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

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

Guy at worked forked up multiple products costing a million in re-work I hear. Probably inflated estimate, but it's going to be very expensive. My thought would be he's headed for the door, but he's still there working away (and I use that term loosely).

Your thoughts?

yep.. they don't much care/notice/do more than scold you a little.

Work for myself, So I'd just have to work harder......

And yes, I've made some very expensive mistakes.

Not the government, but feels like it some times, due to waste and inefficiency.

A tech/programer at work fuched up an Outlook pst file backup project for a major client. (10,000+ computer users)

A bit complicated but basically the solution was inadequate. Rework and new project was budgeted at $1.2 mil. My company had to wear the cost. He hung around for another 18 months and was retrenched as soon as the "opportunity" presented itself.

He now works for HP as an Exchange administrator. ;)

Yeah I'd prolly still have a job, but it'd hafta be at a different company.

I get "called" on issues of as little as $300 in a multi-billion dollar organization.

Make a "million dollar mistake?" They would fed-ex me a gallon of liquid hemlock and instruct me to use it after hours so that it wouldn't be a workman's comp claim.

angela

I'd FedEx my own hemlock because I'd feel so bad.

Obviously we all make mistakes and I've made my share, but this was a doozy. Kind of goes back to my other post of having the right tools and procedure.

This is a simple procedure that you can verify your work with a borescope. It was not done and the inspector now says he didn't know what he was looking for. :rolleyes:

I've done it multiple times. Not willful or negligent mistakes, but things going wrong because of assumptions turning out to be wrong or because someone else changed something after the fact without notifying me.

On the other hand, I wrote a program that saved my employer $250 million a year 11 years ago, so I'm still in the black overall.

I was going to post this in more random pics:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1363887871.jpg

a million dollar mistake at my job would require burning the building to the ground. and a couple neighboring businesses as well.


depends on how well you're liked. a few years back my "boss" let 40,000 copies of a calendar with the wrong year on the cover get printed. he survived. i wouldn't.

Im in the Army. 10 years ago I would probably keep my job, these days a $10 mistake will get you booted out.

Ahhhh, the army........I pissed away so much taxpayer money it isn't even funny.......I broke an M2a2

Not a chance. My boss would fire me on the spot for 10% of that. Probably 1% of that.

The steps and recheck I make just taking a engine off the stand.....someone should have lost a job on this one.

Keep your job or not you probably won't have much of a future.

Made me hoot. Does Hemlock ship as a solid:D

Since I own the company I work for, I would fire myself.

Well, if a $1M mistake were made, it would probably destroy my company...

I figure my company made a multi-million dollar mistake just by hiring me, so I feel no guilt about occasionally compounding that.