Most expensive mistake at work

KarenDent said:
So you aren’t a SAFC fan then?
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How very dare you...
Always a Sunderland Fan, but when I was younger me and friends used to go and watch Darlington.
It was cheap and occasionally cheerful!
I only really went to Sunderland games with my Dad when he got tickets.
When I moved away, I joined the Manc Branch and got to see lots more, albeit not many at the SoL
 


When I worked in a casino I was supervising roulette and we had a big player playing.

He got a hit for around 120k+ and myself and the dealer both mistook a 50k plaque/chip for a 20k one and he got 30k free.

Manager comes over a couple of minutes later and explains what happened and asks for the 30k back

The punter was in the hole for about half a mill and told the manager to fuck off basically and carried on playing! 😂
 
only a couple of grand thankfully

sent out 3000 letters notifying cusotmer of an increase in charges, I sent the letter as the Charge+VAT so £6.00 plus VAT same as we had done for the years previously

business decided that they actually wanted to show it so 6.00+VAT of 1.20 but didnt communicate that to me until I had already sent them

so basically additional mail cost of the additional letters, so not really on me, but still sort of me being responsible for it
 
not really my mistake but i was tipping a tanker of waste down sheffield way. this stuff was particularly nasty and always went into the same tank to be processed once it was sampled. for some reason the boffins decided to tip it into a different storage tank. i queried it as did the lads who were the operators on site but we were all told it was ok. halfway through tipping the site alarms went off and we were evacuated. the product had reacted with the stuff in the different tank and had set the temperature alarms off. the fire brigade arrived and spent a good few hours cooling the storage tank down.
not sure how much it cost but it would've been a fair bit.
 
Over the years......probably £10K of kit broken down the pit by not offloading it properly (load binder wrapped around the track and set the hauler away so the unit slid off the back), at Siemens, put about £40K of microchips on the wrong program, which resulted in a lot of scrapping and cleaning of furnaces / chambers afterwards, real cost may have actually been much more as subsequent batches were scrapped also. Worked on an IT bid worth £600M, which we never won, and although neither us nor the only competitor were selected in the end, it still felt like a loss (my bit was worth about £50M)
 
PTR said:
Off to a meeting about a £5m bill in a minute. Can't say I slept too well last night.
SPUFF said:
You attempted to make that log fired hot tub/sauna didnt you!!
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Honestly, got not idea on that reference - I swear other people remember my posts better than I do :)

Client is 99% agreed to the bill now, just need to drop a final note to them tomorrow. Thank feck
 
PTR said:
Honestly, got not idea on that reference - I swear other people remember my posts better than I do :)

Client is 99% agreed to the bill now, just need to drop a final note to them tomorrow. Thank feck
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I might have made some of it up. Sure you said you were hoping for that though.

Peterlees very own doc brown! 😉
 
SPUFF said:
I might have made some of it up. Sure you said you were hoping for that though.

Peterlees very own doc brown! 😉
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I'm just tired from work/driving - I hadn't even read the post properly - aye, one fire to heat a sauna and a hot tub is something I've said seems like a great idea.
 
Gene Hunt said:
A pub I worked in when at uni had huge vats for lager instead of kegs as it was a very busy place with insufficient cellar space for the volume needed. There were 3 vats and each time one was empty it had to be cleaned before it was filled in the next delivery. They had a built in sprinkler system which attached to a hose and pump which would run line cleaning solution through it.

I was doing some cellar shifts for extra money and one morning set to work cleaning lines and cleaning the one empty vat. I was (fortunately) taught as best practice to run water through first to give it a good rinse before adding the line cleaning solution so I set the water away and went to make myself a cup of tea. I came back 5 -10 minutes later and to my horror realised I had connected up the wrong vat and had been filling up the one half full of lager. Shitting myself and thinking I would get the bullet I connected it back up and cleaned the empty one and didn’t say a word to anyone.

I was bricking it over the next few days in case anybody complained about the watery lager or the place had received a visit from weights and measures. I could only relax when the vat was changed and thanked my lucky stars I hadn’t put the line cleaning solution straight in. It also shows how shit Carling is that nobody would notice the difference.

So in reality I actually made the business money, but could’ve had the place shut down if my error had been discovered.
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About 20 years ago I worked for Interbrew (Now AB/Inbev) with the Fermentation Vessels.

A bloke on my shift ran a caustic cleaning solution through a 60 odd foot VAT full of Stella Artois.

He got canned….if you will pardon the pun.
 
Bluebird of Happines said:
About 20 years ago I worked for Interbrew (Now AB/Inbev) with the Fermentation Vessels.
A bloke on my shift ran a caustic cleaning solution through a 60 odd foot VAT full of Stella Artois.
He got canned….if you will pardon the pun.
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Since nobody else is biting: Did it make the beer taste better?
 
Technically wasnt my fault but i got blamed for it.

Pier 17 , fish n chip shop, in the metrocentre foodcourt caught fire.

I was on clean the fryer duty and had started to melt the fat to filter it when lass i was on shift with complained that the rumbler (skins tatties) was getting peel all over her so we swapped jobs as she was senior.

I came back from skinning 5 barrels worth of tatties, shes nowhere to be seen. The filter machine is in fryer....

There's smoke whisping out. I go investigate. Fryer empty, me opening now turns it into a fireball. I jump back sans eyebrows hit the tiled wall rendering me slightly concussed.

The roof tiles you know those shitty pebble dashed ones, catch fire so now the roofs on fire.

Dipstick co worker comes back from having a tab and panics. Im shouting get the extinguisher

Shes "ooooh theres a fire There's a fire"

Hit the alarm

"ooooh theres a fire There's a fire"

Then guy from chinese resteraunt burst into save the day....

Wrong extinguisher for fat fire. So metro centre yellow quandrant was evacuated 10 am on a saturday cos i followed orders lol

As it turned out i was underage to operate either machine being 17. They swept it under rug

But everyone did blame me for it. Not sure how much i cost the yellow quadrant, but metroland defo shut lol
 
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