Tell me about your mistakes!

[Dukat]

I just made a major ballsup at work, so tell me about all your own mistakes to make me feel better please

Make them worse than mine please! mine was BAAADDDD.

 

[Ch3tan]

Meh, after hearing what your balls up was. It's not bad, you did not make a mistake, your boss did.

 

[Dukat]

Cheers Chet, I can see what you're saying, but god did I feel like a bit of a prat when it happened!

 

[Belgerath]

I accidently removed the entire Z drive of the Poland servers in work, crippling the business for about 20 minutes before fixing it......

Cost the company about 3 million

Good thing i covered my tracks and was never caught lol

 

[Chilly]

fuck all really

 

[tris-]

i dont usually make a genuine mistake.
i'll fuck something up if the management piss me off though, and just say it was an accident.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Created the wrong package for an off-shore presentation and cost the company losses of approx. 500.000€.

Well, could any day and almost did

 

[Overdriven]

Dropped a live database server, just say... Results were interesting from the 300 people using it at the time.. (TIP: DROP and BACKUP look EXACTLY the same when drunk ) Lucky a friend had a backup from like 5m before I did it, good man.

Lets also say, the second it was backed up I legged it to a mates house and never returned to the thing for like 3-4 days

I know it's not huge, but it's one of the few mistakes I've made =< Taught me to actually think, and maybe use a command line to do table backups

 

[ECA]

uh short changed someone for £10k by mistake. The woman came in crying in the afternoon.

Oops.

 

[00dave]

I grounded a RAF fighter jet for over an hour.

I pitched up at a hangar to refuel a tornado F3 so it could go out on it's enemy deterant mission, but due to an earlier mistake in the fuel record book that I had made, the fuel bowser was empty and didn't contain the 7000 litres of aviation turbine fuel that the tornado required. After convincing the technicians that it was a fault with the aircraft they set to work diagnosing the fault and I dipped the tank and realised my mistake.

 

[Darthshearer]

Nothing as nobody dare give me anything important except making tea and I always get that wrong

 

[itcheh]

I once forwarded a customer's email to my boss and added that I thought the customer was a cock .... only to realise that I hit reply instead ...

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I turned off a patients ventilator during an operation once...

RB

 

[SilverHood]

No one lets me do anything important, though one guy I know at work offloaded $15 billion worth of client shares at market price by updating the wrong column in a live database. He's no longer allowed to do anything important either!

 

[Cdr]

I was quite close to having a mid-air with another aircraft.

 

[soze]

I have Shut Down a few servers rather than logging off the biggest being a Front End Web Server meaning no orders could be processed for about 15 minutes. Got Away with that though. I have also unplugged a full blade enclouser from the UPS while still running, though i swear to this day the other guy said ready.

 

[Dukat]

Thanks alot everyone I feel alot better now!

I cant go into details about exactly what I did - but I sent information to a customer (the boss of another company we supply) that I shouldnt have, which shows that my boss has been a bit of a naughty boy with some of the figures

Luckily my boss is out of the country for a couple of days so he's got some time to cool off before I talk to him again, but he wasnt best pleased yesterday!!

 

[Bahumat]

I deleted every Range Rover Sport jpg from our resource gallery meaning on the next content roll, all the landrover sites would be missing a fair few pictures! Luckily I restored it all, but the process took hours

 

[mank!]

aside from the odd occasion where i've forgotten to make a copy of a file before i make changes to a live system, i don't really make costly mistakes.

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

aside from the odd occasion where i've forgotten to make a copy of a file before i make changes to a live system, i don't really make costly mistakes.

Mank, you have just disobeyed the laws of fate, expect to completely fuck something up imminently

 

[throdgrain]

I recently sent an email taking the piss out of the companys policys, but unfortunately the american boss was copied in and I got a large bollocking ....

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

its ok Throdders, if it gets on top just introduce him to Mossberg

 

[old.Osy]

took the laptop of a manager to re-install, windows was quite fubared.

I could swear I made a backup of his data, and the automated backup script that runs when he logs in hadn't been running for the past 1 year, because it was location dependant, and he had moved his data to some other place on the disk. Partially his fault, and mine for not checking.


Mind you, this was more than 1 year ago. And I usually make no mistakes.

 

[phazey]

I delayed the launch of a satellite by 6 weeks.

 

[rynnor]

Good thread - generally I have been lucky - most I did was block a few thousand business credit cards from working for a few hours till I realised n fixed it

A mate was less lucky when an innocuous 1 line change to a bit of code caused the bank we were working at to start capturing another banks cards in our entire ATM network for an hour or so at a busy friday lunchtime before a bank holiday!

The other bank was un-amused as we had no legal agreement to capture their cards (oops!) but as you can imagine the people who had their cards captured were even less amused.

They had to set up a special phone number and a large team of people to man the phones to speak to angry customers who numbered in the thousands - doh!

That was about the worst I have seen

 

[throdgrain]

I am mossberg!!!

its ok Throdders, if it gets on top just introduce him to Mossberg

 

[Trem]

A bloke who I hated came in the shop once and as he was browsing the videos I was sticking fingers up at him and doing wanker signs behind his back, I then looked out the window and saw his dad sat in the car looking at me.

One of the lads who worked for me was getting on my tits so I started shouted at him and I mean screaming at the top of my voice "I WILL LOCK YOU IN THE FUCKING STORE ROOM YOU ANNOYING LITTLE FUCKING ****!!" is pretty much what I said, I then turned round and saw a mother and daughter standing there sort of cowering and looking really scared.

Lester once when he was trying to be tough picked up the shop baseball bat and twatted what he thought was an empty box, it wasn't empty it had a brand new video player inside.

Finally and nowt to do with work, my mate Stu tried to fart on this lads head and he just followed through instead.

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

i know mate, i meant your Gun, well actually i suppose your dog could do it as well, (side note, who names their dog after a gun manufacturer, only throdders) \0/

 

[Trem]

i know mate, i meant your Gun, well actually i suppose your dog could do it as well, (side note, who names their dog after a gun manufacturer, only throdders) \0/

Throds dog would never do anything violent, hes a bit....you know....hes a good listener, hes close to his mother, hes good with colours....you know a bit queer.






















*runs*

 

[Dukat]

A bloke who I hated came in the shop once and as he was browsing the videos I was sticking fingers up at him and doing wanker signs behind his back, I then looked out the window and saw his dad sat in the car looking at me.

One of the lads who worked for me was getting on my tits so I started shouted at him and I mean screaming at the top of my voice "I WILL LOCK YOU IN THE FUCKING STORE ROOM YOU ANNOYING LITTLE FUCKING ****!!" is pretty much what I said, I then turned round and saw a mother and daughter standing there sort of cowering and looking really scared.

Lester once when he was trying to be tough picked up the shop baseball bat and twatted what he thought was an empty box, it wasn't empty it had a brand new video player inside.

Finally and nowt to do with work, my mate Stu tried to fart on this lads head and he just followed through instead.

Haha trem I love it