Unstable 9 #1 July 30, 2003 What a day. I made some of the most spectacular screw-ups today, I know that i am going to look back at this in a year or so and laugh, but here goes...... I work for a Company, taking and moving Flower orders via FTD, teleflora and such. I'm not proud, but it pays for jump tickets. I'm the only guy there, which used to give me a stigma until i realized that i worked with a whole bunch of hotties... anyways, Today was not a good day. First off, i did something that ended up with a "COngratulations" Balloon Arrangement with candy and such being sent to a family who's son had just killed himself in the past week. So I'm already feeling pretty bad here, then through an amazing effort bye three or more people (all comming back at me) a lady recieved a $250 anniversary flower arr. a month and a half early (kinda ruins the suprise, huh?) Maybe this isn't the place for a 20 year old Skydiver to work............ Blue Skies,=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #2 July 30, 2003 Spend less time thinking about the boobies.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #3 July 30, 2003 QuoteSpend less time thinking about the boobies. Come on, You and I both know that Can't happen. I work with four tri-delts, not the best atmosphere for thinking about other things..........=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveNFlorida 0 #4 July 30, 2003 Whoa, sux!! One time at work I forgot to run Claims Payable, haha!! I know that isn't the same as sending a grieving family congradulations balloons... but my bosses were pretty po'ed. Luckily, no one cared that I ran it yesterday when I was supposed to wait til Wednesday. I suppose that my efforts to make the week go by so that I can jump are actually becoming physical efforts... oops. Angela. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #5 July 30, 2003 Lets open this thread up to Stories of Spectacular Fuck-ups on the Jobs..... I know everyone has at LEAST one good story .. Blue Skies,=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlueEyedMonster 0 #6 July 30, 2003 Quote Lets open this thread up to Stories of Spectacular Fuck-ups on the Jobs..... I know everyone has at LEAST one good story .. Once upon a time... Our number one issue with upgrading workstations in stores is when the manager types leave floppy disks in. Then the computers won't reboot. We have to call the store and get someone there to find the computer and pull the disk out. When there are 1000+ stores across the country and every other store has at least one disk in a machine, this is a big issue. I wrote an awesome script that would move the data from the disks to the hard drive, give them a polite hand slapping and format the disks in a way that it would not stop the boot-up process. One night I was working on an emergency project... and I thought I would be nice and put the files back onto the disks from the hard drive. I deleted all the data on the floppy disks in two stores because I did things a little backwards. OOPS! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whocares 0 #7 July 30, 2003 In 1990 I ran a water ski school and had 2 new 1991 promo boats, the dork boss told me to pull them out of the water in 50 mph winds. When I went to load one of the boats on the trailer, the front wheel on the trailer came off, the boat rammed the trailer, 3000.00 grand fiberglass work, ripped the shaft off the boat and strut, 5000.00 grand. The prick wanted me to pay for it. Later skater that is what you have insurance for. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #8 July 31, 2003 QuoteQuoteSpend less time thinking about the boobies. Come on, You and I both know that Can't happen. I work with four tri-delts, not the best atmosphere for thinking about other things.......... Yeah, I know, But not every solution is an easy one. Don't worry about it. I am sure you are not the only one that has messed up like this. Unless it was you that sent me the "It's a Girl" baloon when I had my Vasectomy.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dterrick 0 #9 July 31, 2003 Gotta admit I need to go back to the summer I was 19 and working for a resort lumberyard while attending University... but I have one that's almost as good - if not as tragic... There were 3 of us 'joe jobbers' ... Boss's nephew, his frined, and me. We all drove the 1 ton delivery trucks on a daily basis in the small lumber yard with a circle drive and pole sheds surrounding. At night, the trucks were parked in a line behind the main building, facing the NEW pole shed. The day before I had knocked a mirror off truck #1 backing up a steep tree-lined hill making a delivery. That night it rained and the yard was a swamp and I was wearing big bulky rubber boots. Being assigned to back out the closest truck to the pole shed I failed to disengage the gearbox before starting the truck... BAM!!! Right into the 2 story pole shed's main triple 2x8 beam cracking it in two. My foot had slipped off the clutch pedal (Really... this is long before the days when you had to have the pedal in to start a vehicle). My apology was accepted and the senior hand and owner rebuilt the 3 ply beam into a 5 ply beam. Later that day, still shaky, I took the mirros off the OTHER side of the same truck (all 3 incidents on ol' blue). Yikes. Here's where it gets good.... The owner's nephew was the one to rag me the most about my faux pas (passes?) and I took it "OK". three days later, 'smartass' takes it upon himself to start a 'forklift lapping' contest around the yard. Our 'game' was rudely inturruped by a customer neening something rom the upper loft. on resumption, nephew-boy proceeds to tear SIXTY feet of tin roof off the same pole shed - having failed to lower the forklist's boom after we used it for actual work. Boss was not so kind this time. "We" fixed the tin roof ourselves... in 90+ degree heat Ah, to be young and stupid again ... who knows what havoc I could cause with what I know now -Dave Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livendive 8 #10 July 31, 2003 Quote Lets open this thread up to Stories of Spectacular Fuck-ups on the Jobs..... I know everyone has at LEAST one good story .. Well, I hinted around about one yesterday, so I'll tell a different one. I was doing remote work with some EXTREMELY radioactive capsules. This entails using a couple "robotic" (not really but close enough) arms to manipulate things that you are separated from by 4 feet of concrete & 4 foot thick oil filled windows. Well, the arms are a little tricky to operate, and I ended up dropping one of the capsules off the table in front of me. Understanding that the table butted up against the other side of the wall from me (level with the bottom of the window), the capsule was no longer visible. So I grabbed a tubular shaped video camera designed to operate in a high radiation field (for longer than most do). With one arm locked in place holding the camera pointing at the ground, I found myself staring at a TV screen and trying to grab the capsule with the other arm. This was complicated by the fact that the capsule had rolled partially under the table. After a good hour and a half of concentrating intensely on the screen while trying to grab this thing, I was shocked when all of the sudden the floor rushed up and hit me, and my world went black. I jumped, and realized a split second later that the camera had slipped out of the other hand and smashed itself to pieces on the floor. So now I need to find another camera, go through the process of getting it into the cell (difficult with that capsule on the floor rather than in any kind of shielding), hook it up to the cable that is currently hooked to the broken camera (30 feet away from where I can put the camera in the cell), and then I can start trying again to recover the capsule. I think I finally got the damn thing back on the table and started doing my original task a little over 48 hours after I dropped it. I've also gotten a forklift stuck in a halfway over position on a soft gravel bank (required a crane to come in to retrieve it), and made a mistake setting longline fishing gear that ended up causing a knot that was so big we had to crane it aboard and just dropped it off in port and paid a couple local guys to untie it...I think it took them like 4 full days. Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
