Current Events > Worst mistake you've made at work?

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In terms of getting "in trouble", I deposited an $8.5 million check at the local branch rather than sending it to the main branch. Sending it to the main branch would enable it to clear faster, but I didn't know this and I wasn't told to do this either. The manager then lied to the owner and claimed that she told me to do that, just to save herself.
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i just underquoted a service to a customer by around $88k, and now the customer is refusing to pay the $88k extra so my company may have to eat it, which will be pretty bad.

not entirely my fault but this is looking rough, i have a meeting with my manager in about an hour over this and im pretty nervous
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Was the manager laid off?
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Hung up on a customer who was verbally abusing me over the phone. Boss said she just wanted to vent, but I had to get written up for it.
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produce manager..

order 200 cs of avocado l0l
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I tried to make it look like an accident.
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ManLink4321 posted...

Was the manager laid off?

Yes actually, the next year, but it was for a variety of reasons and I don't know if that situation was one of them.
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Drinking on the job
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I didn't get in any trouble for it (and, I'm honestly still not sure it was actually something I did wrong), but a CNC machine I was working on caught fire once.
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Didn't "try hard enough" to track down a witness that had fled the state for an important case.
Nobody could find her and boss wanted to get me fired for it.
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Worst mistake - but its not my fault. I was sent out to a cart that sells snacks at the Winchester mystery house. I was not properly trained on the popcorn machine. It caught fire then I put it out with the fire extinguisher.

I wasn't fired. I just wasn't allowed to make popcorn ever.
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Romulox28 posted...

i just underquoted a service to a customer by around $88k, and now the customer is refusing to pay the $88k extra so my company may have to eat it, which will be pretty bad.

not entirely my fault but this is looking rough, i have a meeting with my manager in about an hour over this and im pretty nervous

Good luck.
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I was supppsed to open my store, but I thought I was closing and I didnt show up. Thankfully another shift lead was there.
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26 stitches across indext and middle finger on my left hand. I had just started training to be a butcher and all the other cutters went for a cig break and told me to finish before joining them. I got distracted for a split second. Knife went right across both fingers. I had to wear the mesh glove for months after that. Lol.
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On a summer job at Frys Electronics I told a customer we didn't have any more iPods, but we did as I found out 15 minutes later

That customer died
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Forgot to close the door behind me and let an elderly man with dementia get out into the main building
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My worst mistake was not leaving years ago.

It wasn't like there was another option I didn't pursue or something. I just figure I would have landed on my feet by now.

Negligence, resulting in one of my techs sawing through an energized spring. Once we cut through it, the remaining portion "sprung" propelling a 25 lb piston laterally about four feet until it hit and left a huge ass dent in the wall.

If the part was facing the other direction it would've caused some serious damage to another nearby machine, and if someone happened to be standing in the line of fire they'd at least have several broken ribs if not worse. We chalked it up as a "near miss"

Several meetings involving numerous managers, managers managers, and vice presidents with much coal-raking later, we now have lots of procedures in writing, policies, and safeguards to prevent this from happening ever again, because if it does I am indeed fired.
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I burned 90ish croissants.
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Not me but a guy I used to work with got the nickname of "Muffin" because on his first day. or when he was very new, he dropped a tray of muffins on the floor of the kitchen he was hired at.
kinda funny and mean and I don't know if its the worst thing but thought it was relevant.
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I spilled an entire cart of apples and berries after a woman cut me off with her buggy and I had to maneuver to not hit her. She just looked at me, shrugged, and said, "Oh well." and walked away laughing.

I hated working produce
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Showing initiative and asking for more responsibility/more wage (grossly overqualified/underpaid for current job)

Result? Job title change and wage reduction.

Yeah, they dont like me there

Theyre hiring two people to take over my position. Both starting salary higher than me. I facetiously asked if i could apply for half of my job at the hightened wage, and was told to "watch it".

Naysaspace posted...

Theyre hiring two people to take over my position. Both starting salary higher than me. I facetiously asked if i could apply for half of my job at the hightened wage, and was told to "watch it".

quit
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Romulox28 posted...

i just underquoted a service to a customer by around $88k, and now the customer is refusing to pay the $88k extra so my company may have to eat it, which will be pretty bad.

not entirely my fault but this is looking rough, i have a meeting with my manager in about an hour over this and im pretty nervous

damn let us know how it goes

drunkmuggle posted...

Naysaspace posted...

Theyre hiring two people to take over my position. Both starting salary higher than me. I facetiously asked if i could apply for half of my job at the hightened wage, and was told to "watch it".

quit

Seriously. They don't respect you.
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@3khc posted...

Hung up on a customer who was verbally abusing me over the phone. Boss said she just wanted to vent, but I had to get written up for it.

You get written up for hanging up?

Trayvon posted...

Romulox28 posted...

i just underquoted a service to a customer by around $88k, and now the customer is refusing to pay the $88k extra so my company may have to eat it, which will be pretty bad.

not entirely my fault but this is looking rough, i have a meeting with my manager in about an hour over this and im pretty nervous

damn let us know how it goes

meeting went alright actually, boss wasnt mad. just gotta get on a call with all the stakeholders in this issue and iron things out.
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Took down the whole corporate network for about 25 minutes in the middle of the day.
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ProtoManSPx posted...

@3khc posted...

Hung up on a customer who was verbally abusing me over the phone. Boss said she just wanted to vent, but I had to get written up for it.

You get written up for hanging up?

Yeah. Well, what boss said was that I didn't warn her. I should have let her know not to talk to me like that or I will disconnect. I just disconnected, so fair next. whatever.

She was off the handle tho.
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Romulox28 posted...

Trayvon posted...

Romulox28 posted...

i just underquoted a service to a customer by around $88k, and now the customer is refusing to pay the $88k extra so my company may have to eat it, which will be pretty bad.

not entirely my fault but this is looking rough, i have a meeting with my manager in about an hour over this and im pretty nervous

damn let us know how it goes

meeting went alright actually, boss wasnt mad. just gotta get on a call with all the stakeholders in this issue and iron things out.

Glad to hear that.
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bump
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Reenlisting.
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Standing up for myself at my first job and calling my boss out on the fact that she was deliberately trying to hold me back in my position because I was so good at it and really didn't want me to move up due to the drop in quality. She made my job hell after that for the next year until I left and then tried to run my name through the mud. She never wants people to fall out of line, and if you do, she will hold a lifelong grudge against you. Needless to say, that whole department burnt down to the ground after I left and she ended up quitting her job after drama over that.
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Reused water to mop that was greasy
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from an entire business perspective, the worst mistake I ever made was probably forgetting to fill out my timesheet one pay period.

I had some personal time off the day it was due and I forgot to have it done before leaving and it was literally just blank. I didn't realize it at the time, and when I came back, nobody said anything to me about it. Then when I went to go enter in my time for the current pay period, I saw that the previous pay period was totally blank.

Now "nothing happened" and "I'm still employed" are both facts, but I know that behind the scenes the directors and CTO get yelled at by the CFO when shit like this happens and that's a pretty serious deal because it causes issues with the CFO's schedule and payroll deadlines--and the biggest one being that none of the work I did for that whole period got billed appropriately, but I still get a paycheck.

From a technical standpoint, I've accidentally done things with adhoc queries to lock down the database and that causes all our applications to basically stop working for a few minutes and DBA or CTO has to go in behind me and kill my shit.
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Vol2tex posted...

In terms of getting "in trouble", I deposited an $8.5 million check at the local branch rather than sending it to the main branch. Sending it to the main branch would enable it to clear faster, but I didn't know this and I wasn't told to do this either. The manager then lied to the owner and claimed that she told me to do that, just to save herself.

Don't know how that's doing something "just to save herself", sounds like she took a pretty big hit for you.

Hexenherz posted...

Vol2tex posted...

In terms of getting "in trouble", I deposited an $8.5 million check at the local branch rather than sending it to the main branch. Sending it to the main branch would enable it to clear faster, but I didn't know this and I wasn't told to do this either. The manager then lied to the owner and claimed that she told me to do that, just to save herself.

Don't know how that's doing something "just to save herself", sounds like she took a pretty big hit for you.

Maybe you misread, but the owner was getting upset with the manager first for the "error", so she claimed she was innocent and placed the blame entirely on me (and my boss).
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Don't quite know how we're supposed to get that from your post. If she lied to say that she told you to do it, then she's taking the responsibility for the screw up...

Hexenherz posted...

Vol2tex posted...

In terms of getting "in trouble", I deposited an $8.5 million check at the local branch rather than sending it to the main branch. Sending it to the main branch would enable it to clear faster, but I didn't know this and I wasn't told to do this either. The manager then lied to the owner and claimed that she told me to do that, just to save herself.

Don't know how that's doing something "just to save herself", sounds like she took a pretty big hit for you.

By lying and saying she told him to do something that she in fact didn't tell him?

Hexenherz posted...

Don't quite know how we're supposed to get that from your post. If she lied to say that she told you to do it, then she's taking the responsibility for the screw up...

She lied to the owner saying she told him to send it to the main office when she doing is what I got out of it.

Oh.
The "told me to do that" part wasn't super clear. Gotcha.

Hexenherz posted...

Vol2tex posted...

In terms of getting "in trouble", I deposited an $8.5 million check at the local branch rather than sending it to the main branch. Sending it to the main branch would enable it to clear faster, but I didn't know this and I wasn't told to do this either. The manager then lied to the owner and claimed that she told me to do that, just to save herself.

Don't know how that's doing something "just to save herself", sounds like she took a pretty big hit for you.

I think he meant she told him to deposit it in the main branch. That's the lie.
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Hexenherz posted...

Don't quite know how we're supposed to get that from your post. If she lied to say that she told you to do it, then she's taking the responsibility for the screw up...

No, she lied to claim that she told us to deposit it at the right branch when she in fact did not. She tried to make it seem like she gave us the right instructions but made it out as if I disregarded her and just deposited it at whatever branch I wanted.
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Hexenherz posted...

Don't quite know how we're supposed to get that from your post. If she lied to say that she told you to do it, then she's taking the responsibility for the screw up...

Youre the only person ITT who didnt understand what he was saying tbh
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It was open to interpretation ("she told me to do that" can be vague since multiple scenarios were established in the sentences prior).