How often d'you fuck up at work??
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Princess
I have not fucked up so far in this job (4 days), total record. 
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Very little, which considering the low level of responsibility and simple nature of my job is not that surprising.
dirtysanta
Original Casual
couple of times a week.
Bonfirelight
Crocodile
'bout 8 hours a day
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Rarely - I occasionally give people the wrong info and email them later with the right info.
If I make a big mistake that's critical to operations, I will get fired on the spot, and there's the possibility of millions of people being pissed off and fines of tens of thousands of Ks to my employers, so I do that part of the job very carefully
If I make a big mistake that's critical to operations, I will get fired on the spot, and there's the possibility of millions of people being pissed off and fines of tens of thousands of Ks to my employers, so I do that part of the job very carefully
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Erm, once every 6 months I'll have a hum-dinger. I captioned a photo 'DEAD: Mrs Smith before she was killed.'
When in fact Mrs Smith was not only not killed, but still very much alive. Whoops!
I captioned another photo 'JAILED' - when in fact the guy was not jailed (deserved to be, imo, though apparently 'that's not an excuse' ).
And my favourite was a kid with cancer, who was being sent to Disneyland by his Dad's work colleagues. They'd had a fancy dress fundraiser, and on the photo you could see this lad in his dad's arms (his dad was in drag with a frightful curly orange wig on).
So I captioned it: CASH: Johnny Smith cheers on his supporters in the arms of his dragged-up dad Paul (in the orange wig).
Turns out, not only was the bloke holding the cancer boy NOT the boy's dad, it wasn't even a bloke. It was a woman. And it wasn't a wig. It was her real hair. And boy, was she upset....
I was only young when I fucked that one up, and I still can't tell the story without going red.
When in fact Mrs Smith was not only not killed, but still very much alive. Whoops!
I captioned another photo 'JAILED' - when in fact the guy was not jailed (deserved to be, imo, though apparently 'that's not an excuse'
).And my favourite was a kid with cancer, who was being sent to Disneyland by his Dad's work colleagues. They'd had a fancy dress fundraiser, and on the photo you could see this lad in his dad's arms (his dad was in drag with a frightful curly orange wig on).
So I captioned it: CASH: Johnny Smith cheers on his supporters in the arms of his dragged-up dad Paul (in the orange wig).
Turns out, not only was the bloke holding the cancer boy NOT the boy's dad, it wasn't even a bloke. It was a woman. And it wasn't a wig. It was her real hair. And boy, was she upset....
I was only young when I fucked that one up, and I still can't tell the story without going red.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
zenie said:However, Our department has a good motto:
"We're only human"
Doesn't always wash - I got a ticking off at a 'why-did-it-all-go-tits-up' meeting for saying, 'fuck it, it's only telly. No-one died'.
zenie
>^^<
Orang Utan said:
Doesn't always wash - I got a ticking off at a 'why-did-it-all-go-tits-up' meeting for saying, 'fuck it, it's only telly. No-one died'.
Oh, Ours is "We're only human, we're not robots, everyone makes mistakes"
People dont usually know what to say when we come out with that....
This year so far we have cost the company errmmm about 8k but we have a 20k buffer throughout the year, any money under the 20k we get* as a bonus
*Except I'm leaving of course
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Now and again, but not usually anything serious. It's been very years since I did a proper platinum standard fuck up.
What fucks me off, though, is people nitpicking small errors when the people themselves fuck up regularly with no comeback.
What fucks me off, though, is people nitpicking small errors when the people themselves fuck up regularly with no comeback.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Skim said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No excuse for 'thier' though 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Spellcheckers are for people who can't spell!
Skim
Well-Known Member
Orang Utan said:
No, we always have to use the spellchecker in InDesign as well as subbing everything through three people before pages go to press. In fact, I'm doing the final checks on a load of pages right now before they go to repro – and there will be less mistakes than in my previous posts
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Really? What about typos that are actually words?Skim said:
I just reread my emails to make sure there are no spelling mistakes or typos - I don't trust a spell checker to get it right.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Not really much opportunity to cause damage working in a library
In my last job there was plenty of opportunity to fuck up, so there were procedures in place to avoid deadlines being missed - if a deadline gets missed in patentland, it generally results in the patent dying irretrievably and very few excuses will get it back. The Patent Office generally only gives extensions if your office burns down, from what I remember.
In my last job there was plenty of opportunity to fuck up, so there were procedures in place to avoid deadlines being missed - if a deadline gets missed in patentland, it generally results in the patent dying irretrievably and very few excuses will get it back. The Patent Office generally only gives extensions if your office burns down, from what I remember.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I screw up fairly regularly because I am constantly forced to make decisions based on very sketchy information. So sometimes, I make the wrong decision but it was based on what I knew at the time, which was very little, so it's not really a screw up as such. IUSWIM!! And then I have to sort if all out.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
i can't remember the last time i fucked up royally. i must be slacking in my old age.
