Worst screw-up at work

[MrDudeMan]

Dang silverpig. That is crazy. What killed him? How fast does the fluorine get in your blood/bones? I would think if they cut his legs off he would survive. That sucks.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: middlehead
Not so much my own screw-up, but I exposed a few people at my last job as lazy and/or lying spazzes. I was working a Saturday morning and the regional CEO calls, "We found a bug in the systems, this needs to get fixed today, when can you do it?"

We had four facilities, one each in Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and mine.

Texas: "About an hour, we'll do it over lunch and they'll only lose half an hour of production."
Nebraska: "About two hours, I'll do it over lunch and they'll only lose an hour and a half of production."
South Dakota: Same as Nebraska
Me: "35, 40 minutes. I'll do it over lunch so we don't lose any production. Pre-shift meetings take at least 15 minutes anyway."

He was fine with Texas' answer, they were the biggest facility with more nodes to fix, but my system was the exact same size as Nebraska and SD. He tore into them during the next conference call. I wasn't in on the meeting, but my local boss called me into his office immediately afterwards, giggling like a schoolgirl.

Haha nice job!

 

[Number1]

Originally posted by: RollWave

Originally posted by: Number1
Any medical field people in here? Now I would love to ear about their screw ups!!

Would you? Would you really? I dont think you'd want to go to a hospital every again if you know there were residents there haha.

Go ahead and scare me....

Hum, well maybe not, never mind.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: pnad
I had a nice one yesterday.

Attempting to remove an OSPF neighbor from a 6506 router.

Pasted line one
router ospf 100

Meant to paste line two
No network 10.228.0.0 0.0.1.255 area 0

Actually pasted
No router ospf 100

DOH!

63 customer sites now unreachable.

RELOAD DAMNIT RELOAD!!!

I had typed 'no' and thought I pasted the network but router ospf 100 was still on the clipboard.

Does killing the OSPF process remove all of the neighbors you had added, or did you just have to put in 'network 10.228.0.0 0.0.1.255 area 0' again

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Valet job at a hotel: tight spots, took a curve too narrow, hit a yellow post with a lexus GS. Rear panel painted yellow. GIGANTIC SUV: backed into a stall; ski rack hit the sprinkler, flooded the floor

A person at a different valet job: Took a turn too narrow in a gigantic lifted F350 truck (or whatever). Swiped A PORSCHE 4S. Took out it's bumper.
A person at a different valet job: F'ed up a park job and jacked up a Ferrari 360

My brother was working as a valet for some time at a swanky place and told me how he backed a Bentley into a fence once

 

[ultimatebob]

When I was in college, I accidentally configured the Novell network settings wrong on a classroom workstation image. Not really my fault... the network guy was on vacation so I had to take a best guess at it. That system image was deployed to 30 classroom computers, which brought down file and print sharing for the entire campus network. It took the network admins a week to figure out why

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: silverpig
I get to work with concentrated hydrofluoric acid. There hasn't been a screw up with it where I work, but I read about a guy who was using it in a fume hood and not a proper wetbench and wasn't wearing much protective gear. He spilled 100 ml of it on his legs. It instantly went through his pants and started burning his legs.

Now, HF isn't actually a very strong acid. It's the fluorine that does the damage as it goes straight for your blood and bones.

They hosed him off immediately but his legs were badly burned. He went to the hospital and after a day they amputated both legs. A week later he died.


Someone in our facility though disposed of a chemical into a solvent waste container (just 4L plastic bottles with caps) that ended up producing massive amounts of ammonia gas. The bottle bulged to twice it's normal size and the cleanroom had to be evacuated for a day.

I think this takes the cake... :Q

holy shit!

 

[AznAnarchy99]

someone on here pissed on the VP of the company

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Dang silverpig. That is crazy. What killed him? How fast does the fluorine get in your blood/bones? I would think if they cut his legs off he would survive. That sucks.

Most likely cause is calcium loss. HF is highly toxic - the fluorides it leaves behind tend to chelate soluble calcium from the blood. Calcium is essential for normal heart function and many other normal body processes.

I could tell you some of my worst work-place screwups - but i think it would be too frightening.

However, I can give you one of my worst non-medical screw ups.

I was working with my Dad, refurbing some industrial pipe bending machines. These are big long metal machines (about 15 feet long, and about 3 feet wide), with a huge rotating metal arm on one end. This makes them damn awkward to move because about 75% of the weight is on one corner, and the whole thing weighs about 2 tons.

Another bloke wanted to move the machine to the other end of the workshop. So using some crowbars and trolley jacks, he'd managed to get it onto a pallet trolley. The more astute reader should have realised, that this really was not a smart move.

Sure enough, he'd dragged the trolley about 3 feet, when the machine tipped over - towards him. By sheer chance, the arm on the end of the machine kept that end up - just high enough to avoid completely flattening his legs. It, however, did nothing to stop the 50 gallons of hydraulic oil from spilling out onto the floor. The entire workshop was flooded to nearly an inch deep.

Cleaning that up was a right bitch. Thankfully, the carpenter's shop next door had plenty of sawdust. It took a day to mop up, and we filled 2 oil drums with oil soaked sawdust. Not knowing what to do with it - we lit them. They burned continuously for a week.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Dang silverpig. That is crazy. What killed him? How fast does the fluorine get in your blood/bones? I would think if they cut his legs off he would survive. That sucks.

The fluorine apparently attacks anything calcium. Your bones deteriorate very quickly.

There's a tube of calcium gluconate gel which sits right beside the work station for HF. If you get a little on you, you're supposed to rinse it asap, and put a glob of that gel on and rub it in. The calcium in the gel is preferentially attacked by the fluorine instead of your own calcium.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Mark R

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Dang silverpig. That is crazy. What killed him? How fast does the fluorine get in your blood/bones? I would think if they cut his legs off he would survive. That sucks.

Most likely cause is calcium loss. HF is highly toxic - the fluorides it leaves behind tend to chelate soluble calcium from the blood. Calcium is essential for normal heart function and many other normal body processes.

I could tell you some of my worst work-place screwups - but i think it would be too frightening.

Yup. I just read the story again. Your heard shuts down due to lack of calcium.

Stories for those interested

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
someone on here pissed on the VP of the company

Heh, I remember that.

 

[JRich]

I'm not allowed to mess up

 

[bctbct]

Not a personal experience but do you guys remember the photos that were posted of the guy who drove the backhoe that was trailered under the overpass.

No way he didnt get fired.

 

[sponge008]

Are the medical folks not sharing their stories to avoid making people steer clear of hospitals?

 

[Ns1]

Not exactly a screwup, but definately one of the most idiotic things I've ever witnessed

Once again, a valet story

SO this douchebag gets into an Rx8. He's been working here for probably a year now. Out of the blue he decides, hey, I know, let's take this for a joyride. Now, a normal valet joyride consists of taking the very, very, long way to the parking lot. This jackass took the long, long way to the next county: 40 miles away. an hour later the customer returned. His car was (obviously) no where to be found. The car was reported as stolen, and cops found him maybe an hour or two after that. All in all he had the car for 4 hours. When asked why he did it, he replied: I dunno.

 

[nweaver]

I was doing phone support for HP, put a guy on hold (the standard was you could only hold for 3 Mins at a time). I was tired, put my head down, and fell asleep for 15 minutes. Glad that call wasn't recorded and scored!

I did fix his printer though.

 

[Anubis]

i dropped a $20,000 part of funiture the other day, totally killed it, i was asked to move it which woudl have been fine if the jackass that put it where it was bothered to put the pin lock in it, i went to move it and it basicially rolled off and smashed onto the floor

my boss said,
"go tell Tim to order another one"
and the day went on

 

[Electric Amish]

Listening to someone that had 20+ years of experience.

I only got a partial raise and a partial bonus that year because I listened to my boss.

 

[Ulfwald]

Working as a network admin for HP, I rest a guys password to ID10T4N0W. He never figured it out.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Number1
Any medical field people in here? Now I would love to ear about their screw ups!!

Shirley you jest.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Not me, but my Dad. My Dad is an acupuncturist, and one day he was treating a patient. He was inserting needles into a guys arm, and he suddenly stumbled, and he put a 7 inch long needle straight through his arm. Thankfully, my dad was experienced, and the needle didn't hit any nerves, or it would've hurt like hell.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: Number1
Any medical field people in here? Now I would love to ear about their screw ups!!

Shirley you jest.

How'd you know Number1's name was Shirley?

 

[jdoggg12]

I pissed on the vice president

 

[Jadow]

someone forwarded me a conference call meeting request, I replied that I wasn't going to dial in beacuse calls like that are a waste of time.

What I didn't realize is they actually forwarded it "on behalf of" and my reply went to the originator of the call!