Mistakes at work.

At various different times over the years I've taken out the banks loans system, statements system and main customer database.
 
Not me but I was helping a colleague (the Network guy) in work relocate an unused server to a different cab. He stood behind cab 2 (of 5) to pull out the power cables of the shut down server.

Me : "Mike, are you behind the right cab?"
Him: "Yep".

He pulled out the cables, and the sound of PSU's spinning down was unmistakeable........ He'd managed to switch off the main Accounts server at month end. Took until about 1am to get it all back again (it was some ****** piece of software that was a complete pain).



Next, same colleague..... Got sent a load of replacement drives as some of ours were reporting as degraded. Showed him what to do.... pop the drive out, pop the new one back in, wait until the building raid light goes off, and wait a bit longer for the write back cache. Then, do it again.
We did this with 3 drives, and I went for lunch, telling him to leave it until I got back. Got back into the office and he's looking panicky, couldn't wait so tried to do one himself, and the previous drive hadn't finished building! Cue lots of expletives!


And finally.... Same colleague...... Exchange Server in a clustered pair. Brought one half down and upgraded the memory. POP, server dead. We were ok as it was running on half the cluster. He asked me if I thought it was the memory that caused the fault and should he try it in the other half to see what happened..... Told him to not be such a retard and hid the memory from him.
When the CEO found out about the last story I got summoned to his office and given a firm handshake and heartfelt thank you for intervening......
 
Never made any massive mistakes in my old (proper lol) job, but since going back to uni I've been working in Debenhams, and one morning I was pushing a cage of stock and an old skating injury (ligament damage) caused my ankle to go right over for no reason and I tripped, pushing the cage straight into a display in the middle of the walkway, covered in plates, glasses and other china designer accessories. :O

Doh!

A mate at my work though, got an order of around 60 units wrong and we had to make the whole thing again.

So easy to make a mistake when there are 2 people handling every single UK order, making sure its going through in time, following it through production and then inspecting before calling to say it was ready.....Well understaffed sometimes!

Oh and once I asked a customer on the till if she was married when her husband was next to her, he didnt take it too well, he thought I was hitting on her and didnt realise it was for her card app! I now make sure ii say, "for your application...." lol
 
I once sent a customer a photo of a keyboard and highlighted the shift key via annotation on the image because he could not find his key. Turns out it was his Blackberry....
 
sHo0sH said:
In his defence, his second language is English, but still, surely you would question Feast as a first name for a woman especially!
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I'd accept it.
Today I have come across a Marvellous ******** and a lady called ***** Moron.
I also recently came across a Campaign Corruption.
Peoples names no longer surprise me.
 
My best was not distributing a large software package, that was required by a large amount of people in the firm, to all the regional offices servers, leaving it only on the development servers in London.

The package went live, and everyone who needed it out in the regions tried to download it, forcing everyone through to the London servers.

Birmingham, Reading and Manchester offices networks went down for the day :$
 
Gave some women some serious slagging off, she was very dim, and I was very hungover/still pretty much drunk. Only to notice a fine work mate had unpressed the mute button.

She was not best impressed, que fake name and hang up. :p
 
1st day working for tesco I was asked to put a pallet of ice cream in the freezer. No problem.

Announcement came over the PA a few hours later asking me to go to the wearhouse where a very red faced manager was standing :( He didnt even say anything, just turned one of the tubs of ice cream upside down and watched it run out of the tub :D

I put it in the fridge, not the freezer :o
 
busman said:
1st day working for tesco I was asked to put a pallet of ice cream in the freezer. No problem.

Announcement came over the PA a few hours later asking me to go to the wearhouse where a very red faced manager was standing :( He didnt even say anything, just turned one of the tubs of ice cream upside down and watched it run out of the tub :D

I put it in the fridge, not the freezer :o
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that made me ROFL
Did you get fired?
 
Biggest mistake for me was at my previous company in London.

I was managing the migration of our domains (about 300 of them) and when it came to the main one used for the website, the email SHOULD have read like this

Dear sir,

Please transfer the following domains

blahblahblah.com
blahblahblah.com
blahblahblah.com
blahblahblah.com
blahblahblah.com

Please do not transfer

chaucerplc.com

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3 guesses what I typed instead and caused the company to not receive any external email for over 6 hours during month end? :o
 
I work in recruitment and we worked off quite a termperamental program - this program would "automatically" pick up the candidate's telephone numbers, email addresses, names, etc.

As a result, I once sent a detailed interview confirmation to a candidate's current boss instead of him - he'd included his bosses email address on his CV as a future reference, and the program had automatically picked up this email address instead of the candidate's email... I sat in work for 3 weeks bricking myself. No one noticed :)
 
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