Biggest mistake at work?

[Panthers_Lover]

What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at work? A co-worker made a pretty big one, forwarding an email to a mass of people without realizing that there was an email conversation still at the bottom, with lots of high level people discussing what to say in the final memo. And, no way to recall the message for a variety of reasons.

It won't get her fired, I hope, but she's all shaken up, and it reflects on my department poorly. I had to send the mea culpa email to the president and senior staff ... we'll see whether we have major fallout from it.

Hell, it could cost me my job, since it's out of my department/area ... crossing my fingers!

[Hawk]

staying!

[Doyle]

I hooked up with a few coworkers in the past. I wouldn't reccomend it.

[Happy Panther]

I had two spreadsheets dealing with corporate salary. One had all the salaries of people embedded in the spreadsheet and the other was a copy with the salaries removed.

I sent out the one with all the salaries so everyone could see what others were making.

My boss must have worked magic because I didn't get any heat for it.

[Jase]

a few weeks after I started, a printout of the huddle ended up on the printer.

Still don't know how it happened, luckily a co-worker found it and not the boss.

otherwise I am perfect.

[Murph]

I hooked up with a few coworkers in the past. I wouldn't reccomend it.

Never get your pussy at work. Old unwritten rule that has always stood the test of time.

[Squirrel]

I had two spreadsheets dealing with corporate salary. One had all the salaries of people embedded in the spreadsheet and the other was a copy with the salaries removed.

I sent out the one with all the salaries so everyone could see what others were making.

My boss must have worked magic because I didn't get any heat for it.

Got lucky there.

[Squirrel]

Never get your pussy at work. Old unwritten rule that has always stood the test of time.

Yep, flirt with it all you want but dont take it home.

[Hawk]

Never get your pussy at work. Old unwritten rule that has always stood the test of time.

so is....a piece passed up is a piece never again gotten!!!!

[Darth Biscuit]

Nothing really huge... once ordered about $2 grand worth of plots we didn't need... oops. That was back when I worked for someone else.

I've screwed up some jobs, but you just fix it and go on. Usually either have room for that in the job and just break even or make it up on the next one.

[Squirrel]

I've seen alot in my work. Most cost the company $10,000 or more each time it happens. Sad if they would hire experienced people and pay people what they are worth they wouldnt lose all that money.

[Zcustom]

I let a trainee help me in a very dangerous forklift task (In my defense he had a great resume and claimed to be a master forklift operator)

he flipped the forklift over, almost killing himself and destroyed the forklift

[Doyle]

I let a trainee help me in a very dangerous forklift task (In my defense he had a great resume and claimed to be a master forklift operator)

he flipped the forklift over, almost killing himself and destroyed the forklift

He was just a trainee so no big loss if he died.

[Darth Biscuit]

He was just a trainee so no big loss if he died.

This reminds me of a very strange phone call I had about three weeks ago...

Called a big client of mine about a large project we were finishing... this guy's a bit odd anyway, hard to get hold of, doesn't talk much, etc.

So I call him, and he's really busy and like talking to someone else... "hold on... blah, blah... OK, I'm back, we had a guy get killed on the site and I'm having to deal with the paperwork and OSHA..."

I'm like, "Oh man, that's terrible, I'm sorry to hear that..."

He says... "It happens... ha ha..."

Uhhhh.... I literally didn't know what to say. After like 10 seconds of silence, I went.. "um, Ok... about this job..."

Weirdest phone call ever.