Biggest screwup

[Kim]

How does that liability work? I mean if you mess up under the circumstances that you're working for this company, doesn't the company become liable, as you are a paid employee for them. Not saying you'll be fired or anything, but most people would just be out of a job. If you have to pay the fine because the company is using you as a scapegoat, that's complete bullshit.

[Squeezer]

How does that liability work? I mean if you mess up under the circumstances that you're working for this company, doesn't the company become liable, as you are a paid employee for them. Not saying you'll be fired or anything, but most people would just be out of a job. If you have to pay the fine because the company is using you as a scapegoat, that's complete bullshit.

agreed, and you can sue them. That is if ure from America. Here in the good ol' USA u can sue for nething now.

[Arikel]

Whoa 50k!!
That hurts i guess you will get fired... sowy.
But about the 50k its not you that have to pay for them since you are working for a company... even if they put you out if you find it suitable you can sue them for firing you without a fair reason, but only of course if you think you have reason to do that... but about the 50k well dont even think about paying them its your boss that will pay for it...

[Dameon Angell]

Say the guy stole the container by leaving the terminal without proper clearance.

[Ewan]

Say the driver pointed a gun at you and said to let him take it.

[dchao]

Say a guy named Ewan pointed a gun at you and took it.

[Ilya]

one time i was a cashier at this joint and i was all checkin out this ho's tits and gave her a $20 bill instead of a $10 bill for change.

bitch was mad fine




























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[Ephemeral]

Back in the 70's as one of my first jobs, I worked for a dairy during the summer months. It was a staging depot, loading milk trucks for rural delivery the next day. Occasionally they would ask me to load a milk truck and run it out to a local grocery store. One day, the Winn-Dixie needed 40 1 gallon milk in a hurry. I pulled two stacks of 1 gallon milk (in those milk crates that hold 4 gallons per) into the back of a milk truck and headed out.
I came to the busiest intersection in our town, where 3 major highways all converged. I sat at the traffic light waiting for it to change. As it turned green, I popped the clutch in took off, but apparently I hadn't closed the rear door, both stacks of milk came flying out right in the middle of the intersection. Even worse, there was a local cop sitting right there, so I couldn't just keeping going. I had to stop while he held up traffic and clean the mess up. Everyone was honking, laughing, and flipping me off. And wouldn't you know, just at this time a car full of hotties from my school happens by. It wasn't a lot of money, but it was embarrassing.


Another time, I was working my way through college by working at night at a local factory. During a holiday, they asked if anyone wanted to come in and work for extra cash. Several of us jumped at it and the task was just general cleanup requiring many trips to the trash compactor/dumpster. After many trips, I was on my last one. Right after I dumped the trash, I headed for the compactor switch on the wall. This was a huge compactor, you could fit a small truck in it. My hand was about 2" from the switch when I hear a very faint 'hello out there'. WTF? Some moron had crawled back into the dumpster to find something!!! I had been about 2 seconds from killing the bastard, thank God I didn't hit that switch.

Same place as above, and this was back in the 70's too. Back then, companies had environmentally controlled rooms to keep the big iron in (mainframes and computers). They were always locked and you needed special access to even get into the room. Since I was janitor and working at night, I had complete run of the place and keys for everything. It was part of my job to dump the trash in the computer room. It wasn't unusual for there to be cardboard boxes and other trash sitting around the actual trash can. One night, I go in and there was an empty box sitting next to the trash can. I picked it up, it felt and looked empty, so I throw it in my trash cart. Next day while sitting in Comparative Embryology class, someone comes and tells me I have an emergency phone call. It was my boss asking about some box in the computer room. I told him I threw one away the night before. Turns out there was (according to him) $35,000 worth of software in that box. Even worse, the dumpster had already been picked up and sent to the local dump!! He wanted me to come out of class and help go dig through the dump to find them. I told him to forget it. The company sent over 15 people to and it took them over 4 hours to find them, but they finally did. A guy who worked in the computer room admitted he threw them out and that I hadn't done anything wrong, but to this day I still thoroughly check boxes before I throw them out.

[Jerome Scuggs]

Back in the 70's

[Rudy]

You know, of all the dangerous chemicals that are transported, milk is by far the most dangerous to carry. Apparently, if it gets in the waterways, it kills everything and makes the water undrinkable. Of all the explosives, chemical byproducts and other dangerous shit we do transport, we still don't transport milk. Sounds absurd doesn't it? But it's true.

Anyway, I apparently escaped scott free from this fuckup. The thing is I'm the one keeping track of the in and outbound traffic and because the setup I have here is new, I don't have gates to stop trucks from doing whatever they please. Anyone with a truck able to carry shit out of here could waltz in, point out a box they want, and leave without anyone being the wiser. So if they thought they could pin the blame solely on me, they had another thing coming. They sure as hell wouldn't fire me since I'm the only one doing this job. Their whole Sydney operation would be down the gurgler until they trained a replacement.

Just the shock of being almost 25 grand in debt to the people I work for sent me reeling. I've been working my butt off for them since I started here and to walk away with less money than when I started sounded very surreal. Now that's it's all OK again, I guess I won't have to kamikaze into a wall. Hooray?

[Nockm]

Read forums in the morning: O_O

Read forums before bed: ^_^

Thanks for the rollercoaster Rudy.

[Sarien]

I guess it's all over and everybody's learned their lesson. The moral of the story: Never let Rudy give milk to Terrorists.

[pv=nrt]

i doubt the milk thing is true unless you put arsenic in the milk. Milk is made of of water and fats. Nothing that would kill the enviroment. Otherwise you would not be able to drain milk down the city sewers.

[za gophar]

my biggest work screw up, although very minor is kind of interesting.

i was chillin in the guard shack one day and my friend is like i want a drink, so he is looking for his drink punch card. if you get 15 punches in it, you get something free from concessions. well, these hole punches happen to be heart shaped. i said to him i said "hey, isnt there a heart shaped hole puncher in the filter house?" the look he gave me was classic. we both had the same idea simultaneously and our faces just lit up and we walked down to the filter house with his punch card. so we got there and it is a small shack, dimly lit, with a huge mess of pipes sunken below ground level. all of the water rushing through the system makes it pretty noisy. well we walked in there and he starts punching the card and i am cracking up, and then all of a sudden we hear "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GIVE ME THAT... (the punch card is handed over) .. GET OUT!!" our boss had been fixing the pipes below us and we had no idea he was in there. he was angry, but cool about it. he said if someone else had found us we would be fired on the spot for theft. he made my friend clean the concession stand for a few hours one day as punishment. he forgot to punish me, though, cause i went out of town on vacation for a week the next day.

[Nickname]

At work today I let several under 18 year olds rent 18a movies, net fine $40,000 per.

I also allowed others to rent movies before the street date net fine $60,00

Total net fines today alone $140,000