Monumental work cockups

[Vyse]

Have any of you experienced or was the cause of a big cockup at work? Did you fess up about it or kept quiet or did you tell the boss and it turned out ok in the end?

e.g. Either the wrong equipment was ordered worth thousands of pounds, excel formulas were found to be wrong and only noticed months down the line or a decision was made and things subsequently went tits up.

At the place I work, someone had ordered £50k worth of equipment but after running validation tests it was revealed the wrong machinery was bought. Its set our project back big time.

[Vyse]

I wonder what percentage of budget companies leave a side for such fk ups.

[Vyse]

You didnt use the retract email function?

Jasandjules said:

Very similar to one above actually, and happily not mine.

Entire trading system for a bank was switched to the Beta version for the weekend testing. Someone however forgot to switch it back to the live system for Monday. A whole day the entire bank were dealing on the test software thinking it was live......

My personal one was to "forward" an email from a total pr**k at work to my boss explaining what a t**t he was and how can we possibly employ this type of moron who was too f***ng arrogant to realise how stupid he was... Unfortunately, I (showing my superior intellect), hit reply all instead of forward...............