Social In honor of Crowdstrike, what was your biggest work screwup?

[Spounman]

Mine wasn't even mine..... I was a data analyst and my boss was the GM. She was clueless overall. One day I get back from lunch and she's blowing my phone up asking why I'm late to the meeting.
There was a huge meeting with our customer and I was supposed to be leading it and presenting all our data from the past however many months. Only problem was she never sent me the meeting invite and I had no idea the meeting was even going to take place. I think we postponed it another week.

One that wasn't me, I worked for a Tesla contractor and our entire building was going to be laid off in 2 months. We were told if we stayed and worked those 2 months they'd give us a severance packaged based on how long we'd been there. Well there was this youtube rapper who worked in our warehouse and he'd been there 5+ years so he was going to get a good severance check. Until.....about a week before the end this girl came into the office and said he stole her headphones. So the GM has our IT guy pull up the camera and sure enough you can see her set down her headphones, then youtube rapper comes along shortly after and takes the headphones. He was fired and lost out on his severance checked over what looked like some $10 headphones..........

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Quiting a cake job , that I would now be at 25 years , to go see Kid Rock..

 

[Pittie Petey]

Quiting a cake job , that I would now be at 25 years , to go see Kid Rock..

Worth it

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Worth it

And this was Kid Rock with Joe C

 

[Pittie Petey]

And this was Kid Rock with Joe C

I swear I was gonna edit and ask if Joe C was there lol, I swear I was!

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

I swear I was gonna edit and ask if Joe C was there lol, I swear I was!

Kid played about an hour , thanked Houston... We thought the concert was over , weird he didn't play a few hits... No Joe C ( already sick)....

All of a sudden you hear motorcycles starting up . Here comes Kid with Joe C in the sidecar and David Allen Coe... Played another hour and tore the house down.

Probably top 3 concert I've been too...

So yeah. Worth it.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Kid played about an hour , thanked Houston... We thought the concert was over , weird he didn't play a few hits... No Joe C ( already sick)....

All of a sudden you hear motorcycles starting up . Here comes Kid with Joe C in the sidecar and David Allen Coe... Played another hour and tore the house down.

Probably top 3 concert I've been too...

So yeah. Worth it.

Kid Rock, Joe C and David Allen Coe, holy fucking shit!!!!
That would be an all time dream show of a life time for me and thats a shoot
Damn, I bet that was so dope

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Kid Rock, Joe C and David Allen Coe, holy fucking shit!!!!
That would be an all time dream show of a life time for me and thats a shoot
Damn, I bet that was so dope

Fuel opened and didn't even know who they were at the time...

 

[HeffDoesWant]

When working out someone's pay I accidentally put their phone number in the field for their hourly rate.

Thankfully we didn't have several trillion sitting in the payroll account.

Thus I learned early the importance of properly checking your own work.

 

[Azure]

Routing all of Bell's Ontario DSL traffic through the Island of Nevis via Cable and Wireless.

 

[Your Salad]

Handing my driver's license with cocaine powder all over it to the hiring manager to get it copied on my first day.
The hiring manager was my dad.

 

[Meatspin]

Client I was working for, doing some work on their external routers hungover. Made a mistake and dropped them off the internet. Drove in at great speed to fix it lol

 

[Meatspin]

 

[Meatspin]

 

[lsa]

Quiting a cake job , that I would now be at 25 years , to go see Kid Rock..

Cake?!?!

I could eat

 

[Cole train]

Drove over handheld 2k costing scanner with a forklift on first work day

Scanner was fine, forklift bounced into air

To this day i have no clue how its possible

 

[Zer]

Was working in fracking and running the chemical truck and there was a big chemical spill on my watch (One of my pumps went into teh living death). Not only messed up the job we were doing but we all had to clean it up (Dig up all the earth that was soaked in chemical). Was my worst day at work

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Not one thing per se even if I had many, many screw ups. It's that overall my resume looks like a mess. I have gaps in employment and hopped from one job to another.

Some technical mistakes I did include long SQL queries that take forever that either the DBA or CTO called me out for. My first software job wasn't that hard but because I was aloof and a poor communicator, I wasn't promoted even if it was easy to be.

 

[toasty]

Mine wasn't even mine..... I was a data analyst and my boss was the GM. She was clueless overall. One day I get back from lunch and she's blowing my phone up asking why I'm late to the meeting.
There was a huge meeting with our customer and I was supposed to be leading it and presenting all our data from the past however many months. Only problem was she never sent me the meeting invite and I had no idea the meeting was even going to take place. I think we postponed it another week.

One that wasn't me, I worked for a Tesla contractor and our entire building was going to be laid off in 2 months. We were told if we stayed and worked those 2 months they'd give us a severance packaged based on how long we'd been there. Well there was this youtube rapper who worked in our warehouse and he'd been there 5+ years so he was going to get a good severance check. Until.....about a week before the end this girl came into the office and said he stole her headphones. So the GM has our IT guy pull up the camera and sure enough you can see her set down her headphones, then youtube rapper comes along shortly after and takes the headphones. He was fired and lost out on his severance checked over what looked like some $10 headphones..........

I may have accidentally nullified @Joe Mama from existence for a post that I thought was critical but may not have been. Unfortunately denullifying technology is probably decades away from being viable

Luckily as the sole proprietor of Toasty Poasty Inc. there will be no negative consequences for me.

 

[jefferz]

Was working in fracking and running the chemical truck and there was a big chemical spill on my watch (One of my pumps went into teh living death). Not only messed up the job we were doing but we all had to clean it up (Dig up all the earth that was soaked in chemical). Was my worst day at work

I ran a D9 during the boom. I have so many stories of watching people fuck up.

My worst "accident" was rolling a company man's shack down a hill. They were rigging up, and he expected me to get out of D9 to help them. He started cussing me out, calling me every name, etc. We almost came to blows. So when I pushed his shack into place, I pushed it a little too far, and down the hill it went.
We worked for the same company, but I was on the heavy equipment side. The main boss of the company came out to talk to me, and I explained what the company man did. He said he understood, but not to do it again.

There's a light plant out by Trenton that's buried in a pad. When I was building a pad, the douche bags dropped it off in the middle of the location. I told them to move it, they refused, and just left. I turned it into a pancake, and buried it.