Facepalm moments at work

I composed a email to some banking exec's that were a client of ours.

proceeded to sign the email off as Retards instead of Regards. didnt notice for a few hours...
 
When I was a supervisor we had this new kid start, he was in 6th form at the time, so only really worked weekends. It was a quite bank holiday and I was in charge so I thought I would have some fun, I wrote out a list and sent him to B&Q to get said items...he came back and wasn't best pleased....

The list was...

Left handed screw-driver
sky hooks
long weight
short stand
tin of tartan paint
small tin of elbow grease
glass hammer


By god I was nearly crying it was that funny...
 
I was recently writing a report following a site visit and I wanted to specifically reference a cottage that had its own name. So I asked aloud "What's the name of that cottage at xxxx xxxx?" Only to be told by my team mates its xxxx xxxx cottage. :(
 
I did spend a good minute trying to remove a stable from a copied sheet of paper with those staple remover pincers to eventually realise it was a copy of a staple. Made sense as to why I couldn't grab the ******!
 
Working in an office block as an apprentice Electrician. Spark in charge tasked me with the job of servicing a faulty fluorescent fitting above someone's desk.

Told me her name was "Mary Huff". Now, I have a tendancy now and again to get my words mixed up and without warning, get the begininning letters of two words mixed up and they oh so conveniently decide to swap to the other word.

So, imagine my horror when I approached the desk of said woman and asked "Are you Hairy Muff?"

Ultimate Facepalm right there :D
 
wildman said:
Best facepalm moment was after I handed over admin rights to one of my new guys. Ran through some basic house keeping he had to do, then proceeded to watch him execute the following command DELETE FROM manufacturers_standard

The poor geeser was in panic mode while I was quietly on the floor in hysterics. I gave him another 5 mins while he was desperately trying to find where the table data had gone. He turns a round and said .......... eeeerrrrrr I think the database has crashed. I say not possible as there is no data left for it to crash you just deleted eery single table entry for the manufacturers.

Lucky for him I am no fool and this was only in the dev environment which I had just cloned from production.

I then taught him the 1st Rule of SQL

Don't use DELETE FROM some_table without and accompanying WHERE unless your intention is thermonuclear table detontation.

I then gave him 5 minutes to vacate his bowels properly and remove the log he laid in his boxers !!!
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Cruel but Genius!! :D
 
wildman said:
Best facepalm moment was after I handed over admin rights to one of my new guys. Ran through some basic house keeping he had to do, then proceeded to watch him execute the following command DELETE FROM manufacturers_standard

The poor geeser was in panic mode while I was quietly on the floor in hysterics. I gave him another 5 mins while he was desperately trying to find where the table data had gone. He turns a round and said .......... eeeerrrrrr I think the database has crashed. I say not possible as there is no data left for it to crash you just deleted eery single table entry for the manufacturers.

Lucky for him I am no fool and this was only in the dev environment which I had just cloned from production.

I then taught him the 1st Rule of SQL

Don't use DELETE FROM some_table without and accompanying WHERE unless your intention is thermonuclear table detontation.

I then gave him 5 minutes to vacate his bowels properly and remove the log he laid in his boxers !!!
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Obviously you jumped over the 0th rule of SQL which is do all your table updates in a transaction.

:)
 
I just had a complaint emailed to me. I printed it off as was going to handle it myself before it got to the top....

It's the first document that my Director has EVER collected off the printer for me and handed to me personally at my desk. :/

Plus I had my personal email open :o

Oh lol!

BB x
 
Whilst working (i'm a cop) I seen my colleagues in front of me on a quiet road and thought it'd be funny to pull them over. Duly done so to see my supervisor in the van. Do'h. He seen the funny side of it thankfully.
 
Robbie G said:
Carrying on a conversation while everyone else had stopped for a minute's silence at 11am on Armistice Day. Lots of dirty looks. Very embarrassing.
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Me too :o

Although it would have been nice if someone had said something instead of letting me look an idiot. Still annoys me now tbh.
 
someone installed exchange 2007 (2008?) on a test server on the network, gave all the admin accounts mail box's (as a test) then uninstalled exchange 2008..

default action of exchange 2008 is to delete user accounts that have mail box' when removed.. (dont know why)

was a bit of panic until we found a admin account that had not been deleted.!
 
I spent a day on customer site upgrading a SQL database, I had loads of backup files from each stage in the SQL database directory..

I was in a rush so thought "You cannot delete an open file ill jsut do a delete *.*and all the crap will get deleted and the live files left...

only I forgot I stopped the SQL service for some reason or other... obviously I was left with no database...
 
worth one I have seen

250 user system windows 2003 - exchange 5.5 - ADC linking them

major issue we need to delete the mail box's and start again.

contractor (not me) stops the ADC delete all the mail box's and then starts the ADC....(his thinking that ADC was stopped so it would not delete the associated user accounts)

I felt sick as I watch all the 250 user accounts vanish
 
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