Mistakes at work.

Work in a call centre, before I get the customer details I have to ask what there calling about first, some times I can deal with it without having to access some info. Call goes well, end it with a, ''thank you miss/madam etc, and its a guy.............. Always makes me laugh, after I hang up hehe
 
edscdk said:
I think he means 300,000 people * 11.5 euros'! eeep...
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I think he means 300,000 customers totalling 11.5 million euros.

I've never really done anything truly stupid at work.

My one recent mistake in my new job was opening about a dozen case files on the system, without realising they had to be opened on both systems. Had to spend about an hour opening all the files up on the second system.

Was told it was an easy mistake though because they're in the middle of shifting over from one system to the other but for the time being want to remain on both.
 
Hmm, on a work placement, I was just about to go out for my lunch when the boss asked me if I could return something for him whilst in town. He put it in a bag, along with the receipt. Cut a long story short, I lose the receipt on the way to the shop, they wouldn't return it, and he wasn't too happy.

Oh well :)
 
Our HR department once sent out letters confirming our current salaries, however they mixed everyone's home addresses up so we all ended up finding out what other people were on, in some cases people found out that their close colleagues were on more money, these people had to be given immediate pay rises :p A few heads rolled in HR following this one.
 
In my current job as a call taker for the Ambulance Service, I thankfully haven't made any serious (read life or limb threatening) mistakes.

In a previous job however, I ordered the take over of a phone line for a customer, only to realise I'd taken over the line of the customers next door neighbour and not our customer...
 
My old boss was going on a press trip to Paris and she asked me whilst I was down at the shops if I could pick her up some freshen up wipes for the train so when she got there she would feel fresh.

So I have a good look around the chemists and buy what I thought she was on about, give them to her, to which she laughs hysterically at me. It turns out that "fem fresh" are for vaginas.
 
sHo0sH said:
My old boss was going on a press trip to Paris and she asked me whilst I was down at the shops if I could pick her up some freshen up wipes for the train so when she got there she would feel fresh.

So I have a good look around the chemists and buy what I thought she was on about, give them to her, to which she laughs hysterically at me. It turns out that "fem fresh" are for vaginas.
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Some of these are epic!

More mistakes people im not karting for another hour or so and im bored lol
 
Efour2 said:
Sylvia Freast?

dont get the big deal? take 10 seconds to change ?
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A lot of airlines charge £30 or more for name changes, some wont allow name changes at all. Happened to me on the way back this time, dude at dnata copied my name out of my passport wrong. Luckily when i called virgin i gave them a sob story and they sorted it out. I had no way to pay for it see, as i'd bought the ticket in cash and had closed all my bank accounts.
 
I once flooded our network with Ghost traffic bring down a call centre full of digital phones (no QOS etc)....Also plugged in a server running a stand alone DHCP client meaning people who hadn't been on site before couldn't join our network....I admitted to both so I was let off!!
 
My manager showed me an email he received, which had been sent to a list of about 30 relatively senior people at different organisations around the UK congratulating them on the new collaboration. The second paragraph began 'Without counting our chickens....', except the sender had missed out the 'o' in 'counting'.
 
One cracked blockwork wall a few months after construction in a hotel after 3 years as a structural engineer due to missing a movement joint. Could be a lot worse.
 
edscdk said:
I think he means 300,000 people * 11.5 euros'! eeep...

someone installing a test MS exchange 20(08)? server into our domain gave all the admins email box's he then uninstalled exchange which deleted all our admin accounts....!!!!!
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dmpoole said:
You could have paid 11.5 euro out of your own pocket
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Tiredness seems to have majorly affected my ability to type..

That was meat to read "11.5 million euro".
 
I think the dumbest thing I ever did was manoeuvre into a position on the forklift, lift an item off a flat bed lorry. but put the mast of the forklift straight through the roof of the workshop.

Good job we were a structural steel fabrication company :o
 
jumpy said:
My first job as a CADmonkey was as a replacement for a guy who got fired over the following error - as a service and installation refrigeration contractor, the company's job was to design and refit all of the refrigerated/freezer cabinets in a large supermarket chain.

Shop floor site drawings were detailed for hi and lo temp case runs and compressor services, including measuring of the cabinet islands themselves, to fit between columns and associated access doors.
The cabinets were built by a subcontractor, to our design for length and height restrictions and could be broken down in to 10m runs or larger, depending on the store and design needs.
Drawings were issued to our subcontractor and the cases were built to size specification according to the plans - in this instance they were in 30m runs.
Installation day arrived and the cabinets duly turned up on the back of a couple of big lorries. Everything went according to plan, closing off the road, having emergency services attend for H&S, the whole shebang. It was not until the cabinets were actually rolled through the maintenance doors that it was discovered that they would not actually fit inside the store, being too long by some 5m!
The bosses were not at all happy to have spent tens of thousands of pounds on bespoke cabinets that did not fit, the store was not happy at not having any equipment for all of their stock they had ordered in advance of the fitout.

It's almost as bad a blunder as one made by one of our structural steelwork subcontractors - the condenser packs for the refrigerated systems are usually located on the roof of the store or the compressor plant building, resting on top of bespoke steelwork I-beam frames due to their weight - up to several tons in some cases.
The particular store in question was in a busy high-street, so everything had to be phased to allow for the road to be closed for the heavy lift crane access, police and fire services to be in attendance and all that stuff.
Compressors arrived and were lifted above the store. Only then was it discovered that the steelwork frames were too large for the footprint of the compressors :p

All down to getting a few simple dimensions wrong :D
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This wasn't in a Tesco's by any chance was it.
I've got vague memories of being called in to weld bracketry in the roof space of one store where the freezers didn't fit, lines and lines of stuff had to be moved and raised to get these behemoths to fit.
Got a feeling it was Britannia Construction
 
Dunno mate, could have been... we used to do tesco, sainsbury, co-op, marks & spencer, cost-co, dunnes stores, safeway (who became) morrisons, couple of RAF bases.
There were more but I forget, plus we're going back 5 or 10 years now, maybe a little more?
I liked that job, right up until they outsourced the CAD department (all 3 of us) to india, making us redundant in the process. :rolleyes:
 
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