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“During the first week of my first job in animation after i graduated i had to move a bunch of scene files from one server to another. The files were heavy so i was told to just cut and paste them to make it faster. I accidentally put them in a wrong area and without thinking just deleted them, went back to move the files again…they werent there, i had forgotten i hadn’t copied them.
I lost 5 minutes of full animation, my long time friend who recommended me for the job got in shit because his back ups didn’t catch the files and my direct supervisor worked for 21 days straight to help redo all the animation.
The studio and everyone involved were way nicer to me about it than i expected, i kept my job and i brought in donuts for the whole crew for a week after. But it was an awful start!” – 1_art_please
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“I worked in a nice steakhouse. First week, I accidentally put salt in the sugar bowls and sugar in the salt shakers. Customers started to complain about their sweet steaks and salty coffees. We had to pull all the salt and sugar from each table. My last day as a waiter.” – thebirdbrain
13.
“I was a bartender. I knocked down the entire top shelf. Thousands of dollars in liquor.” – LizardPossum
14.
“My first day as a dishwasher at a resort, I dropped a tray stacked with executive china.” – Danwoll
15.
“Measured something on a construction site off by a foot. It wasn’t discovered until it cost 150,000 to remedy the mistake. Nothing happened to me because it was a 10 million dollar job.” – RonSwansonsOldMan
16.
“Accepted 20 fake $100 bills because I hadn’t been taught how to spot fakes.” – TheMidnightScorpion
17.
“I love telling this story…
Back in the floppy disk, pre-Internet days of computers I was tasked by my job to do a software installation onboard a coast guard ice breaker. I flew from Ottawa to Halifax. Then I caught a taxi to CFB Shearwater, from where a twin otter flew me 1000 km north to a little town on the border of Quebec and Labrador. From there I was flown by helicopter to do an at sea landing on the ice breaker. After landing I went down to the engine control room, where the computer was located, and laid out the disks: disk 1, disk 2, disk 3, disk 4, disk 6.
Disk 5 was still on my desk in Ottawa.” – khendron
18.
“Mixed bleach and ammonia. Had to evacuate the restaurant” – Severedparadox
19.
“I worked at a car detailing place. We had enormous buckets with taps on the end of them for all of the chemicals we would use to clean the cars. One day before we closed up for the weekend, i decided to do an acid wash on my car to get all of the tar off of my bumper and wheels and such. Turns out when i came in on Monday I forgot to turn the tap off to the acid. Everyone had to wear a mask in the place for a couple days because of the smell. With the hole in the ground I evaporated and the cost of all of the acid I wasted took a few paychecks to replace.” – jackk801
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“I worked at a McDonald’s and accidentally fell in the ice maker right at the beginning of my shift. They had to close the restaurant for the rest of the day to dump out and sanitize the machine” – jcw10489
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