One employer two tales
I worked for IBM back in the early 90's in a huge production plant. I started 'on the line', and it was a good laugh, until i was asked to go to the 'label room'. This was a very small with 4 pc's and 4 thermal printers for printing off the serial numbers to get stuck on th eback of the desktop pc's. It was a very boring job, in a small room, all by myself. So i decided to root about on one of the pc's, fucking about with the serial number printing program, changing values, generally making a nuisance of myself. I then got a call asking to print off 1,000 numbers for such and such a model. I set it to print and it stops after just a 100 or so, and would not print any more. The serial numbers were logged to some degree and once past a certain number, stopped. One of the line managers stormed down and tried to print off the serial numbers that were crucial to the build. He couldn't. This meantr that production had to cease and about 100 wokers went idle for the best part of 2 days. Woo.

A few months i was back on the line, i was positioned beside the server line, where they built massive servers that cost a fucking bomb, the hard drives in particular were VERY expensive, and each server had several. I was plucked from the line to help with a one off order of these fucking servers. My job was to screw the hard drives into a cradle that would then slot into the server all lovely and snug. The cradle however was slightly magnetised and any time a put a screw near the screwhole it would flick to the side and stick to the cradle making it a very, very difficult and annoying job. The upshot of this was i would slam the fucking hard drives about in a fit of temper, knowing full well how fragile they were. Shift over, i had managed to do the 60 drives, i then went home. Came back the next day to see ALL but 3 of the drives in a big box. All ruined. Bashed to fucking death by me. So that was all the drives and all the time and effort of my fellow employees to fit and test the fucked stuff. Wooooooooo me.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 0:22, 4 replies)

so
not so much a mistake. More, mindless vandalism really? Go you.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 8:33, closed)

More being a tit
rather than an expensive mistake.
( Kavanagh thinks that -6C is warm, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 9:21, closed)

Actually Kavanagh
The expensive mistake was made by the company that hired him :)
(Michael J Fox is having a shaky start., Fri 26 Oct 2007, 9:26, closed)

opinions are like arseholes, every cunt has got one
FYI, the company were cunts, and their bad attitudes filtered down, all the way. There was a modern day apartheid at work between the 'foo timers' and the 'temps'. So basically i couldn't give a fuck and yes, it was vandalism. And what of the huge factory now, 16 years on, shut down, all the folk made redundant, plenty of misery. So my harddisk strop fades intay nothingness.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 22:52, closed)