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coz I work with drugs and human lives and not computers my mistakes are generally limited to only killing like one person at a time and maybe a collateral of family mourning so the other day I gave someone the wrong strength statin. a bogus death for sure
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at my last job i actually told my boss what he needed to hear
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Jun 27, 2016 23:25
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gently caress mate we're meant to build up to that kind of poo poo
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Jun 27, 2016 23:36
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i was just telling a friend about this today actually years ago i was trying to debug an obscure issue on a client website involving incorrect data getting sent to a payment processor. i couldn't track it down or reproduce it myself, so i decided to dump some limited information in an email to myself whenever it occurred. now i was stupid then, but not so stupid that i didn't think emailing unencrypted payment info to myself was a good idea. so i filtered out the sensitive stuff before the email sent and figured everything was cool. or so i thought turns out I found the problem rather quickly and didn't need the emails after all, but forgot to disable them. i also never realized i was indeed dumping out full credit card info into the emails (since i never checked them, i never noticed and never thought to look). to make matters worse, the emails were sent to an address i customized to automatically skip the inbox and go to a separate folder. so for about 6 months i was unknowingly receiving unencrypted credit card info from every customer to my email. big loving woops.
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Jun 28, 2016 00:02
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I once shorted the exposed JTAG Vref and GND pins that the board design guy decided needed to be hooked directly up to the main 50A voltage regulator for the whole experiment which melted the pin (luckily since it broke the connection and kept the backplanes from burning) and required us to do a really careful replacement of the board with the "spare" that had 5 broken exotic physics detector channels on it. Whoops. We weren't going to see that particle anyway.
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Jun 28, 2016 00:26
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accidentally hosed echis wife
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Jun 28, 2016 00:26
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I priced several large packages of plastic cutlery as 2.99, when I was in fact supposed to open each package and price the 20 or so individual packets of plastic cutlery as 2.99 It cost the store approximately $100 dollars and I got fired after the Christmas holidays
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Jun 28, 2016 01:25
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I was shooting the poo poo with some coworkers, complaining about some broken stuff, and the director of our division came down the hall and joined our conversation. so we were talking and he was like "you should write these down and send them to me". being an idiot, I did just that, sending him a long list of complains about what's bad and which groups are loving it up. so apparently he shared my email with all of the managers that report to him and they discussed it at their staff meeting. he did not bother to remove my name. luckily my manager didn't care but I had a few other managers that were pretty unhappy and that was an awkward time.
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Jun 28, 2016 01:34
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I had my first blowjob at work. It tasted a little weird, but I guess it was okay.
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Jun 28, 2016 01:45
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i yospost instead of designing systems critical to our civilization b/c the colors are better on my monitor (greenpos)
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Jun 28, 2016 01:46
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i yospost instead of designing systems critical to our civilization b/c the colors are better on my monitor (greenpos) This is an acceptable trade
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Jun 28, 2016 03:44
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a past job involved cataloging, indexing and destroying large amounts of client data in a physical storehouse. i excommunicated someone because they stole prescription drugs from me, so they tried to burn the building down
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Jun 28, 2016 04:11
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Back in 2006 I was messing around with VMWare Workstation for the first time and telling my bosses at a Fortune 50 company that they should maybe look into this "virtualization" thing I installed a copy of XP and forgot to suspend it when I left for the evening. The next day I came into work to find that the network in the building down. Turns out someone else had compromised the network and was using it a a relay to pivot and access a whole bunch of poo poo. It's okay because later that summer the division got a serious budget cut and I was let go for "not taking business seriously" so I got to spend the rest of the summer loving around doing nothing before going back to college.
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Jun 28, 2016 05:04
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Jimmy Carter posted:Back in 2006 I was messing around with VMWare Workstation for the first time and telling my bosses at a Fortune 50 company that they should maybe look into this "virtualization" thing
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Jun 28, 2016 05:07
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people like you are the reason my pc is slow as fuckin poo poo from mcafee scanning every goddamn intermediate file that devenv.exe touches
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Jun 28, 2016 05:08
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me, i've never hosed up. perfect track record. hard to believe, but - it's true.
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Jun 28, 2016 05:08
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GameCube posted:me, i've never hosed up. perfect track record. hard to believe, but - it's true.
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Jun 28, 2016 05:15
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back when i worked at the dialup ISP we had problems in one podunk rear end city one night and i rebooted the router there and my boss dragged me up into his office and suspended me for a day without pay Never did that again, jfc
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Jun 28, 2016 05:38
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mods since all the stories here involve computer touching can we please add quotes around the word "work" in the thread title tia
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Jun 28, 2016 05:40
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rebooted the wrong slave in a customer's HA cluster luckily nobody noticed because, y'know, HA 
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Jun 28, 2016 05:41
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lol whoops touched a nerve, thank you to whomever spent actual money to show me what's what
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Jun 28, 2016 05:54
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I once did "drop table" when logged into the production oracle database, thinking I was on the dev machine. the cache saved my rear end and most of the millions of users didn't notice while out admins restored from backup.
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Jun 28, 2016 06:01
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I hosed up the labeling/ordering of some statistics for a printed report that was dispatched to a bunch of departments at the university; we had to go ask for them all back, re-print that page, and re-bind it all
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Jun 28, 2016 06:51
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Stymie posted:lol whoops touched a nerve, thank you to whomever spent actual money to show me what's what
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Jun 28, 2016 06:55
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lol@your jobs
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Jun 28, 2016 07:00
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lol@stymie rager
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lol@you
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Jun 28, 2016 07:03
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at my old job i had a build for a client-managed survey system project that ran into 2 years for a number of reasons and only took threats of firing to actually get pushed live. 3 years on and i'm in a similar situation with a similar project (but that's due to the client being a dick) i also once wrote a janky as gently caress text message gateway that gave away all the prizes for a competition in about 2 hours (the competition was supposed to run for 2 months) due to a calculation error and that end up costing me about $1000 v  v
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Jun 28, 2016 07:27
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first couple jobs I made myself valuable by giving 110 percent doing the mindless repetitive work everyone else avoided
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Jun 28, 2016 09:23
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:lol@you
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Jun 28, 2016 11:24
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one time I mislabeled a report with May instead of April and then the next month when I sent out May's report, let me tell you, people were losing their loving minds. my phone and email didn't stop blowing up for a week
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Jun 28, 2016 12:06
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Last night I backstepped into fire and lose my last goddamn sliver of health before I could recover my 9000 souls (early game).
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Jun 28, 2016 14:55
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Flat Daddy posted:Last night I backstepped into fire and lose my last goddamn sliver of health before I could recover my 9000 souls (early game). That's not quite over 9000. Haha.
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Jun 28, 2016 14:55
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actually it was a little over, so the meme still applies
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Jun 28, 2016 14:57
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luckily no one is dumb enough to give me actual responsibilities that could affect anything important
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Jun 28, 2016 15:26
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Jimmy Carter posted:Back in 2006 I was messing around with VMWare Workstation for the first time and telling my bosses at a Fortune 50 company that they should maybe look into this "virtualization" thing this is both hilarious and awesome
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Jun 28, 2016 15:30
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somehow I hosed up my works inventory database and bumped the prices of everything up 1000%. was an easy fix the next day
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Jun 28, 2016 18:40
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working late one night to play catch-up, i once spilled a bunch of tritium (tritiated amino acid) everywhere and had to spend the whole rest of the night decontaminating and running swabs to the scintillation detector (tritium being invisible to Geiger counters) to avoid a radiological incident.
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Jun 28, 2016 19:41
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Jimmy Carter posted:Back in 2006 I was messing around with VMWare Workstation for the first time and telling my bosses at a Fortune 50 company that they should maybe look into this "virtualization" thing lolllllllllll
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I hosed my computer and came in it.
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