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Laneco 03-21-2013 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 7342797)
Made me hoot. Does Hemlock ship as a solid:D

Yes, it could ship as a solid. The plant, seeds, stems, leaves etc., all poisonous. Tea or extracted juices form the liquid version. Easier to injest as supposedly the taste is nasty.

angela

BlueSkyJaunte 03-21-2013 03:00 PM

At least there's no aftertaste! :D

lendaddy 03-21-2013 03:04 PM

I would, but then I work in government and you would pretty much have to admit to open murder to lose your job here. Even then it would be a long union fought battle.

unclebilly 03-21-2013 04:25 PM

I have invented technology that has generated over $525M in revenue. When I managed the R&D team, we made all sorts of 'mistakes' along the way but this is all part of the learning process.

A930Rocket 03-21-2013 04:28 PM

That I can understand, but not on an established product.

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I have invented technology that has generated over $525M in revenue. When I managed the R&D team, we made all sorts of 'mistakes' along the way but this is all part of the learning process.

911SauCy 03-21-2013 05:53 PM

Not a ******* chance!!!

Last company was a $4B organization and I miskeyed 4 cases of Gatorade during an inventory and was put on a 90 day "rehabilitative learning plan"...

I went back into the inventory system and fixed the mistake sameday...was handsomely rewarded with written disciplinary warning. Place was unreal.

Schrup 03-21-2013 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Neilk (Post 7342255)
Did someone cross a wire on a battery charger?

Don't fire them, promote them to get them out of the way.

Sad but true, I've seen plenty of examples, easy way to get incompetence out of a critical position is just move them up the ladder & hide them in middle management.

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Originally Posted by lendaddy (Post 7343118)
I would, but then I work in government and you would pretty much have to admit to open murder to lose your job here. Even then it would be a long union fought battle.

We've lost several people over sexual & racial comments, even the union couldn't help these idiots. The only other people who have lost their jobs here had drug problems.

lendaddy 03-21-2013 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Schrup (Post 7343546)
We've lost several people over sexual & racial comments, even the union couldn't help these idiots. The only other people who have lost their jobs here had drug problems.


True, what I meant was that incompetence, regardless the degree, will not get you fired.

LWJ 03-21-2013 07:23 PM

Good question. I work in insurance. It is possible to make a $1MM mistake daily. In fact, it happens daily. The good news is that we carry E&O to cover our screw ups and many of these screw ups simply never result in a loss.

$1MM error? Probably survive it if it wasn't too stupid!

Larry

atcjorg 03-21-2013 08:53 PM

My problem is if I made a million dollar mistake I probably killed a whole bunch of people.
The kinda thing you probably never come back from. If there was no negligence just human error I would still have a job, probably wouldn't be able to do it though.

wdfifteen 03-22-2013 04:38 AM

I can't get fired, but I'd probably have to forget retiring any time soon.

URY914 03-22-2013 04:47 AM

Wonder if this guy was fired......

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1363956469.jpg

fred cook 03-22-2013 05:22 AM

Big mistake........
 
Don't know about a $1M mistake, but back in the '80s a supervisor working for GTE made a $300K mistake and managed to keep his job. Don't think he got a raise for a couple of years, though!

ckissick 03-22-2013 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by pwd72s (Post 7342238)
Depends on whether or not he "works" in a robbernment bureaucracy.

Why is this in green? (Don't answer. It's a rhetorical question.)


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