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.

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

At least there's no aftertaste! :D

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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