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[Ourobolus]

At my last unit we were supposed to do an exercise where we set up deployable communications packages. The planning team went out (I'm on the operations side, not the planning), did the site survey, and then had all of the other flights pack their gear and go out to the field.

The main link between sites was an RF Mod (line-of-sight radio transmitter) shot. We get everything unpacked and set up and then realize that the planning team had separated the two sites by a thick forest...which the RF Mod would not be able to shoot through.

We actually had a lot of poorly planned exercises out there, now that I think about it.

 

[POWERSPHERE]

I overpaid a lady $7000 In her severance payment once. Liked her, hated work so I didn't say anything, never came up.

 

[Wubby]

Uhh I've had various jobs I've done something at all of them.

While I was working at Disneyland I caused a few rides to break down. Once for lols while working the Matterhorn some co-worker friends and I decided to load a bunch of overweight people onto the same bobsled. Well the Matterhorn is an old coaster and depending on the weight of the cars they can go faster or slower. So a bobsled loaded with fat people is going to haul arse down the track. Problem is the track is loaded with sensors that detect the position of the cars. If the sensors detect a car going overspeed and getting close to another car it triggers an emergency stop and all the cars stop on the track and then guests had to be evacuated down the mountain. Of course we knew it would happen. We had a bet going as to where the fat sled would stop on the mountain. I didn't win the bet.

On the same ride we got busted once by an assistant manager for riding it backwards at the end of the night after the ride was closed.

Over on Autopia (the small cars you drive around the track) me and some others got busted for disabling the speed governors on the cars and going around the track at speeds guests can only dream of. The manager could hear the cars all the way from Star Tours lol.

It wasn't me but one morning after removing a few cars from the track in the back someone forgot to replace the pin to close the track. First guest the went around the track got to that point... oops is all I think the NDA we had to sign would let me say.

Don't know if it still is but at that time many moons ago Disney was a Teamster union job so you could get away with a lot. That was before people started getting killed at the park though. I hear it's a lot more strict now.

Outside of Disney I worked for a short time driving a Jet-A fuel truck at an airport and would fill up various small jets and turbo-prop planes. One of the turbo-prop planes (don't remember which type) I had to use a ladder to climb up on the wing to fill it up. Climbing up the ladder while holding the fuel hose I left a 6-inch scratch on the paint. Owner was furious.

As an automotive technician I've blown up (overheated) the engine on a customers 7-series BMW. Probably the most costly screw-up. Dealer covered it though. Engine was already on it's way out so not totally my fault. I've also bent two rims on a customers Miata during a test drive.

My latest job I got busted for texting an 18 year old high school girl. Someone ratted us out as being too close but there wasn't anything going on other than us being friends. We still are.

 

[DrFunk]

Deleted 6 years worth of Gov't emails through LotusNotes. I hate LotusNotes with a passion, but thank goodness that day for replication.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

As a young private in the Army National Guard I was working a night fire rifle qualification range with my unit as other units from the area would come through and do their night qualification.

A soldier from one of these units that was qualifying failed to follow our instructions and ended up shooting one of my buddies in the neck and killed him.

News article:

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102400/new_1024000017.shtml

well /thread

 

[planar1280]

nevermind

 

[epik]

CEO of my company saw me leaving quite early ... and he said "So you're done for the day?" ... (Kind of being ok with it ... but he probably wasn't)

and I replied "Yup! You going to leave now as well?" .... OOPS. I started walking away really fast and in my head I was going "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, why did I say that" ... lol

 

[ronito]

I overpaid a lady $7000 In her severance payment once. Liked her, hated work so I didn't say anything, never came up.

You know I hear this stuff a lot. A lesser example was a few days ago I went to Target to buy some cat food and other stuff. I put my stuff on the counter and the cashier started to scan the stuff I propped up the 40 lb bag of cat food for her to scan she kept scanning the other stuff. My daughter even said, "Miss, you forgot to scan the cat food." and I pointed out again the cat food. Cashier either didn't hear us or didn't care. In short, free cat food.

I'm pretty sure that she just didn't give a fuck. I really wonder how much companies lose because they piss off their employees.

 

[Jin]

Someone manage to hack into our email system and started spamming everyone in our contact list using various employee's name. Customer's were complaining and blocking us from sending them any more emails. That was a fucking nightmare. Thank god I wasn't the IT guy.

 

[Magni]

Uhh I've had various jobs I've done something at all of them.

While I was working at Disneyland I caused a few rides to break down. Once for lols while working the Matterhorn some co-worker friends and I decided to load a bunch of overweight people onto the same bobsled. Well the Matterhorn is an old coaster and depending on the weight of the cars they can go faster or slower. So a bobsled loaded with fat people is going to haul arse down the track. Problem is the track is loaded with sensors that detect the position of the cars. If the sensors detect a car going overspeed and getting close to another car it triggers an emergency stop and all the cars stop on the track and then guests had to be evacuated down the mountain. Of course we knew it would happen. We had a bet going as to where the fat sled would stop on the mountain. I didn't win the bet.

On the same ride we got busted once by an assistant manager for riding it backwards at the end of the night after the ride was closed.

Over on Autopia (the small cars you drive around the track) me and some others got busted for disabling the speed governors on the cars and going around the track at speeds guests can only dream of. The manager could hear the cars all the way from Star Tours lol.

It wasn't me but one morning after removing a few cars from the track in the back someone forgot to replace the pin to close the track. First guest the went around the track got to that point... oops is all I think the NDA we had to sign would let me say.

Don't know if it still is but at that time many moons ago Disney was a Teamster union job so you could get away with a lot. That was before people started getting killed at the park though. I hear it's a lot more strict now.

Outside of Disney I worked for a short time driving a Jet-A fuel truck at an airport and would fill up various small jets and turbo-prop planes. One of the turbo-prop planes (don't remember which type) I had to use a ladder to climb up on the wing to fill it up. Climbing up the ladder while holding the fuel hose I left a 6-inch scratch on the paint. Owner was furious.

As an automotive technician I've blown up (overheated) the engine on a customers 7-series BMW. Probably the most costly screw-up. Dealer covered it though. Engine was already on it's way out so not totally my fault. I've also bent two rims on a customers Miata during a test drive.

My latest job I got busted for texting an 18 year old high school girl. Someone ratted us out as being too close but there wasn't anything going on other than us being friends. We still are.

I don't think I'd hire you..

 

[Mareg]

I was once a member of the IT security department for a huge Banking company.

Basically, I was SysAdmin for the whole damn domain and had every rights over every files of every virtual/physical drives the company owned.

One ill-fated afternoon, I was working around a new active directory group and was about to apply the security to the root of the domain. Somehow, I ended up dropping every groups of security recursively from every damn drive/directory/files.
BAAAAAAAAM !!!
Not a single employee of said Banking company could access its «vital» files. It was one hellish afternoon.
As I was still young, at the beginning of my career, I was protected. My identity wasn't revealed to the higher ups. The whole IT workforce took the blame as a team. But I remember vividly how bad the situation got for my co-workers. The big bosses wanted blood. The cost to the company were astronomical for just one afternoon of inactivity. Missed opportunities, angry consumers, reputation hit. I was around 22 and it took me a while to get back on my feets.
I still thank that one girl who worked diligently for 10 hours straight rollbacking my mistake. I should have bought her a nice diner.

 

[Simon Belmont]

I used to do Customs brokerage, and I once cost a customer of my firm thousands of dollars in storage fees. Allow me to explain:

The customer in question had an ocean shipment arrive on the west coast, and get shipped east via rail once it docked. The shipment in question had a large dollar value attached to it, and thus there were tens of thousands of dollars in GST and duty that our firm would pay out on behalf of our client, and bill them later. This client did not have outstanding credit with us though, so I told him that before I could clear the shipment he would have to bring in a cheque covering the full costs of the transaction.

I'll never know why, but he waited until well after the last possible moment to get his shit together and send somebody in with the cheque, but by then it was too late. Rail yards do not at all like to have rail cars sitting for days, and will start charging astronomical storage fees after 24-48 hours pass. In the end of he got nailed with thousands in storage fees on top of his already costly shipment. To this day, he is still the angriest man I've ever spoken to.

I know what you're thinking, and I was (am still) thinking the same thing: How is any of that my fault? I gave him ample notice that he needed to pay for his shit before we did anything. Well according to my employer at the time I should have approached the CFO to see if he would give his OK to just clear the shipment, so therefore I didn't do everything I possibly could have to get it resolved and was my fault. To make matters worse, the supervisor and manager all but refused to help in any way once the shit hit the fan, saying basically 'it's your mess, clean it up'. Oh, and I was barely trained at all to do the job they had me doing. Thanks guys!

That might be 'post the shitty conditions you used to work in', but it's the biggest fuck-up "I" ever made at work.

 

[DurielBlack]

Without getting too technical I once deleted a set of data on accident. After spending an hour trying to figure out how to fix it I had to call some programmers. Ended up putting the night's computing cycle behind by 4 hours. I had been there about a year when that happened.

Funny thing was, despite being my biggest screw-up not a word was said, instead recently I got bitched at for not doing something that nobody had ever mentioned to me in the three years I have worked there that I was supposed to do, and there is no possible way I could have known it needed to be done. Go figure.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

I used to work on ICL mainframe computers, one night I was too lazy to do a complete shutdown (long ass 1 hour+ process) so just switched off the lights and left the system up for the night.

Next morning I came in and I knew I was in the shit as soon as I opened the door and midsummer like temperatures blasted out of the room into my face, I got the fear and sweats immediately as I knew pretty much without looking what had probably happened, the A/C had failed overnight.

Totally fried the CPU unit and the HDD units, I had to initiate Disaster Recovery procedures straight away and within 4 hours a new ICL system-in-a-container was in the parking lot.

Cost of damage was finally measured well into 7 figures, approaching 8 figures.

Somehow, I kept my job, still don't know how

Spoiler

Actually, I do know, but that's another story.

PM the story. I am interested now.

 

[TUSR]

Holy shit haha

Its about time travel! Of course its meant to be wrong.

 

[sangreal]

PM the story. I am interested now.

He already posted it

 

[sk3]

Nothing terrible at my current job. Some minor data loss. We send out email / newsletters at specific intervals and on occasion we'll miss one.

A while back at a retail job the only manager on duty gave me his keys to get into the cash office to count my till and when I was done I left the keys in the room. Another manager had to drive in. It was the end of the night so everyone had to wait ~45 more minutes before they went home.

 

[Suburban_Nooblet]

I used to be an IT Service Coordinator for a company. I would help clients out when they wanted to recycle their old technology and we had contacts for reputable companies across the country who could do this.

However, some medical company client in the middle of nowhere in Louisiana wanted to recycle 6 desktops so I located a company online and spoke to the owner on the phone and they appeared to be perfectly legit as far as certifications etc.

Turns out they went and picked up 6 desktops from the medical company and by recycle they meant to say "drop them off at our local salvation army" with thousands of patients medical history on them!

I got a call from the medical company 2 days later as someone who had bought one of the desktops was nice enough to call in and let them know about all the information. I had to have an IT technician fly down to Louisiana and locate all the pc's they had sold. Took him 3 days and many of travel dollars to do it but it came through and found all of them and we avoided a HIPPA violation.

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

I am tempted to ask my mom this question.

But, am I afraid of the imagined consequences of what may have happened.

*edit*

My mom called while I was at work.

Her reply: We don't make mistakes. We can't afford to.

She makes SAPI plates and other armor for the US Military.

 

[jufonuk]

A few months ago, I got a stupid e-mail from an idiot co-worker who constantly pisses me off.

I forwarded the e-mail to one of my work friends and bitched about said co-worker, but accidentally hit "reply" instead of "forward."

FHUTA??

 

[cajunator]

I used to be an IT Service Coordinator for a company. I would help clients out when they wanted to recycle their old technology and we had contacts for reputable companies across the country who could do this.

However, some medical company client in the middle of nowhere in Louisiana wanted to recycle 6 desktops so I located a company online and spoke to the owner on the phone and they appeared to be perfectly legit as far as certifications etc.

Turns out they went and picked up 6 desktops from the medical company and by recycle they meant to say "drop them off at our local salvation army" with thousands of patients medical history on them!

I got a call from the medical company 2 days later as someone who had bought one of the desktops was nice enough to call in and let them know about all the information. I had to have an IT technician fly down to Louisiana and locate all the pc's they had sold. Took him 3 days and many of travel dollars to do it but it came through and found all of them and we avoided a HIPPA violation.

Where in Louisiana?

 

[Kalnos]

Why would the patient data be stored on a regular client PC? were those old servers?

 

[CitizenCope]

I worked at a wax factory and left one of the kettles on over night. Small fire, lucky the whole place didn't burn down. Whoops!
Didn't lose my job as nobody else there could do what I was doing. =D

 

[Fernando Rocker]

I just had a fuck up a few hours ago. They printed like 5,000 discs with a wrong PMS color.

=(

 

[cajunator]

This thread definitely makes me feel better about fucking up at work.
One of my coworkers has a recording of a REALLY pissed off customer who owns dozens of gas stations in the area. A particular store was supposed to be delivered to in the morning, but the load was pushed by day dispatch to the night shift. Unfortunately the night driver never got the message to pull this particular load and it sat on the books until the morning, when the customer called us up and chewed us out full force, threatening to put a bullet in the owner and everything. Crazy motherfucker.
If I can ever get the file, I will gladly upload it to youtube or something (with all identifying information censored out of course) and since the customer himself said HE was recording at the time, well its fair game now. The recording is pretty hilarious in retrospect and the guy said some really unexpected things. Guaranteed it would have you guys rolling.

 

[whitehawk]

What movie was it?

30 Minutes or Less

I've also heard stores about co-workers having to clean up semen on the back of seats.

 

[Liquidsnake]

In all honesty, it was making an enemy out of the CFO. He eventually got me fired, by calling me out on something stupid I did. I deserved it, but had I not challenged him he would have let it slide.

 

[.GqueB.]

I had a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE fuck up a few years ago.

I was creating some comps for an email signature for a client at a previous design job. I decided to spruce them up a bit and include one of their own emails so they could see how it would actually end up looking. So I decide to go into my email and screen shot the first email I saw from them without actually reading which one it was.

It ended up being an email about how one of the higher ups was quitting and this was supposed to be a big secret because he was very important to the company. The wrong people saw it and apparently all hell broke loose in their offices. I got screamed at for about a half an hour and I just sat there stunned hating myself. We eventually lost the client and I nearly lost my job. Thankfully my boss was one of my previous teachers when I was in school so I didn't get fired but I'm pretty sure she never forgave me for that. Sucks because it was some of the best work I did at that job and nothing got produced.

Whenever I think about it I just laugh at myself and say "wtf were you thinking…?"

 

[Suburban_Nooblet]

Why would the patient data be stored on a regular client PC? were those old servers?

I always wondered this also.... but I certainly didn't question them I just tried to fix it.

 

[Borgnine]

Gainshare

Eli knows about Gainsharin, mo money mo money mo money. Summertime coming up, what's go'n sell, what's go'n sell? Coke, pepi, Frito Lay!

Did someone already post all this, I hope not.

 

[planar1280]

not really a fuck up but it could have been. My dad's friend is a pilot of a major airline and when I was 4 he let me sit on his lap and turn the plane with 40 passengers.

 

[Arsenic Yellow]

In my late teens, I was working at a marble slab creamery. Every night, you needed to clean the slab, make sure the pipes were unclogged and turn off the running water. Well, it was super busy night, I thought I had done all my tasks, including finishing up some cake decorations and cleaning the disgusting bathroom. I set the alarm, locked everything up, crashed at home.

About 7am I woke up, horrified with the thought that I had forgotten to turn off the running water to the slab. At that moment, my phone rang. It was my boss, calling to confirm my fears. The slab was left on. Not only did it flood the entire store, but it also flooded into the stores next door. My entire day was cleaning the store, which I did without clocking in due to immense guilt (I now know this is illegal).

I have no idea how I wasn't fired.

 

[Übermatik]

Gave a random family a massive shared dessert once, the dick of a father just grinned and said "thanks", and began to eat it.
I know I screwed up the order, but they sat there and ate it until I realised it was the table behind who wanted it.
Had the shame of taking it off the guys who had it, apologising profusely, and getting another one made for the family who should have had it.
Took ages to prepare as well.

Shitty example in comparison to other people's here, I know, but I felt like a real twat.

 

[Xevren]

Oh the joys of dropping a print... of course nobody drops a print on purpose, it's gravity's fault. I remember the day clearly when i got a call to come to booth 7 to assist with a little problem.. My boss decided to move Pulp Fiction by himself and successfully dropped it on the floor and turned it into a giant knot. This was three hours before the first preview. Fun times.

Another co-worker scratched Spider-Man.

It didn't help that around the time of Lord of the rings the distributors were releasing prints to cinemas as late as possible to combat piracy (damn you pirates making my job harder!), so anyway, one night 5 copies of rings turns up at around 7 pm with the first show being the following day. I had a press show as well at 10am so i needed to get as many of the prints put together as fast as possible. I managed to get 3 prints assembled before i left work that night. Next morning i'm excited as everyone else to see the Fellowship of the Ring, all the local press and staff are there. Film is running fine until the end of reel 2 which is about 30 minutes into the film, then reel 3 starts. Backwards. FUUUUUUUUUU... takes about 10 mins to sort but i spent the rest of the film feeling sick waiting for something else to go wrong.

Best one though, The Time Traveler's Wife. I put reels 3 and 4 the wrong way round. played for a week in a packed screen before someone came out and said it wasn't right. She had read the book...

I think in all my years of being in the booth the funniest incident I have been involved with is when a projectionist put a reel of Kung-Fu Hustle on backwards and not matching the soundtrack. The funniest part is no one complained about it, I noticed it when I was just walking by. When I went into the auditorium to check everyone was just blazed out of their minds and the place just reeked of pot. They were all cracking up so I didn't bother stopping it, just fixed it after it was over.

 

[gimmmick]

I worked at an Italian restaurant for close to 2.5 years. We were putting out a party of 176 and I ran out of pasta when we got to 156 =\ That sure was a lot of yelling from my chefs that night. To make matters worst, they were all suppose to be full portion sizes instead of the usual tasting menu sizes (basically it's always half portion for parties all the time, but this company paid for full).

 

[ryan-ts]

Eli knows about Gainsharin, mo money mo money mo money. Summertime coming up, what's go'n sell, what's go'n sell? Coke, pepi, Frito Lay!

Did someone already post all this, I hope not.

God bless Shawn Elliott and his crazy grocery stories.

 

[Mistake]

I had sex with a coworker.

I also did this. The sex wasn't at work, but I will never mix work and relationships ever again. Craziest bitch I've ever met, haven't dated since.

 

[jufonuk]

I made an IM fuck up at work

was quoting the Big Lebowski to my work mate, he sat at the desk and we I'm each other so I bring up I'm


and Type:
"you are entering a world of pain"

"this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass"

"where is the money lebowski, we wants our fucking monies"

to my female co-worker, luckily she saw the funny side, but I shat myself as thought I would get done or something...


oh was working night shift in TV Transmission, they were demolishing the area to build a new fancy suite a few corridors down, so this one was empty no machines to make any noise or annoying monitors, I brought my sleeping bag and slept, right through until the morning shift, where my supervisor came in to see me crashed out on the floor, he was perplexed... I got a bollocking but kept my job and had a great few years there


EDIT:
Turned up to shift two hours late over slept, was a case of me rushjing to work going "shit shit shit" luckily my boss at the time was a cool dude so he was alright, I am on the whole punctual and on time, so this may have gone in my favour.

While working in a Transmission suite, we were bored one day, I decided I needed a hair cut and commented to my supervisor as such, he came up with the brilliant idea to give me a hair cut at my desk, I agreed (dunno why) so I am in mid hair-cut and the high level boss walks in and just looks at us like "ohh" I was shit scared I was gonna get fired, but as the guy was my supervisor , he took the blame but nothing happend.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

I greeted two customers that walked into my store. Their backs were to me.

"Good evening. Can I help you gentlemen with anything today?"


They turned around and I realized they were two (masculine looking) women. They just glared at me.
I smiled, turned around, and went on a break. lol

 

[narcosis219]

Oh the joys of dropping a print... of course nobody drops a print on purpose, it's gravity's fault. I remember the day clearly when i got a call to come to booth 7 to assist with a little problem.. My boss decided to move Pulp Fiction by himself and successfully dropped it on the floor and turned it into a giant knot. This was three hours before the first preview. Fun times.

Another co-worker scratched Spider-Man.

It didn't help that around the time of Lord of the rings the distributors were releasing prints to cinemas as late as possible to combat piracy (damn you pirates making my job harder!), so anyway, one night 5 copies of rings turns up at around 7 pm with the first show being the following day. I had a press show as well at 10am so i needed to get as many of the prints put together as fast as possible. I managed to get 3 prints assembled before i left work that night. Next morning i'm excited as everyone else to see the Fellowship of the Ring, all the local press and staff are there. Film is running fine until the end of reel 2 which is about 30 minutes into the film, then reel 3 starts. Backwards. FUUUUUUUUUU... takes about 10 mins to sort but i spent the rest of the film feeling sick waiting for something else to go wrong.

Best one though, The Time Traveler's Wife. I put reels 3 and 4 the wrong way round. played for a week in a packed screen before someone came out and said it wasn't right. She had read the book...

One of the booth guys put in the wrong trailer pack for some really kiddy movie (like for kindergarten age kids, don't remember which movie) and ended up showing the kids trailers for a whole tonne of horror movies.

Many tears were shed. Manager practically went deaf from all the parents giving us shit. 250 passes given out. It was glorious.

 

[Le-mo]

I work as a waiter at a retirement home. One day I was tasked to bring two soups out to the salad bar so I used a cart to carry the soups and just as I reached the salad bar I made a turn with the cart and both of the soups fell to the floor causing the carpet to be soaked in egg drop and I believe, split pea. I was scared for my job, but turns out the supervisor was cool about it and just told the cooks to make another batch of soups. My friends and I did have to mop the floor and we had to call the maintenance crew to come in with a carpet cleaner.

 

[ConradCervantes]

When I worked at Gamestop there were a lot of times when I'd close Thursdays and open Fridays. One Thursday night I was so exhausted and in a hurry to leave I sped through all my tasks and bolted. I figured anything I didn't get done that night would get done once I returned in the morning.

The next morning I came back and went to unlock the door. The key wouldn't turn after numerous tries, so I yanked on the handle in frustration. The door just flew open. After thinking about it for a few moments it dawned on me.

I had left the store unlocked for the entire night.

I looked around for anything that may have been missing, but everything still seemed in place. The backrooms were locked up, so all the consoles were still in place. One of the scariest things to ever happen to me. Nothing ever came of it, but oh man, if some random person walking by the store just decided to tug on the door handle, I would have been in deep shit.

 

[HisshouBuraiKen]

free cat food

They have no motivation to give a fuck, someone threw an open bag of mini twixes into a freezer at walmart and my (drunk) brothers and (drunk) I grabbed a few and chowed down to quell out chocolate craving. Lady was stocking a freezer opposite us and didn't even look at us.

As far as work fuckups I once dropped a table with critical training scheduling data for a Navy air squadron, fortunately I'd just made a fresh copy the previous night for my practice/development database. Still, they must've lost a couple hours worth of work but I never heard anything about it.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

A few weeks ago I incorrectly in-putted someone's bank details on to the system.

Resulted in their pay being delayed until the following week.

 

[Wickwire]

I lost a key to a secure bunker that contained about 1500lbs of energetic material. I spent the afternoon at the police station and even got calls that next night from the police. In the end it cost them a new key, a new lock and a $15k key box =/

 

[rpg_poser]

Here are a few of mine, and one from somebody else:
I worked the night shift processing wide roll color film (professional stuff like portraits and weddings) in a dip and dunk processor. The film had to be removed from it's paper backing off the roll and put in a big loop on a rack with a clip at the bottom holding both ends, five rolls at a time IN THE DARK.
I worked out a procedure to do hundreds of rolls a night, but I glitched one night, thought all the racks had gone through the bleach tank, but actually there was one rack still up on the wall. I turned on the light, saw the now ruined film on the wall. Everyone was nice about it, but I will never forget.

A company I used to work for purchased another and we needed to needed to "merge" e-mail contacts. We used exchange, they used notes. I created a .csv file to add all of their users as contacts into our GAL, but forgot to add the primary SMTP address for each user. Merger time came, I imported the .csv file... oh crap... Myself and the senior network admin had to manually add 250 e-mail addresses into the GAL super quick. Odd thing, nobody noticed.

Did a mail migration from groupwise to exchange. Migration went off without a hitch, but a few years later was asked to find all e-mails from someone who worked before we were on exchange. I thought I was being smart when I kept an external SCSI drive with the GW POA, netware server and winnt server (just enough hardware to simulate the system to look at old accounts and mailboxes), so I said "No Problem" when asked if I could find them. Too bad those two servers and external SCSI drive were missing from the cabinet I put them in. Never figured that one out.

Got called one day to remove an e-mail sent by "mistake" company-wide... message was one long big reply thread that went on over a year with details regarding the relationship of two married co-workers not married to each other.

 

[kamspy]

I cooked at Hooters through college and once dropped a plate of 100 wings in a garbage can. Luckily the customers didn't notice or complain. Thank god for the waitresses.

 

[cloudwalking]

A few weeks ago I incorrectly in-putted someone's bank details on to the system.

Resulted in their pay being delayed until the following week.

i did this the other week and nearly ended up paying 34'500 swiss francs to the wrong company.

when i got to work today, i saw the wrong name on the transfer slip and i was like oh fuuuuuuuuuuuck!!

the bank apparently caught it (thank you swiss banks) and the money did end up going to the right company. i would have been in so much trouble otherwise

 

[paparazzo]

My register was $15 short one day on my first week when I worked as a cashier. I once accidentally dropped a $70 fruit tray I was carrying out to a customer.

 

[Tetra-9]

One day I was issuing out a gift card, which we manually modify the amount. The lady asked for $20 on one so I ran the card and for some reason, put in the number I saw on the register, like $14. I caught it right away and used a new card for her and loaded $20 onto it and then she was on her way. So I ask my manager for assistance clearing the bunk $14 card. She erased it and then realized that I had never actually switched the cards from the holder so I sent the customer home with basically nothing. Oops. Luckily the customer paid with a credit.card and actually had a legible signature.so we were able to eventually sort it out.

Not the worst, but I felt like an idiot.