This one time at work I didnt thourghly clean the john. I left a smidgen of poo on the rim. I got reemed out.

LOL...phew!!! that was a close one huh

This one time at work I didnt thourghly clean the john. I left a smidgen of poo on the rim. I got reemed out.

LOL...phew!!! that was a close one huh

Driving people up the wall, around the bend, over the deep end. Not good to do with a bus.

Driving people up the wall, around the bend, over the deep end. Not good to do with a bus.

my most costly blunder at work...im a slightly above minimum wage worker(mostly cause ive been at the same job for 5 years). im technically not qualified to do anything other than drive a car, but the general manager heard from my boss that i build my own PCs so automatically that means i can fix any PC problem that could ever possibly come up, right?! yea, i dont think so jim.

 

so, someone in the main office gets a new PC and i need to set up the a program called Steel Plus(an accounting/workorder program for steel companies that uses dos and RM/cobal) no big deal really, ive done it like 3 times before in the 3 years prior to this...sorta... well, while im bungling around on the server trying to find the install files that i so cleverly hid from myself in a folder now titled "its this one stupid", i grab a group of 6 or so files that i think are the ones i need and hit copy. well instead of pasting them to the desk top, i accidently hit the window ive got the server pulled up on and hit paste....err....thats not the desk top...

 

all of the sudden, i hear the general manager yelling from across the building, "CHAD WHAT DID YOU DO!?"..."uh...whoops..." i had no clue what i had done, but steel plus apparently no longer worked. no one could take orders or do any billing, etc. they had to call some guy for special tech support...apparently, special tech support rings to the tone of about $1700 per hour. it took the guy 6 hours to figure out WTF i did for a total of about $10k. thats not to mention ALL the sales we lost(and i was told that was in the tens of thousands of dollars too ) that day because no one could do anything without the program.

 

i thought for sure i was gonna be fired, but since the general manager knew i had no qualifications to be fooling around with that program, i never heard another word about it after it was fixed.

 

as it turned out though, all but one of those files were the files i was looking for...the last file just happened to be an old version of a .bat file that was no longer compatible with the some unpteen number of updates.

 

and that is the end to my fantastic story!

my most costly blunder at work...im a slightly above minimum wage worker(mostly cause ive been at the same job for 5 years). im technically not qualified to do anything other than drive a car, but the general manager heard from my boss that i build my own PCs so automatically that means i can fix any PC problem that could ever possibly come up, right?! yea, i dont think so jim.

 

so, someone in the main office gets a new PC and i need to set up the a program called Steel Plus(an accounting/workorder program for steel companies that uses dos and RM/cobal) no big deal really, ive done it like 3 times before in the 3 years prior to this...sorta... well, while im bungling around on the server trying to find the install files that i so cleverly hid from myself in a folder now titled "its this one stupid", i grab a group of 6 or so files that i think are the ones i need and hit copy. well instead of pasting them to the desk top, i accidently hit the window ive got the server pulled up on and hit paste....err....thats not the desk top...

 

all of the sudden, i hear the general manager yelling from across the building, "CHAD WHAT DID YOU DO!?"..."uh...whoops..." i had no clue what i had done, but steel plus apparently no longer worked. no one could take orders or do any billing, etc. they had to call some guy for special tech support...apparently, special tech support rings to the tone of about $1700 per hour. it took the guy 6 hours to figure out WTF i did for a total of about $10k. thats not to mention ALL the sales we lost(and i was told that was in the tens of thousands of dollars too ) that day because no one could do anything without the program.

 

i thought for sure i was gonna be fired, but since the general manager knew i had no qualifications to be fooling around with that program, i never heard another word about it after it was fixed.

 

as it turned out though, all but one of those files were the files i was looking for...the last file just happened to be an old version of a .bat file that was no longer compatible with the some unpteen number of updates.

 

and that is the end to my fantastic story!

I build redundancy into every server I set up, so I rarely have to worry about mistakes. At least, I usually find out about problems before they happen so I can fix them before the boss finds out

Hmm, man. I'm a tech at a Dave and Busters.

 

I know i've had some close calls and blunders being there for almost 2 years, but I can't think of any right now. Guess because I have work in a few hours, I don't want to think about it. >.<

ok this is just two of many stories... this is from when i used to work at a butcher shop...

 

1. playing football with the uncooked chickens:D ... it was fun untill my buddy didnt catch it and it slid across the floor and under this old safe that looks like it was made in the 1930's:eek: ... lets just say that you DON'T want to know what was attached to it when we pulled it out.... something similar to a cross between esbestos, 45 years of dust, a paperclip or two, a penny, and some weird purple stuff:p..... we still dont know what the purple stuff was:confused: ...

 

2. same day on the job...but this time I just missed getting my right hand caught in the bread slicer:( ... its got this swing arm that pushes the loaf through the saw blades, my sleeve got caught on it.... had mabe 1/8 of an inch between the blades and the fleshy part in between my fingers...... owie...

i was doing a job at the staples about 3 years ago i had to start at 4:00 am to heat up a tanker so we could get to work at 7 on the dot...so here i am at 4:00 i lit the tanker and went and sat in my car...the temp i was looking for was 550f so i figured it would take a long time, i put it on full burn so 3 hours would be plenty of time...well around 6 i woke up and went and checked the temp but it was only at 300, i was a little confused so i turned up the juice let her burn real heavy and went back into my car, about 630 i heard somthing bubbling i looked at the tanker and to my surprise it was boiling over, i thought this was odd considering it was only at 300 a few minutes ago. so i got out of my car to turn the heat down and just as i walked up to it the entire tanker burst into flames including all that had boiled over onto the ground...this is where it got nuts, i went to grab a fire extinguisher or fire powder but there was nothing , i ran to the trailer to get one but the door was locked...i got mad, so i was about to throw the ladder up to get the ones off the roof but i couldnt because the dump trailer the ladder was locked in had caught fire as well, then out of the corner of my eye i saw the hose leading to a 5000lb proopane tank had caught fire and was burning up the hose leading to the tank..i ran my a$$ off to the hose and on my way i grabbed the only thing i could see...an axe i chopped the hous when it was less than 12 inches from the tanker and quickly shut the valve off. about that time my foreman came tear assing into the parking lot unlocked the trailer and it took all 6 extinguishers and 100 lbs of fire powder to control the blaze until the fire department arrived...when it was all said and done the tanker was garbage the trailer was burnt, the dump trailer was toast and staples need a new fence to house their garbage bins...the real kicker is after all that my boss came up to me and asked me to lie for him because if they found out he locked up the extinguishers he would have been fired for safety violations..i said no if they asked i'd tell them the truth..so he lied before they asked and i got laid off 2 days later...the reason it started was beacuse every other tanker i had worked with was in farenheit but this one was celsius so whn i thought it was 300 it was well over 6 and the flashing point of this stuff is 575f...crazy stuff..i think about it now though i got laid off for that but i found a new job i make $9 /hr more and i am better off...but they are down 1 tanker ($40,000) one trailer ($20,000) and had to pay for a new fence........that'll learn em

Now smash that was funny. I guess that will learn them.

 

it remindes me of the time I set the gas powered irrigation pump behind my house on fire. I was putting gas into it, it wasn't running, the gas spilled on the muffler and away she went. My buddy took off running telling me it was going to blow up and to get my butt away from it. Well it wasn't that easy there were two horses within 10 feet of this thing. I calmly told him to turn on the hose that was in the horses water trough and I put the fire out. We were in the 7th grade at the time and we still laugh about it to this day.

And the American Dollar is hardly worth the paper it is printed on now days!

American money isnt printed on "paper" anymore. its printed on another material to save money.

American money isnt printed on "paper" anymore. its printed on another material to save money.

It's a figure of speech!

its mostly cotton