Cosmo
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...anyone made any big mistakes at work?
Just made one myself and cost us somewhere around £2k 
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IvIarkgraham
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duh
never make serious mistakes
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sand-eel
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Yeah I wrote the wrong day on a bit of paper once, we lost millions.
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Cosmo
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TBH it wasnt a serious mistake and was more because I mixed up two invoices that had the same amount on - so forgot about one, which the interest on then cost £2k
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mwg
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Yeah a couple. I'm a CAD Tech so if I make a mistake on a drawing it knackers things up on site 
One of my mates doing the same job as me put the wrong level on some steelwork and the floor went in half way up the window 
[Edited on 18-01-2010 by mwg]
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will_doyle
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
...anyone made any big mistakes at work?
Just made one myself and cost us somewhere around £2k
Oh dear
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Cosmo
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You ever made any mistakes at Sky dolyete?
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Marc
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I once put a roof on a silo on the wrong axis.
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DaveyLC
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I've been part of a mistake that cost about £25k involving a couple of thousand cocked up credit card transactions 
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will_doyle
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
You ever made any mistakes at Sky dolyete?
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_Allan_
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Personally possibly sent an incorrect $3K modem around West Africa, got stuck in customs, cost more money and ended up being the wrong one. Luckily it was being brought back to a local Europe office in someone case.
Another lad in work caused an account to debited $10K in a couple of months that had to be credited back
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Colin
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If I make a mistake it costs a lot.
Put it this way say we produce 30k barrels of crude a day plus maybe 10l thousand cube of gas to export at say $100 a unit.
Something simple like pulling the wrong wire in a panel or forgetting to stick in an overide key can cause a TPS it can take the best part of a day to get back up to speed. So yes a heck of a lot!!
Not done anything yet touch wood I never will!
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Budgie
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I have stuck a courier label on the wrong box and sent it to the wrong company bout it i think
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Nath
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Yep, on Friday I trapped a cable between the metal housing and main frame on an instrument and it stopped working 
Only a couple of hundred quids worth, but silly all the same.
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Kurt
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i once ordered a lancia gearbox end case by inputting an incorect part number.. was only about £500 more than what i ordered and 1 digit out
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_Allan_
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
You ever made any mistakes at Sky dolyete?
Yes, he went looking for the sky hooks on day one.
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RichR
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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 
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jr
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5k is my record i think, although along the line im pretty sure i caused a 10k fuck up
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Daveskater
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quote:
Originally posted by mwg
Yeah a couple. I'm a CAD Tech so if I make a mistake on a drawing it knackers things up on site
One of my mates doing the same job as me put the wrong level on some steelwork and the floor went in half way up the window
Same, fortunately it's mainly pipework services so not that much can go wrong No massive mistakes yet though 
@ steelwork!
Numberwang!
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I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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K3 VMU
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if i fuck up at my work offshore, and my company get charged down time, its around 250k a day.....
i ve never (touch wood) had anything.
but the guy on the opposite shift forgot to connect up a hose, and by this time they had landed out on the wellhead,then thats when he realised, cheeky badger tried to blame me for it , when i was in my bed sleeping. the compoany got a couple hours downtime for that, probably cost around 30k....
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Tommy L
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Not really made any myself but one guy here a few years ago did a VAT return for a client, and thought they were getting a refund of £2k. He rang them instantly giving them the good news only to have realised he made a mistake a few days later. He had to ring them saying they owed £6k and iirc it was a few days before xmas
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mwg
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Another one a work colleague did was when doing a setting out drawing for an industrial estate. He cocked up the co-ordinates so it was built in the wrong place It was ok at one end but one of the buildings and boundary wall was going to be partly built on someone elses land by the time you got to the other end. He doesn't get let loose on co-ordinates anymore...
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Daveskater
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Now THAT'S a mistake
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa_tomtom
Not really made any myself but one guy here a few years ago did a VAT return for a client, and thought they were getting a refund of £2k. He rang them instantly giving them the good news only to have realised he made a mistake a few days later. He had to ring them saying they owed £6k and iirc it was a few days before xmas
I did something similar when I did my very first VAT return, it was the other way round though - had us paying £8k when we were actually due it
Thankfully I hadnt paid it before someone figured it out!
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mwg
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Best bit was they had built the boundary wall before it was picked up. The client came to site one day and said it didn't look right. Had to rip it down and build it in the right place!
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