AndyC Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 So i am just wondering what trouble fellow VT'ers have got themselves in to at work? Come Monday my boss is going to find out that I've quoted a job a job wrong and its cost us a few hundred quid and put us in a bad light with a big customer. What's worse is I've just had a promotion and decent payrise with it so its going to be embarrassing. What's the biggest **** up you have done at work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 29, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2013 Forgetting a Firewall rule, leaving a PBX open to the internet and a phone-bill for 10 grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lp_villa830 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Working in quality. Probably more than I can count letting shite through that probably shouldn't have. Worst one I can remember though is when I was working the holiday shift and let some parts for Jaguar go that had a slight blemish on the bar. That cost nearly a grand to remake them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share Posted June 29, 2013 Forgetting a Firewall rule, leaving a PBX open to the internet and a phone-bill for 10 grand. Ouch, how did your boss take it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share Posted June 29, 2013 Working in quality. Probably more than I can count letting shite through that probably shouldn't have. Worst one I can remember though is when I was working the holiday shift and let some parts for Jaguar go that had a slight blemish on the bar. That cost nearly a grand to remake them all. I know your pain. I'm in engineering myself. Been there many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) Intending to push a patch down to one specific PC that wasn't in use due to a reported error, and actually clicking 'all machines'. Around 8000 PCs rebooted without warning in the middle of the day. 8000 users make a lot of noise when their PC reboots without them being able to save their work... I added a confirmation window to the 'all machines' button after that. Edited June 29, 2013 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Shagging two nursing students at the same time then finding out they were at the same uni/intake year/class/personal tutor. Got a talking to for that by my boss. Apparently it was unprofessional. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 29, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2013 Forgetting a Firewall rule, leaving a PBX open to the internet and a phone-bill for 10 grand. Ouch, how did your boss take it? Lets just say my previous track-record saved me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lapal_fan Posted June 29, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) I got fired for using work email to ask my wife how I could get the day off for an interview haha. We discussed how I hated the job, and it was nothing like I'd been promised, how I didn't like any of the staff apart from one guy (only 10 people worked there), if I should fake illness or toothache (went with toothache) and then, went to the interview, didn't get it, went back to work the next day pretending to have toothache Over the next couple of days I got another interview, but for 6 o'clock, so I didn't need time off work (great, I thought). Obviously my toothache went immediately, people asking how I was feeling.. "still a bit sore, but it's getting better". >Go into work on the day of my interview "we're going to do some training downstairs Lap", "Ok, no worries" > go downstairs into training room >see a woman who I'm not sure what she does, other than I.T poorly >See big brown file >Hmm, doesn't look training-y >Lap, a situations come up >Uh-oh >We're dismissing you for gross misconduct >What have I done (always act dumb) >You've been for an interview during office hours, faked illness and lied to us >Who's told you that? (Act dumber) >You have >Oh ****, covers blown, GUILT TRIP >Ok, I've been caught, it's just that I haven't felt secure, I don't think the job has been going as well as it should have done, I'm sure you'll agree. I'm not a bad person, it's just I'm getting married next month (true story) and I need to make sure I have a job.. It's nothing personal, I like everyone here (I don't), I just needed to see if I'd get the job, which I didn't.. I'm fully focused and driven to make this job work now, but I understand...I just hope I can appeal. >Thank you for your honesty, it'll look good when you appeal, but we need your phone and laptop and tags >Do all that shit, get kicked out of building because apparently I'm the kind of person to run away and randomly attack people or shit myself and throw it around >Left without phone or any contacts.. just got me and my car >Go to Tescos, buy £10 phone, call 118 and get wifes works number, call her, tell her, she shits herself, I get her to get people to text me their numbers > It's 10am, I have an interview at 6pm >I'm in Gloucester, the interviews from Cirencester > need internet, get brother to look for internet cafes around Gloucester or Cirencester.. nearest one is Swindon... >Go there, look at company I'm interviewing for's website, read up everything I can > 1pm, finished in the place, drive to the interview 5 hours early > sit in the car park, reminising about how much of a clearing in the woods I am > 5:30, go in for interview > Tell them everything, had a pretty shitty day > Nail the interview, but there's another 5 people interviewing for the job > I bet none of them have been sacked today, I'm **** > get back to Birmingham at 8pm > Tell wife it's been a little stressful > 11pm "lap, it's roger, you've got the job, I wasn't going to call you until after the weekend (It's thursday), but I thought you could do with some good news" > General celebrations, cheap champagne > Fired and hired in one day > go to bed.. oh ****, I'm having sex > go to sleep, pumped, whispering "I won" Sorry It's long, but it's the most entertaining (from a now perspective) day I had in a while. Edited June 29, 2013 by lapal_fan 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) Probably getting sacked for destroying the veil of false credibility of the sham quality system we had put in place in order to be able to carry out work for certain customers. Not if that counts as a blunder though apart from that I've scrapped a few thousand pounds worth of work here and there. Funnest was getting a call from a college that had scrapped a job late one evening due to using incorrect polarity of a electro-plating bath, going into work for a few hours to help him hide the cause as best we could, then seeing the boss' face the following day when he was presented with this abortion of a job but he couldn't work out what possibly could have gone wrong, all due to our successful skullduggery Edited June 29, 2013 by mockingbird_franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I don't do **** ups, I'm perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I got sacked from an old job for phoning in "sick" from the Reading music festival while drunk and with a band playing in the background. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted June 29, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2013 I got sacked from an old job for phoning in "sick" from the Reading music festival while drunk and with a band playing in the background. Never ran someone over with your train? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I got sacked from an old job for phoning in "sick" from the Reading music festival while drunk and with a band playing in the background. Ha! I called in sick from outside the Reading festival. The knobhead I spoke to told my boss that it sounded like I was going somewhere. My watertight alibi was that I phoned on the way to the doctors. Got away with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 29, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) I was working the holiday shift and let some parts for Jaguar go that had a slight blemish on the bar. You motherf***er. I knew that was you! Edited June 29, 2013 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) In my last job I was the DBA for a 4TB database of a rolling last 30 days of 6 million insurance quotes a day (it was the back end web service for all the price comparison sites to get their quotes from). It was a circular replicated master-master cluster so any queries other than selects will get run the same on the other server. There was some corruption in one of the nodes' copy of the database so I had the bright idea to just direct all traffic to the good node and run a mysqldump on the bad node pulling good data from the good node. The first bit a mysqldump does is DROP TABLE.. which then gets replicated to the other node.. Database screwed while 300 quotes a second are coming in. Worst bit was there was no backup as the RTO is so long as to be unworkable. So no one could retrieve any quotes from any of the places like confused, gocompare etc because I screwed the database. It gradually filled back up obviously. I won't do that again! Edited June 30, 2013 by darrenm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 When working in a supermarket - served an under age girl with booze, she then went and got shitfaced on the stuff in the park behind the store. Her dad came in with her a few days later and had a row with the manager, blaming the store - rightly, I guess. My manager got me out of it though, on account of the girl having no receipt or bag, and the girl didn't admit it was from there - the dad just guessed, correctly. In my current job in the civil service (DWP), I quite recently accessed a number of people's accounts on the national database, that I shouldn't really have. Thankfully the reason I gave was legit enough for me not to get the sack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Got part of my shirt stuck in the paper laminator once. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I was working the later shift one day and nothing was happening, I'd finished all I needed to do and was just sat around doing nothing, waiting for my time to go home. 5 minutes to go and I was the only one around so I thought I'd just slip off early, it's only 5 minutes, what could happen? The CEO of the company apparently came over for some help with something Covered it by saying I was over in another part of the building doing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I got sacked from an old job for phoning in "sick" from the Reading music festival while drunk and with a band playing in the background.Never ran someone over with your train? Not yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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