My biggest ever professional mistake. See I was a factory worker and working nights. That night one thing I had to do was put our product into a fancy oven. It would run for over 12 hours but at x temperature for a few hours, then y temperature for some more hours then z temperature for some more hours etc. I took about $90k worth of product(internal cost, not sell price) put them in the oven, went to the touchpanel pressed a button, did all the paperwork, and went home.
Day shift started at 6am, by 630 I got a phone call from the manager asking what the hell happened last night? I said nothing, everything went smoothly. He said well the oven is over 2x the max allowed temperature for the devices. See on the touch panel there was a button for “auto” that started the pre-programmed temperature cycle the button immediately below that just turned the heat on full blast untill manually turned off, no confirmation, no protection at all. I cost the company over twice my annual salary by pressing the wrong button on a touchpad.
Basically it was determined that it wasn’t my fault and was poorly designed. The touch panel got redesigned and shortly afterwards anything besides auto required entering a password. I wasn’t punished at all but probably took a few years off my life in anxiety and fear.
Yeah having a touchpad controlling any machinery functions is stupid (cars included).
That’s just how the production industry is, nearly every piece of equipment I work with has a touchscreen HMI. That is a very poor design choice tho to have the “auto” button right next to the “full temp fuck you” button, it should have been password protected from the start or at the very least on a different screen
Pretty common for HMIs in a factory, in my experience. Keyboards are dirty and difficult to keep clean.
I once made a sick trick on my scooter completely destroying the new Halloween decoration made out of porcelain my put up that morning. I was in tears when I told her holding what’s was left in my hands, and braced for the worst. But she told me that its fine and these things are replaceable. I was really confused and didn’t know what to make from it. Deep down I knew I deserved some kind of punishment. To this day I apologise for that.
I know its not something “major” but it for me at the time. Its relative!
You owned up to it immediately and confessed to it even though it brought you to tears
If I was your mom I’d be proud of you
Ever taken the internet offline to a 70 story residual building? I did because when I plugged my laptop in to troubleshoot something the UPS chucked a massive wobbley and decided to reboot.
chucked a massive wobbley
Gonna start using that at work
I had forgotten to tighten a joint in a water pipe above an IT room on a power plant and when it started leaking there was a conveniently placed water sensor right under it which triggered some sort of an emergency shutdown. It was obviously a mistake and I was still as green of a plumber as one can get so obviously I was forgiven for it but it was still expensive for the company.
Like immediate as soon as the mistake was made or immediate as soon as it was atoned for?
