Oops

Michaeljp86

Has anyone one here made a big booboo before? Im new to the business and so far so good. I did break a $700 tractor window before and accidentaly parked a tractor at the bottom of a waterless pond. Those are the 2 biggest mistakes Ive ever made.

Today in a town 23 miles from here there is a large construction company putting in city water and drains. There was a older house that was completely remodeled in and out and was up forsale. I noticed it was knocked off its foundation and the ground was tore up infront where the water line was run and up the street was 2 excavators and a large front end loader. Im not 100% sure on what happened but Im pretty sure someone running one of those machines is out of a job right now.

Im sure it went crunch

crb555

I've plugged the wrong number on my spreadsheet before, and left off a $7800 test and balance quote... /sigh

I also once relied on a electrician to verify voltages for me over the phone on a distant jobsite, and ordered 5 10 ton RTU's in 480/3 , when the voltage present was 208/3.

Once, when I was young, I hit the diesel filter rack on a boom truck with a 42' piece of 6" spiral pipe. Ripped it completely out. (was on a 4wd forklift)

Once, I took a job over from a foreman who was on dope and we fired. He had made many mistakes which I caught and corrected. However, my idiot self did not (re)total up the dimensions in the rough in book that he had written down to set the height of lavatory carrier arms. At fixture setting time, I had 54 lavatories precisely 3" too low.

It happens, life goes on. Don't make the same mistake twice.. /shrug

wackman

In seventh grade we started the year out with a priest as our teacher. I gave him so much ***** that he quit after a month and we had subs for 3 months after that because I ran all of the replacements off, including a nun.

I'm pretty sure I still got a big dose of bad karma comin my way....

Wack

dougchips

Ok, I'll stick with the tractor theme. I worked on a farm when I was 15, we had two big above ground gas tanks and a bunch of tractors. I was told to fill up the diesel tractors from gas tank #1. One day I need to fill up one of the gas tractors so I used tank #2. Come to find out tank #2 belonged to another farmer and it had diesel in it. The tractor locked up and the farmer was upset, really upset. I decided that I should take a two week vacation to let him cool down. I always assumed when he drove the gas tractors down town that he was to drunk to drive a car, come to find out he was driving them there to fill up with gas.