Thursday, October 1, 2020

Times People Really Screwed Up at Work


Humans aren't perfect, so naturally we're bound to make mistakes at work. It's when we're using expensive tools, or facing ten angry customers that a really big screw-up can have some extreme consequences. In the right field of work, one misplaced screw or faulty measurement can turn into literally millions of dollars of losses. We try not to think about those.

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Text - khendron 91 points · 3 hours ago I love telling this story... Back in the floppy disk, pre-Internet days of computers I was tasked by my job to do a software installation onboard a coast guard ice breaker. I flew from Ottawa to Halifax. Then I caught a taxi to CFB Shearwater, from where a twin otter flew me 1000 km north to a little town on the border of Quebec and Labrador. From there I was flown by helicopter to do an at sea landing on the ice breaker. After landing I went down to the e

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Text - OfTheAtom 17.9k points · 9 hours ago · edited 8 hours ago Controls Engineer. Made a copy paste error while programming and a 2 was a 3. So one machine tagged at 3 was waiting for conditions of 2. So naturally the lift moved when it thought it should and crashed into another machine. Course I'm Having to stand there figuring out the issue while maintenance is up there replacing busted parts. But because I've made a thousand changes it didnt click fast enough and well... it happened again.

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Text - JPDLD 16.6k points · 8 hours ago · edited 4 hours ago I dropped a screw inside the engine (edit:motor) of a TGV train. Oh god. We spent half an hour trying to catch it by moving a magnetic stick inside the crankshaft, with oil spilling everywhere. The engine was new and about to be mounted on a train that was supposed to run later in the day, I was so terrified I would possibly cause quite a lot of trouble since no other train or engine was available. Shoutout to my manager who finally go

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Text - 1_art_please 11.4k points · 8 hours ago During the first week of my first job in animation after i graduated i had to move a bunch of scene files from one server to another. The files were heavy so i was told to just cut and paste them to make it faster. I accidentally put them in a wrong area and without thinking just deleted them, went back to move the files again..they werent there, i had forgotten i hadn't copied them. I lost 5 minutes of full animation, my long time friend who recomm

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Text - spaceduckcoast2coast 9.1k points · 8 hours ago Working the stock room at MalWart, grabbed a pepsi pallet with the forklift and didn't realize it was a short pallet. The forks came out the other side and through to the pallet of glass coke bottles it was up against. When I lifted the pepsi, the coke came up with it and dumped the entire unwrapped pallet of glass bottles spilling all that sticky soda on the floor. That mess was hell to clean up. However the vendor had to eat the cost becaus

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Text - Grande_Yarbles 8.4k points · 8 hours ago 2 Years ago I worked in an office and had a very cool boss who was the general manager. He and I were quite close and used to joke around all the time. I had been corresponding with a fairly important customer overseas about an issue they were having and I needed information from her to move forward. I asked for info a few times but she kept coming back with different details than what we needed. I sent an email to my boss saying something like, "I

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Text - themarmotreturns 5.1k points · 9 hours ago e 8 2 Extention ladder slipped out from under me. I was less than 6 feet off the floor. My left leg went into the rungs and snapped my femur.

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Text - anexistentialpeanut 4.8k points · 9 hours ago My first day working at a coffe shop I left my sharpie in the oven. Finally found it while trying to warm a sandwich and had to shut the whole thing down to be cleaned. It smelled like a chemical weapon.

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Text - thebirdbrain 172 points · 6 hours ago I worked in a nice steakhouse. First week, I accidentally put salt in the sugar bowls and sugar in the salt shakers. Customers started to complain about their sweet steaks and salty coffees. We had to pull all the salt and sugar from each table. My last day as a waiter.

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Text - veemon657 4.0k points · 10 hours ago Slammed a forklift into a camaro

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Text - Severedparadox 3.0k points · 10 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago Mixed bleach and ammonia. Had to evacuate the restaurant Edit: My first award! Thank you kind stranger. I never knew my first job fuck up would pay off like this. To clarify, we had a soaking agent for the silverware that didn't know was ammonia based, and I mixed it with bleach and water because I figured if I was bleaching the kitchen drains I might as well use something that'll foam up and take the mildew with it.

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Text - MikeRabsitch 2.8k points · 8 hours ago 3 2 I was new to SQL and accidentally mailed a list of people with deceased_date IS NOT NULL instead of IS NULL. So an entire marketing campaign was sent to dead people. That eventually led to our marketing tools being hard-coded not to mail dead people (which makes sense) but I was terrified when I found out.

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Text - ShadyAidyX 2.8k points · 5 hours ago Accidentally left out the "MoveNext" method on a loop that sent out an email broadcast, which meant it mailbombed the first recipient in the loop until we realised what was happening and killed the process. The CEO's email was the first email address in the loop. He was an arsehole anyway, and was absolutely incoherent with rage when his outlook crashed when downloading 15,000 emails inviting him to take a satisfaction survey. Good thing it was only a

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Text - cricketzzz 1.9k points · 8 hours ago i work as an apprentice in an IT & printer repair office, we had a tech apprentice last year who finished his education and sent out an email to everyone (around 20 people including management) saying that it was his last day and thank you to everyone. we got along pretty well, were around the same aqe and we both HATED our jobs and how we were treated so i replied with that "god i wish that were me" deviantart comment meme. realized an hour later i hi

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Text - TheMidnightScorpion 1.5k points · 10 hours ago Accepted 20 fake $100 bills because I hadn't been taught how to spot fakes.

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Text - Chazzyberry 1.3k points · 7 hours ago The chef was angry that day. I was advised by my coworkers to do whatever it takes to get on his good side. I thought, "eh, I'll just try to avoid him." He was standing in the cooler taking inventory. Beside him were the 5 gallon containers of prepped food. I sneaked in and tried to quickly grab the ranch container, but in my haste, I nudged another. It was the french onion soup. All 5 gallons of it. On his pants and shoes. Yes, he was upset. The prep

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Text - tinyhypernova 1.2k points · 8 hours ago Very first tech job as a youngin' and I forgot to verify of someone had backed up files before a clean OS install. Lost the guys Outlook Archive files with 10 years worth of conveniently stored and important email. Apologized and sheepishly turned the issue over to admins.

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Text - PintmasterPaul 988 points · 8 hours ago Not me but my dad. He used to be a microbiologist, and was working in a hospital with a tray of test tubes containing some kind of pseudorabies. He went arse over tit and spilt rabies everywhere. He's an accountant now.

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Text - LizardPossum 893 points · 7 hours ago I was a bartender. I knocked down the entire top shelf. Thousands of dollars in liquor.

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Text - bobofogochi 816 points · 9 hours ago Not me but I worked at a place that made wiring harnesses. Dudes 4thish day he's running the wire cutting machine. Suddenly says he's sick and leaves. Never came back. He absolutely messed up everything on the cut. What's sad is he wouldn't have been fired. Or even been in trouble. He didn't have to leave.

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Text - jcw10489 643 points · 8 hours ago I worked at a McDonald's and accidentally fell in the ice maker right at the beginning of my shift. They had to close the restaurant for the rest of the day to dump out and sanitize the machine

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Text - flannelsandjeans 572 points · 7 hours ago Concessions at a movie theater. I was making popcorn, but I had learned that if we used a bit more seasoning and oil, the popcorn tasted insanely better. What I didn't know was the popcorn machine had broken earlier, and wasnt stirring the popcorn anymore. So after I had made a new batch, and no popcorn coming out, I decided to check on the machine and a hot glob of oil flew into my eye. Started cussing and screaming in front of a whole bunch of c

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Text - RonSwansonsOldMan 469 points · 8 hours ago Measured something on a construction site off by a foot. It wasn't discovered until it cost 150,000 to remedy the mistake. Nothing happened to me because it was a 10 million dollar job.

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Text - mlorenzana12 239 points 5 hours ago I worked in a pizza place and they caught me eating olives on camera. It wasn't 2-3 olives, I could eat like a thousands in a shift, I really don't know why and it's a time in my life I want to forget

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Text - DanIsSwell 169 points · 8 hours ago Doing an impersonation of my boss, and the other employees were cracking up, because I was so good at it .Then, he was suddenly standing behind us. He never liked me after that, and 2 months later I was one of 4 people who got "laid off"

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Coworker Snitches On Employee For Being Late, Petty Revenge Ensues


Man oh man, it sounds like this coworker was a whole lot of extra. The dude was late, as some human beings are prone to be on occasion, and the coworker made a whole deal out of it at 7:10 AM on a Saturday morning, Sounds like the boss was having none of it as well. At least the petty revenge was satisfying! If you enjoyed this quick petty revenge story, check out another tale of pro revenge with the time a county mower messed with a dad's shrubs, and proceeded to lose to rebar.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/fixerofthings • 2y + Join You say you only called the boss out of concern for my well being? Well being that you called him, I had to follow suit. A few weeks ago, my coworker (CW) was negating some minor protocols which left some equipment down overnight. He also didn't send emails to some of our remote teams regarding downed equipment. So, I did him a solid (or so I thought) and sent him and only him an email telling him what he did wrong. The very next night, he did it

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Text - The very next day, I failed to charge my phone and woke up to realize that my phone was dead and I was late for work so I got dressed and boogied my sorry ass to work, which was only a 5 minute walk for me. I apologized for being 50 minutes late and he seemed cool about it...until I found out that he called the boss after only 25 minutes, something no one on our team had ever done in my years of working here, claiming he was just concerned for my "well being". Even my boss told him to jus

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Text - My boss even told me afterwards that it was no big deal and couldn't imagine why CW would call him, at 7:10 in the morining, on a Saturday, when there was literally nothing he could do about it. Then he asked me about a piece of equipment that got left down for 6 +hours so I had to come clean. I told him that I sent coworker an email about it and then it happened again the next day. He asked me to forward the emails to him so he could address them with CW. He also asked me not to "shield"

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Text - So now, everytime I catch a mistake CW makes, which is far more often than I thought, I forward the information directly to the boss so he can see first hand all the mistakes CW makes. I haven't talked to CW much since the incident. I am curious about his well being though. EDIT: I just want to add that the first email I sent him was very diplomatic and non-confrontational but the second one had more of a "dude, get your shit together" kinda feel to it. We have protocols in place that pre

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Terrific Tumblr Gems From The World's Tumblin Minds


Ah yes, we're back at it again with a fresh collection of Tumblr gems. If there's one thing that we can always count on, it's Tumblr's ability to give us fantastic rabbit holes and strange observations and genuinely humorous insights that we'd otherwise never come across. If you enjoyed this batch of Tumblr gems, check out another gem from Tumblr with this thread about how horse sizes are ridiculous.

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Dumbest Things People Actually Believed


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the dumbest things that people actually believed. Sometimes, you end up making it in life till you're 25, believing that sugar was out there growing in caves (hence sugar rock candy), and then you learn that the whole world as you knew it was a lie. Knowledge might be power, but dang, it can sting sometimes. 

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Text - Narniach • 5h 5 Awards I used to think that people exclusively wore hats if they were bald, because that's why my dad wore a hat. Reply 16.1k ...

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Text - azzwhole • 4h That reindeer wasn't an actual animal but specifically a mythical animal that santa claus used. I believed this until I was 23 or so when I saw some nature documentary talking about reindeer. I was like.. whaaaaaaaaat? Reply 1.3k ...

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Text - sangbum60090 • 5h 1 Award I was convinced that Greeks still worshipped Zeus and other gods for awhile after I heard the word Greek Orthodox Church as a kid. Reply 1 7.8k ...

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Text - terminatoreagle • 4h That someone could shoot me from the otherside of a phone during a phone call. Whenever kid me was on a phone call, I always tried to end the call as soon as possible, and get away from the phone as fast as possible.

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Text - ilovetab • 3h 7 Awards When I was a little kid, I believed that when people got divorced, they had a divorce ceremony, like where they had to go to church and say, "I don't," and I imagined the woman wore a black divorce dress (like her wedding dress had been dyed black), and that everybody went to the reception where the ex-bride and ex-groom sat on opposite sides of the hall and there was a divorce cake where the bride and groom had their backs to each other with their arms angrily cros

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Text - ms_horseshoe • 4h 1 Award That I could smell something while underwater. When I was around 10/12 years old I was in a tropical themed water park where also happened to be a herbal bath. It smelled very nice, which I had not expected. Most of the tropical plants were fake plastic plants, so I figured the water in the bath was normal swming pool water and the smell was coming from something else. The bath was surrounded with a small aromatic herb garden which didn't look fake. I sneakily to

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Text - rogerofdale • 4h That turkeys drowned by looking at the sky during a rainstorm. I am dumber then a bag of hammers Reply 101

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Text - wieners69696969 • 3h I used to be so confused about the amount of time it would take to make movies because I was convinced they did it all in chronological order and when they did flashbacks to childhood, I was like "wow those actors are so committed" or I would think it must take a long time for their hair to grow or change in anyway and never considered it could be a wig lol Reply 290 ...

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Text - Badbishop12 • 6h That I couls see atoms spinning in the air. Turns out it was visual snow ¬_¬ Reply 515 ...

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Text - Hartsock91 • 5h 15 Awards As a kid, my sister told me that we had an older brother that died. She said he died when playing bowling and his fingers didn't come out the ball and slid all the way down the alley then he turned into a skittle. Reply 27.1k ...

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Text - kaimcdragonfist • 5h O 1 Award If you turn off a video game without pausing the hero is left paralyzed and defenseless. Yes I actually believed that Reply 752

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Text - slotwima • 5h That the trees created wind. I was a child at the time, but I feel so dumb about that one. Reply 30 ...

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Text - _always_sunny_• 6h 5 Awards That the Great Wall of China had a cat adoption program. I was meeting my friend's boyfriend for the first time, and he mentioned that he had just adopted one of the retired Great Wall of China cats. China trains these cats to patrol the Wall and kill vermin, and at the end of their 7 year stint they are retired and adopted out to a forever home. I kept asking questions about it: How do you apply? Are they a specific breed? How do they get transported worldwide

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Text - ThatOneWhoSparkles • 5h A watermelon/apple tree will grow out of my stomach if I eat the seeds Reply 1.9k ...

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Text - kingcillian • 4h I used to think tv static was a bunch of some type of microorganisms floating around in my tv that could electrocute you. Reply 30 ...

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Text - Eviezz • 1h I thought sugar grew in sugar caves, similar to salt caves. I believed that sugar crystals (like rock candy) just grew in caves and there were parts of the world with beautiful crystallised sugar caves. I was 25 years old when I brought it up in conversation with my fiance. I tried to prove to him they were real and it was when I reached my 4th page on Google, I realised my whole world was a lie. Reply 1 17 ...

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Text - ghost0427 • 6h O 6 Awards When I was a kid I used to think professional wrestling was real, and The Undertaker scared the living shit out of me during his whole Ministry of Darkness phase. I thought he actually was Satan's minister or something. Like yeah, he's an undead overlord of hell, here to bring an eternity of darkness and misery to this planet, but he also has to make a weekly television appearance to win a wrestling competition, and you can buy his action figure at Toys R Us. Rep

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Text - Arbitrary121 • 3h When we played Pokémon Mystery Dungeon my little sister used to accept the lamest missions and not get good rewards. I told her about it and she responded with "How would you like it if you were a poor Pokémon that lost its mom and was stuck all alone and had nothing to give someone to save you?" I laughed my head off at her because "it's not real, duh" but secretly, I feel that in my soul sometimes. Reply 580 ...

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Text - WeatherwaxDaughter • 4h That Yoda came from rotten potatoes... Reply 28 ...

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Text - SaltySaltFingers • 6h 3 Awards When I was little, I genuinely believed the Telly Tubbies were evil and that if I didn't watch them on TV every night (even though I hated the show) that they would come and get me. To be fair though they're kind of creepy. Reply 6.0k ...

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Text - shicole3 • 3h Last night I saw this weird tiktok about mermaids and went to the comments and all the top comments were about how mermaids are real and all this evidence and people talking about documentaries they saw and alll this shit and there was so much discussion. So for about 4 minutes I was thinking "holy shit mermaids are real and they are carnivorous beasts holy shit everyone needs to know about this" idk what happened to me but I snapped out of it after that. Reply 18 ...

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Text - chinchillerino• 5h Someone convinced me for like, 5 seconds that unicorns were real, they just lost their horns through evolution and now they are plain old horses. Reply 565 ...

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Man Pays Lowest Rated Fiverr Artists To Draw Him


Honestly, some of these really weren't that bad. It's the effort that counts. 

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