If you made a million dollar mistake at work, would you still have a job?

[Laneco]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Made me hoot. Does Hemlock ship as a solid

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]

At least there's no aftertaste!

[lendaddy]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Neilk

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.

Originally Posted by lendaddy

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]

Originally Posted by Schrup

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]

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]

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]

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

[URY914]

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

[fred cook]

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]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Depends on whether or not he "works" in a robbernment bureaucracy.

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