Cock ups at work
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yep. they knew it was me alright. and to be honest, i'm glad i was caught, cos that would have been nasty.
speared some cartridges with lockwire, while servicing a 'martin-baker elevator' someone like extra300, eric mc, or eccles i think, would be able to tell you what would happen if that mistake got through.
cant go near bang seats anymore.
speared some cartridges with lockwire, while servicing a 'martin-baker elevator' someone like extra300, eric mc, or eccles i think, would be able to tell you what would happen if that mistake got through.
cant go near bang seats anymore.
Extra 300 Driver said:
During training I dropped a RB199 on the floor, causing the jet pipe to got sort of egg shape!
RB199 is one of these:
Dunno how much that cost!
I know of someone how rolled a forklift...
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...unfortunately it was carrying a Pegasus engine at the time....
...which was being used to cross-calibrate test cells between the US and UK.....
...and had just come back from the US for its final run in the UK......
Someone got real brown stuff for that one...
I made a 'small' GPS droppoint error while configuring a cable lay, and after we laid 2 sets of seismic cable which were meant to be joined together in the middle, they were actually 1 drop point apart (400 metres), and there was no way in hell we could stretch it. Cost the company 1/2 - 1 million pounds on downtime, depending on which grumpy shore manager you spoke to! 
back in 1995 when comms costs were high, I was connecting to the Milan Stock exchange to receive their pricing data. I had written all the coding and was testing. Then I had a cold and took leave for a week. Came back and noticed that that the connection to them dropped every 5 seconds. Fix my bug and continue to test.
It was 3 weeks later I found out that I was using an ISDN line
Bill came to £14,000
It was 3 weeks later I found out that I was using an ISDN line
Bill came to £14,000
i've drilled a couple of 1/4" holes in the wrong place on a 23' long billet plank of metal, ended up in the scrap bin.
we were converting an airliner to launch sataellites, and the stress engineers had hundreds of little sensors stuck all over the aircraft to measure vibration, no one was allowed near the aircraft in case it upset the very sensitive instruments. i was working on the rudder of another airliner at the other end of the hangar, about 80ft up in the air in a big deisel powered manlift. after several hours, i'd finished my job, so started up the manlift, but the noisy old diesel engine vibratted so much that it upset all the sensors on the other aircraft, resulting in them writing off a whole morning of testing at god knows what exspense!
we were converting an airliner to launch sataellites, and the stress engineers had hundreds of little sensors stuck all over the aircraft to measure vibration, no one was allowed near the aircraft in case it upset the very sensitive instruments. i was working on the rudder of another airliner at the other end of the hangar, about 80ft up in the air in a big deisel powered manlift. after several hours, i'd finished my job, so started up the manlift, but the noisy old diesel engine vibratted so much that it upset all the sensors on the other aircraft, resulting in them writing off a whole morning of testing at god knows what exspense!
Miscalculated how large an aggregates bin was on a concrete batching plant. I designed the foundations and sent off the calcs and drawings for a bin 300tonne lighter than the one that was to be installed.
I discovered my own mistake about a month later and went and confessed.
Luckily as the plant was being built in Qatar, the main contractor had dug a huge hole down to the bedrock, about one metre down, and filled it with reinforced concrete.
Got me out of the doo doo for sure. The boss wasn't happy though, especially as he was supposed to have checked my calculations and hadn't bothered.
I discovered my own mistake about a month later and went and confessed.
Luckily as the plant was being built in Qatar, the main contractor had dug a huge hole down to the bedrock, about one metre down, and filled it with reinforced concrete.
Got me out of the doo doo for sure. The boss wasn't happy though, especially as he was supposed to have checked my calculations and hadn't bothered.
I was setting up a wood working CNC machine, fancy type the automatically changes the tooling. The router upto 18,000 rpm but was wired incorrectly and instead of retracting the head it ejects the 1kg collet and tooling onto the floor, my reactions were pretty good as I was hiding under the tool box before it hit the ground, loud bangs and I had to dig the collet out of the wall.
Malc
Malc
A guy I worked with got the whole company working on a red hot export deal for 200 CNG buses to Equador, after all the design work was done, purchasing agreements sorted, after sales support package done and weeks of work...........he found out there was no fecking gas in Equador!!!!!
Back in 2000, during the bull market I dealt in a stock with a client pre-market (before the market opened)
Ten minutes after the open they had a huge profit warning, and dropped 20%,
. So called reputable client claims he knew nothing 
Cost me about $7,000,000
spent most of the afternoon
>> Edited by shadytree on Friday 11th November 09:29
Ten minutes after the open they had a huge profit warning, and dropped 20%,
. So called reputable client claims he knew nothing Cost me about $7,000,000
spent most of the afternoon
>> Edited by shadytree on Friday 11th November 09:29
Bricklaying=built a whole side of a house really quick (Face Brickwork),stood back to admire and take a self proclaimed pat on the back.....and realised i hadnt put the dampcourse in. 
Taxi driving= once asked to do a funeral and drive the main car.....and got the funeral procession lost.
Mechanics= doing an oil change and thinking bloody hell this car takes a lot of oil.....and realising i hadnt put the sump plug back in
Taxi driving= once asked to do a funeral and drive the main car.....and got the funeral procession lost.
Mechanics= doing an oil change and thinking bloody hell this car takes a lot of oil.....and realising i hadnt put the sump plug back in
ZR1cliff said:
Bricklaying=built a whole side of a house really quick (Face Brickwork),stood back to admire and take a self proclaimed pat on the back.....and realised i hadnt put the dampcourse in.
Taxi driving= once asked to do a funeral and drive the main car.....and got the funeral procession lost.
Mechanics= doing an oil change and thinking bloody hell this car takes a lot of oil.....and realising i hadnt put the sump plug back in
DO you leave the DIY to the Mrs by any chance
shadytree said:
Bricklaying=built a whole side of a house really quick (Face Brickwork),stood back to admire and take a self proclaimed pat on the back.....and realised i hadnt put the dampcourse in.
Taxi driving= once asked to do a funeral and drive the main car.....and got the funeral procession lost.
Mechanics= doing an oil change and thinking bloody hell this car takes a lot of oil.....and realising i hadnt put the sump plug back in
DO you leave the DIY to the Mrs by any chance
Me Married?....i cant even do that right...Wa Wa Waaaaa
Pi55ed myself at yours
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