Screw ups at work, What have you done? Options

[Legit94GT]

So i kinda screwed some things up at work the other day and i just thought i'd post it then you guys could write any stories yo have...

So its getting colder up here, its been like a cool 20 degrees for the last few days. So i work graveyard, and on sunday nights when i go into work i am the guy who has to turn on the lights and open some doors and such. My plant has several big building with a million different types of doors. About an hour into the night(12am) a welder came over to tell me that he was finishing up the job in his area and would need a new job to work. So i then have to go outside and open up these three huge metal sliding doors(like 10'x10') to get into the area with all the paperwork and forklifts. the area is not heated but it is on the outside of a heated building. So after a little while out there i saw that there was no job i could give him so i came back in and told him to go grind parts instead. Well i left the doors... the day shift guy came in around 5am and shut the doors. I came into work last night to find that the water evaportor in that room had frozen and broken, flooding the whole area(and its sub-frezzing temps) so they had to take everything out of there store it in a new place, "seal" the area and load the room up with space heaters to help get rid of all the water that was freezing to everything(computer cables parts, paperwork forklifts)

I didn't get in any trouble or anything cause it is more or less a "new" area that i flooded and it would have happened eventually this week, but since I (the youngest person currently employed in the whole compnay) did it people wont let me forget it

I know im not the only person who has screwed something up at work, lets hear some stories:)

[GriffGirl]

Wait—you mean you haven't been laid off yet? Just kidding... just that it seems like everyone in manufacturing around this area is losing their jobs. I know my time is coming soon... we've laid off probably half the company this year, and my number's gotta be up pretty soon.

I make mistakes at work sometimes too, and usually they're really stupid mistakes, like proofing a job up to print on a white background instead of just the silver CD background. One job in particular got run that way; I proofed it to print on silver, but then at the last minute, AFTER the job was approved, there was a change, so when I printed out a new copy of the proof, I forgot to change it to say Prints on Silver. So we printed 40,000 CDs wrong because of it. Of course the customer wouldn't take them as-is, we had to re-mold and re-print 40,000 CDs at our own cost.

What really sucks is that I've made the same damn mistake more than once. IIRC that was the last time I made that mistake though. I even offered to come in at night and print the job, off the clock, to try to save on the labor that I'd cost the company with my mistake. But I guess it's illegal to work off the clock like that, so they wouldn't let me, even though I insisted.