Your Costliest Errors At Work

MiciG91 · 21-05-2010 12:05AM #1

I've only had one real job with all this recession lark.Was working in a hotel in town.A woman came up with a dinner from the carvery She refused to pay for the dinner i started laughing at her,all the other staff were laughing too but not for the same reason as me.She owned the hotel.

Using the words ****,Stupid ****,And Retard made sure it was my last day of work

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 21-05-2010 12:07AM

Working in a hotel and pouring a pint of guiness all over a ladies lovely white dress at a wedding.

And also had one of those text msg mishaps. An old work mate text me to ask how things were going and I said grand but xxxxx (the area manager) is still wrecking my head. And I sent it to the bloody area manager...

Sea Sharp · 21-05-2010 12:11AM

Bursting a water pipe and accidentally crushing 2 wheel-barrows with a jcb

Dravokivich · 21-05-2010 12:12AM

Any bankers here? Sure they'd beat everyone elses story...

starbelgrade · 21-05-2010 12:13AM

I worked in a shop when I was a teenager & nicked 300 quid from the till. It was a costly error for them letting me near the dosh!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 21-05-2010 12:15AM

Taking cement off a truck and bringing it into the warehouse in woodies, 2 tons of cement on a wooden pallet, the yard was uneven so when I hit a bad patch the pallet broke and a lot of cement bags burst, it was pissing rain so the sludge went off down the drain to solidify over the comming days and creat total mayhem for all the shops in the retail park. Didn't cost me a penny though

21-05-2010 12:16AM

Edit: Prob shouldn't talk about a job I'm still in when everyone knows my username.

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 12:18AM

Had sex with co-worker.
Also never made the same mistake again.

tony1kenobi · 21-05-2010 12:20AM

I taught a small group of Islamic fundamentalists how to fly planes about 9 years ago.

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 12:22AM

^^
How did that work out for you?

tony1kenobi · 21-05-2010 12:26AM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

^^
How did that work out for you?

I work in the garden centre in Woodies.....it is what it is....but I refuse to sell fertilizer to anyone with a hint of a tan.

Antar Bolaeisk · 21-05-2010 12:32AM

Dropped a film.

Not only did I have to spend all night fixing it but I think the cinema was fined as well.

Orange69 · 21-05-2010 12:36AM

Overwrote a bunch of files in a cvs repository once. Forgot to update before committing. Embarrassing..!

Lu Tze · 21-05-2010 12:41AM

Instead of regulating the banks, i spent all my time on boards, cost me my job

CrazyRabbit · 21-05-2010 12:47AM

Didn't happen to me, but to someone in the same company at one of our manufacturing plants.

Some very expensive components where placed in a huge oven as part of the manufacturing process.
There was a fairly new guy whose job was basically to clean the oven after every run & before the next batch went it. So, he cleaned the oven with some specialised cleaning fluid and it was loaded up with the next batch of components. Turns out he forgot to wash out the cleaning fluid and the batch was destroyed.

Total damage was a little under £100,000. He didn't get sacked though...as the company had just payed a heavy price for his education.

No idea if this is all true...it's just something that has been passed around work many times over the years.

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 12:52AM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Didn't happen to me, but to someone in the same company at one of our manufacturing plants.

Some very expensive components where placed in a huge oven as part of the manufacturing process.
There was a fairly new guy whose job was basically to clean the oven after every run & before the next batch went it. So, he cleaned the oven with some specialised cleaning fluid and it was loaded up with the next batch of components. Turns out he forgot to wash out the cleaning fluid and the batch was destroyed.

Total damage was a little under £100,000. He didn't get sacked though...as the company had just payed a heavy price for his education.

No idea if this is all true...it's just something that has been passed around work many times over the years.

^^^
Squibs?

Hyperbullet · 21-05-2010 12:52AM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Dropped a film.

Not only did I have to spend all night fixing it but I think the cinema was fined as well.

Have seen this happen. Seriously not cool!!!

21-05-2010 12:53AM

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Didn't happen to me, but to someone in the same company at one of our manufacturing plants.

Some very expensive components where placed in a huge oven as part of the manufacturing process.
There was a fairly new guy whose job was basically to clean the oven after every run & before the next batch went it. So, he cleaned the oven with some specialised cleaning fluid and it was loaded up with the next batch of components. Turns out he forgot to wash out the cleaning fluid and the batch was destroyed.

Total damage was a little under £100,000. He didn't get sacked though...as the company had just payed a heavy price for his education.

No idea if this is all true...it's just something that has been passed around work many times over the years.

He had his chips so!

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 12:56AM

Some of ye know where I work but doesn't effect me. I did hear of one guy who lost the company a couple of million in one day but managed to recoupe it back before the end of trading. Nuts

Adyx · 21-05-2010 01:06AM

Most recently I lost (honestly!) €300 that I collected from one of the tills. Some dirty scumbag must have nabbed it.

Before that, I was down in the keg room one day and noticed a Heineken line not tapped up. Tapped it up and went out to the bar to check it. There was Heineken everywhere! :eek: Turns out the tap had been removed but the line was still there. What's worse is that it was pointing directly at the till. At first I panicked and just pointed it down the sink until I copped on and ran back to the keg room.

Even longer ago, my first night working in a nightclub me and another lad got sent to another nightclub in our company to borrow some 3L bottles of vodka. Being a hero I tried to carry 2 boxes (8 bottles). The top one fell off right in the middle of the busiest street on a Saturday night (where Abrakebabra is now if you know Waterford).

Actually while I'm sure these incidents have cost someone money, I got away with them. :P

MayoForSam · 21-05-2010 01:09AM

Burnt a hole right through the first floor of a factory where I once worked by leaving on a piece of equipment overnight which overheated (a lot), just like a mini-nuclear reactor meltdown. I just went 'Oh!' the following morning as I met the fire engine coming back out the factory gates.

In the place I'm working now, some idiot forgot to put anti-freeze in the back of a cooler of a very expensive piece of kit. Cost savings meant the heat was turned off over the Xmas holidays, cue freezing pipes and about €25K's worth of damage.

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 01:11AM

^^
Did they find out it was your incompetent ass that done it?

starbelgrade · 21-05-2010 01:40AM

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Some of ye know where I work but doesn't effect me. I did hear of one guy who lost the company a couple of million in one day but managed to recoupe it back before the end of trading. Nuts

And that happened in McDonalds? Truly, that is nuts.

Standard Toaster · 21-05-2010 01:55AM

He's here all week folks. Try the veal.

DazMarz · 21-05-2010 02:12AM

Happened to a guy I knew, when we were working at a poker tournament together. He was cashing someone out of the cash game, and for some reason got his wires crossed and paid him out €750 instead of €250. Obviously, your man said S.F.A., took his money and legged it. Only when the guy realised what he had done... it was far too late to do anything. He was out €500... nashty...

Personally, probably breaking a bottle of vino in a place I was working parttime. Nice and handy, only a 30 quid job and the owner didn't even want to take it! So I'm lucky in that sense!

bluto63 · 21-05-2010 02:16AM

Never done anything that horrible. First day working as a waiter a drink fell over on my tray, down the back of the neck of a customer. When he found it was my first day he gave me a fiver tip and told me to forget about it

Gyalist · 21-05-2010 02:18AM

I left £28,000 in cash in the boot of a taxi.

Mackman · 21-05-2010 02:18AM

One time i dodnt corralate the engineer's drawings with our own architectural drawings for a big school project, the builder ended up ordering a heap of wrong steel

Another time, i was working in a supermarket one summer and one of the guys didnt close the door on one of the freezer containers, next day it was all thawed out, cost about 30K, we all had a giggle over that one :pac:

Columbia · 21-05-2010 02:40AM

I left a whole pallet of dairy products in a heated room for a whole weekend, and left about 200 euros worth of bread out in the rain.

Steodonn · 21-05-2010 02:50AM

I worked in a spar last summer. I was bring the coke out and the packaging was a bit ripped but I taught it be grand. The thing ripped completely and half a crate of coke fell and the floor. Cue coke fizzing everywhere as most of the bottles burst

The only other mistake I ever made made more money. One of the scanners was a bit doggy so while trying to make sure everything was scanned I scanned stuff twice of occasion and if the costumer was buying a good few thing it would go unnoticed till afterwards

pajodublin · 21-05-2010 03:01AM

in my old job someone, who might have been me but it was never discovered who did it first, accidentally sent a file twice and bankrupt 3 companies and wiped the operating cash flow of several others for a few weeks until the error was fixed

I will not say where i used to work, and it wasnt a bank

Your Costliest Errors At Work

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