Things you've destroyed at work

[M-technik-3]

Was having a bad hair day so I blew it up. j/k Was parked right beside the remains of this B1B Lancer at Al Udied back in 2008. No one died.

[Eric]

fucking pics!!!!

Working on it, It's from a few years ago, so I've gotta dig through an old computer.

Was having a bad hair day so I blew it up. j/k Was parked right beside the remains of this B1B Lancer at Al Udied back in 2008. No one died.

That's the one that burned after the brakes caught fire right?

I didn't destroy anything this time, but I did have a scary story. One night at Kandahar I was towing two trailers of mk82 bombs out to our a-10's. Driving down the flightline with two trailers behind me, each with 10 500lb live/fused bombs, I let a c-17 pull out in front of me. This is normal to yeald to aircraft, and at the time Kandahar was the busiest single runway airport in the world! So I'm following the gigantic plane about 500 feet back when all of a sudden it stops. At about the time the "incoming" sirens go off. Well there was no bunker nearby, so we just lie flat in the ground. This wasn't a big deal since it was night and not too hot. As we're laying on the taxiway, emergency response cars/trucks are flying past us towards the c-17!!!

About 3 hours later we finally delivered our bombs. Turns out a Mortar hit the dirt between the active runway and the taxiway myself and the C-17 were driving on. The mortar head (explosive part) broke away from the body on impact with the ground and flew into the C-17. It punctured the planes roof above the pilot, and landed about 6 inches behind him! Luckily the mortar didn't go off, but there was still pretty extensive damage to the plane. It sat on the tarmac a couple hundred yards from the incident for about a month as a team from boeing came out to make the repair to the sheet metal and electronics.

[ieatpeople]

something i didn't do, but got blamed for:

a customer left a laptop at my work containing approx. $14k worth of software (laptop was worth about $3.5k), and it vanished overnight. Since i was working late, and was the last to leave the building they assumed i stole it. They couldn't prove anything, and our insurance company paid for it.

about 2 months later a custodian was caught leaving the building with the laptop. he had stashed it above the ceiling tiles in the cleaning closet, then waited for a while to take it home. Sounds like some crap out of a movie, but it happened.

[ohthejosh]

Custodians 11

[phreshkid]

Everygreen and Florens boxes? I played a round of golf with the US VPs of both companies a few months ago. I work for a company called ConGlobal Industries. It looks like you work at the Port. Good job.

I have destroyed a few containers driving these beasts. A few weeks ago someone flipped one. He is the first in the world to survive it...

[318isbmw]

I'm working at boeing as a structures mechanic, I've seen a few skin panels ruined on 747's while being built. It's ugly how much money it costs to replace a panel (roughly 30' x 10' sheet).

[FunfGan]

Custodians 11

[rasputin]

biggest deduction so far, 70$ for scratching a wheel in the tire machine, barely nicked it trying to get the rubberband tire off, had to call wheel repair and pay them on the spot.

it happens, just own up to it, handle it, we all break/fuck up things now and then.


hell, i saw a guy take a one arm out from a car and walk away, he got three steps then the trans fell out of the car lol

[M-technik-3]

Working on it, It's from a few years ago, so I've gotta dig through an old computer.



That's the one that burned after the brakes caught fire right?

I didn't destroy anything this time, but I did have a scary story. One night at Kandahar I was towing two trailers of mk82 bombs out to our a-10's. Driving down the flightline with two trailers behind me, each with 10 500lb live/fused bombs, I let a c-17 pull out in front of me. This is normal to yeald to aircraft, and at the time Kandahar was the busiest single runway airport in the world! So I'm following the gigantic plane about 500 feet back when all of a sudden it stops. At about the time the "incoming" sirens go off. Well there was no bunker nearby, so we just lie flat in the ground. This wasn't a big deal since it was night and not too hot. As we're laying on the taxiway, emergency response cars/trucks are flying past us towards the c-17!!!

About 3 hours later we finally delivered our bombs. Turns out a Mortar hit the dirt between the active runway and the taxiway myself and the C-17 were driving on. The mortar head (explosive part) broke away from the body on impact with the ground and flew into the C-17. It punctured the planes roof above the pilot, and landed about 6 inches behind him! Luckily the mortar didn't go off, but there was still pretty extensive damage to the plane. It sat on the tarmac a couple hundred yards from the incident for about a month as a team from boeing came out to make the repair to the sheet metal and electronics.

That's funny, I was there the next day after that happened. Should have told you I was headed that way. Yes that was the brake fire.... We were parked in the debris field.

the poo pond field is still the busiest single runway field out there,

[Albuquerque30]

Haven't destroyed anything thankfully. A few weeks ago, a fellow crew chief destroyed a hydro accumulator and the hard lines around it (3000 psi finding it's way out) and got sent to the hospital. Needless to say, FRED always bites back.

[Northern]

Fucked a new hinge bracket support for a cargo ramp a week ago, its worth 5k. I would feel shitty, but its not 100% my fault.

[nickpro]

I used to make tree stump tables for my neighbor in her garage. When it was winter I would work in the bed of the truck so I didn't have to put it outside. I was using 30 grit, and a piece of grit flew off and hit the rear window and it shattered. I managed to say that snow fell on the roof and made a 2x fall that was on the rafters. Never got called out atleast.

[M-technik-3]

Haven't destroyed anything thankfully. A few weeks ago, a fellow crew chief destroyed a hydro accumulator and the hard lines around it (3000 psi finding it's way out) and got sent to the hospital. Needless to say, FRED always bites back.

Hydraulic Accumulator is not one to screw with.

Airplane is bleed Hydraulic fluid down the T tail right now. Had system 1 dump and we shut down the runway when we landed just a few minutes ago.

[nando]

I wasn't there but somebody knocked over our 1-month old laser scanner while out in the field. it hit some handrail and cracked the battery cover. it still appeared to work but since we're using this data to model and build stuff we had it sent to germany.. takes 45 days for them to look at it. they ended up just buying another scanner since we need it so badly.

it wasn't completely their falt, the rubber feet on the $5,000 carbon fiber tripod were too small for what we use it for (industrial sites) and one of them fell through the grating. the fix was to replace the feet on the tripod with some bigger ones. lesson learned..

[canadiankid]

Control electrician FTW. Im 3rd term apprentice. Cant wait till im licensed. Controls is awesome because I got a company van at 2nd term. I blew a humidity sensor($400) because it had a different power source. A co-op student drilled through a $10,000 fire damper last week after an engineer told him he could. One guy put a hilti bit through the back of a $5000 controller. Office told him to come in and bring his tools. Never saw him again.