Screwing up at workSomeone on the security team signed off that a fake bomb had been recovered at Old Trafford when it hadn't. Cue one controlled explosion and a postponed soccer game. Tell us your tales of workplace screw ups and the consequences of your mistakes.
(, Tue 17 May 2016, 8:59)
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A long time ago, back when I was a newly qualified engineer, I was given quite a big project to work on - well, not wanting to blow my own trumpet here but it was MASSIVE - I could hardly believe my luck. I thought I did a pretty impressive job, and so did everybody else until they discovered a small design flaw...you just wouldn't BELIEVE the unlikely chain of events that led to it being discovered, but when it was, oh boy, it all blew up in my face. And everyone else's. Took me a pretty long time to live that one down, I can tell you! Fortunately time is a great healer and after many years I was given the chance to undertake a similar project. Well virtually the same project really but just a bit bigger. Sadly, old lazybones here thought, "aha, I'll just scale up my old designs, make sure I sort out that *slight* design flaw..." Unfortunately - and I still don't know how it happened - yes, you guessed it, I forgot to take that pesky flaw out...suffice it to say I am back in the dog-house again :-(
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vladimir, Tue 17 May 2016, 17:39,
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I was waiting for some pop-culture punchline in this...(, Thu 19 May 2016, 0:34, closed)
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