One of those "Whoops!" work stories.

[KelJu]

My job is pretty stressful. I have to maintain over 500 hospital servers. I access all of them with root access. To the non techies, this is basically God mode.

In my department, almost everyone has at least one "Whoops!" moment where a second of bad judgment brought an entire hospital to screeching to a halt and lost 100s of patient records, because the site had to restore from backup.

I pride myself on having never caused one of those. But, due to my profane use of language, and my the fact that I think in profanity, my documentation sometimes throws people off guard. This morning, I got a call at 3:00am that a server crashed, and the hospital is in bad shape. This hospital is operates completely electronicly. The backup server failed, too.

I work with a guy over the phone for 3 hours to get the server up to a point where it can limp along and get me vpn access in so I can work on it. I fixed the issue, and saved the day.

Since this is a fairly severe situation, I have to document everything, and send mail to my manager, director, CIO, CFO, and both VPs.

This should have been my moment to shine. But, I instead I sent company wide mail to this effect:

"Three dick (disk) drives failed on the user raid 5 array. I was able to boot the server from the boot disk, and remount slash. I pulled the OS from this morning's backup tape and was able to move it in line. Some data was corrupted, but I was able to rebuild AR database. Only issues remaining are pharmacy interfaces are down, and the nurses are having problems printing faceshits (face sheets)"



The running gag at work is people get that nickname based on the first thing they fuck up. This is one of the most embarrassing things I have ever done. On Monday, I just know my new nickname is going to be dick drive or faceshit.



So, please tell me your stories, and please tell me one that is worse than mine so I can feel better.

 

[DaMayor]

I once Xeroxed Bubba and the Boys. It's a long story.

 

[FMJ]

I did have a similar experience with sending emails to a large group of very important folks. I too am an IT guy. I worked for Philips Electronics at the time and was doing a nation wide migration of DNS namespaces from all the individual US sites namespaces to one single amec.philips.com DNS.
The email was sent to all the regional IT Service Delivery Managers in the US. About 40 of them. I basically told them what I needed to tell them and closed the email as:

"If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Retards,"


The T and G keys are so close on the keyboard. Of course, spell check didn't catch it, cause retards is a real word!

 

[KelJu]

I did have a similar experience with sending emails to a large group of very important folks. I too am an IT guy. I worked for Philips Electronics at the time and was doing a nation wide migration of DNS namespaces from all the individual US sites namespaces to one single amec.philips.com DNS.
The email was sent to all the regional IT Service Delivery Managers in the US. About 40 of them. I basically told them what I needed to tell them and closed the email as:

"If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Retards,"


The T and G keys are so close on the keyboard. Of course, spell check didn't catch it, cause retards is a real word!

Haha, grammatically, it works perfectly.

 

[Curt James]

Dick Drive would make a good porno name. Let's hope they go with that over Faceshit.

A co-worker and I were working on data entry for several hours on Xerox computers that used those floppy disks the size of dinner plates back in the mid '80s. We were stationed on a Navy destroyer and the power was cut from the pier to the ship during a fire drill or some other exercise.

Neither of us had saved any of our work and so when the computers blinked off we lost a day's worth of typing.

 

[maniclion]

I don't screw up at work for some reason, not horribly maybe a small thing that everyone else at that place does half a dozen times, but I only have to do it once and it's stuck in my head to never do it again.....

 

[busyLivin]

My boss and a co worker have the same first name. I sent an email once to my boss thinking it was the co worker and was bitching about the boss...

I knew it as soon as I sent it. He actually laughed about it, but since then I always double check who its being sent to.

 

[Arnold]

My job is pretty stressful. I have to maintain over 500 hospital servers. I access all of them with root access. To the non techies, this is basically God mode.

all Linux servers?

 

[KelJu]

all Linux servers?

This is just a ballpark guess, but 40% Redhat Linux, 55% Sco Unix, and 5% Xen Linux running virtual guest machines and clinical interfaces.

 

[Fetusaurus Rex]

lmao this thread is hilarious

 

[CG]

Let's see, I once emailed a c-worker about someone who had been sexually harassing them, I kept the offender in the cc line, thank god IT removed all records on both ends and wiped it from the server.

Additionally I emailed the entire department of my counterparts of one of our subsidiaries pulling out every offensive and vulgar term I could use, and came up with cute nicknames for all of them. They loved it, especially since I copied their VP. Thank god she would write her email password on a post it and stck it under her keyboard every time she changed it. They showed it to her months later, she called me AT HOME on a Saturday morning, laughing, because she. Thought it was hilarious. Sjhe later went on to "write up" alll her employees, for hacking her email, and not showing her sooner lol.

 

[Mudge]

I've read other people using "Retards" instead of regards, heheh...

 

[Gazhole]

Hahaha, dick drives.

 

[FMJ]

Hahaha, dick drives.

LOL! I know... I can't wait to find out which nickname they chose!!

 

[maniclion]

I hope they call you faceshit just so every new hire has some sneaking suspicion you are into fecal fetishism..... Especially the hot chick they hire and you try to run game and all she can think about is you wanting her to lay a stinky brown mustache under your nose.....

 

[busyLivin]

I hope they call you faceshit just so every new hire has some sneaking suspicion you are into fecal fetishism..... Especially the hot chick they hire and you try to run game and all she can think about is you wanting her to lay a stinky brown mustache under your nose.....

Wtf?

 

[danzik17]

In college when I worked helpdesk, we had a voicemail system where you could delete/re-record the voicemail if you messed it up. The thing was, I didn't know what button I had to press at the time.

Story goes that I was called one of my professors for an issue, but messed up the voicemail. Turned to my buddy and asked "how do I delete this voicemail" and he wouldn't tell me, so I say "come on you douchebag, how do I delete this fucking voicemail"? A few seconds after I say that, I hear a beep and the line goes dead.

My professor thought it was hilarious.

 

[maniclion]

Hello? Faceshit are you there? What's going on, are they transferring you to their Icelandic Branch?

 

[Dark Geared God]

dick drive how it go at work

 

[MyK]

 

[Fetusaurus Rex]

lmao good thing I read this thread, I was working on a mixtape cover in photoshop and doing the back cover with the song list, with a song featuring Cory Gunz, and until the last second when I almost sent him the image as complete I noticed that I mistyped it as Cory Runz...

I might steal that and use it as a rap name....

 

[Gazhole]

Its been a tough day but this is hypnotizing me.

 

[busyLivin]

speaking of 'whoops' at work...

How Apple Lost the Next iPhone - Leak - Gizmodo

 

[jessiefoude]

Ok, so here is mine.
I am a customer support for a phone card company in the US. And even at hoem, when it comes to credit card problems, I am the one who is being called as I am the only one assign for that job. While me and my gf are doing our "intimate moments", our chief called me through VOIP. My voice was being heard all over our department, as I was waiting for them... my gf who thought I was through talking... gave me the "special service" and all the voices and words were heard in the whole dept.
Of course, I get a lot of new names that morning in the office.

PS: Now I never forget to use the mute button.

 

[busyLivin]

Ok, so here is mine.
I am a customer support for a phone card company in the US. And even at hoem, when it comes to credit card problems, I am the one who is being called as I am the only one assign for that job. While me and my gf are doing our "intimate moments", our chief called me through VOIP. My voice was being heard all over our department, as I was waiting for them... my gf who thought I was through talking... gave me the "special service" and all the voices and words were heard in the whole dept.
Of course, I get a lot of new names that morning in the office.

PS: Now I never forget to use the mute button.

That takes the prize

 

[Dark Geared God]

i wasn't going to share this one. but when i first started working for a car company i was an asst manager i alway came in an hour early when i opened (i'm the only one there) so one cold morning i get there at 6 am
i hear this noise in the manger office my office i sneak up and open the door and the manager a girl was finger fucking herself on my desk .. i was creaped out and kind of truned on at the same time.. i ate my luch on that desk. but she didn't notice me until she finshed herself off. i guess she was there for awhile before. but we looked at each other and i walkedout of my office really didn't know waht to say 15 min later she come and finds me and says the reason she came in early was it was bank day and we had to pick up the money for the big weekend. the bank opens at 8am...but we talked i told her i wouldn't tell anyone... that situation gould have gone in a few direction but i didn't bite i got a promotion a few mnths later no bad for 6 months work...

 

[maniclion]

i wasn't going to share this one. but when i first started working for a car company i was an asst manager i alway came in an hour early when i opened (i'm the only one there) so one cold morning i get there at 6 am
i hear this noise in the manger office my office i sneak up and open the door and the manager a girl was finger fucking herself on my desk .. i was creaped out and kind of truned on at the same time.. i ate my luch on that desk. but she didn't notice me until she finshed herself off. i guess she was there for awhile before. but we looked at each other and i walkedout of my office really didn't know waht to say 15 min later she come and finds me and says the reason she came in early was it was bank day and we had to pick up the money for the big weekend. the bank opens at 8am...but we talked i told her i wouldn't tell anyone... that situation gould have gone in a few direction but i didn't bite i got a promotion a few mnths later no bad for 6 months work...

You didn't take advantage of the SITUATION? She knew you came in early it was staged, a SITUATED scenario....man resign your name and go ahead and punch yourself in the face.....

 

[Curt James]

it was bank day

heh

Forthwith and hereafter let it be known to all men and women of the realm that "bank day" is code for "horny!"

Yea verily I say unto you!

"Oh, this? Well, it's, it's, uh, bank day."

 

[Dark Geared God]

You didn't take advantage of the SITUATION? She knew you came in early it was staged, a SITUATED scenario....man resign your name and go ahead and punch yourself in the face.....

It might be the Army guy in me but...the last thing i wanted was a rape charge or getting fired. something just didn't sit well on a good not
my pay jumped up 180.00 bill more a week when i got promoted..
I was pulling in some serious coin for them and some of the managers where pissed because i was almost making as much as them and they had been with the company for more than 10 years...And i would have put iy apssed them .. I can say that i do not regret my actions.
I love the picture if i didn't think something wasfishy and it wasn't here pussi would have went for it...man card restored ..
CAN I GET A VOTE PLEASE>...

 

[Dark Geared God]

heh

Forthwith and hereafter let it be known to all men and women of the realm that "bank day" is code for "horny!"

Yea verily I say unto you!

"Oh, this? Well, it's, it's, uh, bank day."

LOL i love this picture..i jsut got one of those feeling that something just wasn't right..well once the Big head started to think..