NationStates Jolt Archive

Have you ever been in really big trouble at work for something?

please share your stories here.

i cost the company i work for $12,000 in damage and lost a couple of privileges but somehow i still work there and its an at will employment

i might share the story depending on if i am able to beat some other stories some of you might share.

I said congrats for 1000 posts.

Also,you may wish to take a good look at your poll.


*cough-2&4-cough*

Also,you may wish to take a good look at your poll.


*cough-2&4-cough*

crap, 4 is supposed to be not my fault but i got to keep my job. oh well its late

thanks for the notice on my 1000 post

People had problems understanding me due to my speech problems, and I got fired for it, not my fault. I hate people.

Nothing major.

I angered the machine once by getting a flat tire at Deming, NM.. it beeped good and loud at me, but I managed to shut it up.

Never been at trouble at work.

People had problems understanding me due to my speech problems, and I got fired for it, not my fault. I hate people.

What was the job?

work! Dear... Nooooooo! *proceeds to run from the monstrosity we call a job application.*

No, I'm a model employee. Though at my last job I did get into a physical fight with a supervisor and smacked another guy around.

I got in trouble at the call centre I used to work in because they found out that I was transferring annoying callers to the local McDonalds. I also called in sick from Dublin (I was working in Belfast) and it showed up on the call register

well when I was working at my local forestry place type thing in 2 weeks I turned up for work a total of 2 times and yet I kept the job because there was no change in the amount of work getting done :p

I also caused a large fire :)

I'm guessing it had something to do with urine and expensive equipment, am I close?

I'm guessing it had something to do with urine and expensive equipment, am I close?

you are very close. it had expensive equipment and a type of liquid substance

you are very close. it had expensive equipment and a type of liquid substance

Coffee?

Have you ever been in really big trouble at work for something?

please share your stories here.

i cost the company i work for $12,000 in damage and lost a couple of privileges but somehow i still work there and its an at will employment

i might share the story depending on if i am able to beat some other stories some of you might share.I've puked down the side of my boss's work van with him in it one time, since he'd bought me the fifth of Jack for the prior night's consumption. I also lit him on fire twice. And almost killed him while being on the opposite end of a 20' piece of drill steel.
That was my last job ... and i wasn't in trouble for any of those things in any significant regard, other than concern in the last circumstance.
The current job, nah - and i might not even care too much. *tsk*
I'd have to think back a while - well there was one job where i sabotaged everything the morning arsehole DJ was involved with. Heh.
I lost that job when a new company bought the station. He stayed with his happy autographed Casey Kasem pic, faux karate moves and loathesome ego.

Stuuuuuuuuuuuuudent. :D

i'll take it the fourth option is suposed to read "not my fault".

i used to work on the check-in desks at my local airport. i can't count the number of times i had to run off and throw-up cuz i was still paraletic or desperately hungover from the night before. never really got in trouble though.

the one time there was trouble was when i had to leave a queue of about 100 passengers during a busy period and the passenger at the front of the queue accused me of swearing at her (which i didn't do), she wrote a long letter of complaint and threatened to sue for mental anguish or some bollocks. i don't think it ever went to court but there was quite a ruckus for a while. luckily my boss thought i was such a sweet boy she couldn't imagine me ever swearing at anyone. heh!

the incident i was involved in included heavy machinery (electric power at that) and a sprinkler system with lots of water in it. enough to flood half the building. and it showed how unknowledgable managment was in how to handle a situation and how the water system works.

they now tell the new guys to watch out for certain areas where a similar situation might occur. so i have left my imprint on the company and have made it into the training as a "what not to do" example

Apparentley, I look pissed off all the time. I don't mean to, but it's cost me jobs.

Twice.

Once when I was temping for a building maintenance company that had as a client a large hamburger franchise.

I wrote on one of the invoices - stop destroying the rain forests.

My agency canned me faster than you could say Ronald McDonald...and I had a letter from the hamburger people telling me that they were not involved in several unsavory practices. Which as it turned were true after a big trial involving London Greenpeace.

The other was also rather...fun.

I made some noise after receiving an email stating that the multi 100's of million pound project was heading down the crapper as it was news to me. I wrote an email to the Project Director stating that I was gobsmacked that the project was in such a critical condition.

I was terminated. Along with an entire level of middle managers and a SVP.