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At the power plant I work, we had a mechanic with a thick accent. Each time a piece of machinery needed maintenance, the mechanic's first words were, "Guas de problem? (i.e., What's the problem?") After explaining the problem, his typical response was, "Gua du jew guan mi tudu? (i.e., What do you want me to do?). I always felt his response was rather stand-offish.
His response became so commonplace that I began to answer him sarcastically. I'd say things like, "I need for you to repair the problem" or "Hey, you're the mechanic. Why are you asking me?"
One day something else needed fixing. He walked into my work area where there happen to be a group of people. Before he opened his mouth I said, "Let me guess, Gua du jew guan mi tudu?" Everyone started laughing out loud.
The next day I was called into my boss's office and informed that my comments were unprofessional, unacceptable and could result in a letter of reprimand should it ever happen again.
At the power plant I work, we had a mechanic with a thick accent. Each time a piece of machinery needed maintenance, the mechanic's first words were, "Guas de problem? (i.e., What's the problem?") After explaining the problem, his typical response was, "Gua du jew guan mi tudu? (i.e., What do you want me to do?). I always felt his response was rather stand-offish.
His response became so commonplace that I began to answer him sarcastically. I'd say things like, "I need for you to repair the problem" or "Hey, you're the mechanic. Why are you asking me?"
One day something else needed fixing. He walked into my work area where there happen to be a group of people. Before he opened his mouth I said, "Let me guess, Gua du jew guan mi tudu?" Everyone started laughing out loud.
The next day I was called into my boss's office and informed that my comments were unprofessional, unacceptable and could result in a letter of reprimand should it ever happen again.
Your best bet at work is to be as completely generic as possible and never make a smart mouth remark unless you know the person well and know they would understand. People are puss**s these days.
I wouldn't say this was the worst mistake I made. But a long time ago I use to work at a motorcycle parts distributor. I worked in the warehouse, my job was to supply the shipping dept with parts by opening boxes of merchandise, count them and put them in their designated bin in the stock room. I would open the boxes with a razor blade not a box cutter but a straight rectangular razor blade, I was so bored of the job that I ended up misplacing a razor blade in a small bin where some counted merchandise was. The shipping dept dumped the contents of that bin and shipped it to the customer. My boss comes to me a few days later and showed me a printed picture of the razor blade mixed in with the parts that a customer had received.
I thought I was going to get fired for that mistake but I was told to be more careful. Well guess what a week later I ended up repeating the same mistake again. This time a co-worker caught the mistake before it was shipped. My boss asked me what can he do for this not to be an issue. I asked for a box cutter that way I can't misplace it. I stared to look for a new job and a few weeks later I ended up landing a job in a discipline I was studying in college. I gave a week notice of resignation to the warehouse job and I ended up working at the new job for 7 years.
We've all done them..those mistakes that make our heart beat 10 extra beats in a second.
Mine: I opened an email attachment that had a virus. I bought down one of the main drives. It all started happening so fast-anyway..thought I was about to go into cardiac arrest at my desk and the moment where I had to head into my bosses office to tell them it was me. JESUS...longest walk of my life-outter body experience-felt like I was floating down the hall instead of walking. I am my own worst enemy so no one had to give me grief..was giving it all to myself.
Anyway, who has any other "war stories" to swap?
Well, moving a cart with some wood sticking out, caught a work bench and the brand new $20K oscilloscope bit the dust. I took it to the engineers who were actually happy I broke it as they then used the parts to fix 4 others....They never told the higher ups and when the shut the place down, they listed the scope as "Stolen"...
Was working in the ER and got tired and hungry so I decided to eat a coworker's lunch (trust me, she didn't need it anyway) and take a quick nap in an empty patient room. It turns out I'm a heavily sleeper and didn't wake up until 5 hours later when my shift was over. Boy was my face red...when I realized how much more comfortable the hospital bed was than my own. And boy was your face red when you believed this story.
In an attempt to impress a woman, I once snuck her into the lab where i work. I was showing her the Mars Rover and we ended up crashing it into a ravine. Since she wasn't supposed to be there this was a big problem. I called my friends to try and help, but they weren't much help. In fact, one of them helped me sneak her out to take her home, and ended up hooking up with her. But that's a story for another post. Doh! Eventually I just left it and acted surprised when it became known.
BAZINGA!
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