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What is the worst thing YOU have done in work?

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    #92
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Hazys wrote: »
    Recall never fcuking works...piece of sh1t

    Recall works if they haven't already read the email!

    If you recall an email, a further email appears in their inbox, stating that so and so is trying to recall an email. Then, if the recipient doesn't click into the email, the two emails will vanish off the screen.


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    #93
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    sopretty wrote: »
    Recall works if they haven't already read the email!

    If you recall an email, a further email appears in their inbox, stating that so and so is trying to recall an email. Then, if the recipient doesn't click into the email, the two emails will vanish off the screen.

    Couldn't you two take this to a PM? It's spoiling the thread.


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    #94
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    Couldn't you two take this to a PM? It's spoiling the thread.

    Who died and put you in charge?


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    #95
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    simple one but i filled a work van full of unleaded.drove off down the road happy as larry but i wasnt long finding out it should have been diesel. :(


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    #96
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    StormWarrior wrote: »
    Couldn't you two take this to a PM? It's spoiling the thread.

    It's only a bit of advice, not everyone will know how to do it and what happens, so it sort of does tie into the thread as it can avoid people getting into bother in the future.


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    #97
    ciaran12
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭ciaran12


    bear1 wrote: »
    It's only a bit of advice, not everyone will know how to do it and what happens, so it sort of does tie into the thread as it can avoid people getting into bother in the future.

    That's exactly how it spoils the thread!!! :P

    EDIT: Wait, no. If we're talking about things people have done that HAVEN'T gotten them fired, then maybe the risky last minute recall is exactly what's needed...*slow on the uptake*


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    #98
    ciaran12
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭ciaran12


    For myself, I guess the worst thing I've done is telling my boss via email that something he'd done 'would have gotten him fired in any other job'. ...and also telling him to 'grow the **** up' in front of other employees

    I got a little bit unprofessional towards the end of that job....(wasn't fired though)


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    #99
    Going Strong
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    ciaran12 wrote: »
    For myself, I guess the worst thing I've done is telling my boss via email that something he'd done 'would have gotten him fired in any other job'. ...and also telling him to 'grow the **** up' in front of other employees

    I got a little bit unprofessional towards the end of that job....(wasn't fired though)

    I once told a manager "I'm bored because I've nothing better to do" when I was asked why I was surfing the net during work hours. We had a little chat about how I should have come to him and asked for something to do rather than broadcast it to everyone else.


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    #100
    Sir Chops
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 133 ✭✭Sir Chops


    Tzardine wrote: »
    Im sure it would if she found out where it was lol.

    Yeah well I thought feramones or something would kick in. Didnt happen


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    #101
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 19,070 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Saw this and thought it was appropriate...


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    #102
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    bear1 wrote: »
    If you have Outlook, then you can recall a message in the following way:

    1) Go to the sent email
    2) double click the email so that it opens fully
    3) Go to "ACTIONS"
    4) There is a section called "RECALL THIS MESSAGE"
    5) Click it
    6) It will then ask if you it to delete the emails which others have received.
    7) Click OK.

    Now, this will only work if the other person has not read the email.
    If they haven't read it, you will receive an email advising you it was successfully recalled.
    If they have, you will get an email but it will say it was impossible to recall.
    Hope this helps.

    This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Don't know why no one ever told me! I'm sure I won't use it oftern (or at all) but comforting to know it's there!

    Thanks bear


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    #103
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Don't know why no one ever told me! I'm sure I won't use it oftern (or at all) but comforting to know it's there!

    Thanks bear

    No problem :)
    But you should test it first with someone who has Outlook as well.
    Send a test email and then recall it and see if it goes well.
    Thats what I did first when I found out about it :)


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    #104
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Don't forget if you send a recall message it almost guarantees that the person will actually read the original email!!


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    #105
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Don't forget if you send a recall message it almost guarantees that the person will actually read the original email!!

    They can't if you sent the recall before they read it ... I tested it with a colleague the other day


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    #106
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    They can't if you sent the recall before they read it ... I tested it with a colleague the other day

    I've managed to spot a recall mail and just about had time to click into the original mail. I was hoping it would be something juicy. Alas no. Someone had put an incorrect meeting time in the original mail. You've a window of about 3 seconds if you're the nosey type! :cool:


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    #107
    aujopimur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    A friend worked for a company that were asked to do a feasablty study on an installation for a client, the payback time was estimated at 70yrs, when my friend typed up the final report she figered it was a mistake and changed it to 7yrs. on this advice they decided to procede on a €30million contract, until the error was spotted some weeks later.


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    #108
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,812 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I'm assuming she was definitely fired?
    I always wonder in these cases where an employee has lost the company a fortune if they are fired and that's it or does the company try and get some money back from you?


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    #109
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,882 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I dont think its all that easy for a boss to just say "YOU'RE FIRED!" these days or like you see on American tv, you need to get warnings and there will be a disciplinary procedure to follow etc.


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    #110
    cat_dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭cat_dog


    I stole stationary (doesn't everyone?!). Thats about it.


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    #111
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    bluewolf wrote: »
    They can't if you sent the recall before they read it ... I tested it with a colleague the other day

    Ah I had assumed it was if you opened the recall email first. Reminds me of a certain timeline:

    1. Guy sends chain email to all employees (talking close to 5 figures)
    2. Sends recall
    3. Email from HR sent to all managers notifying them of an employee departure (standard email for all leavers sent to any manager)

    All in the space of something like 25 mins. That was a bad Friday for that guy!


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    #112
    asteroth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 272 ✭✭asteroth


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Set a fridge load of cheese destined for McDonalds in Holland at +19C instead of -19C and blamed it on the driver. (By rights, he should have checked it) By all accounts there was a sea of cheesy sludge all along the A66 in England.

    That's not the worse thing I've ever done, but the worst I'm admitting to here at lunchtime on a sober Tuesday.

    -19C ??

    Why would anyone need cheese frozen to ice?


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    #113
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    I was given 'paid' garden leave this one time. Gosh, I sound like a liability! Lol

    I was escorted off the premises.


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    #114
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Thargor wrote: »
    I dont think its all that easy for a boss to just say "YOU'RE FIRED!" these days or like you see on American tv, you need to get warnings and there will be a disciplinary procedure to follow etc.

    Gross misconduct would get the instant one alright I'd imagine, behavioural or ineptitude may have to go do the warning and training route though.


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    #115
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    There have been a few:
    • I deleted the entire contents of a server that had no backup schedule by forgetting a period - rm -rf / is not hte same as rm -rf ./
    • In January 2012 I took down this site for about four hours by updating a library it uses that turned out to be bugged.
    • Last year Boards implemented an inline-page loading on touch and there was a really obscure, non-reproduceable javascript bug that meant roughly 20% of people would get an infinite loading icon. Took about two weeks to figure it out and that was a pretty awful time. Suppose I didn't specifically have much to do with it though


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    #116
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    asteroth wrote: »
    -19C ??

    Why would anyone need cheese frozen to ice?
    So they could thaw it out when they were going to use it.


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    #117
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,502 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    sopretty wrote: »
    I was given 'paid' garden leave this one time. Gosh, I sound like a liability! Lol

    I was escorted off the premises.


    Depends on the Industry, thats not a terriable thing. Usually happens when your going to work for a Direct competitor.


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    #118
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    Agent Smith wrote: »
    Depends on the Industry, thats not a terriable thing. Usually happens when your going to work for a Direct competitor.

    That wasn't quite the situation lol....

    I was leaving anyway, but my 'goodbye' email didn't impress either my boss or HR.
    :eek:


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    #119
    Going Strong
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Gross misconduct would get the instant one alright I'd imagine, behavioural or ineptitude may have to go do the warning and training route though.

    Like a former colleague of mine who was discovered selling drugs in a nightclub toilet on a works night out. Gross misconduct and gone straight away.

    A former flatmate had a colleague who was sacked for gross misconduct after he'd got into a punch up on a company night out with someone he'd known in college and hated the sight of. The pub got thrashed as well and the company got banned from there for good. A manager who tried to break it up got punched in the face.


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    #120
    padma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭padma


    I was in a sales job as a manager and on my last day I gave everyone on my team a long time out....i took them all off in a 7 seater and went hill walking then dropped them all home. Sound bunch of lads...bosses only found out years later when I popped in for an ould chat one day.


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    #121
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    padma wrote: »
    I was in a sales job as a manager and on my last day I gave everyone on my team a long time out....i took them all off in a 7 seater and went hill walking then dropped them all home. Sound bunch of lads...bosses only found out years later when I popped in for an ould chat one day.

    Were they not raging that you didn't bring them to the pub? :eek:


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