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work for an aircraft company, hand routing a Boeing 777 rudder skin and at the same time had the auto router going, it went bizerc and cut wrong, scrapped the skin, buy buy to 40k, then bout 2 months later similar thing, another 40k, and then about 2 weeks ago while moving a skin on the hoist, it malfunctioned and dropped the skin from 1.5mt and buy buy to another 40k.

oh well, wat do u do. still got my job

i used to work driving trams and i derailed the tram, ass end came off the tracks as i was entering into the shed at work and didnt know the ass end was off the tracks (as i was going like 6km/h) till the ass end really kicked out and hit the shed wall (Bricks) and hit air compressor line for the tram mechanics in the shed and cleaned up the fire hose reel, and the fence. lol total damage cost was bout $60000 to get tram repaired and painted, new shed wall, air compressor line fire hose reel, new fence and new bitumen and tracks lol ( and yes i still had my job afterwards as the investigated it and found out it was due to the tracks being in poor condition)phew!!! lol

Hahaha wow, that's a shiteload of f*ck-ups.

I'm a trainee surgeon, so if I f**k up, people die. Haven't done it yet, and not planning to. But working 15 hours a day 6 days a week all the time makes you bloody tired.

mmmmm let me see

We had a builder in our building drop a cinder block down a riser shaft from the 17th floor. This hit a main water pipe in the building and flooded floors, 1, 2, 3,

Floor 1 1.2 mill damage

Floor 2 1 mill and a datcentre off the Air (Cost a major business 65 Million in one day)

Floor 3 200k

total cost for a builder F**up

$69.4 million dollars

damn yeah thats awesome! i like that better than mine

Its not stuffing up if its what they tell you to do...

very true

i once weeded a ladies garden when i had my own business and i thought she said weed these but she said dont weed these. like her prize winning herbs or some sh*t. she was devastated. i did the whole day for free.

very true

i once weeded a ladies garden when i had my own business and i thought she said weed these but she said dont weed these. like her prize winning herbs or some sh*t. she was devastated. i did the whole day for free.

:P

very true

i once weeded a ladies garden when i had my own business and i thought she said weed these but she said dont weed these. like her prize winning herbs or some sh*t. she was devastated. i did the whole day for free.

LOL hahahahhahaha

'' special weeds '' :D

haha Dezz that's funny as.

Squash - $0.12 kg

hahahahhaha

i used to work driving trams and i derailed the tram, ass end came off the tracks as i was entering into the shed at work and didnt know the ass end was off the tracks (as i was going like 6km/h) till the ass end really kicked out and hit the shed wall (Bricks) and hit air compressor line for the tram mechanics in the shed and cleaned up the fire hose reel, and the fence. lol total damage cost was bout $60000 to get tram repaired and painted, new shed wall, air compressor line fire hose reel, new fence and new bitumen and tracks lol ( and yes i still had my job afterwards as the investigated it and found out it was due to the tracks being in poor condition)phew!!! lol

thats like something off die hard

maybe not as bad as some of you's have f*#kd up but when i was first starting out in kmart like 4 years ago i was on the registers and i came across my first coles myer credit card payment. payment was for like $1500 but it was on cheque. never done a cheque in the 2 weeks i was there so decided to freestyle it.

cheque went through but not on the guys credit card bill. don't know where the money went. manger found out who done it and got told off :D

second day working as an aircon installer, i was under a roof at a residential house, my foot slipped and half my body fell through the ceiling... people inside the living room screamed... only cost like 300$ to fix...but f**k it was embarrassing :D

I used to work on the production line at a ford supplier a few years back, I was driving the fork lift with 56 territory drive shafts in a stillage, I went round a corner a bit fast and the stillage tipped over and smashed into a wall, just as this happend the plant manager was walking up the walk way showing one of the ford senior managers around.

All 56 shafts were damaged and the plant manager and ford bloke saw it all, you should have seen their faces. :blink:

Total cost was like 60k, the stillage was deemed to be designed wrong as there was nothing preventing it from coming off the forks. Still kept my job and wet on to be good friends with the plant manager LoL.

second day working as an aircon installer, i was under a roof at a residential house, my foot slipped and half my body fell through the ceiling... people inside the living room screamed... only cost like 300$ to fix...but f**k it was embarrassing :D

haha yeah thats mad. did the fondle you as you dangled through the roof? :blink: hahaha

Hahaha wow, that's a shiteload of f*ck-ups.

I'm a trainee surgeon, so if I f**k up, people die. Haven't done it yet, and not planning to. But working 15 hours a day 6 days a week all the time makes you bloody tired.

we've all got at least one coming to us mate. at least thats what i've been told. dunno if it was just some consultant trying to put the fear of god into me

i used to work driving trams and i derailed the tram, ass end came off the tracks as i was entering into the shed at work and didnt know the ass end was off the tracks (as i was going like 6km/h) till the ass end really kicked out and hit the shed wall (Bricks) and hit air compressor line for the tram mechanics in the shed and cleaned up the fire hose reel, and the fence. lol total damage cost was bout $60000 to get tram repaired and painted, new shed wall, air compressor line fire hose reel, new fence and new bitumen and tracks lol ( and yes i still had my job afterwards as the investigated it and found out it was due to the tracks being in poor condition)phew!!! lol

I reckon i have laughed more at this thread than any for a while.. lol.. The one above takes the cake tho. hahaha

I have simply made a typo before when connecting someones electricity. So instead of putting it in for 05/05/2008 for example, i entered it as 05/05/2080.

Needless to say the customer didnt get connected and spent a weekend without power. He lodged a claim form with the company for losses incurred due to no power. EG: Claim for costs of hiring a hotel for his family, having to buy meals, and spoiled food. Would have cost the company a little bit :blink:

I've put a Pick axe through a Gas pipeline in the CBD when i was an apprentice.

I got told the callout would be....

4 fire trucks (minimum) @ $1400 each, i think they carry about 4-6 firefighters,

$50 per 15 mins per firefighter.

The firefighters close off about 3-4 city blocks and evacuate everyone...

at least that's what would have happened, and the gas been turned on..... Phew :P

been driving Volvo a25d articulated haulers for about 2years and on one day .... my luck FRIDAY! at about 3.30 1hour before knock off!

fully loaded heading up a hill started at the base ramp at about 25kph in 4th (not fast but for these things its comfy) as i reached near the top i was in 2nd gear, and as always they swtich depending on rev range like any auto ... down to 1st ... then revs up ...then into 2nd ... back to 1st...

gets bloody annoying so like an auto trans i pushed it into 1st manual ... next things i know .. the computer deciding to put it in Nutural even tho the stick is in 1st...

the force of the truck stopping like that (with out breaks in use) nearly head butted the dash ..

a second later the weight from being fully loaded took over ... and back i go .. at about 10ks towards a edge of a whole which was around 6stories deep,

first reaction as anyone would do hit the breaks ....bad move ... WEIGHT SHIFT!

lifted the cab up, and the way these things are built , are built to safty.. if the body goes over the cabing stays upright, but this worked the other way.

up goes the cab and it twists and slams on its side , there i am covered in dorito's and HPI mags and and a ralph mag that was the best site of the moment the ralph mag.

as i stod up sideways in the cab smacked my head ... and the trucked rolled back an extra 4ft at this stage i shat myself and opened the window and just jumped out of there dazzed.

lucky the engine was ok ... smoky for about 4days cause of the oil that dissapeard into the intercooler i think the mech said .... cosmetic damage $20k, oh did i mention this truck was only 4months old before i got it .... and 3months after that it was in for its first roll over .

still have my job ... since then have gotten a pay rise and still driving the same truck

enjoy the pics :)

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