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    #26375161 - 12/11/19 02:06 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Have you ever made a fucked up mistake at work? I'm in machining/fabrication work and I've made a handful of expensive mistakes in my career. It's spooks me thinking about how much money I've costed employers over the years. It happens every few months, something like $100-$1500 fucked per mistake. A Co worker once killed like $40k worth of material in 2 seconda and didn't even get fired.

I made a lil mistake this week at work. About 800 bucks. It has me kind of fucked up right now, making me dream of retirement, and more nightmares about work.

Would love to hear some stories about how you fucked up at work


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees] * 1
    #26375340 - 12/11/19 03:41 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Many years ago, I took a security guard job at a hospital. The job sucked, all I wanted to do was to do my job and get paid what little they would pay me and go home.  One of my unpleasant duties was we had to release bodies at the morgue after hours. Unbeknown to me, a body bag was mislabeled and I sent the wrong body out of state about six hours away. Keep in mind the mislabeled body was a medical examiner’s case and was scheduled for an autopsy. The body gets to the funeral home, embalmed and when the viewing started it was not good old uncle Chester. They had to send somebody 6 hours out of state to retrieve the body and bring the right one. The medical examiner’s had to do an autopsy on a body that was freshly embalmed.

Couple of days later, I was called into the office. The head of security, risk management and a couple of dept heads took turns chewing my ass out. They pretty much told me to resign. I said wait a minute, the body bag had the name of the deceased on the bag. Pretty much I called their bluff and told them that would have to fire me because I won’t going to make this shit easy on them. Couple of days went by and I met with risk management again. I was told that there was a special hearing and they ruled it my fault, but they weren’t going to fire me. Although the body bag was mislabeled it was my fault because I did not physically unzipped the body bag and confirm that the name on the toe tag was the same on the body bag.

Pretty much morgue staff mislabeled the body bag and I was the scapegoat. Keep in mind I was there for six months and nobody told me that this was the policy. Also there was not a written procedure on this andnone of the other staff opened the body bag to confirm the name on the toe tag. From there on out, we had to open the body bag, confirm the name matches. Luckily within a couple of months I found another job and when I gave them my 5 minute notice, told the head of security to fuck himself.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees] * 1
    #26375349 - 12/11/19 03:44 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I worked at a brewery that kept making 6200 gallon mistakes.

I worked somewhere a guy left a hose from a transfer pump in the glycol reservoir and overnight dumped out something ridiculous like 25 drums worth of glycol at i think around $400 each. So like a 10k mistake.

I've done a few thousand to few thousand dollar mistakes but in the grand scheme it's almost expected every now and then


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26375398 - 12/11/19 04:01 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I worked for a major retailer that sold Plasma TVs back when they were still relevant, and while someone was returning one I was testing it and as I was placing the box back over the top of it, it started tipping over, and shattered all over the floor right in front of the customer who was eager to see me just annihilate their TV they were trying to return.

I immediately radioed my manager and explained what happened and he thanked me for immediately telling him how I fucked up, he told me to be more careful next time, and that was really it.

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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees]
    #26375417 - 12/11/19 04:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Human error is a thing. I've only made one mistake in my two years working here (luckily no customer impact, just took a few hours to put right), but it's a horrible feeling; I always feel this 'hot' flush climbing up my head when I realise I've made one. Happened maybe half a dozen times in an eighteen year career.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26375486 - 12/11/19 04:31 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I know exactly the hot flush feeling to your head man. Such a fucked up feeling. I would get that as a kid when i got caught doing something real bad. But if it happens at work, it makes you want to  just :imout:


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees]
    #26375498 - 12/11/19 04:34 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I'm a machinist/moldmaker and yeah mistakes are expensive. I've done it too.
But it's pretty tough to be perfect all the time, mistakes happen.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: JohnnieYen]
    #26375504 - 12/11/19 04:37 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It's sucks when you're on a roll with the machine work, bosses are stoked, they keep telling the higher-ups about your good work and then you immediately fuck up a large expensive piece


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees]
    #26375856 - 12/11/19 07:19 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

One of my favorite / shittist jobs was demolition junk yard

Because we got to light stuff on fier with gasoline

I got to throw stuff at a fire all day

Blow up car batteries , just burn everthing

Smashed 1000s or windshields

Cut shit up with bolt cutters

Washed off black in the shower everyday

So I got payed to fuck shit up

It was fun and I would do it again


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: watermelon mon]
    #26375920 - 12/11/19 07:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

A worker who doesn't make mistakes is either not doing anything, or blaming someone else. Everybody fucks up. That being said, just last week I jumped into a fleet pickup to move it so the plow could clean the parking lot. Couldn't figure out why I wasn't backing up so I gave it more gas. Drove into building. Boom no big deal.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees]
    #26375935 - 12/11/19 07:52 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I installed an electrical component on the wrong phase of a 3 phase system. It was like $6500 in parts + $2k in labour thrown out the window. Plus I had to go back and re-do the work the next day in the right cabinet.


It was shitty, but it ain't the end of the world. I banged up a few trucks too.


I lost a tape measure today too. I'm usually pretty good about that shit, but still lose a tool or two a year and usually just try to replace it from amazon before anyone notices.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: trees]
    #26376258 - 12/11/19 11:21 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

The costliest mistake I've ever made at work was loading bins of soil into a greenhouse with a forklift and accidentally hitting a roll up door - which had to be replaced.

I once worked at a dairy / cheese plant, and a coworker accidentally opened a cream separator that was still running. He didn't realize the machine was ON. When he opened the lid, the spinning cylinder few out and smashed him in the head and killed him. The cream separator lid flew 100 feet across the plant and made a big dent in the cement wall.


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Re: Making mistakes at work [Re: RJ Tubs 202] * 1
    #26376290 - 12/11/19 11:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

If you want to make an ommlette then you have to break a few eggs. I broke a ton of "eggs" when I first started being trained as an electrician. There is so much to learn like all the tools, theory, architecture, how things are built, NEC code, local code, a basic understanding of all trades, and much more than that. I would blow stuff up almost daily. When we got back to the shop my boss would always asked what I fucked up today and put his hand on his forehead like I was killing him.

He got cheap labor and I got to blow stuff up and learn so it evens out. I've dropped fixtures that were worth $1000's, cut peoples wall's in the wrong place, and even started fires. The last major fuck up was drilling through an antique floor in an old Victorian house. The hole was too big to patch and the new wood doesn't match the aged wood perfectly so my old boss had to buy her a new floor which was probably a few $1000.

Lately I haven't fucked anything up too bad. I feel like a big failure when it happens and sometimes the feeling lasts for days or weeks. I'm too hard on myself for making mistakes.


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