Ever fff...mess up in work so bad its embarassing

Truncheon Rouge · 21-02-2013 01:23AM #1

I have about hmmm 10 1/2 hours til I receive a phone call from a supervisor who will first rightly berate me for idiocy and then go on to tell others who will actually genuinely question if I have some form of early onset dementia/alzheimers.

Something like this.

Boss: A+B=C. Me:ok ..A=C
Boss: no no A+B=C. Me: right sorry, A=B

One week later.
Boss: Sit down here, You got A right, you add B and you get C.
Me: not a problem A+B=C

Colleague Last week: he's got it wrong again but no damage.
Boss: don't do it again.
Me: how could I have been so foolish, i was such an idiot, ill make sure it never happens again.

This week A+A=W

Im going to look like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioYJNjFBs24

Similar experiences anybody?

Mr Benevolent · 21-02-2013 01:26AM

Umm... ok?

Where To · 21-02-2013 01:26AM

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donvito99 · 21-02-2013 01:27AM

Da fuq did I just read.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-02-2013 01:27AM

Are you alan Shatter, by any chance?

lkionm · 21-02-2013 01:28AM

Anyone up for some holy bread?

Seachmall · 21-02-2013 01:29AM

I once wiped a live database because I didn't thoroughly test code (I had a stupid deadline).

Of course there were backups and it didn't last long but it was a stupid mistake in the code.

However I've been told by multiple people that it happens more than we'd like to admit.

Boombastic · 21-02-2013 01:37AM

Where To wrote: »

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You forgot the '+' and '='

You're fired :eek:

:pac:

Where To · 21-02-2013 01:39AM

Boombastic wrote: »

You forgot the '+' and '='

You're fired :eek:

:pac:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+=

Happy now?

Boombastic · 21-02-2013 01:41AM

Where To wrote: »

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+=

Happy now?

That's better, you get a raise and some holy bread:)

Celly Smunt · 21-02-2013 01:44AM

"better send this email off to [insert name]"
*add address in gmail*
*gmail adds everybody*
*send*
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

i71jskz5xu42pb · 21-02-2013 01:45AM

Truncheon Rouge wrote: »

Boss: A+B=C. Me:ok ..A=C
Boss: no no A+B=C. Me: right sorry, A=B

One week later.
Boss: Sit down here, You got A right, you add B and you get C.
Me: not a problem A+B=C

Colleague Last week: he's got it wrong again but no damage.
Boss: don't do it again.
Me: how could I have been so foolish, i was such an idiot, ill make sure it never happens again.

This week A+A=W

You'd think Alphabetti Spaghetti was the easiest thing in the world to make?

IrishExpat · 21-02-2013 01:45AM

Not embarrassing, but not smart.

Back in 2010, while working in an English school in Spain. Was in no mood to teach the set material and it got on to me ranting on (along with the students) how the classroom method is horrible for learning a language and spelling out 101 ways to learn faster and more efficiently at home, using online tools etc

6 of them opted for the independent learning, asked for the balance on the rest of their course and just never came back. The boss could never figure out why, and I didn't go out of my way to explain.

Jesus, thinking back, keyword here is 'tact'.

I've changed my opinion since then on the whole learning process and courses etc, but yeah, bad move.

hames · 21-02-2013 01:50AM

OP Are you new in your job/ that aspect of your job ?

Don't worry, it's normal.

Employers are usually not looking at this the same impatient way you are. The fact that you have started a thread about it means you are sensitive to your mistakes; you probably just have a lot to deal with at the one time.

A lot of typical employment tasks require more habit than any inherent intelligence. Give yourself some time and don't stress about it.

pragmatic1 · 21-02-2013 01:57AM

All the time. I have a tendency to go on autopilot and wouldn't be the most observant person.

risteard7 · 21-02-2013 02:26AM

Never done a days work in my life true story

PhlegmyMoses · 21-02-2013 02:35AM

The fact that you're identifying the mistake and are showing some level of self-awareness is a good sign. That kind of thing is in short supply, unfortunately.

Gummy Panda · 21-02-2013 02:37AM

Blame it on the guy who can't speak English. Ah, Tibor, how many times have you saved my butt?

missingtime · 21-02-2013 02:43AM

Yup. Ran a delete query without the where clause. Removed all the sales reports in our database. Not a fun week.

****ing up is fine most of the time, repeatedly ****ing up is not fine.

Sauve · 21-02-2013 03:13AM

Where To wrote: »

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I liked it better when you did the song thing.

MadsL · 21-02-2013 05:56AM

I once emailed a bunch of people on boards.ie whose email adresses we weren't supposed to have.

Ruudi_Mentari · 21-02-2013 06:38AM

dropped a can of white paint. all over a fcukin drive....

and it was running down onto the path, n out onto the road and i do believe I got relieved of any further duties sir right there.

token101 · 21-02-2013 07:04AM

Did my college work experience on a local tv station in the UK. Whilst working one morning on the live breakfast show, as I was fixing camera cables, I unwittingly bent over in front of a live camera. The presenter couldn't help but acknowledge it and laugh, I looked like I was presenting to the camera man. I then got screamed at for about a full minute by the director and laughed at by every other crew member.

antodeco · 21-02-2013 08:00AM

Working for one of the largest radio stations in Ireland about 12 years ago and I had to get something from the server room. I was going in and out and decided to leave the door open.
Obviously I didn't realise it was a temperature controlled room and after a short period of time the station went off air as the machines shut down. I got a severe bollocking off the operations and IT guys.
Luckily all the hot girls who worked there defended me and said there shouldve been a sign on the door saying to keep it closed. The girls then became my very close friends and all the guys hated me.

Tl;dr?
Broke server room, radio off air, girls flocked

mikemac1 · 21-02-2013 08:05AM

Working in a cosmetics factory and put the wrong label on 10,000 lipsticks.

Managers were cursing my name for weeks.

My teammates loved me as it was overtime shifts to peel them off and label them again.
I worship at the shrine of double time!

Fingers were raw and sore by the end.
You have to peel them all off, no machine can do this for you.

matt-dublin · 21-02-2013 08:14AM

antodeco wrote: »

Working for one of the largest radio stations in Ireland about 12 years ago and I had to get something from the server room. I was going in and out and decided to leave the door open.
Obviously I didn't realise it was a temperature controlled room and after a short period of time the station went off air as the machines shut down. I got a severe bollocking off the operations and IT guys.
Luckily all the hot girls who worked there defended me and said there shouldve been a sign on the door saying to keep it closed. The girls then became my very close friends and all the guys hated me.

Tl;dr?
Broke server room, radio off air, girls flocked

I call BS...

Server room wouldn't have overheated that much if the ac was on.
And....

No hot girls like guys who have access to a server room!!!!

Truncheon Rouge · 21-02-2013 10:32AM

Live update:
So you see children its wrong to lie, one should always tell the truth and face up to ones errors and become responsible adults.

That said... I've just bluffed my way out of it loooooooooool, I don't look like a complete buffoon before my work colleagues (today at least) and have only to worry about my inevitable future stupidity of similar scale.

s.m.r.t .s.m.r.t

Gee_G · 21-02-2013 10:38AM

Not me that messed up. But somebody in a very big accountancy firm in Ireland did.
Obviously had the wrong email address for either her PA or someone like that and instead I was getting emails. About some outgoings etc, meeting agendas, weekly agendas. I eventually had to mail back and say they are not for me and ya have the wrong "Gee_g"

kylith · 21-02-2013 10:45AM

I foolishly clicked OK on the 'are you sure you want to delete this file, it's got a whole load of important and irreplaceable information on it?' button. We all have brain farts now and then.

tbh · 21-02-2013 10:57AM

The year is 2008, the city...Montevideo. I'm at the end of an upgrade thats been going on for 12 hours, and which started two hours after getting off a 14 hour overnight flight. In short, I'm. Tired, hungry and hot. The last thing I have to do is dump four databases hosted on four machines named server1, server2 etc. I open securecrt, create a session, dump the database, all good. I then copy my session but rename it host2 and dump the next database. All good, and I proceed to db3 and 4. We then delete the databases and switch everything on - it doesnt work. Troubleshoot for about two hours, its now about 7am and the call is made to rollback. Its then I discover that I didnt change the hostname in my copied sessions, only the session name. So I've dumped db1 four times and lost db2 3 and 4. I ask the customer if they have backups but they only have one, and its the useless data. The scrip to recover the old data takes eight hours.

Imagine how popular I was when I told them

You can be pretty sure that everyone who thanks this post (if anyone) works in IT

Interceptor · 21-02-2013 11:18AM

I once pressed the wrong button on a machine which crashed a load of robots and did €64m damage to a wafer fab. It *might* have been near Leixlip...

'c

Ever fff...mess up in work so bad its embarassing

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