Mistakes at work?

happy_2008

happy_2008

happy_2008

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So how many of you guys made a big mistake at work then?

During my initial stages of working in a accounts practice I made a mistake of filing in a clients vat return as a receiver instead of a payer :eek: But luckily i asked a colleague to check them before i submitted the return :D
 
A couple of times, always found the best policy was to own up. However before owning up also come up with a solution on how to fix the problem...
 
My first night working at Lloyds Bar in Birmingham and I was serving someone in an all white suit.

Went to put his pint on the bar, but caught a slight bump on the bar and sent the pint, and glass flying towards him.

Somehow he managed to dodge out of the way, wasn't too fussed because nothing had hit him so I went to get the mop and bucket to clean up.

Cleared it all up, returned the mop and bucket only to knock the bar phone off its stupidly small stand into the bucket full of dirty water/beer.

Put the phone back on the side, dried it with a bit of paper and pretended that nothing had happened.

Bar manager found it broken later and asked if anyone knew why it wasn't working, didn't say anything but I'm guessing it was a regular occurance as he had spares...
 
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 :)
 
A while ago, I was messing around with some simple batch files on a production server and accidentally a whole load of important folders.

Panic set in fast and for five minutes I **** myself, trying to think of a cover up/fix before I told my boss what I had done.

Lucky for me it was a VM and I realised that my love for vReplicator was not unfounded. Found the latest replication, rolled back. My ass was saved.

I learned some serious lessons that day. No matter how simple the job how simple you think something is, big things can always go wrong. Don't touch production environments until 100% confident on what you are doing.

School boy error really but it was a vaulable experience in DR and life in general :D
 
At Sainsbury's I once forgot to properly separate individual steaks when putting them away in the overnight chiller. Due to my error £100 of steak had to be thrown out! My boss was less than pleased.

With my current job I once shut down the wrong computer. I had RDP into a server, then RDP from there to another machine. I hit Win Key + Run and typed the restart command. Both RDP windows closed. Me: :eek:

Luckily for me it was 9am and only a small office, so no one really noticed. Still, could have been chaos if it was at a busier time of day!
 
Been working at off licence for 2.5 years and hadnt dropped a bottle till 2 weeks ago... went and smashed a 1.5 litre bottle of Glens Gin!

Also when doing temp work me and another forum member (Pyspher5) Stacked up too many dell pcs on a cart (25-30) and kind of took a corner a little fast. The dells just all slid off down a ramp and seemed to carry on going forever... but this was in reception so lots of people were looking >.<

They all seemed to work though just about xD
 
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I deleted most of the contents of an important database when I was on a student placement. I didn't realise I'd done it and a few weeks later there was a massive panic because lots of data was missing. I owned up and all was ok.
 
Also, knocked over a 2' high stack of punch-cards when I was working at the Michelin. To say the manager wasn't very impressed is an under-statement of immense proportions, especially as they scattered everywhere including under the tiled floor where all the cabling and wiring was located. :D
 
There was this one time when I was working a Black Mesa, I caused a resonance cascade event. In my defence, the readings were within acceptable parameters. Anyway, it was bad news.

Everything turned out OK though, thanks to a helpful co-worker. :)
 
Tunney said:
There was this one time when I was working a Black Mesa, I caused a resonance cascade event. In my defence, the readings were within acceptable parameters. Anyway, it was bad news.

Everything turned out OK though, thanks to a helpful co-worker. :)
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I hardly think the combine are ok!
 
1. Rebooted the wrong server (live database server) - caused a few knocks on the door and phone calls
2. On a placement I loaded the department van with supplies for another site, and then we were told that we had to take massive printer with us being, well, 'inventive', decided to stack this printer on-top of everything else. Cue things not working. That was a long day.
 
Ghosting a pc in an office from one drive to an idential drive, then noticing about 5 seconds after pressing the "begin" button that i was copying the blank drive ontop of the one i actually meant to copy. I just sat there for about 5mins thinking "poopoopoopoopoopoopoopoopooooooo" when the guy came in and pointed out that i was in fact doing the wrong pc ( he had messed up and told me the wrong one to do ) and the one i was working on was in fact just a spare. :D

My bacon was saved that day! and i learned an important lesson.... check, check and check again, then check again!
 
Daily, like today, didn't concentrate, started a few biulds to go on the network, forgot to setup the bios boot order and had a pc go round in loops once the image was downloaded due to booting from network being prio number 1 and hdd 2 lol... School boy things like that I do all the time.

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