasn't "worth it" so they had replaced that time with music time. I believe their students had the worst reading scores in our school and their class was temporarily taken over by our school's reading coach. They are still employed
Jen M 2 years ago
Or is it simply chikd abuse? Maybe not, but chijd neglect for sure. The TEACHER stopped teaching reading, the only thing crucial to allow students to learn every other topic in life, is the ability to read about it. Without literacy, we'd require every single thing in life to be explained yo us by another person. That's exactly how you destroy civilization, remove literacy. WTF
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Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
Why? Why would you do that? Reading is one of the most fulfilling subjects you will every learn! Every hobby, every class, every song you Google…reading is behind it.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Being a teacher myself, this baffles me. Where I teach it is just not possible to do that. You have a national, state or independent curriculum you must cover, which is checked on by the education authorities. Then you have the school directions, which are overseen by the principal and your team teachers, and finally you have parents, who would pick up on this in a heartbeat. I just don't get it.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
Good reading skills are essential in reading music skills. I was one of the best sight readers because I read incessantly. She couldn't have been teaching music, either.
Alleman Jennifer 2 years ago
Completely agree with your dumfoundedness. I will say music teachers are instructors. My husband taught art and too many of the teachers thot it was just craft time. He went to thee uni to teach art history, concepts, and art production. It irked him. All that said, I completely understand where your coming from and my mini rant was off topic. Thanks for listening!
#6
A month into my new job, I gave the GM's personal number to a customer. His cell phone number. Right after I did it, I had a panic attack. The customer had bullied me for it, leaning over my desk and threatening me while his wife distracted other customers so they wouldn't see this 40-something man intimidating a 20-something receptionist. He did call the GM's phone; I got lucky because he bragged about how he had gotten the number from me. The GM flipped his s**t and told the guy never to come back. He sat down with me for my side of the story later that week and told me what to do if something similar occurred. I'm still here 4-5 years later, but that will always stick with me. Thank god for my coworkers. One of the financial planners actually found the customer's number and reamed him out for his behavior, she was amazing. But yeah, don't give out the GM's cell phone number.
Yeah, okay. 2 years ago
Yes, that was a good leader. Nice to see, that's for sure.
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Natalie Seaton 2 years ago
Actually, I disagree. Someone harasses my team member and intimidates the person who is new to workforce? Go ahead, I beg of you - give the bully my number. I just wanna talk.
M F 2 years ago
NEVER GIVE OUT COWORKERS INFO. No phone numbers, not their schedule, not even if they are in or not. Always say "Let me check" and ask the coworker if they want to even talk to the person. This is a very common tactic with stalkers and abusive exes! Don't give out details! It might save a life!
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago
These days you don't share anyone's personal details without their permission.
ThatOneWriter 2 years ago
I feel like the customer should have been reported to authorities too. Harassment, intimidation, etc.
Robert A Reider Jr 2 years ago (edited)
I was once the GM of a famous garlic restaurant in san francisco. We served 1000+ nightly. I was given a company cellphone and instructed to keep it near me at all times. When my business cards came in...they featured that cell phone's number...and were placed in a holder at the hostess stand. I wont go into detail but I quit after a year. Pity, it was a good gig.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I admire your boss for sitting down with you to get your side of the story and basically getting your back. That's how managers/owners are SUPPOSED to act.
Elaine Dodge 2 years ago
That GM behaved perfectly. Well done him. And yeah, never give out the GM's cell number. Call security instead.
#7
Didn't check the aircraft type before assigning a speed. Told an F-16 to "maintain best forward speed" which caused a sonic boom over a major metropolitan area.
Lyyyy 2 years ago
I’ve experienced this. I was outside at an open area (next to a decent sized lake) hunched over a circular saw, cutting something. I had earmuffs on and over the sound of the saw, it was more like i felt the sound, like somebody slapped my back and my body hard. No windows or fingers were hurt.
Lyyyy 2 years ago
Additional info that US folks will find wild: the sonic boom was justified, as it was our fighters responding to an airspace violation by Russian fighter. It happens here a few times a year, and they do it probably to test how fast we react. (Finland) Currently they are jamming the gps-signal reqularly in the airspace so that civil airplanes can’t land.
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David 2 years ago
Haha. Sonic booms can be very powerful. Aircraft carrier - USS Enterprise - 80s. some mucky mucks were visiting so they did an air show for them, dropped some bombs in the water and stuff. I am working down in the reactor plants and hear this sort of bam or something (my post was well under the water line). The overhead pipes shook so bad dust was falling out of the overhead. I honestly thought a steam pipe had ruptured at first but no steam. Turns out some top gun hot dog pilot did a sonic boom as he passed the bridge and it shook the entire ship. A FRICKING AIRCRAFT CARRIER. Not long after that I had a reason to be up on the bridge up in the 'tower' part you see in pictures. One of the ballistic windows next to the XO's chair was cracked top to bottom. It's like 1" or 2" bullet (or bomb?) proof glass. Not sure the specs but you could see it was thick just by looking at window. after that believed some old sonic boom stories I had heard.
ThatOneWriter 2 years ago
"Do you want UFO conspiracies? THIS IS HOW WE GET UFO CONSPIRACIES."
Hobby Hopper 2 years ago (edited)
Different but equally great ATC story: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-tells-story-behind-famed-ground-speed-check/
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
This happened over our house in the 90s. We loved by an airfield and someone was showing off. Pilots, man.
#8
Little late for the party but whatever...
I work at a zoo and we have some pretty dangerous animals--lions, a tiger, grizzlies (oh my). So every single employee has to carry on them a can of super strength bear mace (like the kind you can't just go buy at a self-defense store). This stuff is made to stop a raging [insert any animal here] in its tracks, and can cause skin irritation and even nausea without even touching you.
Anyway this one seasonal girl saw a can sitting by her computer at the main lobby; it says across the front "COUNTER SPRAY", as in like "counter *attack* spray", but she thought it was counter as in "indoor counter-top/computer desk spray". So long story short we had to evacuate one of the largest buildings in the zoo (also the only building where we could sell tickets). It was so bad, people on the third floor of the building were having trouble breathing before they even got word of what happened.
Bonus story: one employee was out in the booth at the main gate with all the windows and doors closed, they were curious what color the spray was.. didn't end very well for them.
Uncanny 2 years ago (edited)
I must stay, 'counter spray' isn't a great name for grumpy animal mace. How about 'Bear Be Gone!' or 'Spray in The Eye of The Tiger'?
Maltaros 2 years ago
Few untrained people would think "Counter Spray" was anything but a spray for the counter tops. This seems to be one of those instances where a piece of specialized knowledge is so well known to the experienced guy that he can't conceive of the notion that normal people wouldn't get it. It's like when my wife talks insurance jargon to me and my eyes glaze over.
Rapunzel With The Loced Hair 2 years ago
This reminds me of something I did in my childhood, around 7/8 years old. For some unknown to me reason, my father kept his favorite perfume in this little "window" that was opposite the bathroom and toilet. One fine afternoon, after using the toilet I decided to make it smell better with air freshener, and the one in the "small window" had the words "Eau de Toilette" and it smelt divine. With my supposed extensive but actually limited knowledge of French I interpreted that as "For the toilet" and sprayed a generous amount in the toilet. Needless to say, my mother was not happy and our house smelt purely like my father for about a week :-)
Betsy S 11 months ago
Back when I was a kid, I don't know if there actually were tampons yet, but all we knew about were "sanitary napkins" as people refer to today as "pads". Well the box said "sanitary napkins" and we were having guests for dinner. My mother told my younger sister (pre-pubescent) to get the napkins to set the table. Much to our surprise out came the really thick absorbent napkins, tidily placed beside each spot at the dinner table. Words, labels and context/location matter.
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talliloo 2 years ago
i worked at a zoo and while i had trust and respect for most of my colleagues there were some that i never trusted because of their lackadaisical ways. when i knew they were the last ones to have left an enclosure of a dangerous animal i took extra precautions because i had discovered that they didn't all secure and then check it was secure the barrier between the humans and the animals.
Chich 2 years ago
Similar but with normal bear spray. Buddy was working with a new guy doing field work. New guy hops in the truck while bud stows the gear. Bud opens the drivers door and sees new guy holding one arm out and aiming a can of bear spray at it, obviously thinking for some reason it is bug spray. Slammed the door shut a split second before the whole cab went "FLOOOSH!"
NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago
I'm so lost... aiming the what?? What does "FLOOSH" imply? Did it go up in flames? Why? I need more information, please. Or a nap...
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HahahahHHaha. So you can get the bear spray at outdoor outfitters. It's the same as pepper spray but more potent and can shoot 30 yards rather than three. I always recommend it for personal protection, not in the woods, but if you are going to carry pepper spray, might as well go hi hog. How wld I happen to know....whelp through work. a guy broke into his next door neighbors apartment and started attacking him. Apartment owner unloads a whole can of bear spray on him. Guy runs away. Before apartment own can call 911, the intruder has already called 911 for emergency medical. Ambulance and cops show up. He is on his hands and knees throwing up and producing more mucus out of his nose than one wld believe possible. To add to the visual, the guy wasn't wearing a shirt, but the WAS orange from head to toe. Yes, bear spray is orange so rangers can tell which bear was the offender. This poor sucker was a snotting, spiting, puking blind human Cheeto. Once he was medically cleare.
#9
They dropped a radioactive source while drilling an oil well.
That area is now sealed for the next 100 years.
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
I think this guy may have been driving a truck in the Australian outback recently...
boone williams 2 years ago
I've been following that story because Cs137 is what we use in our industry for soil density testing, and that kind of thing happens more often than you might think. The radioactive source is welded into a stainless steel capsule, and then into a stainless steel probe which is then in a pretty (usually) bright yellow box. Field techs are *supposed* to secure the gauge inside the shipping container with locks and chains and the tailgate up whenever they move their vehicle, but because it's all such a pain to lock/unlock, they'll leave the gauge on the open tailgate and drive real slow. Then they'll forget its there and go hurling down the highway and not realize it's gone until they get back to the office
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Jihana 2 years ago
That one I do not understand. Those things are rather easy to find with the right equipment. They found that one source in Australia, and I imagine an oil well drilling site is smaller than 1400km.
M O'Connell 2 years ago (edited)
The source in the Australian case was within a stainless steel containment vessel. If the source container had been ruptured, The only option would be to excavate all the contaminated soil and store it in secure containers at a secure site until the radioactivity had decayed to safe levels. Since it is common to lower a radioactive source down a borehole as part of detection equipment to measure rock formation density, it's possible the source was "dropped" and not retrievable. The "100 year" timeframe makes sense if the radioisotope in use was Cobalt-60, because ~20 half-lives would have elapsed in that 100 years.
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Sofia 2 years ago (edited)
Depends on what you drop. Some last for hundreds years, some for thousands, some for millions (and some last for seconds)
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#10
Broke the copier with his butt.
Mune 2 years ago
As a non-native English speaker it hurts me that copier is spelt like that but not pronounced as "cope he ah". Should have been spelt coppier ffs
Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago
please don’t down vote them it’s not their fault english is a complicated language and they aren’t a native speaker. Plus their comment wasn’t rude or spam so there is no reason to down vote unless you fluently speak every language on the planet.
Load More Replies... A B C the Third 2 years ago (edited)
HAHAHA does BP seriously censor glass? /edit: oh, apparently you did that yourself. What the fúck mate :D
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
From now on, please introduce said colleague (if he/she is still working there after this) as: Please meet *insert name here*, the man/woman/whoever with the A*s of Steel! So powerful it broke our functioning copier... XD
AspieGirl88 2 years ago
That’s probably a good thing, TBH … can you imagine having to put your papers down on the same place this guy’s a$$/bālls were sitting, then having to pick those papers up again (whilst trying not to think about the poop particles & this guy’s sweaty meat-sack smeared across the glass surface)?? I mean, EWW! 😂
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
Maybe this man was more "grown" than a copymachine maker is usually bargaining for.
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At my old job. This was called the Perfect Storm. I worked in a call center for an oil field. The foreman would call in oil. We'd type in the order number, create an order for the oil to be picked up by our trucks, and send if off to dispatch. The poor call center girl got the number off by 1 digit. So instead of picking up oil in the eastern part of our state, they picked it up in the western part of our state. Now usually this wouldn't be a major issue, but this particular time, the oil that was supposed to be picked up was h2s. H2s oil is extremely poisonous. The foreman, knowing he'd done his job, left for the weekend. The h2s oil kept pumping, filled up to max, and spilled over the edge and onto the ground. This is where it gets expensive. The EPA has to come out and assess. We are fined for that of course. There also happens to be a farmer who lives right next to the pump. His soil is tainted for the next 7 years. Not only do we have to pay fines, we have to pay this farmer for his crops that won't happen now. $15 million+ mistake. Because one digit was off.
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
I don't see how the pickup location is relevant to this. It sounds to me that the foreman is the one who made the mistake by leaving before the job was actually completed and/or not checking the actual specs of the job (as in too high volume for the truck used). It also sounds like OP thinks that this type of thing could never have happened at the eastern pickup location.
Higgleton 2 years ago
Yeah I don't get this one. The land was poisoned not because the site was wrong, but because the foreman allowed oil to overflow.
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Detective Miller's Hat 2 years ago
I was once 1 digit off when ordering office supplies. We still have the GIANT box of sugar packets that we will likely never use up.
patricia patricia 2 years ago
The foreman shouldn't have left until everything was done and finished, especially if the substance is so expensive and poisonous. The system is c**p, too. Just a telephone call and a number dictated over the phone, without any verification? People make mistakes, but the system must be designed to correct those mistakes.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Farming is extremely hard work, he was paid well, and could probably use a vacation
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Christel Nellemann 2 years ago
That is absolutely the companys fault, to have such bad systems in place, that one new young person getting one digit wrong can be to blame. Totally a systemic problem. Get better safety guards in. Poor farmer
Christel Nellemann 2 years ago
And we all know, the soil will not be all poisonfree after seven years.
Load More Replies... Elaine Dodge 2 years ago
Sorry, what? 'The foreman knowing he'd done his job'? Turning off the pump isn't part of his job?
Jennifer Erdossy 2 years ago
If it's that critical, they should be reading back the number and have redundancies.
#12
A guy at work was told to go to the roof of a 4 story building, tie a rope grab to an anchor and come back down. He took this literally and used the rope to slide down the building. He had no gloves on and proceeded to burn through his skin on his hands down to his bone as he held on for dear life.
fanscious-c_a_t 2 years ago
Omg if this were me I would also do this as I have difficulty understanding instructions. Poor guy. I can only imagine the pain. This happened to me too, back in grade 6.
Mune 2 years ago
Remember the prank where a bunch of guys were welding and told the new guy to stand with an open bag to catch the sparks as they'll need them later. Cases like these make me wonder if the new guys ever think things through, like you can't slide down on bare rope like George of The Jungle, you'll cut your hands.
Himiko 2 years ago
Sometimes newbies get nervous and don't question it because they're are not confident in their skills yet
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Work pranks gone 2 far, what happened to sending someone to go get a longn stand and a glass hammer
October 2 years ago
My first day working at a pill factory, I asked my co-workers if it was dangerous being in this medicinal dust all the time. A little later I came back from my toilet break and all the guys were on the floor pretending they had passed out. Still cracks me up thirty years later.
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shawna Reich 2 years ago
can i assume this was a fire fighter in training since there is nothing indicating wth is going on? lol
Krod Mandoon 2 years ago
lol, everything on this list either gives you zero backstory, or tells you lots of useless info like what the subject's mother's hairdresser had for lunch last year
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Kris92 2 years ago
This reminded me of my cousin when he came up to us on the patio and just went "ooooooww". They had a the that was leaning over a ditch that they had tied up different things to swing from. Garden hose, rope, metal chains. There were a lot of nettles in the ditch too. He'd been hanging upside-down on the chains, but had forgotten to wear worker gloves. The solid kind. So his fingers eventually went *DrrRrrRrrr* down the chain and he landed head first in the ditch. I still see it so clearly happening in my mind's eye XD
#13
They don't bother to train anyone they send to wash dishes at my work. They just throw them in the pit and tell them to do the job.
Sometimes that leads to catastrophic what-the-hell-do-I-do related failure.
One thing that is never explained is that you are supposed to change the dishwater in your machine to keep the dishes actually coming out clean, because the machine reuses the same water over and over.
One line cook got sent into the pit on my day off. Never changed the water once. By 8pm the white plates were coming out butter-colored and speckled with ash.
Rather than figure out something was amiss and ask how to fix it, he instead took to wiping down each individual plate with a rag so that the slime wasn't as obvious. Then sent them out to have people eat food off of them.
Health department would have had a conniption if they heard about that. I know I did.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
No training and blaming the newby, that's not how it works. S.....y workplace
Martin Hřebík 2 years ago (edited)
I mean... in this case.... if the dishes come out dirty as f**k out of the dishwasher then OBVIOUSLY something is wrong. How about go ask other people about that? Or your supervisor? Smearing the slime all over the plate with a rag and sending the plate as if it was clean is a stupidity on the new guy's side.
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Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
I wouldn't have known that the machine reuses water. I would have had to have been told that, and what to do about it.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
I used to work in multiple kitchens (not as a dishwasher though) and I wouldn’t have known that either! If anyone asked me to cover a dish shift I would have probably made the same mistake
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Leoninus Fate 2 years ago
the problem is, this sounds easy and basic, like something anyone can do and figure out.... but when actually faced with it..... You really can't unless someone teaches you, so in order not to "look stupid or not competent" you try your best and yet still semi fail
Eris Kallisti 2 years ago
It was probably a sanitizer, not a dishwasher. They're pretty common in restaurants. The dishes are supposed to be basically clean when they go in and they get high-temp sanitized. If you're doing it right you shouldn't have to drain the water more than once a shift.
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patricia patricia 2 years ago
Why does the machine reuse the water? Isn't that very unhygienic?
Fluffy Griffin 2 years ago
Probably is "safe" because it gets boiling hot.
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Ansi 2 years ago
At a place our big industri dishwasher had pink foam mold at the end of the week. Charming to clean that up. I still gag when I think of cleaning dishes, taking out chewinggum and spit tobacco whit my hands from cups, and unvinding that spring from tebags that all people so playfully wrist around the handle of coffee mugs.
Sinnsyk Jakte 2 years ago
They threw me to the wolves when I started my job. Now I am their sheepdog and wolf, and I train people so no one else has to suffer the same fate. I am, ironically, on the safety team... And I tell my trainees... 'Do as I say, not as I do.' Show them how to do everything right... Then turn around and chaotically do what I just told them /not/ to do...because that's the best way I know to contribute to my job.
#14
From the SO: Guy started at 8am. Went to HR to complete some paperwork and spent most of his time trying to stare down the HR manager's blouse. Two hours later he told one of the executive secretaries that "they should have a wet tshirt contest at work, because they'd win". Needless to say he was out of there by noon.
Yeah, okay. 2 years ago
Be creepy in the HR department and let the executive secretary in on it... what could possibly go wrong?
#15
Accidentally shipped a box of iPods instead of "1" iPod, yeah the customer "lost" the rest somehow.
Stygtand 2 years ago
Tried that with a nespresso coffee machine. They where supposed to send one as a replacement for a faulty machine. I got 64 machines on 2 pallets placed in my front yard. When i called them they did not believe me, and was very reluctant to come pick them up. I was very close to start selling them. Could have gotten around 150$ pr machine
Zia Barrett 2 years ago
In this instance, I'm pretty sure that the customer is under no legal obligation to return the extra items. It would be a nice gesture, but they don't have to.
jburgh 2 years ago
I have the original 160G. It is over 20 years old, 10,000 songs on it. Love this thing, until last September when it stopped working. The new apple Macs do not have itunes and you cannot back-up the old ipods on them. Wish I could find someone who can fix it without wiping the flash drive. I used it every single day, and helped me get to sleep.
Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
Similar thing happened at Amazon's GLA-1 facility in Scotland back in 2008. Multiple cases of limited edition X-Box 360s (four units per case) were accidentally shipped to customers as single items before the error was discovered.
Adam L 2 years ago
I had a $20 Samsung MP3 player that plugged directly into my computer in the USB port. Best music player I ever had because it didn't force me to convert music files into some other format and corrupt the files. I lost so many songs from my computer during conversion when I temporarily had an iPad, spent hours recopying my CDs. Never got an apple device since.
#16
Teacher here. She showed a movie of Othello without previewing it. It was basically soft-core p*rn. Because she had promised the kids a movie and didn't have other plans, she kept showing it through the rest of the day. Ended up being investigated by the ethics committee. They let her finish out the year since it was only a few weeks away and then did not renew her contract.
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Hmmmm this reminds me the day i tried to " torrent download " Pacific Rim..... God i should really payed more atention to the frikking title and noticed the XXX in the end... Turns out there is an Ásian gay porn movie also called " Pacific Rim " ( and i swear Im not even jocking )
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
So late 90's /early 2000's a history teacher recorded something on HBO to show the class. This was VHS tape so if you record over something but its shorter than originalt hen after the new recording the rest of the old recording plays. Well he incidentally recorded If These Walls Could Talk and basically the class got to watch a few minutes of a lesbian couple going at it before he realized and shut it off. Everyone busted his chops about watching lesbian porn. He didn't get in trouble either aince this was an accident and not actual porn
Liz Clarke 2 years ago
My English teacher showed Frankenstein (1994) to us in year 8 (age 12). I think it's a 15, but there's quite a lot of violence so it was too much for me.
Pheebs 2 years ago
My teacher read us “The Lottery” in 4th grade. For those unfamiliar, it’s a short story about small town that does an annual (can’t remember if it said how annual) lottery and stoning the “winner” to death. I think I’d have rather watched Frankenstein, especially as the root themes of that story are lost on most people, let alone a bunch of 8 year olds.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
Sounds like that time our entire school did a trip to the cinema and *everyone* got to see “The Piano”, I was 13 and not really ready for that. :p
Lyyyy 2 years ago
My school showed us ”Pan’s labyrith” I was like 18, but now 15 years later I still feel traumatized. On the other hand, in middle school our teacher showed us the old Finnish film ”The earth is a sinful song” which is extremely rough and naturalistic film, it has a lot of nudity, sex, animals are killed on screen, and it has very complex themes. I didn’t get any traumas from that, as it wasn’t scary, it was mostly a film that made you think and it was a portrayal of the Finnish landscape of mind.
Jp@nda 2 years ago
That eye hand monster that sat at that table with all the food and had that pile of children's shoes next to it from Pan's Labyrinth still freaking haunts me. Ugghh... freaking terrible man
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Kate Haslam 2 years ago
Long term sub showed us The Stand in 8th grade. Quickly transitioned to short-term sub the following week.
Pheebs 2 years ago
I think I was like 10 when my dad’s roommates had that playing. My family doesn’t have a great track record of keep family movie time age appropriate, though, so that was probably the least scarring thing I watched as a kid.
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Destinee Davis 2 years ago
In my freshman year of high school our English teacher made us watch 'The Kite Runner' (or just 'Kite Runner' don't remember) everyone was traumatized and crying by the end... Pretty sure she got fired shortly after.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Ninth grade was definitely old enough to watch that. Reality can be traumatizing.
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Having done day care, elementary school, high school, and college, the number one rule is to preview any movie or video clip, even if you have seen it before. It's amazing how the brain filters out scenes that could be problematic in an educational setting if you're just watching a movie for fun, and later you say: Yes, great movie, I'll show it to the students. Always watch it again with the specific purpose in mind.
Lorraine R 2 years ago
-- Especially if you've only seen a TV version, which might have had questionable scenes edited out.
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They stacked donuts on top of one another when heating them in this conveyer belt type machine. The donuts and machine caught on fire…
Edit:You guys crack me up! I work at a cinema, so burning things happens on the reg. Poor girl was not having a good day though – she ended up covered head to toe in mango frozen yoghurt later that night thanks to a faulty machine. Never laughed so hard in my life.
ThePersonWhoCan'tNameThemselve 2 years ago
Happens ALL the time! I worked at a movie theatre for two years... I can't count how many things i burned
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NotTodaySatan!! 2 years ago
I've never worked at one, but have been to many over my nearly 50 year life. And all I wanna know is, where is this theater that has friggin donuts????
Khavrinen 2 years ago (edited)
When I saw "The Incredibles" in the theater, they had a fire in the popcorn machine. Nothing major, but for safety they had to evacuate the building until they had the fire out. The funny part is, the fire alarm happened to go off at the exact time in the movie when Helen pinging the locator in Bob's suit set off the alarm in Syndrome's lair, so I spent the first few seconds thinking, "Wow, this is the most realistic movie sound effect I've ever heard!!"
Ms Bunny Bunns 2 years ago
I worked in a cinema as a projectionist. Burnt popcorn smell had a way of finding its way upstairs and permeating the projection room. Took a good five years before I could even come close to eating popcorn again after I left that job. When you have 15-16 year old kids running the food area burn happens all day everyday.
Steve Robert 2 years ago
A gentleman would have offered to lick it off her because it's hard to find good mango
#18
I hooked up a nuclear instrument wrong when I was in the Navy. A hundred thousand dollars down the drain.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Man I was kicking myself for costing my company $3,000 over a dumb mistake last year, these posts are making me feel much better lol
Shyla Bouche 2 years ago
*pats the coat reassuringly with her left forepaw*
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
And no court martial? Dang, the Navy's gotten soft since my dad's day.
#19
They told a boat the wrong height of the bridge. The top of the boat went away...
#20
On a Friday (Christmas eve) probably 15 years ago, all of us employees were off because it was a holiday. New accounting lady (first time entering direct deposit payroll) entered info incorrectly. Payday comes, and everyone in the whole company had their paycheck WITHDRAWN from their account instead of deposited. Late morning and people are out Christmas shopping, and cards are being declined, and peoples accounts are all jacked up. My auto insurance bounced. Luckily my shopping was already done. The owner of the company called each employee (20 or so people) and offered to give us cash to get us through until Monday if we needed it. They ended up paying each employees NSF or any other fees. Accounting lady cried nonstop from that Friday through that Monday when she could fix everyone's account. My bank said it was actually some sort of illegal activity by the Employer, and I could make a Police report, but we were all close and I didn't want to go there.
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago
I'm curious to how the process works to withdraw money? It is possible via a credit/debit card machine or even merchant services but general bank accounts wouldn't have the facility. (UK banking), I appreciate internationally it sounds different (not necessarily better).
Yvette Desmarais 2 years ago
Ya. I've run payrolls. Even direct deposit. That would be difficult to do.
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Kat Min 2 years ago
Yikes! Poor acounting lady. That would haunt me to the end of my days. having ruined so many christmasses.
mary johnson 2 years ago
One of my first paychecks working at a local doc office did that but it was years ago...
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
It's actually pretty hard to screw up direct deposit forms. Maybe she lied about her credentials? (retired bookkeeper, here).
Sarah Jane 2 years ago
Back in the day, payroll sheets were filled out by hand. Basically a little box next to the person's name. You would write numbers in the boxes, using a code. For example, a bonus could be code number 64. You would sometimes have to jam 6 codes into this tiny box. They were often faxed to the payroll company, and then they would interpret the form and cut the checks. Yes, there were often mistakes, whether from a bad fax copy, to the codes being inputted or interpreted incorrectly. So I could see this happening if the wrong code was used. Nowadays, the process is a lot easier so generally less mistakes.
#21
Drilled through a wall into a gas meter. House evacuated.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
My nephew, with years of experience building, had a post hole digger in his truck. I commented, "what you using the posthole digger for"? His brother said, "that not a posthole digger, it's a gas line finder". Had to evacuate the surrounding neighbors, and yes, it was flagged.
Nicola Roberts 2 years ago
UK - coming out of lockdown restrictions, I had the installation of high speed fibre broadband cancelled around 11 times without notice. The 12th appointment a young but enthusiastic lad turned up without a ladder to our first floor property, but he didn't give up. He started inside thinking he was drilling a hole on the outside wall and he would drop the cable out. No, it was an internal wall straight into a back of a chest of drawers ruining several items of clothes not to mention the extra holes in the walls and furniture. I let it go and may have even said he had done a good job just because I was so grateful to get the job done. I did make a complaint - lots of them about everything. Well compensated for the cancellations and delays but funny enough they couldn't find the call about the extra holes.
David H 2 years ago
This is why you are supposed to use those censor things to see where pipes and wires are behind the wall.
Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 2 years ago
Supposed to and do are 2 different things!
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It's more fun when 811 marks an area and they mark the wrong area and you find the line that the property owner told you all along was there. Power company wouldn't listen to me and instead went by PSA (water) markings that were no less than 50 feet off. Power company found the line (8" main). Exactly where I told them it was. The area PSA marked? It didn't even exist until we filled it in shortly before that.
#22
A guy went to training to be a bank teller. They learned how to open up family trusts. The trainer had them out Michael Jordan as an example for the beneficiary.
It wasn't until 6 months later after a customer noticed that he had entered Michael Jordan as one of the beneficiaries for every trust he opened...
Mauricio Arriaga 2 years ago
Then, 6 months later, a customer will complain about having a "My Name" as a beneficiary
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Aaron Mccullough 2 years ago
This is a big mistake, no doubt, and it'd take a lot of hours to correct. But (and not sure about country or state) most financial institutions will ultimately base beneficiaries on the actual paperwork and not what is entered into the computer system precisely for this reason. Moreover, trusts themselves are dictated by the documents that create them and will follow the beneficiary listed in the documents, not the computer system (again, precisely for this reason).
Sonja 2 years ago
I was a trainer in a call center and I explained the scripts of our various clients to my trainees. The script would say: 'welcome to [insert company name], I am [insert your name], how can I help you?' as a greeting. I would role play with them, first, playing the service agent, then letting them try and service me as the customer. I was also responsible for quality and would listen in to every new employee during their first day in the line. Our calls were being recorded so I knew and had proof they all knew how to do it right. One Karen constantly went off script and just did stuff as she liked to do and then insisted it was how I taught them, forgetting that first: she was taught in a group with four other people who all did it right and second, that I told her all calls were recorded on her first day for quality control. The fist thing she botched as soon as she was on her own was literally saying "welcome to insert company name, I am insert your name, how can I help you?'
Josh Lindberg 2 years ago
In other news after natural disaster Michael jordan becomes the richest retired basketball player in history
#23
I work in IT. We had a guy around September of last year who vehemently refused to look anything up. He was a stubborn older guy who thought he knew it all. The CEO of one of our clients had an iMac in his office that wouldn't boot up at all. The new guy was sent in, and immediately declared it FUBAR. The guy trusted his judgement, and bought a whole new iMac. I don't remember the issue, but it was a 20 minute fix in safe mode when he brought the iMac back to our office. His excuse was "I didn't think Macs could do that." We lost that client, and Dave got fired.
Yettichild 2 years ago
For those who don't know FUBAR is an acronym for F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition.
#24
I used to work for Geek Squad. A new guy got confused and reformatted the wrong computer. Customer was understandably pissed. The store ended up having to pay a couple thousand dollars to have his data retrieved by a professional data recovery service.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
The Geek Store in my town would have denied it ever happened and claimed the customer reformatted the disk himself.
Printerman 2 years ago
Back when I co-ran a PC repair shop, we always backed up the data before formatting a drive. Even after the customer was satisfied and had paid, my standard practice was to wait a month before deleting the data.
Telepathetic 2 years ago
So you're saying Geek Squad isn't a "professional data recovery service" ?
Kevin Pearson 2 years ago
Ex Geek Squad here.. we had a guy who factory reset every computer that came through. If you didn't pay for a back up.. well too bad. Pretty sure that tiny angry man still works there.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
ALWAYS back up the computer before formatting. Even if they tell you to just format it.
Sven Grammersdorf 2 years ago
ALWAYS back up your data before you take your PC to the shop, too.
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Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
It's scary that one can reformat a drive, yet still retrieve all the data.
Robert T 2 years ago
Quick format vs low level format. It is entirely possible to wipe a disk securely, but it takes a long time as you have to overwrite every bit of it. Quick format just clears the information that says where the files are.
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A nurse at my work had just graduated from nursing school less than a month before, and started brand new career. She got rooms 247 and 245 confused. One lady got a really small dose of her usual pain medication-fine, whatever. The guy in the next room for a dose 10 TIMES what he was supposed to.
Insono 2 years ago
"he survived the overdose, but died not long after since he was on hospice. I don't think they ever told the family, and the nurse didn't get fired"
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LibrarianJanet 2 years ago
Oof. I had a newbie chemo nurse. She didn't verify my name or the name on the bag of drugs but went right ahead with hooking me up. The ONLY reason I knew it was wrong is because I saw the liquid in the bag was bright red and I knew my drugs were yellow and clear. I kinda went a lil' "Karen" on that one.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
That's not a Karen moment. She could have made you really sick and compromised your course of treatment. You are 100% allowed to rage over that mistake. It's not like they shorted you on fries or forgot to ring up your coupon, they could have killed you.
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Debby Keir 2 years ago
That's why you always have 2 people/nurses to check the wristband AND the dosage....
Jp@nda 2 years ago
Exactly and they have to scan it out of the pharmacy and then scan the patients wristband and then the medication before it is given, there are systems in place for this
Load More Replies... Timbob 2 years ago
When I was a kid, I went to our family doctor with the flu. After the exam the doctor left the office. One of his nurses came in and filled a hypodermic with an injection and left. The doctor took so long to return, that I started to “investigate “ my surroundings. Noticed the injection was made from Pregnant Cow Urine. When I pointed that out to the doctor, he fired the nurse on the spot. She had read my mom”s chart !
Justin Thyme 2 years ago
Right dose, right patient, right time, right med-- Dont they teach the 5 rights anymore?
Angersly 2 years ago
The reason there are so many checks these days is because of events like this. And even then mistakes happen. This reminds me, Friend of mine was in the hospital for a complication unrelated to his cancer treatment. A nurse he had on the mornings would wake him up and give him his pills. One of which is extremely toxic to a potential fetus. Nurses are supposed to double glove and never touch the pill with their bare hands. She hadn't been paying attention to the hazard warning on the screen and one morning he realized she had been handling this pill with her bare hands. She should be fine but she has to get her white blood cells checked once a week and use two forms of birth control, one of which has to be a condom, for the next 30 days. Also had her take a pregnancy test just in case.
Jen M 2 years ago
Is that a local injury claims lawyer with ads in your region? We have similar names here we all know too. Just wondering, or maybe I missed the joke, totally possible.
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Maranatha Schraag 2 years ago
And this is why barcode scanning exists! 10x the amount....his dose was probably small, so 10x likely wasn't that much. And he probably had continual monitoring of his pulse and respirations, so ..probably fine. But scary for the nurse! She'll never make that mistake again.
Lee Stone 2 years ago
You're right, medication mistakes are horrific for all parties involved. I remember each and every mistake I ever found out about, even though most of them are nearly a decade old at this point.
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Well, firstly they were late on the first day.
Following that, after about an hour, then they asked how to **open** the program they said they were proficient in operating, which was required for their job...
Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
Well, I have worked several times with Salesforce and I wouldn't know how to open it the next time because you can highly adapt that program to your companies needs including the verification process. I worked with Salesforce in 4 different contexts and every single time the verification steps were extremely different and while I knew the basics of how SF works and what it can do I still need a training period because the reports, tickets and work settings look so extremely different every time, depending on what the employer is using it for and how. So the second bit is dependent on context and which program is used. Edit to say: most people who only know SF from one employer are not aware how adaptable this program is and that it can be changed until it looks like an entirely different software.
Seadog 2 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of tech support for a company I worked for. An employee was messing around with the printer and ended up with it printing in Russian. Tech support said it would print Russian and that they'd have to send a replacement (3 days). We had things that absolutely had to be printed on a daily basis. I asked him why I just couldn't set the language back to English? He said that wouldn't fix it. Finally got fed up with the idiot, reset the language and all was fixed. Called back and told a different tech to cancel the new printer and why. Even he said of course changing the language was all it needed and that the printer would print most any language in the world since the manufacturer had no idea where those machine would end up.
#27
On my first day, I backed my boss's customized pickup truck into a fencepost.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well, if it just hit the bumper, there shouldn’t have been any damage.
Robert A Reider Jr 2 years ago (edited)
🤣 My company was moving offices. The boss was so cheap he rented uhauls and made everyone from the management staff to janitors do the actual moving. I was wheeling a full filing cabinet on a dolly down the sidewalk when it slipped, and fell directly onto the hood of boss's new land rover. I didnt say a word. 🙀
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Lmao, you're not the only One, though i didn't did that on the 1st day, i did it on the 1st week, and he was in the back seat with his wife.... I didn't got fired, but i Also never drove his car again...
Chez2202 2 years ago
My boss asked me to go and pick up lunch for visitors and gave me the keys to his brand new top of the range Lexus. I didn’t tell him I had no license.
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Seadog 2 years ago
Age test. Remember fan fold computer paper? 11x14 7/8". Moving a business and the computer room was on the 2nd floor with no elevator. Had cases of this paper to move. So someone gets the idea of just rolling them down the steps since each was was individually strapped close. You know, line it up and send it on it's way. Worked good to except some idiot parked his 80's Monte Carlo right outside the door in the NO PARKING pylon enclosed area. Yeah, that case had enough momentum that it only touched the ground twice after reaching bottom until it slammed into the door of the Chevy. Paper 1, Chevy 0
Jen M 2 years ago
Without the car, where was the paper meant to end up? 100 yards past the door?
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*by accident. "On accident" is a pet peeve of mine.
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He couldn't find the opening of a garbage bag so he used some scissors to make his own.
What a surprise that was when I pulled out the bag and the contents stayed in the container while the bag was in my hands.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
This happens to me a lot. They must print a colour stripe or something where it opens.
Jen M 2 years ago
Bill Potts, I agree everyone is entitled to their opinions, but do you spend all day adding the name of various female democratic politicians you dislike to each post on BP because you have nothing better to do? Or are you laying the groundwork for some master political plan, that the rest of us don't get, because you're playing "3D chess" while we're all playing on bored panda for fun?
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Hi Jen. I don’t understand your political reference. I agree with you. I also read Bored Panda for fun. I would also appreciate it if their grammar, punctuation, and spelling police would layoff. I have a ALS and must use voice to text because my hands no longer work. It’s hurtful when people write things to correct me. I’m a former teacher I know perfectly well when I’ve made a mistake in my writing, but have no way to fix it.
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Fell asleep at her desk... Opposite our boss
Perfumista Perfumista 2 years ago
Fell asleep in a meeting. 6 people, round table, 2 of my bosses present. Thankfully no clients.
Joolee 2 years ago
A job I was in years ago had a really toxic culture. I stayed a year - about 11 months too long really. A colleague was so stressed by the b***h boss she had trouble sleeping, and used to fall asleep at her desk. She lasted 6 weeks. But good call really. That job took me years to get over.
Peeka_Mimi 2 years ago
I have fallen asleep at work before. In the Army quite a bit but civilian jobs too. I don't think I have narcolepsy but who knows.
Telepathetic 2 years ago
Aren't military personnel trained to "Sleep when you can because it may be a looong time till next time" ?
Load More Replies... Yvette Desmarais 2 years ago
An intern fell asleep during a meeting with a vendor. Practically slid off her chair. Good thing it wasn't with a client.
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Had the same problem once. So I went to HR and asked if I were eligible for worker's compensation for a broken nose, because I kept falling asleep and banging my nose on the desk. (IIRC, the task was incredibly boring.) At least they had the good grace to laugh at the joke, rather than telling me off.
#30
New guy left a freezer door propped open overnight and ruined thousands of dollars worth of food. The boss shrugged it off and gave the guy a lecture, told him not to do it again. Sadly, most of the rest of the staff bullied him about it until he quit a week later.
Paddy Cahalane 2 years ago
Grow up, if you do something stupid at work, people will remind you because it's hilarious to everybody except you and the company that dealt with the loss Quitting because you did something stupid just means you failed twice at the same thing 🤷🏻♂️
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Cuppa tea? 2 years ago
We had guy at work - he wasn't new, just never worked in this area, but lazy and oblivious - who put box of lemons into freezer instead of fridge overnight. They are the same - large stainless steel door, but once you open them you notice the difference. Anyway - box of lemons rock solid, needed quickly fresh ones, scraped from other departments. Once they thawed they we useless bar juicing them. Since then we modified the proverbial when life gives you lemons....
Krod Mandoon 2 years ago (edited)
"Once they thawed they we useless bar juicing them" Should I call an ambulance, because it looks like you just had a stroke...
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Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Idiot. You don't prop fridge or freezer doors open. You just DON'T.
Mune 2 years ago
Maybe they took it out on him because the boss wouldn't be as nice to them? A little more context would be nice.
Jay TheSaltLord 2 years ago
Maybe don't make excuses for bullies and a******s?
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Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Very understanding boss. We all make mistakes. I’m sorry your coworkers and his were immature and mean spirited
Amanda Pack 2 years ago
An old boss of mine did this once on a day I was off. When I got in the following day and informed her of her mistake, I was told it was my fault and we just had to use the food anyway so make it work.
#31
Worked in a salon, we had one girl fill up a big sink with detergent and proceed to wash up our colour bowls with the coffee cups. We ended up throwing away the coffee cups because we didn't want to accidentally poison a client. And before anyone asks- we had made it very clear to her that there were seperate sinks for each and to not mix them up. Edit: the problem wasn't the detergent, which was a standard dishwashing detergent. The problem was the colour bowls. Serving up coffee to people with potential traces of ammonia and hydrogen peroxide and various other chemicals is a BAD idea. Edit 2: it wasn't my call to throw away the cups- our boss said it had to be done so be it.
Jihana 2 years ago
Those minimal traces of ammonia and peroxide really do not matter. The ammonia will react with the stomach acid to form water and a salt, and the peroxide will already react with the coffee. But almost everything will be gone after the cups are rinsed and dried. As for the other chemicals. Ever washed your hair after it was dyed? Don't tell me you never got even a single drop of the rinsing water on your lips or in your mouth. And the concentration of the chemicals there would be WAY higher than those 3,5 molecules that are left on a cup after it was thoroughly washed, rinsed and dried. Throwing away the cups was not necessary.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
That reminds me of my husband who took my Pyrex measuring cup out to the garage to mix gas for a boat motor and then brought it back to the kitchen thinking I would just wash it and keep using it for baking and cooking. Yeah no.
#32
I worked at a beach park in college. We had a new hire come midway through a work schedule, so the supervisor had him doing odd jobs on the "when we have time" list. New hires were provisional, and the guy was trying to make a career out of it, so he did everything super thoroughly and fast. He'd eaten up about 1/3 of the list before the supervisor sent him to the dunes. There was a patch of dune we had that was being held together mostly by poison ivy - not ideal, but you don't have a lot of options with dunes, so it had to be left to do its thing. Problem was, it was starting to crowd the boardwalk we had going through to the beach. If left alone, we'd start getting visitors with rashes; no bueno. So the super sent him there with gloves, shears, and a bucket, asking him to make sure the boardwalk was clear of foliage. The new guy comes back to the station 15 minutes later. You see, he was so gung-ho he decided he didn't need gloves or shears to do the job and laid into the mostly-poison-ivy with his bare hands. By the time he'd made it back to the station, it looked like he had Hulk Hands in an angry red. The super rushed him to the emergency room where they gave him a shot and mummified him to the elbows. His first job the day he came back to work was to learn to identify poison ivy.
FakeOptimist 2 years ago
Talk about a learning experience. European here so I wouldn't recognise poison ivy either.
Sunny Day 2 years ago
Leaves of three, leave them be. (It has 3 dark green, glossy leaves on each "branch" of the vine )
Load More Replies... Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Well, I learned about poison ivy the hard way myself and now I am an expert at identifying it at its various growth stages and know where it is most likely to appear. I’m a city person originally and when I moved to my house in the country I did not know it was creeping into my garden from the forest. That sure was a battle. I did have to go to the hospital at one point and got some prednisone to reduce the inflammation. Now if I think I was exposed, I wash with cold water and dish soap. I still get the occasional secondary exposure if my pets had it on their fur.
René Sauer 2 years ago
did the boss actually tell the guy it was poison Ivy? Or did he just say foliage?
Persephone 2 years ago
I'm not allergic to it, but I still wouldn't pull it with my bare hands!! Poor guy
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Lol, reminds me of me actually lol, i had a job in an Office ( i was 18 or 19 and dumb as a brick ) One day the sink of the toilet got clogged, and my boss asked me to buy " caustic soda " ( dunno if it hás the name name in English ) só i bought a bottle of it and they told me to heat some water poor it in the sink and then poor the caustic powder in it as well, which i did, a bit later i went to see if the sink was empty, and it was not, só i decided it would be a good idea to " mix " the water in the sink with my hand, and i felt kind of a " tingueling " sensation in my hand and arm, luckely One of me coworkers noticed and told me not to frikking dip my hand in acid ( didn't get any serious damage )
#33
Someone I know (couldn't have been me) worked in retail, and accidentally put their register into "training mode" where it acts normal, but when you tender a transaction, no-one's card actually gets charged. Tendered about 6 or 7 transactions like this. It cost thousands, and there were literally no repercussions. Except bosses told him not to do it again.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
We used to have a training mode on the tills when I worked in retail, but it did say "TRAINING MODE" in big letters across the top of the screen...
Pizzagirl 91 2 years ago
We had it, too, and you couldn't actually finish a transaction by card that way, only "cash".
Load More Replies... BlackestDawn 2 years ago
This sounds more like a software/settings mistake since entering training mode should only be able to be done by authorized people.
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago (edited)
Well lol, i'v done One similar, i worked at a hardware store and we had One rulle, ONE GOLD RULLE do not deliver ciment bags ( we sold the ciment at cost price, só the company didn't made any money with it ), if a costumer bought a few thousand € of materials and a few bags of ciment ok, but apart from that we didn't deliver, One day a client baught 4 pallets of ciment and around 300€ of PVC piping, it was almost 1000€ total, só, in order not to Lost the sale ( had a bet with my coworker ) i ended up sending a 18 wheeler to the other side of the island, now if this island had a freeway that long, ok, it wouldn't be that bad, but this is a mountain island, and it took the driver more than half a day to get there..... My boss wanted to hit me and then fire me, luckelly he didn't do nome ( my manager saved my sorry a*s, which added insult to injury for both of us, since we couldn't stand eachother )
Christof Irran 2 years ago
We have a test/sandbox database where we can test upgrades to the finance system before IT deploys them to the finance host/production. Fortunately I was able to change the color scheme in the test database to the most garish, god-awful colors in order to remind me what environment I am in.
#34
I cost the company I worked for $22,000 in time lost and damages. I was a press operator at a stamping factory that made essentially the roll cage for Hondas. Blank (flat) sheets of metal were fed through dyes that formed the sheets. Fingers that pick up the sheets have sensors on them in case the blank isn't picked up. I was still new at three weeks in, working through a temp service. I was only trained for three days to run the press. At the point of the f**k up we were very behind schedule working six days a week 12 hours a day and stress levels were really high. The sensors went off. Press stopped. I checked everything and to my knowledge everything was fine. I started it back up. The press ran four rotations and my stackers stopped the press, showed me a double blanked part. Oh f**k! I go to check the dyes and my heart sinks. Three dyes were cracked in multiple places. Dye maintenance came and said I f****d up good. Few days later I learned I cost the company $22,000. Wasn't fired because it wasn't my fault. One of the sensors was faulty luckily for me. I should've seen the double blank. I quit a few weeks later because I never received proper training and hated that I couldn't run it right causing low number resulting in overtime for everybody.
#35
Dropped another employee from the top of a climbing wall as they were being taught how to belay causing them to break their back. Same year, another girl hitched a horse incorrectly her first week on the job; the horse got spooked, reared back and with her hand still holding the hitch, her finger got cinched in the hitch she tied and she lost a finger. She came a few months later and worked the front desk instead.
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
Why? There are way too few details here to make that kind of judgement call.
Load More Replies... Jp@nda 2 years ago
I'm sorry forget about the finger, WTF did your just say homie committed attempted murder and broke somebody's back?? And then what happened to them? You can't just say some ish like that and then just casually move on
Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago
Im a rock climber and my GUESS would be they were using an abd (automatic braking device) and they had a thumb accidentally resting on the release lever which could have caused the rope not to catch in the mechanism and made the person fall I highly doubt it was intentional and while I’ve never dropped anyone I’ve seen it happen a few times and I would have been dropped once if not for the intervention of a coach
Load More Replies... Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago (edited)
WTF were they teaching the person to belay while a climber was on the other end you should always use a dummy rope attached to an empty harness mistakes can be super bad so you dont want the chance that someone might f around and find out when someone else is 60 feet in air. In addition they should have had a very experienced belayer also attached to the belay rope as a back up belayer for at least the first 10-20 times this was not the guys fault the company set him up for failure
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Yikes. You have to be super incompetent to lose a finger that way. One of the first things we are taught is to NEVER wrap anything around your hand or fingers when you are dealing with horses. Even the best of them can be unpredictable. However I say this as a lifelong horsewoman who had her eye socket fractured because I stupidly leaned over my horse's leg at the same time she stomped it to get a fly off. Horse knee + eye socket = ouch! I did know better, but I was being lazy.
C Lawson 2 years ago
I wouldn't say you were being lazy, maybe just complacent or less vigilant. Its easy to become comfortable and relax even around or in dangerous situations if it's an every day part of your life. I can't imagine the pain of a broken eye socket though. Did that entire side of your face end up bruising?
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I was working at an electronics manufacturing company. They put components in circuit boards. One of the steps in the process was running the completed boards through a router to cut them out of a panel (many boards would come with multiples in panels to make building them easier and faster, then we cut them out at the end of the process). A new guy had been on the job 3 or 4 days and I was training him to run the router. I set it up for him, we ran a few panels and inspected them. Everything was fine so he was left on his own. Shortly after this the cutting bit broke and instead of asking for help to put a new one in he just put one in on his own and called it good. The problem was he put the wrong bit in. So now as he cut he cut the edge off of one of the components and he didn't realize it until he had all 500+ boards cut. They had to get new components then removed each one by hand and solder a new one in place by hand. It took many hours of labor and the part was expensive It was a very expensive mistake. He was let go the next day. *So this blew up overnight. Here is some info for those who have posted. First, I was not in charge of this guy. I was told to set the machine up and show him how to run it (which was simple you just load the board, push the button and when it is done remove the board) then my boss sent me elsewhere to work on something else. The boss was 10 feet from where this guy was and he never asked for help nor did my boss ever check on him. Second, it only took about an hour to cut all these boards so the damage happened quickly. Third, the guy had no experience on this machine at all. He had never run it and knew nothing about how to change bits etc. He just decided to do it in order to show he could solve problems. Last, I felt very bad when they fired him because I felt like he was trying to do the right thing and it backfired on him.
#37
He did a tire change, and put the tires back on, but only tightened the lugnuts a few times by hand loosely (they're then supposed to be secured with a torque to whatever setting). But he forgot to do that, so the customer is driving down the highway when they finally come loose and the tires just fly off... Yeah... Yeeeaaahhhh......
Mr. Cinder 2 years ago
This happened to my brother and I. We were driving to our friends cottage and there was a funny noise coming from the front of his car. We pull over, check everything out, can't find an issue, continue on to the cottage. We decided to take it to a mechanic the next day, lets just get to the cottage. Fast forward to the next day. We're driving down a dirt road and the sound is worse. We had a friend follow us just in case. Well, I say to my brother jokingly, "wouldn't it suck if the tire fell off" Not even 30 seconds later we see the drivers front lug nuts go FLYING off, then the tire went AIRBORNE off into a field. We were going 90km/h when this happened. Thank the Gods my brother was able to steer us to safety and no one was coming the other way. Long story short, $3500 in damages and we had to stay an extra night at the cottage while it was fixed. Scary, scary time.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Going 90/kmh down a dirt road in a car you were taking to a mechanic because it was making a strange noise? Darwin awards please…
Load More Replies... Debby Keir 2 years ago
Long time ago, but had my car serviced before going on holiday - picked it up from the garage and told they'd fitted a new fan belt. Go home, pack the car for camping and got 20 miles down the road and the radiator exploded. AA come out, and the newly fitted fan belt was in a packet on top of the battery. Blown gaskets and hundreds of £ worth of damage. They paid....
Lyyyy 2 years ago
And lug nuts on aluminum rims have to be fastened periodically, compared to the steel rims. Or at least 100 km after a wheel change (where I live, we have to change wheels 2 times a year, as winter tires are mandatory) once in spring I didn’t fasten the bolts, and after 300 km, my tire was half off.
#38
The new guy at my work ran a plate of regular pasta to a woman that had Celiac's disease, and had ordered it gluten free. She ate a decent amount of the pasta before her server saw what she was eating and snatched it off the table. The woman was understandably upset, and after talking to the manager for about 20 minutes her stomach had swollen like two times it's normal size
Dude wasn't fired even though we go through an extensive two week training before being put on the floor on our own. He was later fired for falling asleep in the middle of taking an order at table.
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
Question is where the mistake actually happened. Was it the new guy not really hearing what was ordered and what he delivered? Was it the chefs not properly saying what they made? Could the new guy actually see the difference between normal and gluten free pasta as they use them there (could be that they are different types)? Was there an expediter at all, and if so did they send it wrong? There are so many factors to consider and a number of points where it can fail that with this little info we can't really tell if the new guy actually made a mistake at all.
Load More Replies... Yeah, okay. 2 years ago
How do you fall asleep taking an order to a table? Like, the actual mechanics of it... did he suddenly stop midstride and have his chin drop to his chest or did he just fail asleep waiting at the hot plate counter?
Brandie Litchfield 2 years ago
He was high as hell, most likely on heroin or something else in the opiate family...that is called "nodding out". Definitely not acceptable in the workplace, or dealing with the public!! I hope he got the help he needed and found recovery, and didn't become another overdose statistic, or lose years of his life as an addict.
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#39
Hope this doesn't get buried. A few months back, a new driver was hired and thought they knew it all. How to get to places, all the back roads, i dont need a map, yada yada... Well one day, after the heavy rains in Nevada that flooded almost all of Vegas, a lot of traffic built up on the I15 south heading back to Los Angeles causing a delay of 3 to 4 hours. This is where his mental "Google Maps" comes in. He ends up taking the old road, completely ignores us warning him that the road no longer exists and was, literally, washed away. About an hour later, I'm sent to the state line in an empty bus. This idiot ended up going completely off road and got stuck in a 4 foot ditch and needed about 3 massive tow truck cranes to pull the coach out. Source: I was the "rescue" bus TL;DR: New idiot driver doesn't heed warning and drives bus into a ditch.
#40
I used to work as a service station attendant and there was a new guy at work who fell asleep at the counter. A larger woman (customer) stood at the counter and rapped on the counter. He got startled awake, and exclaimed, "You fatty woman scared me!!" Needless to say, she complained big time to the boss...
#41
First day working with a new construction crew, I was to meet my new supervisor at the local McDonalds to follow him out to the construction site. I arrived to find they'd hired two new guys, me and someone else. The boss pulls up in his truck and tells us both to follow him. Me and the other guy, each in our own vehicles, follow the boss through the parking lot to where we turn out onto the main road. Boss turns left. I turn left. New guy turns right and drives off the wrong way! We never saw or heard from him again. Cell phones don't work out in the mountains where we were, so you gotta meet people in person. No telling why that guy turned the wrong way, but sometimes I still wonder about that guy... Such a strange way to start your first day at a new job. Guess he didn't need the money as bad as me. :) Turns out to be the best construction crew I've ever been on. That guy has no idea what he missed.
Jordi Sharpe 2 years ago
*turns wrong way* *starts to sweat* *starts to hyperventilate* "I'll just keep driving until I die..."
#42
We had a 17 year old kid come in to do some work experience at our engineering firm, that week we also had a relatively new starter come into a our team from another office hoping to move to the city. So our new starter asked the 17 year old kid to do some photocopying prep for an important meeting he had that afternoon and desperately need some drawings. The poor kid wasn't told what to do and ended up breaking the machine to the point we needed a call out to fix it, new guy lost his s**t and started swearing at the poor kid calling him a useless piece of s**t, everyone could hear across the office from the copy room. Our director overheard and came to investigate, it was the directors son on placement. The new uh disappeared pretty quickly.
Faramir10 2 years ago
I hope the new guy disappeared because he messed up and not just because it was the director's kid that got yelled at.
Jp@nda 2 years ago
Doesn't matter, it's somebody's kid. Nobody, I repeat nobody has the right to talk to anyone else like that. Ever. I don't care what your position or age. He deserved to get fired. If you cannot handle your anger for something like that, which btw was his own fault for not being prepared, how can he expect him to handle himself when something really stressful happens?
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#43
New girl where I work (retail) started "free-loading" within 2 months of being there- she hadn't even passed the three month probation yet. In case anyone doesn't know, free-loading is putting items in a customer's bag and intentionally not scanning them so they get them for free. Apparently she started doing it for family, then for friends and then acquaintances, obviously thinking we couldn't track it. Sure turned around quick when the cops escorted her out one day…
Seadog 2 years ago
One store I worked, New hire complained he didn't get his bonus (commission= $10 per $1000 sold). Manger looks into it and finds he's been selling almost everything under his employee discount. Obviously you don't get commission on employee sales. Oddly, even after he was caught flat out stealing they still didn't fire him. Last I heard the next company he worked for wasn't so lenient and he went to jail.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago (edited)
My first job as a teen was a grocery store cashier 13 years ago and we called it free loading too (as in you are loading their bag with free stuff). Just because you’re not personally aware of an alternative usage of a word doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist for the rest of us :)
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I am a dispatcher. When I was new I took a call for a cat in a tree. My boss said "ask them if they've ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree." Apparently she was being sarcastic..
Christof Irran 2 years ago
There are easier ways of getting cats out of trees - see image below Phase-Ples...90-png.jpg 
Vivian McBride 2 years ago
The Nevada State museum used to have a mummified cat on display. I believe the story was that it had climbed a tree, and was dessicated by the extremely dry desert air.
Seadog 2 years ago
One cat we had suddenly decided to start climbing trees but could never grasp how to get down. Cut the tree down, cat jumped right before the tree hit the ground and ran home. Got linemen to climb the tree with their spikes to retrieve the cat, anything and everything you can think of. Finally had him declawed. Didn't stop him, he'd just hug the bark with his front legs and go up just as fast as if he had claws. Then, as fast as he started, he stopped climbing them.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
Cats will hang on until they weaken so much they lose their grip and fall out, they usually manage to crawl to the closest place to hide and then die.
#45
Worked doing audio video installations. We were in a school system, and we asked new guy to pull a wire from the first to the fifth floor thru a cable chase. Typically this involved pushing a fish tape or other semi-rigid wand thru the path, attaching the new cable, and then pulling the wand out with new cables following. Fish tapes are usually bright plastic, pink or orange. That detail comes back later. So new guy gets his instruction and proceeded to the first floor closet to prep for the pull. He sees the fish tape is already there, but it's stuck. He pulls on it, can't free it up, decides to just cut it and re tape the end. He attaches the new wires, heads up to the fifth floor to pull up the fish tape. He gets there and can't find the fish tape. Typically it's very obvious, it's a disk about 20" across that the tape spools onto. Can't miss them. But it's not there. Our intrepid installer checks the fifth floor and the third floor closets, but no fish tape. On the second floor, he finds the tape in the wall but no spool. And it's here he notices the tape is being run down a different cable path... Something's odd here. Then our site lead walks in, carrying the fish tape. You know what else is bright plastic orange and in walls? Fiber. The guy cut the district's data backbone fiber to use it as a pull string.
Thegoodboi 2 years ago
Yay I get this for once! Only because I used to have to use this "fish tape". It's not actually tape, it's just a long metal somewhat bendy rod you use to push up through a pipe meant for wires to run through. Take the wire you're trying to run and tape it to the metal rod with electrical tape. "fish" it all the way up the pipe to the next floor. Go to the next floor and pull it all the way up until the wire is in your hands and voila! (I just would use a metal rod like thing, like a clothes hanger.)
Load More Replies... Foxinamug 2 years ago
Translation: Guy was supposed to feed a special orange feeder cable down a wall cavity to pull a wire up many stories of a building. He gets to the floor where he needs to attach the wire to the orange cable, finds an orange cable already there and assumes someone has done half the job for him. When he can't find the end of the orange cable he cuts a new end and attaches it to the wire. Eventually he discovers that the orange cable he cut was a vital data cable and not the special feeder cable.
#46
Night attendant on his very first night on the job helped a paranoid schizophrenic completely dismantle the air conditioner unit because he had "found a hidden video camera recording him but accidentally pushed it further in to the unit when investigating". The man was fully aware that the client was an actively delusional paranoid schizophrenic who was being transitioned to 24 hour observation because of refusing his meds and yet he somehow fully accepted at face value that there was a hidden camera in the A/C.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
Remember doing my psych rotation as a student - this lady told us all about how someone was putting recording equipment in her radiators at home. The way she told it was enthralling and half the group really believed her...Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you....
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
you can't argue with a Paranoid Schizophrenic. He did the right thing, only way to prove it is to dismantle it with him. Saying it's not there won't work.
pik biscuit 2 years ago
Thats not the only way, and a delusion is proof-proof. You can't logic them out of it, but you can't really "prove" there is no camera by dismantling the entire appliance either, you probably just dropped it like they did, or maybe you're working with whoever put it there! Personally I wouldn't want to mess with some maniac hiding cameras in the AC units. Can't we just throw a blanket over it so it can't watch us while we wait for maintenance to fish it out for us?
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The CEO decided to "call the bluff" of a client, it wasn't a bluff, they took their $15 million of business and walked away. That was about 65%-70% of the company's overall business. Idiot.
Seadog 2 years ago
I was singlehandedly selling $40k+/mo in commercial sales at one place I worked (mid 2000s) and was the highest seller for that position they'd ever had. (small town with lots of competition - 13 stores within 8 miles of each other + outside sources) DM decided a former person could do better. Fine, I'm fed up anyway and went to a competitor and 75% of the business followed me leaving the store with less than $10k/mo in commercial sales. Even after I left that field completely, those customers stayed with new store. Don't mess with people in a small town, customers don't forgive or forget. That DM was ultimately busted down to counter sales in a store.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago (edited)
CEO doesn't believe customer. Customer takes business elsewhere.
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#48
Someone mopped the floor with truffle oil instead of floor cleaner and bleach...needless to say they didn't last much longer.
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
Questionnable stocking to me. How detergents and food item aren't correctly labeled or so close that you can mess them?
troufaki13 2 years ago
Not to mention that they shouldn't be anywhere near each other!
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Security guard decided to play quick draw in the mirrored elevator. Shot a hole right through the door. He handed his gun over to the night desk operator and just sat there deaf until his shift ended.
#50
One of the things the nightshift has to do is shred all the papers in the shredboxes. The new girl shredded everything in our bosses inbox. To be fair it wasn't marked at all and the inboxes look just like the shred boxes.
Seadog 2 years ago
Part of a job I once had (mid 80's) was shred everything after X date. One box clearly marked actually contained microfilm. I knew something wasn't right about that so I asked and yep, box was mislabeled. Thankfully I didn't shred nearly 100 rolls of irreplaceable information
#51
Wanted to charge his iPhone, so he plugged it into a computer that was secured and not meant to have ANYTHING connected to it, ever. Mistake on so many levels. Security took his phone and kept it for six months while it was forensically examined. During this entire time he kept paying the bill for a phone he didn't actually have. Eventually it was returned to him and he was upset that all of the data on the phone had been wiped.
René Sauer 2 years ago
what kind of job site was that? Some kind of high profile, top security state office?
#52
He sent his boss an email with a recipe so she could lose weight.
#53
Putting salt in the cinnamon sugar.
Normally cinnamon and sugar is mixed together to make cinnamon sugar which goes in apple scrolls and coffee scrolls and on cinnamon donuts. Anyway this silly human mixed salt and cinnamon together. It all got put out the front and people were buying it and coming back very angry!
Or the time the apprentice wasn't careful when topping the cheese rolls and bacon got put on one, a Muslim brought it and was very upset (understandably) he started yelling at my apprentice calling her a filthy pig she said "at least I didn't eat some filthy pig like you did" needless to say she didn't last very long.
There are people saying negative stuff about Muslims, my problem was that he was a jerk not a Muslim.
Brandie Litchfield 2 years ago
I've found that arrogant aggressive verbally abusive men like this, get extremely upset when they are laughed at and then dismissed, instead of taking their bait to respond negatively. You don't have to show up for every argument you're invited to. I have zero tolerance for abusive men that degrade and insult any random woman they run into... nothing to do with Muslim religion, just a specific pet peeve I have regarding selfish narcissistic bullies.
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago
Not a shot at Muslims but didn't he check for Halal certification before walking into the establishment? Where I come from, Muslims pretty much avoid dining anywhere without said certification.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
If the customer ordered something without bacon, it would be reasonable for them to get upset when bacon is added. Food can still be halal without needing a halal certification.
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SayaCat 2 years ago
that guys sounds like a total stupid asshat. sure getting a salty topping on ur food, when ur expecting sweet, is werid. but why the werid insult? there's no pork in salt.
juice 2 years ago
he wasn't upset about the cinnamon sugar/salt. he bought a cheese roll that wasn't supposed to have bacon on it, yet did
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When I worked at a retirement plan call center during the global recession, we had some new dumbass kid on his first solo day on the phones making outrageous promises to every caller, saying they were either getting their money back or getting a guaranteed profit. On investments in the open market. What? Not only can you not do that, it's *illegal* to promise investors a specific rate of return on a variable investment. Worst part was customers called him on it and said that didn't sound right, and his response was "I'm on a recorded line, everything I say *has* to happen!" He was let go fairly quick. For the record, as rainbow and butterflies as this guy sounds, that's not the way it is and if someone tries to tell you that they're taking you for a ride 90% of the time. The other 10% are idiots like this
#55
Manager told the new guy to "drop a bag of mozz sticks in the fryer for me" he acted a little confused, then said "uh okay.." And dropped the whole bag, unopened, into the fryer.
SayaCat 2 years ago
do people not have common sense, anymore? who thinks putting plastic in boiling oil is a good idea?
Jan Rosier 2 years ago
Sounds like something my functioning but authistic son might do. In school he was once told to 'whisk the eggs by hand'... so yes that is exactly what he did. Not with a handwisk, but barehands... Not out of malicious compliance, but plain and simple because it was something new he was being taught and taking it literally.
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David Martin 2 years ago
People like this are the reason a line of Betty Crocker cookbooks had to be recalled once, to change the wording from "Add one can of corn (I think)..." to "Add the contents of one can to..."
Cadon Leviner 2 years ago
This kind of stuff doesn't phase me anymore. I've already lost all hope in humanity.
#56
He labeled a medication thorazine instead of hydrochlorothiazide. The patient died and the hospital was sued. This was 3 years ago and the litigation is still ongoing.
Leoninus Fate 2 years ago
my mom is on that Thorazine and is very very sick, and is basically only alive by her own will, If someone messed meds up like that and she died, I would go full Batman on them
Justin Smith 2 years ago
I don't know you or your mom, but i would help you get them if the f****d up like that.
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A new girl at my job told everyone about how she doesn't believe in the moon...as in she thinks the moon is a huge picture attached to a satellite put there by the government. Needless to say everyone always makes fun of her...
#58
IT guy came into our office, to configure a Macbook. He wasn't a Mac Specialist. He also didn't know how DropBox worked. He deleted the Dropbox folders from this Mac. And from all the other computers linked to it. He deleted ALL our agency's files...several gigs of them. We were nervous for a couple of hours, clients were nervous. Our boss called his boss... Another time, the same IT guy was waiting for an email confirmation about the importance of files on a computer. Didn't receive the email. Assumed that the files weren't important. Deleted a month's worth of web design without backing up. I'm amazed this guy is still working at that company.
#59
A girl took a break in the middle of a lunch rush and started making out with her boyfriend in the dining area in her uniform.
louie foster 2 years ago
What!! She was on a break. So what’s the problem? I can see myself being a participant in that (in my youth). lol
Shane Clark 2 years ago
The problem being she did it during the busiest time of work. There must be a ton of customers who are waiting for their meals are now watching an employee make out with there boyfriend. This will cause the customers to get angry and her coworkers to get angry she left them.
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At the night shift at a small mental hospital, new guy wants to watch movies at the nurse's stations computers but can't under the hospital's OS. So he decides to try to install linux. Fails and computer wont boot to anything. Doesn't tell anyone. He didn't get fired, but wasn't allowed to go into a room where there was a computer, which was anywhere but a hallway. So he had to work night shifts completely in the hallways.
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
Idiot. If you really "must" do this (for whatever idiotic reason you think) then use a live DVD/USB which can boot into a full Linux environment without touching the original OS.
#61
My dad works in a plant making Diesel engines. A huge iron block is picked up by chains, brought to the next station, and brought down. My Dad was at the "next" station. A lady, (who, my apologies, was not new to the job) slipped the chains on the block but neglected to properly bolt it on. Up it goes. Over my father's head. And then down it goes. The minute the crank went up, she began to scream that it wasn't attached. My dad, as he likes to put it "reached back to the speed I had in 1979" and hustled out of the way, literally diving on a concrete floor to become clear of the massive iron engine block. It smashed to the ground, he escaped unscathed except for a hefty bruise on the shoulder from his impromptu dive. She was escorted off the floor, screaming "I could have killed him!" and was put on a 2 week suspension, and I think retrained.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
My friend is a diesel mechanic and I can't tell you how many stories he has told me of peoples screw ups that nearly maim or killed someone. Also, large bay doors of the mechanics garage cost about $20K USD to replace; always make sure that the payloader bucket is down 🤣
#62
I'm a valet, this kid I worked with hit one of the support pillars in the garage with the side of a car, scraped the entire side, flattened the fender, and ripped the tire apart. This was during an overnight shift, and instead of notifying someone, he just parked it in the garage and went about his business. He actually ended up getting fired for going up to a guests room to fool around while on the clock, but yeah he f****d that car up real good. Something like 20k in damages to a brand new Jeep Compass.
#63
I've mentioned this before, when I was a stripper a fellow stripper new to the club sh*rted in a lap dance, apparently due to some medication she was taking. I think it was a pretty big mistake.
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Shárted. It's usually when you fart and a little poop comes out
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She heated her food inside aluminum foil in the microwave.
The sparks of light and smell didn't phase her, she considered this normal. She was a super pretty, middle-aged woman.
Helen Bennett 2 years ago
"Middle-aged" is relevant, as in "this person achieved middle age without knowing how to operate a microwave". But why call out "super pretty woman", OP? That's just annoying. Are you implying that pretty women are likely to get by without learning to use the microwave properly? I must try more eyelash-fluttering when I don't want to reheat my own coffee.
#65
Left a child unattended for about 4 hours. It's a HUGE no no in my line of work. Also lands you with criminal charges.
#66
I worked at an injection molding plant. Guy was changing a mold out and forgot step 2.... unclamp the mold from the machine. He took the crane up, heard a massive crash and realized he pulled two of the presses anchors out of the ground.
#67
Was a bus driver at a university. Someone ran over a professor.
#68
This new employee parked in the CEO's reserved parking spot, thinking he was away - and he was not. He was severely reprimanded, but still employed there, thankfully.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
I thought that this (parking in the boss's spot) was a key takeaway from the film Office space. Reserved-p...b14b54.jpg 
#69
This was someone in the same training group that i started the job with. I cruised through the training, and in my spare time wrote a quick batch file to open up the most used programs at the start of the day, then feeling nice i sent this out to the people in my training group. This particular guy somehow managed to open up hundreds of instances of each program and link in the batch file, because he claimed he didn't know where it was all going (Straight to the taskbar) and kept running the batch file over and over and over. He ended up sitting at his computer doing nothing but running my batch file repeatedly for two hours, not taking any calls, until one of the supervisors went over to check on him. This is a tech support job, and yes, he is no longer here.
#70
I was training a new employee recently when he told me that he'd be 4 hours late for his training the following day as he had training for another job.
IDK_Something 2 years ago (edited)
I don't really think this is a mistake. Just sad that any person needs multiple jobs to survive.
#72
I used to work as an assistant on night trains all over Europe. Fun student job, lots of tips. We were supposed to try and sell breakfasts to our customers for a small commission. No one bothered about the commission, so not many were actually sold. We did get 2 breakfasts for ourselves though,which we weren't supposed to sell of course. Generally, what happened was that you would try to sell your own breakfasts for the full price and grab some cheap food in a railway buffet. I recall a newbie on the job who was quick to learn and cleverly sold his breakfasts on his first ever trip. When we arrived back in Brussels, where we were based, one of the manager guys of the firm was greeting us and asked about the sales. 'Sold some of those breakfasts?' he asked. Said the new kid: just my two personal ones, man. Never saw him again on of my shifts.
#73
I ended up back-ending my boss' Ford F-150 with the Forklift (really, it was just the bumper). I had to pay $500 via check deductions or get fired. yup... I hate that Job
Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
No insurance on the truck ? In Europe, financial penalties on wage are strictly forbidden
Mr Old School Cool 2 years ago
$500 collision deductible on his auto insurance, standard amount
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Call center. We were all basically new as the place had opened within the past 6 months. He'd just started. Being such a new place, pretty much everyone knew everyone by name. It wasn't difficult. there were, maybe, 100 of us. So one day, new guy, me, and a few others were outside in the smoke area talking. For whatever reason, guy starts talking about why he was fired from his last job. Credit card/SS# theft. We were all glancing at him like he was the world's biggest idiot. And glancing over at the call center manager and his assistant, who were suddenly very tuned into our conversation. We all went inside. New guy stayed outside. Management also came inside. Within the hour, he was gone. He never made it back to the phones.
#75
This guy at my office brought his pet goldfish to work, and one of the brokers apparently ate it after a disagreement they had with the intern,ever since my HR director has banned pets for a " more productive " atmosphere
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
I hope not, easier to find him and disembowel him if that is the case.
Load More Replies... Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Why would someone eat someone’s goldfish? That’s just weird. But also theft in a way.
#76
Dropped my first meal as a waiter right in front of them.
#77
One new girl at my work was (as a joke) told to laminate a cookie. She did.
wifeofweasley 2 years ago
What's up with these "Let's b******t the new employees for fun?" it's not funny. It's disrespectful and awkward.
#78
He stabbed me in the hand with a knife.
Wintermute 2 years ago
Give them a break, it's hard to type with a hole in your hand. :p
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He dropped a 15 ton mold from a crane. Damn thing probably fell twenty feet. He was specifically told not to lift ANYTHING with the crane and he decided to do so anyway. Crane was rated to ten tons and one of the cables broke. Put a big a*s crater in the concrete floor and cost the company about $175,000 dollars for the new mold, and probably another big chunk of change to have the floor repaired, and new cables and an overhaul for the crane. Caused the facility we provided the part for to be shut down for about 18 hours at a cost of $1,000 per minute. Total cost to un-f**k the situation was a little more than a million bucks. The Asians I worked for pretty much ran at him with a drug test. He failed it. The last time I saw him was about a week after it happened, sitting in front of his house, crying. True story.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
How far into the 21st century do we have to be before people stop mentioning race in stories when it’s completely irrelevant?
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Yeah race completely irrelevant. It's not 'an Asian thing' to drug test after an accident, it's "you screwed up and cost us alot of money " thing. The company my friend works for drug tests all who majorly screw up or in an accident with company vehicle.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Or the guy that had something happen at work, accident or something, sent for a urine drop (drug test), smokes a fatty on the way.used to be a 20+ year employee
Jp@nda 2 years ago
And yes after a workplace accident the very first thing that happens is the employee that was involved goes for a mandatory drug test. Accidents cause companies alot of money and if the cause is drug use then it changes things for their insurance, they can't sue or claim workman's comp
#80
The other lab technician kept trying to bring down the pH using sodium hydroxide.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
hmm it depends on what solution they were dropping the NaOH into, and what its concentration was. If it was an acidic solution and they were meant to get it to neutral, NaOH in lower concentrations is a-ok.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Read it again, they were trying to lower the pH with NaOH
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Chich 2 years ago
This was years ago, A newly minted Corporal was given a group of clerks, all female, to give basic drill instruction. One of his first commands? "When I say Attention I want to hear 30 c***s sucking air". Even in that unenlightened time and place he crossed the line and quickly found himself a private again with a lot of explaining and appologizing to to.
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Lol wen i was a candidate in the firefighter my training officer ( though technically he was not an officer, he would be equivalent to a corporal ) every time we where doing formation training , he use to say " a dude can come and shove his c**k in your mouth, but you Will not move "....
Load More Replies... Sunny Day 2 years ago
Wasn't a new guy but - had some guys in to work on the sprinkler system. They shut everything down, drained the lines, and did their work. Finished, turned the water back on, and waited for the pressure to reach normal levels. Waited. And waited. They didn't go check the 5th floor area they'd worked on - where they'd left the cover off a 4" joint. Flooded everything below that. Water running down the stairs and across the lobby.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
I once fell off a tree whilst helping my mum do her rescuing pets job and promptly landed on a person underneath. Sorry Juniper for accidentally breaking your legs and breaking my own limbs in the process
Old Roadie 2 years ago
USMC Corporal decided to use his wife's medical chit to get out of duty. Both named Chris, so he thought he was good to go. Well... he heads out to the ramp, finds the Gunny atop an amtrac, hands him the chit. Gunny snort laughed and asked the corporal if he was serious. YESSIR! Thats when Gunny laughed so hard he lost footing. Fell off the amtrac and broke his arm. He was still laughing when medics arrived. Seems the corporal's wife had problem with her uterus and needed surgery. Corporal didn't know what a uterus was, I guess... Poor Gunny probably still laughing.
Jus Frpn 2 years ago (edited)
I worked at a help desk and users would call us to inactivate and activate their frozen terminals. I inadvertently found an unlocked node and inactivated that instead of the terminal. Took down all 1800+ branches in 6 states.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Oops. At least it was an honest mistake and you were trying to help someone.
Load More Replies... PeridotPlatypus377 2 years ago
The scary part is two mistakes can be equally easy to make, but the severity of the consequences can vary radically
Upstaged75 2 years ago
A few months ago I did the stupidest thing ever in my entire career. In a Zoom session I meant to message one specific person. Except I accidentally sent it to everyone - which was about 50 people. In the message I mentioned that a certain person was challenged when it came to computers and I would have to personally help them. The person I was referring to also received the message. They were not happy about it. I literally wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out. So yeah, be careful who you are messaging. And maybe don't put stuff like that in writing. I still feel like a massive a$$hole about it.
BG 2 years ago
The fan blades inside an F-14 engine look like tiny versions of the blades in an LP gas power plant generator. Facility that I worked at refurbushed both types of engine. A guy decided to take three F-14 blades, (owned by the department of defense), drill a hole in them and make keychains. Handed two out and kept one. DOD came in and fired him, his two buddies and everyone who had SEEN the keychains and not reported them. About 25 people IIRC.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
In 1997 I changed employers after 9+ years. I'd been a forklift driver most of that time, and that was what I was hired to do at the new job. Funny thing about stand-up forklifts: the direction of steer is optional. In other words, a machine can be set up so that turning the steering wheel to the left turns the machine to the left, or it can be set up so turning the steering wheel to the left turns the machine to the right. Makes more sense when you know that most traveling on the lift is done with the forks in back. My old job had the lifts set up one way, and the new job had them set up the other way. I didn't think it would be that hard to get used to, until I steered into a steel rack and destroyed two crossbars. Eventually I got to where I could steer one way on my full-time job and the other way on my part-time job, and my accident was nothing compared to some stuff I saw there.
DBear 2 years ago
New guy fell for the scam where someone calls and says they are the CFO of your company and tells you there is a problem with your bank deposits. Instructs you to go buy a bunch of gift cards and call them back with the numbers. As ridiculous as it sounds this guy fell for it. Cost the store $700. That was every penny we had in the safe.
Chich 2 years ago
This was years ago, A newly minted Corporal was given a group of clerks, all female, to give basic drill instruction. One of his first commands? "When I say Attention I want to hear 30 c***s sucking air". Even in that unenlightened time and place he crossed the line and quickly found himself a private again with a lot of explaining and appologizing to to.
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Lol wen i was a candidate in the firefighter my training officer ( though technically he was not an officer, he would be equivalent to a corporal ) every time we where doing formation training , he use to say " a dude can come and shove his c**k in your mouth, but you Will not move "....
Load More Replies... Sunny Day 2 years ago
Wasn't a new guy but - had some guys in to work on the sprinkler system. They shut everything down, drained the lines, and did their work. Finished, turned the water back on, and waited for the pressure to reach normal levels. Waited. And waited. They didn't go check the 5th floor area they'd worked on - where they'd left the cover off a 4" joint. Flooded everything below that. Water running down the stairs and across the lobby.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
I once fell off a tree whilst helping my mum do her rescuing pets job and promptly landed on a person underneath. Sorry Juniper for accidentally breaking your legs and breaking my own limbs in the process
Old Roadie 2 years ago
USMC Corporal decided to use his wife's medical chit to get out of duty. Both named Chris, so he thought he was good to go. Well... he heads out to the ramp, finds the Gunny atop an amtrac, hands him the chit. Gunny snort laughed and asked the corporal if he was serious. YESSIR! Thats when Gunny laughed so hard he lost footing. Fell off the amtrac and broke his arm. He was still laughing when medics arrived. Seems the corporal's wife had problem with her uterus and needed surgery. Corporal didn't know what a uterus was, I guess... Poor Gunny probably still laughing.
Jus Frpn 2 years ago (edited)
I worked at a help desk and users would call us to inactivate and activate their frozen terminals. I inadvertently found an unlocked node and inactivated that instead of the terminal. Took down all 1800+ branches in 6 states.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Oops. At least it was an honest mistake and you were trying to help someone.
Load More Replies... PeridotPlatypus377 2 years ago
The scary part is two mistakes can be equally easy to make, but the severity of the consequences can vary radically
Upstaged75 2 years ago
A few months ago I did the stupidest thing ever in my entire career. In a Zoom session I meant to message one specific person. Except I accidentally sent it to everyone - which was about 50 people. In the message I mentioned that a certain person was challenged when it came to computers and I would have to personally help them. The person I was referring to also received the message. They were not happy about it. I literally wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out. So yeah, be careful who you are messaging. And maybe don't put stuff like that in writing. I still feel like a massive a$$hole about it.
BG 2 years ago
The fan blades inside an F-14 engine look like tiny versions of the blades in an LP gas power plant generator. Facility that I worked at refurbushed both types of engine. A guy decided to take three F-14 blades, (owned by the department of defense), drill a hole in them and make keychains. Handed two out and kept one. DOD came in and fired him, his two buddies and everyone who had SEEN the keychains and not reported them. About 25 people IIRC.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
In 1997 I changed employers after 9+ years. I'd been a forklift driver most of that time, and that was what I was hired to do at the new job. Funny thing about stand-up forklifts: the direction of steer is optional. In other words, a machine can be set up so that turning the steering wheel to the left turns the machine to the left, or it can be set up so turning the steering wheel to the left turns the machine to the right. Makes more sense when you know that most traveling on the lift is done with the forks in back. My old job had the lifts set up one way, and the new job had them set up the other way. I didn't think it would be that hard to get used to, until I steered into a steel rack and destroyed two crossbars. Eventually I got to where I could steer one way on my full-time job and the other way on my part-time job, and my accident was nothing compared to some stuff I saw there.
DBear 2 years ago
New guy fell for the scam where someone calls and says they are the CFO of your company and tells you there is a problem with your bank deposits. Instructs you to go buy a bunch of gift cards and call them back with the numbers. As ridiculous as it sounds this guy fell for it. Cost the store $700. That was every penny we had in the safe.
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