MarkSport
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Registered: 22nd May 09
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I once done a mistake at work.was working at a computer harddrive testing company.my company was being dodgy as fook selling them on as un-tested meaning i had to wipe the marker pen off them so they looked utested.i forgot about 5 harddrives in an order of like 300 hard drives which made them complain and lose their business causing about 4k loass 
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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i put 60 flywheels on the wrong engines before.
was quite a costly mistake as someone had to get paid to take the clutch and flywheels off again and put the correct ones on.
took forever aswell.
wasn't my fault though. our suppliers put the wrong ones in the boxes. i just pick them from a light. they look the same, just different thickness.
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lostboy
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Registered: 29th Jan 09
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Originally posted by K3 VMU
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Originally posted by LiVe LeE
my biggest one was this...... and by big I mean less than 10cm big, it should have hung nose up but for about 3" it hung nose down - cost us around £10k to sort out
Weirdly, I never got bollocked 
Im confused 
well look how level it is picked up, the nose is pointing down, and it should have been pointing up
What difference does it make, explain it so those of us who are a bit on the slow side can understand.
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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Originally posted by willay
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oh i once got driven into in an S6 whilst lining up to try and brake an indoor 0-60 record
ffs 
wish i was joking to
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Originally posted by BarnshaW
when i was 15 i had a job at a pet shop, first day there i was cleaning the avary and had a bucket of hot water and bleach , i was cleaning it out and 2 budgies flew into the bucket and died.
they still kept me employed but about 3 months later in the same avary i was cleaning it out and forgot about a quail that was living in there and stood on it and killed it. I didnt have a job after that
Is that where your love of badgers stems from?
[Edited on 18-01-2010 by mwg]
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
Location: Redcliffe, QLD
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what did you get wrong then Lee? was the lifting point just in the wrong place or was the balance totally out?
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am4nf
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Registered: 27th Jul 08
Location: South Ayrshire Drives: Corsa Sport
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Only thing I done wrong at europcar was fill a petrol zafira up with diesel, cost me £50 but probably cost the company about £200
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Originally posted by C2RL R
what did you get wrong then Lee? was the lifting point just in the wrong place or was the balance totally out?
Lifting point was about 80mm further back than it was meant to be so the Centre of Gravity was in front of the Centre of Lift meaning it lifted nose down - the boat is lifted from a ship into the sea so everytime it was launched you would have risked tipping over if a wave washed into the bow at the wrong time.
All daughter craft should be launched 2-5degrees nose up; this was 13degrees nose down 
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
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just to add, there were two of these boats, delivered at the same time so even bigger bill
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Just make the fatty sit at the back.
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Matt L
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did 1 months worth of wages wrong for a company but didnt realise till 8 months later so had to re run them all cost the company about £700 in tax.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Ripped a good few meters of guttering off with a cherry picker here at my current place!
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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Set a sprinkler off at work, cost's Argos circa 10-15k everytime it goes off, with lost sales etc as there is a call centre above the warehouse..
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oceansoul
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Sunbury, Surrey
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Originally posted by C2RL R
yeah i've done a few. i once drilled into a trunking with a 25mm hole saw and forgot to stick my little block of wood in there to protect the cables. i obviously cut into a few of them and basically shut down an entire production department because the wires i cut were for the lighting. they lost about 6 hours production in there so that must work out to a few grand.
i've fucked up a few machines when i first started learning plc systems. it's so easy to cause a catastrophe by putting an n/c contact where an n/o should be.
What PLC systems you work on?
Worst ive done, is replacing a power supply for a Control Front End (BBL3330 if anyones intrested), took the wires out, hadnt isolated it (oops), shorted to case and tripped the whole panel out. Panel was in the control room. We lost our SCADA system for the whole area =[ Was back up and running a few mins later, but its neveracking when 15 year odd equipment restarts, never know if it will come up or not 
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Seany
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Registered: 13th Dec 06
Location: Dunfermline, Fife : Drives Astra cdti Sri
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Originally posted by Matt L
did 1 months worth of wages wrong for a company but didnt realise till 8 months later so had to re run them all cost the company about £700 in tax.
happened at my old job, the whole company got over paid. ended up with an extra 400 in my wage packet for the week, they had to take it back at £20 a week because the union stepped in.
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
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Originally posted by oceansoul
What PLC systems you work on?
modicon, omron, siemens and a bit of allen bradley
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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Not made any serious fuck ups, usually just some issue with rapid prototyping that needs fixing.
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
Location: Lundin Links, Fife
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I've not made any mistakes, but the copper we receive from a company to produce cable is meant to have a 25 year guarantee... But whichever idiot was working on the machine somehow buggered up the copper so that it'd be fucked after a year. The company phoned us to tell us about this and not to use the copper. We'd only run about 2,000,000m of Core and 500k of cable by this point
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Twiggy
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I gave a chap £20 gas instead of £10 in the shop on my 2nd shift!
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Matt.H
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Its not something I can do myself as I'm not a machinist but there is potential to scrap one component which costs around 120k each.
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shaunmods
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Registered: 12th Mar 07
Location: Glascote, Staffordshire
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In my old job when I worked for Fiat I accidently forgot to tell a customer that there was a 50 mile a day limit on his 48hr test drive until the last minute. The bloke went ape shit at me and stormed out the showroom. Little did I know he son had been in a few days before a put a deposit down on a Smart Roadster. His dad must have said something to him and he pulled out so we lost both deals  whoops! God I got such a bollocking for that
[Edited on 18-01-2010 by shaunmods]
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harrisp
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Second day at my new job I burst a water main with a hammer drill ( was digging for the pipe anyway) then the other week when first fixing £500k I took a stop end off a pipe, the lad I was working with hadnt turned the stop cock off properly and I flooded two floors, the site owner walked in 10 minutes later, he wasnt impressed.
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16vKarlos
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Registered: 27th Oct 07
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Originally posted by Twiggy
I gave a chap £20 gas instead of £10 in the shop on my 2nd shift!
Im not made of mistakes either But..
I asked for £15 for each gas + electric... Paid.. Got home.. YOu have £50 Gas... You have £50 Electric.. BONUS!!!
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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i dont make mistakes. i do my job properly.
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Shell
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When I worked at Topshop, I let a lady return a £200 dress she bought on the website, completely forgetting we couldn't sell it on. So we made a loss of £200! Whoops. It was simply explained to me why it couldn't be sold on then nout else was said.
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