Topic: What's the worst you've ever messed something up at your job? (Read 1156 times)

I gave someone too much money a few times at my last job just because I was too lazy to count. Nobody knows buy me cause we all get cubicles.

Well obviously you wouldn't get fired in that case, but why did you cheat with a coworker? Weren't you scared that your wife would find out?

Only 5 bitcoins?I would give 10 bitcoins for...that exciting,dangerous episode!Such a pity !!!!!!!! 

Yes, on a coworker with a coworker. Had it not been coworkers, I can't imagine I would have been fired.

At least the company has ethical standards and attempts to apply them.

I was just asking. So you essentially cheated when you were married?

It was considered below the ethical standards of the company. I don't disagree with them.

You aren't allowed to have a relationship with a worker?

I fucked one of the girls from another department, in my office. We continued to fuck for 6 months (generally outside of the office), until HR found out. They gave us a day warning that we were going to be fired, mainly so I could tell my wife who worked at the company before she found out from everyone else. I'm now divorced, and engaged to the girl.

No wild office sex adventures on my side, however early on in my career I fucked up a tender quote that I prepared, I miscalculated the total price of hardware by $40,000. I only realized it after the deal was sealed and we couldn't change the price. The client was also surprised about the low price but they kept silent. Even though i was real close to My boss he was furious and didn't talk to me for a week. I pretty much assumed I'll be fired as the firm had to take a $40K loss on the deal.

Eventually my boss forgave me and I wasn't fired, I made up for the loss in future deals so things got sorted out eventually.

You should do regulars backups. Most don't see the importance of this, until they get burned.

 I once tried encrypting my work pc, and lost a lot of work files

What was the destination country for the horse meat sausage? (if the proper order had arrived)

While a lab tech at Swift Premium in St. Charles, IL, I once processed a chamber of $60K worth of sausage to a different casing setting. Needless to say, casings where still strung up but the meat, et al. was on the floor, whereupon the electric forklift scooped it all up and was re-processed into IP Farmer, then shipped to Puerto Rico to minimize the lost.

At the same plant, at about the same time frame, though I didn't do it, a quarter of a million dollars of kangaroo meat came in that wasn't ordered. What was ordered was horse from Australia. The kangaroo was sold at a discounted price to White Castle. Sounds far-fetched, but is a true story.

I would still be working there if they didn't force me to go to the Playboy Club in Wisconsin. Also true. Somehow corporate in Chicago didn't take too kindly to what I did there. BTW, it had nothing to do with drinking, the girls, and damage to property.

What's the worst you've ever messed something up at your job?
Edit: For 5 BTC (Yes five BTC) I will entertain you with the story.

Without the incentive:
This exciting, dangerous episode is in the past where it will remain buried forever.  

Back in my undergraduate, college years, I worked at a smoothie place in Santa Barbara.  They had all these additives and supplements customers could purchase for a small fee to add to their smoothies.  As employees, we were entitled to one free smoothie per shift.

One of the available supplements was guarana, an energy supplement with high concentrations of caffeine.  Unlike the other powdered supplements which were scooped out of cups with plastic teaspoons, the guarana was kept in a shaker (e.g. like salt or pepper).  I tried shaking a little guarana into my daily smoothie during one of my shifts, but the cap was loose and I ended up dumping the whole shaker of guarana into my drink.

I didn't want to waste the other ingredients I had already put into my drink, so instead I decided to use a spoon to scoop out the excess guarana.  Big mistake; apparently, I didn't get nearly enough guarana out.  

I was fortunate that I decided to make the smoothie at the end of the shift so that, 30 minutes later, I was out of work and back at my apartment when all of the vomiting and shitting began.

I remember it was one of the worst physical sicknesses I've ever experienced.  I felt ice cold and my body was shaking profusely for several hours, and although my body felt completely exhausted and the slightest movement would make me puke instantly, finding a comfortable position, let alone sleeping, was impossible.  I ended up calling poison control and very nearly went to the hospital.  About six hours later, I had finally recovered.

TL;DR:  Don't overdose on caffeine.

Didn't have my own office at the time and the meeting rooms didn't have a lock

The OP reminds me of one time in which I started hosting a gameserver for my gaming community and when I tried to remove a file, I accidentally pressed ~ instead of 1 (yes, I somehow mispressed both shift and the 1) and farewell, home directory. We did have weekly backups, so losses were not that bad.

Edit: For anyone wondering, it was a Gmod server with custom scripts (which were coded to have numbered files such as 1, 2, and 3 without extensions) for a sort of weird-structured database. We stopped it about 2 years ago due to time restrictions.

I did the same to my secretary in my office. But no one sees us. It is not messed up really. Always lock the door. lol

do research chemicals on a Wednesday night, and come back Friday even though u had no sleep.  and get fired cause you say the project is stupid