Mistakes at work?

scorza said:
When I worked for RBS I bought this bank called ABN Amro which had been lending money to illegal immigrants in the USA - doh! Happily I had negotiated myself a nice juicy severance clause in my contract just in case I cocked up big-style, so I did allright :)
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Like clockwork :D

Does it keep you awake at night?
 
Reading this thread reminds me of something an IT colleague once told me.

"When we make a mistake a lot of people get inconvenienced for a few minutes, or some compoany somewhere might lose a few million pounds. When my wife makes a bad mistake (as a midwife) someone dies.

Most of us are paid way more than she is!"


Makes you think doesn't it.
 
today, someone asked me to book a hotel but to check visa regulations first as they didn't have a British passport. I went and booked the hotel (£800 and non-refundable) and forgot all about checking about the visa, Doh! I contacted the hotel and they can apparently sort it but if not, I'm fooked :(
 
Not long back I was asked by my boss to buy a cocoa plant for the reception lobby. Man, am I in trouble when she finds out I've just spent £11.5 billion on a chocolate factory in Birmingham. :eek:
 
Yesterday I did something really embarrassing considering I'm thought of as a 'computer expert' by everybody in the department.
My boss had opened up the Stat Mand laptop and proceeded to type the password (we have encrypted laptops in the NHS and only get 5 attempts).
She had failed so asked me to type the password and I failed 3 times :eek:
This was important because we needed this laptop for today where I would be facilitating 150 NHS staff on their Stat Mand Training so I called IT and told them it was priority.
It was getting late so we rang at 16:15 saying we need somebody now to get the laptop working so somebody was sent at 16:45.
I gave the IT man the password, he typed it in and it loaded :eek:
"What have you done?"
"I turned the Caps Lock key off" :D

Today (and I've done this twice now) I sent a member of staff back because they were over 15 minutes late for Stat Mand (they were 45 minutes late).
Later on I get a call from my Manager saying the bloke was a Consultant and in monetary terms it had cost an estimated £7,000 sending him back (you have to take into account the work he would have been doing today and the codes the Clinical Coders would put on his work).
My Managers backed me up with HR who also backed me up.
 
I've yet to make to bad of a blunder so far in my young 2.5 year career in IT...

I'll probably destroy a database tomorrow now that I've said this though :p
 
When i was serving my painting+decorating apprenticeship i got the colour scheme mixed up on a brand new staircase. The client wanted it stained, i proceeded to start coating it with white paint. The whole landing section had to be took out and replaced.
 
dmpoole said:
Later on I get a call from my Manager saying the bloke was a Consultant and in monetary terms it had cost an estimated £7,000 sending him back (you have to take into account the work he would have been doing today and the codes the Clinical Coders would put on his work)
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I'd love to see the HRG of his work if 60 minutes of wasted time lost £7000?!
 
Made production related servers become unavailable generally sums it up. My colleague has done a couple of classics though. Patching so bad it brought down the entire LAN, rebooted Prod DB in the middle of the day etc
 
I also remember a classic one. Our evil horrid boss was being nasty to my colleague so I wrote her (my colleague) a nice email saying I felt sorry for her and that the boss was a complete **** etc. Because I was so furious and had our Boss' name on my mind, for some reason auto pilot kicked in and I selected her (the boss) in the To field and proceeded to send it to her instead of my colleague. I nearly **** myself in the seat.
I kept my job in the end :)
 
managed to set all of the Teenagers into our connexions database to 'NEET' by running a dodgy SQL Script

where "Client No" = "Client No"

needless to say everyone in the database got changed


whoops
 
We'd just taken delivery of a brand new top-of-the-range workstation and I was busy installing our software on it. The phone rang so I answered it, not realising that the handset cord was wrapped around my coffee cup. That spilt coffee right under the workstation, shorting the motherboard in spectacular fashion! My boss was not best pleased.

My boss wasn't immune though. He once tried to extract the latest source code of our main product from the configuration management system. Unfortunately he mis-understood the status flags and deleted all files from the CM system!
 
i gave someone 100 billion pounds accidentally.
i worked for a bank 15 years ago, and used a black-green screen system.
i tried to credit the account with £10, but didn't "press tab before enter" lol
this credited the account with £100,000,000,010 instead of £10.
mistake rectified quickly!!
 
Wasn't paying attention properly when tightening bolts into a compressor cylinder head. Ended up overtightening one of them and cracked the head :mad:

Unfortunately that was the brand new replacement for the broken one I was supposed to be sorting!

That only happened today as well... there's a lot of people not best pleased with me at the moment:D
 
I could tell you one about my company but its still in legal phases, needless to say its a **** up of communication which led to around 50m of damages and then some.

KaHn
 
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