Things you've destroyed at work

[Tamataz]

I worked as en electrical apprentice for a company called argotec. There are 4 of us in the electrical department. Anyways the company produces Polyurethane plastic sheets in big rolls that we sell to like 3M and the military to make bulletproof glass and paint protection etc. I was working around one of "lines" As we call them; the process of taking little plastic beads and turning into a like a 4 foot wide wrap. These rolls of "plastic" Can be worth 3-6k each. The lines are located in a big "clean room" (double door systems with sticky mats on both sides, have to wear hairnet, booties & suit) srs. bsns.

I was drilling a hole or something to run some EMT conduit, and my knee hit the fucking emergency stop button, which stops the WHOLE thing, all the processes. I was like fuck me!! About 20 minutes later i accidentally hit another emergency stop button AGAIN!!

So that's 2 fucked up rolls, that are not long enough for customers specs. Major company downtime, everything had to be restarted; turn everything on, set specs, heat up, and then fish the plastic through like 10 rollers going all over the place.

That was not my day... Lots of shit given :P Didn't exactly break anything, but easily a 5k+ mistake.

[imsotyerred]

I Broke my supervisor's heart.

male or female?


the most i've broken while working: an electric soup kettle - I turned the thing all the way up on the temperature knob instead of turning it off when i removed the soup pot and left it on all night. Could have burned the deli down.

Most expensive mistake at work: Slicing my right middle finger on the meat slicer - a couple hundred dollars for the emergency room and then an extra $700 or so for a damned xray

[E30 Wagen]

I left the trunk of a Ford Taurus open while it was on the lift. I wasn't paying attention and ended up lifting it too high so the trunk was crushed by an overhead beam, which forced it down onto the back window which then shattered. That was after about a two months working there. I hated those stupid low ceilings, especially when a work truck would come in with ladders and stuff on top.

[Raxe]

The secretary.

Definitely read that in Ron Swansons voice.

Guy I worked with came from a railroad job where his co-worker was leaning out of the window yelling at someone behind him while moving a train forward faster than he should have been and smashed right into another set of railcars. Said it was over $3.6 million and he kept his job. Unions....

[F34R]

I am in construction, so destruction has to happen on each new job site. I have an awesome job!

Most expensive thing I have destroyed was my Sister's camera after it was left on the work truck.

[fannman]

A co worker of mine printed about 2,500 shirts that had a misspelling on them. They tried to change the art to make it work better and somehow the spelling of the logo got changed and was never caught. That was a 6,000$ mistake when it was all said and done. Another co worker left the water on all night in the sink, the hose busted and left 6 inches of water on the whole warehouse floor. Destroyed thousands of dollars worth of inventory and some machines.

[Robotin]

Best 2 screw-ups ive seen was someone leaving a main cap bearing out of a 20v 2000 mtu during a rebuild and it got all the way to being fitted to the boat and started before they realised due to lack of oil pressure.





Another exciting trip was when someone didn't tension the injectors down on one of these bad boys and it shot the injector through the rocker cover and set fire to the engine.

tarboz

[Dr.Claw]

i rented a d80 for a photo shoot of tractors in 2008, after a long day shoot hanging out of a minivan on a gravel road, it was toast. whenever you twisted the dials it had a gritty noise :(. We broke two windshields of the two rental cars driving back and forth on the roads. I had a light fall over this year and work bought me a new one ~$500

[Dr.Claw]

forgot this one, i was working for KIA USA as there photographer. they had filled in a pond with dirt and it wasnt on the map. It tore the filter off the block and sent the motor to a muddy hell.

[Massimo]

Printed 2000 pages of A3 in B&W instead of Colour. About $200 and allot of paper planes.

[mrcheezle19]

Almost busted out laughing during class. This is even better than blunt destroying the bathroom.

your welcome:up:

[ButtJuice]

I Read this thread in class while someone was presenting their research report, I couldn't help but burst out in laughter. Awkward silence....

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

male or female?

Male. He still sees me on a daily basis saying his spare room is available for rent. :drink:
He wouldnt stop bugging me,and claimed he could make me Straight.

I have to say I'm jealous of your job. I would kill to get into the shipping area for some photography....

Me too. Thats a killer job i hate you! :)

[dashboardmonkey]

Had a chevy pickup fall of a lift a couple years ago. Destroyed it.

[glnr13]

i called out the wrong label on 200,000 pieces once. I caught it halfway through so the repair bill was just over 100,000@$.10 for each label replacement.