Mistakes at work.

sHo0sH said:
A chap in our office has just made an epic blunder.

(I work in travel)

He has just booked a flight and paid for it for a "Mrs Feast Sylvia"

Not once did he question if Feast was a valid female first name, and is now on the phone with the airline explaining his stupidity.

Anyone made any stupid/embarrassing mistakes at work?
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I currently work in Corporate Travel and it's not funny how many times I've seen this happen. Booking wrong times/dates on a non-changeable ticket was one of my biggest mistakes.
 
WillyNelson said:
Easily done, especially if your internal directory used the 'surname, first name' format. This morning I addressed an email "Dear Paul". She replied "Many thanks, Stephanie Paul". D'oh!
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in travel, this is how the names appear on tickets so you're correct. When I first started working in travel 6 years ago, I used to get confused especially when passengers had a few middle names :rolleyes:
 
My former boss accidently sent out the staff performance reviews (bonus related) to the whole department instead of to the director................. that was the fastest I'd ever seen him move, he literally pulled me over to his desk and begged for me to show him how to recall e-mails..... unfortunately for him I had handed in my notice at that point and so dragged my heals a bit and more than half the department saw it.
 
buckeejit said:
I currently work in Corporate Travel and it's not funny how many times I've seen this happen. Booking wrong times/dates on a non-changeable ticket was one of my biggest mistakes.
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I always double check everything, however I have done a couple of wrong dates, but not on completely non-refundables.

I did yesterday book a hotel in Turgetreis that was supposed to tie in with a Gulet cruise from Marmaris, thankfully I noticed what a tool I had been and found another closer one in Icmeler.
 
I once saw a trader start a new trading algorithm which my teammate was responsible for. It lost close to $1M in about 10 seconds due to an unforeseen difference between testing, QA and production. Luckily the exchange allowed us to bust most of the trades but it was a pretty tense 15 minutes for my colleague...
 
DJMK4 said:
I once seen [read: saw] someone (not at this company) but an ex one [read: (not at this company, but one I previously worked at)], [unnecessary comma] put a customer on hold, [should be end of sentence, thus a full-stop] or so they they thought they did, [missing word: they] then proceed [read: proceeded] to shout over to a collegue [read: colleague] on the opposite desk and shout "Can you speak to this "another word for a penis, begins with a k" [lolwhut?] head on the phone [missing quotation marks]

Needless to say he wasn[missing apostrophe]t on hold, and he wasn[again]t happy.

Queue [read: cue] the complaint.
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I think you made a mistake by not checking on your own writing. :/ See me after class: F.

edit: dammit.
 
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I once tried to drive a fork lift into the stock room with the forks up. It put a big dent in the overhanging roof but luckily no one was around so I just sidled away whistling quietly :D
 
NeverWinter said:
I'm not really good at crosswords, but I think the clue is wrong :p
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you're right, you aren't :D

say what you see
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Many moons ago when I was a junior dev I managed to wipe out about 10 million transaction records, going back 8 years or so, as I forgot to include the 'where' statement in a delete SQL clause. at 4.55pm. On a Friday. I was not popular. Thankfully it was backed up, but we still lost about 4 hours worth of transactions, and didn't get home till about 2am.

In other stupidity related news, a guy I work with earlier asked out loud in the office 'What's the website for that we buy any car place?'.

DJMK4 said:
"another word for a penis, begins with a k"
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Kwerk?
 
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As for mistakes at work, hows about this one for size:

I worked at a large electronic retailer for 2.5 years ("The choice for you!"). This was during the fuel strikes era, which meant the shop's bin hadn't been emptied for nearly 2 weeks and there was a very large pile of cardboard, polystyrene, and other assorted packing waste slumped against the building. Probably over a tonne of the stuff piled 10ft high, 10ft deep, and about 20ft long.

I had a sly cigarette out back whilst handling a delivery. Guess where the discarded fag-butt went?
 
On work placement I had to reboot a load of servers at an office in South Africa, the naming convention was [locationCode][SvrXX] for all the servers in the company. The office in question had location code L41, I was in scarborough which was L40.

I spammed shutdown /r /f /m \\l40srv12

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Swiftly got a call from someone in accounting asking why the citrix farm was forcing them all to log out within a minute.

OOPS.
 
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