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Hey Nige, Sofia is still waiting for payment for all the advertising she is doing for your company 
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OT - ever made a mistake at work?
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Anonymous
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Let me explain the electric windows thingy. I took the numbers off a box that said ECU without anything else to go by!! Its like taking the part number of two identical boxes.... thats my excuse anyway!
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marko
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I can't beat any of them personally.
While on Summer break in 6th form I had a job working for a maintenance contractor in Lincoln. One of my varied posts was digging graves in one of the busier cemetaries. Anyway, the guy in charge of space allocation organised a burial but ended up putting the wrong body in the wrong hole. The service had gone ahead and they only realised a day later. Body exhumed, mourners had to return to re-bury the loved one and the coordinator was looking for a new job.
While on Summer break in 6th form I had a job working for a maintenance contractor in Lincoln. One of my varied posts was digging graves in one of the busier cemetaries. Anyway, the guy in charge of space allocation organised a burial but ended up putting the wrong body in the wrong hole. The service had gone ahead and they only realised a day later. Body exhumed, mourners had to return to re-bury the loved one and the coordinator was looking for a new job.
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mathew
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when i worked at a glass manufacturer i had to deliver 400 pieces of tuffened glass(the stuff that shatters).
guess how many i had when i got to the drop?
301 & millions of bits, i was asked if i wanted to make it 100, i said maybe next time.it took an hour to clean up the mess & i got band from useing the lorry.
guess how many i had when i got to the drop?
301 & millions of bits, i was asked if i wanted to make it 100, i said maybe next time.it took an hour to clean up the mess & i got band from useing the lorry.
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Craig
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i had an 18ct omega come in for repair, i'm guessing it was worth £3000 ish.
i done the job that it came in for, and it still didnt work. i should have left it at that and estimated for clean and overhaul, but i didnt. i thought i'd do the customer a favour, and thats where i went wrong.
basically the two parts marked in yellow were off the watch. forgetting the 2mm long pivot that the wheel is usually mounted on, i tightened the screws on the other side of the movement and this put pressure on the pivot, and made a sound which was like a snap, yep, i snapped it clean off
i told a colleague and he said that this movement had been made obsolete 15 years ago, which it wasn't, he just wanted to make me sweat a bit longer!
anyway, he had a spare, which i didn't have to pay for, he said i'd paid enough!
i done the job that it came in for, and it still didnt work. i should have left it at that and estimated for clean and overhaul, but i didnt. i thought i'd do the customer a favour, and thats where i went wrong.
basically the two parts marked in yellow were off the watch. forgetting the 2mm long pivot that the wheel is usually mounted on, i tightened the screws on the other side of the movement and this put pressure on the pivot, and made a sound which was like a snap, yep, i snapped it clean off
i told a colleague and he said that this movement had been made obsolete 15 years ago, which it wasn't, he just wanted to make me sweat a bit longer!
anyway, he had a spare, which i didn't have to pay for, he said i'd paid enough!
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Craig
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pic too big. oh well
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Rab
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Got a few over the years but the first one that jumped to mind was when was in my first year as an apprentice mech.
Those who know about apprenticships know the first year is spent on the end of a brush, making tea and going for the sandwiches as well as being the general rubbing rag in the workshop.
Anyway this one day i was told to go for the sandwiches and put the tea urn on to boil before i go.
I was in a rush and didn't want to lift the urn from one room and carry it to the tap to fill (yes it was a bit of a s**t hole and nobody had even heard of health and safety).
So spotting an watering can i had an idea, fill the can and take it to the urn. brilliant.
There was already water in the urn, even better.
I filled the urn and went for the sandwiches, got back and the kettle was almost boiled, thought that's close enough and made the teas.
All the mechs were sat around a small table eating and drinking the tea.
While i sat with a bottle of Irn-Bru smiling at a good job well done.
First one then two and so on till most of the mechs were in the bog throwing up.
It turned out the watering can wasn't full of water, it was full of petrol.
I'd had a cold and didn't smell it.
Needless to say i was taught a lesson
I was stripped bollock naked covered in Swarfega and dipped in a degreasing tank, then i was thrown out the back door and left to try and get back in without being seen still starkers and covered in all sorts of grease and oil.
Happy days.
Rab.
VIVE LA FRANCE
Those who know about apprenticships know the first year is spent on the end of a brush, making tea and going for the sandwiches as well as being the general rubbing rag in the workshop.
Anyway this one day i was told to go for the sandwiches and put the tea urn on to boil before i go.
I was in a rush and didn't want to lift the urn from one room and carry it to the tap to fill (yes it was a bit of a s**t hole and nobody had even heard of health and safety).
So spotting an watering can i had an idea, fill the can and take it to the urn.
brilliant.There was already water in the urn,
even better.I filled the urn and went for the sandwiches, got back and the kettle was almost boiled, thought that's close enough and made the teas.
All the mechs were sat around a small table eating and drinking the tea.
While i sat with a bottle of Irn-Bru smiling at a good job well done.
First one then two and so on till most of the mechs were in the bog throwing up.
It turned out the watering can wasn't full of water, it was full of petrol.
I'd had a cold and didn't smell it.
Needless to say i was taught a lesson
I was stripped bollock naked covered in Swarfega and dipped in a degreasing tank, then i was thrown out the back door and left to try and get back in without being seen still starkers and covered in all sorts of grease and oil.
Happy days.
Rab.
VIVE LA FRANCE
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Barakka
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While on work placement from Uni (Slave labour style) I was working for a computer firm run by a stingy short-arse git. After building up a batch of PC's I needed to test them, but he wouldn't let me use the mains leads that came with the cases because they had to be kept nice and new to give to the customer !
So I reach down and grab a lead from the box under the desk, not realising it was one from an old Tulip system which was hard wired - No Fuse ! Also didn't realise that the wiring to the power switch had been done wrong at the factory.
I turned it on and it didn't exactly work as planned... it blew me across the room and up onto the counter opposite, it also blew the wire between the sockets out of the wall all round the room, and took out the power for the whole block - 5 firms in total. I had smoke coming from my head
So I reach down and grab a lead from the box under the desk, not realising it was one from an old Tulip system which was hard wired - No Fuse ! Also didn't realise that the wiring to the power switch had been done wrong at the factory.
I turned it on and it didn't exactly work as planned... it blew me across the room and up onto the counter opposite, it also blew the wire between the sockets out of the wall all round the room, and took out the power for the whole block - 5 firms in total. I had smoke coming from my head
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rsmallwo
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you guys.....lol
you guys.....lol
you guys.....lol
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hehe
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Re: you guys.....lol
HeHe - I like the bonfire on the ship It's impossible for newbies to escape those 'initiations'
In my teens I started work for a major construction company on a sea-wall project. On my third day there the foreman told me to go to a suppliers for a long weight.
I asked what a long weight was and he described it. I said "Isn't that called a plumb line?" He got cross and ordered me to go off to a supplier and ask for a long weight. I wasn't about to stand in the suppliers for 2 or 3 hours so I nipped round to my mate's place for a couple of spliffs for the afternoon. When I got back the foreman and his chums were all very happy about their prank and, strangely, I was quite happy about it too
I've heard stories about others. but not sure if they're true. People being sent off for a left-handed screwdriver, stripey paint and a bubble for a spirit level
HeHe - I like the bonfire on the ship
It's impossible for newbies to escape those 'initiations'In my teens I started work for a major construction company on a sea-wall project. On my third day there the foreman told me to go to a suppliers for a long weight.
I asked what a long weight was and he described it. I said "Isn't that called a plumb line?" He got cross and ordered me to go off to a supplier and ask for a long weight. I wasn't about to stand in the suppliers for 2 or 3 hours so I nipped round to my mate's place for a couple of spliffs for the afternoon. When I got back the foreman and his chums were all very happy about their prank and, strangely, I was quite happy about it too
I've heard stories about others. but not sure if they're true. People being sent off for a left-handed screwdriver, stripey paint and a bubble for a spirit level
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Craig
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Re: you guys.....lol
i remember that one on work experience at college.
slightly different though, i was told to go and ask one of the other guys if i could borrow his lon gwate not lan but lon.
i didnt even think it was a prank or anything!
the other one was i had been sent to ask the same guy if i could borrow his 12" metric adjustable spanner, i knew this was a prank, so i said to the other guy, "Dez said can he'd like to borrow....."
i remember that one on work experience at college.
slightly different though, i was told to go and ask one of the other guys if i could borrow his lon gwate not lan but lon.
i didnt even think it was a prank or anything!
the other one was i had been sent to ask the same guy if i could borrow his 12" metric adjustable spanner, i knew this was a prank, so i said to the other guy, "Dez said can he'd like to borrow....."
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Re: you guys.....lol
didnt happen to me - but one of the girls at my bar was sent out by the chef to buy some food we needed, - he'd also asked for some thai fish legs and chicken lips - well as you can guess she did return having been to every obscure foods shop without the items.- she didnt realise until everyone was laughing what she had been sent for.
we had also sent a newbie out to another bar - he had to ask for a fudge packer - considering the bar was a small gay bar he got a few looks!
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didnt happen to me - but one of the girls at my bar was sent out by the chef to buy some food we needed, - he'd also asked for some thai fish legs and chicken lips - well as you can guess she did return having been to every obscure foods shop without the items.- she didnt realise until everyone was laughing what she had been sent for.
we had also sent a newbie out to another bar - he had to ask for a fudge packer - considering the bar was a small gay bar he got a few looks!
nick
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Rab
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Re: you guys.....lol
I used to be a Factory Foreman at a foundry (aluminium) and we used to get the new lads to go look for an Aluminium magnet
Rab.
VIVE LA FRANCE
I used to be a Factory Foreman at a foundry (aluminium) and we used to get the new lads to go look for an Aluminium magnet
Rab.
VIVE LA FRANCE
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Markpro
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Dipshits
This isn't my mistake but when it happened at the weekend i nearly pissed myself laughing at it,
A woman went in to Asda and bought 3 disposable barbeque's( you know the cheap £3 ones) anyway she came back the next day with one BBQ with it half opened, she told the till girl that someone had taken the MEAT out of it..because it had a picture on the front of it with a BBQ with steaks and burgers on it, even better than that was when she was asked where the other two BBQ's were she said they were in the Freezer...absolute Dipshit.
Or the guy at Sky who took a phone call from an irrate customer saying he couldn't get his sky working, when he was asked to check his card he read out his credit card number to the guy , he had only put his credit card in his digi box because he thought it was being paid by DIRECT Debit straight to sky...but when he was asked to insert his Sky card into the box he said he would have to go outside..when the sky guy asked why he said he had to get the card from the dish, he had jammed the metal strip from the card into his sky dish...unbeleivable...how the hell do these people get through life on their own.
This isn't my mistake but when it happened at the weekend i nearly pissed myself laughing at it,
A woman went in to Asda and bought 3 disposable barbeque's( you know the cheap £3 ones) anyway she came back the next day with one BBQ with it half opened, she told the till girl that someone had taken the MEAT out of it..because it had a picture on the front of it with a BBQ with steaks and burgers on it, even better than that was when she was asked where the other two BBQ's were she said they were in the Freezer...absolute Dipshit.
Or the guy at Sky who took a phone call from an irrate customer saying he couldn't get his sky working, when he was asked to check his card he read out his credit card number to the guy , he had only put his credit card in his digi box because he thought it was being paid by DIRECT Debit straight to sky...but when he was asked to insert his Sky card into the box he said he would have to go outside..when the sky guy asked why he said he had to get the card from the dish, he had jammed the metal strip from the card into his sky dish...unbeleivable...how the hell do these people get through life on their own.
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Stephen
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Re: Dipshits
Tonight at work during the England match i was stood behind the bar watching and without thinking shouted "****in hell, that was wank!" at the top of my voice before realising i was surrounded by 300 odd people, mostly families. Oops!
Tonight at work during the England match i was stood behind the bar watching and without thinking shouted "****in hell, that was wank!" at the top of my voice before realising i was surrounded by 300 odd people, mostly families. Oops!