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Biggest mistake you've make at work!

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  • 19-07-2009 11:02PM
    #1
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭


    And if you don't have a job, hey you probably had one at some stage.

    I'll start.
    Working in finance, I fcuked up a transaction and lost a client 30,000USD.
    My boss saved the day, a true legend.
    But I still got called to the boardroom and got a bollicking from my team leader :(

    Working in a cosmetics factory I put the wrong label on 10,000 lipsticks.
    My teamates had to peel off 10,000 labels and relabel them all.
    My name was dirt for weeks and weeks :(
    Actually, the production line monkeys (like me!) got loads of overtime so I was quite popular at the time but I didn't repeat it.

    Any good stories?
    Possibly I started this thread last year, hey it's all good fun


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    marco murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,714 ✭✭✭marco murphy


    What did you spend the 30,000 on?


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    #3
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    That 30,000USD was only resting in my account ;)


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    #4
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    Did you ever start one of these threads before OP, because those stories are very familiar?!
    Considering my only job was a trolley guy, there wasn't really anything worth mentioning in this thread. I don't even remember scratching a car. I think I was doing it wrong.


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    #5
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,100 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Boss came in early one morning while I was aving a power nap,that was over a year ago and shes still not over it


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    TheInquisitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭TheInquisitor


    Guy was sick from work and i had to do his work. Told my boss i wasn't sure about one of the things he did daily. He said give it a shot anyway. Thought i had gotten it right. Got a phone call 2 hours later saying i had priced a swap as a +50000 when really it was minus 50000. So a 100k difference They caught this on their last check so i was a bit lucky :D

    Went out for my 21st on a thursday . Didn't spend a peeny cause all my mates bought me drink Woke up around 11 o clock and obviously didnt make it into work. Rang up and left a drunken message saying i was sick or something. Unfortunately my mom rang up work on the thursday to tell work it was my 21st friday. So after i had left work all my work collegues had put birthday banners all over my desk, bought me presents and a cake for a big surprise on the thursday. Pretty embarrassed when i came in that monday i can tell you...


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Put the wrong sale discount stickers on, but ended up getting it changed back in time.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Was working in a shop once, it was a bit like one of those late-night garages where you sel from a window only the window was a bit more open and there was a counter/ledge.

    Some scumbag came up asked for a Snickers. I got it and put it on the counter. Next thing he asks for a packet of Haribo which were up on a high shelf behind me. I turned around, got them, turned back and scumbag and Snickers had scarpered.

    About 65 cent at the time plus about €9,000,000 in personal shame at such a rookie mistake. Kept it quiet.


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    BellaElla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭BellaElla


    Pharmacist- Gave the wrong insulin to a customer, could have killed him, got fired, changed career!


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    tribulus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    This didn't happen in work but while doing my thesis in college I had to use a particular antibody. A small vial of it cost about 10K. I only had to use a small amount but I pipetted into the wrong sample, rendering it unuseable, that probably cost a grand or so.

    I just flushed it down the sink and said nothing but it was an anxious few days!


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    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    mikemac wrote: »
    That 30,000USD was only resting in my account ;)

    The amount of Father Ted references on After Hours is really weird! :p


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    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I burnt the clutch out of the company's Toyota Dyno trying to pull start a 3 tonne Dumper. Boss was not too happy. :D


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    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    The amount of Father Ted references on After Hours is really weird! :p

    So are the amount of Harney ones.
    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I burnt the clutch out of the company's Toyota Dyno trying to pull start a 3 tonne Dumper. Boss was not too happy. :D


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    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    My first week working in Dunnes Stores Deli, I took out 8 large cooked chickens out of the oven to be placed in the hot display, I trip over myself and all of em go all over the floor,I nearly died from the embarrassment! :o


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    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    I lol'd when my boss fell down the stairs in the office!

    No one else did.......

    Edit: Oh yeah, he fractured his collarbone.....


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    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Miss-counted a bundle of money a customer was paying, i over counted by €1000, never got the money back, the customer and the boss had fallen out a few weeks earlier and he blamed the customer not me, i was lucky.


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    #17
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    My managers used to make fun of me because my till was never out. Until one day it was out by a cent. Made a big announcement about it. :eek::o


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    #18
    YT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭YT


    I had just started in a nightclub in the cloak room,I made a rookie mistake I gave somebody the wrong jacket because he described it to me when he lost his ticket, luckily I had taken his number just in case, so I had to pay for a taxi to bring the jacket back to the actual owner so I wouldn't get in trouble :o

    I also got the wrong person thrown out and barred, didn't say anything though!


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Working in a shoe shop, gave somebody two left shoes :o

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #20
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Getting out of bed for work was the biggest mistake I ever made.


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    #21
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Worked in a small newsagents. Ordered 100,000 straws by accident. Amazing they ever let me near an order form again.


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    #22
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭Wossack


    I cut the blue wire instead of the green one


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    #23
    tribulus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,635 ✭✭✭tribulus


    I took the red pill instead of the blue pill...


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    #24
    soundsham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭soundsham


    guy slammed a door out behind himself as i walked after him, just missing my head by inches, as we both left the office after having a row with him and his surveyor,a little matter of money he owed me
    my biggest mistake was not knocking his head off......
    went after him but was stopped , i really would still like to punch his head hard, if only once


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    #25
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    donmeister wrote: »
    My first week working in Dunnes Stores Deli, I took out 8 large cooked chickens out of the oven to be placed in the hot display, I trip over myself and all of em go all over the floor,I nearly died from the embarrassment! :o
    You put them back out on display though right?.

    .


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    #26
    WeeBushy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭WeeBushy


    Quited.

    Got a bit bored working so decided i'd quit for the craic and now with this "current economic crisis" I cant get a job. fml.


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    #27
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Working in a shoe shop, gave somebody two left shoes :o
    Maybe you just knew that he/she was a bad dancer.

    .


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    #28
    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    DubMedic wrote: »
    You put them back out on display though right?.

    .

    Yup ;)


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    #29
    Aodan83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    I suddenly got this really bad feeling that there are going to be a load of replies from doctors after another few pages. It would be interesting but oh so worrying.


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    #30
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    Doc's posting about Medical blunders? Don't think so.

    As Enniscorthy would so gladly put it : 'hehehahahahohohehehaha GOOD 1 MATE :D'.

    .


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    #31
    li@mo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭li@mo


    I handed out the wrong english paper to leaving cert students. cost the taxpayer €1m. dont tell anyone


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