ot-work place mis-haps
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saltyshoe_nano
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at a fruit stand I worked at one of the cashiers gave 3000 dollars in cash to a customer while the boss was in the can.....and at a limo company I used to work at some drunk guy pucked 8 times in the party bus....and another drunk crashed his car into the garage doors (2) not one lol
saltyshoe_nano
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lol you wouldnt believe how messed up limos get when they go out....one time someone sliced all 4 tires and broke in and took all of the liquor, sound system and the strobe lights....that took a long time to fix....and a little over 15,000 dollars in damage
and the shuttle bus which is painted in the rams colors was spraypainted and had alot of volger words and phrases....lol sp. on this post is crappy sorry...
and the shuttle bus which is painted in the rams colors was spraypainted and had alot of volger words and phrases....lol sp. on this post is crappy sorry...
sheepdog43
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I was upgrading a clients server. All was done and I was going to pull a new back up after a reboot to check that it would auto start like it should. Everything was working perfectly so I deleted the latest backup (to make space for a fresh one) and restarted the server to begin the new backup.
The entire system had been in service for a year without any trouble and I had just changed some software, nothing too serious. For some reason, upon last reset the mainboard corrupted the hard disk data. Gone, done. Come to find out, the other backups from just days before were no good due to his employees). Just goes to show, you never know how good your backup is, until you need it.
This happened on Friday at 9pm. I had until Monday 6am to have it fixed or the company would have employees in several states not able to work. Luckily, I recovered the old data from the system I had it all back up on and deleted (good disaster recovery software is always a good thing). Everything worked out in the end luckily.
Odd thing is, I have messed with the hard disk and the motherboard in other boxes and never had the problem again. A better backup system has now been installed (3 in fact) and I don't delete anything until another backup is made and verified.
A few from when I was in the Air Force.
I knew a guy who despite being told, washed the canopy on an F-16 fighter jet with citrus cleaner... Which just so happens to eat the nuclear flash/radiation protection from it and can craze the canopy. I do not remember the price tag, but it was more than he made for his entire enlistment.
Another guy pushed a wing into the hangar doors, no damage to the jet other than a wing tip light and a dent in the hangar door.
Or the guy who basically bleached the entire paintjob on his F-111 trying to get it clean...
The entire system had been in service for a year without any trouble and I had just changed some software, nothing too serious. For some reason, upon last reset the mainboard corrupted the hard disk data. Gone, done. Come to find out, the other backups from just days before were no good due to his employees). Just goes to show, you never know how good your backup is, until you need it.
This happened on Friday at 9pm. I had until Monday 6am to have it fixed or the company would have employees in several states not able to work. Luckily, I recovered the old data from the system I had it all back up on and deleted (good disaster recovery software is always a good thing). Everything worked out in the end luckily.
Odd thing is, I have messed with the hard disk and the motherboard in other boxes and never had the problem again. A better backup system has now been installed (3 in fact) and I don't delete anything until another backup is made and verified.
A few from when I was in the Air Force.
I knew a guy who despite being told, washed the canopy on an F-16 fighter jet with citrus cleaner... Which just so happens to eat the nuclear flash/radiation protection from it and can craze the canopy. I do not remember the price tag, but it was more than he made for his entire enlistment.
Another guy pushed a wing into the hangar doors, no damage to the jet other than a wing tip light and a dent in the hangar door.
Or the guy who basically bleached the entire paintjob on his F-111 trying to get it clean...
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scbadiver
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When I was doing mostly repair work, classified as a Maintenance Machinist, I got stuck on a 30 ton punch press production run because the die had to be checked and reset fairly often as it was too big for the press really. Anyway, I had to run 1200 plates through 8 different dies. I was down to the last couple hundred on the very last run and well, I got careless and lost half of my right thumb. The die was set for .050 thickness and the plate was .050 which left exactly 0 clearance when my thumb was in there too! :eek2: I learned a lot of respect for machinery that day. 
frenchie
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production workers at olin run presses, tool and die developers and makers take care of dies, i take care of mechanical problems on press like last night cam shaft on 7 bliss 300 ton press that punches cups for 50 caliber ammo broke into two pieces. the machinist which what i am by trade make parts on lathes and milling machines but also do repair work on all roll mills, slitters, annealing furnaces, and press. I am a troubleshooter so i cruise around in a scooter with a radio waiting for something to break so i can fix it quick and keep production going. Alot more fun than sitting a lathe all day. Sorry to here about your thumb i know alot of guys without thumbs or a finger or two.
scbadiver
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I think it just goes with territory in the old days. Your job is about what mine was. I really liked not knowing what I would be fixing next. Like you said, "waiting for something to break". It was a cool job to have and I learned so much too. You get to experience a lot of different things in that position. Sometimes I still miss it and that was twenty, ummm, lots of years ago. 
chadfarmer
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i shot a 1 1/2 inch staple through my thumb
didnt you do something to a plane last year
didnt you do something to a plane last year
