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I caused the loss of multiple millions of dollars in stock of one of the largest manufacturering companies in the world. All because I listened to my boss instead of my instincts. I got fired because the senior foreman “couldn’t stand to look at my face”
We are gonna need more details on this one
Lol, essentially the company closed down a bunch of plants to make one big plant. Dude in question was a foreman at each plant at one point in time. They start the new plant, fast forward like six months and I get hired to do IT. The guys laptop has a memory leak issue that we couldn’t track down, so we were gonna reimage the machine. Had to backup data first. The company i worked for forced us to use a singular proprietary tool to do both. I was not allowed to manually back up anything ( like I wanted to, because seriously wtf) Well lo and behold this software doesn’t give a shit about the D partition of the users HDD or anything on it, so it wipes that part. Well that was the part of the drive that had all calibration data, measurements, contacts in the industry. Pretty much the guys black book got wiped. This is literally during first quarter of a merger. I get fired. A few weeks or like a month later I see the company stock took a huge hit because of issues with a merger. I also run into an old coworker at a gas station like 6 months later and she informed me that everything went to shit when I left and they cut the staff by more than half. Over a hundred people lost their job because of my fuck up.
I would hardly call it your fuck up. You wanted to back up the data manually and were told not to - that’s on your supervisor/boss/whoever called the shots. Not on you.
Ok serious one. I used to work nightshifts in a gas station. One night, a woman turns up who was beaten by her partner. It’s really something else to see someone’s face that swollen and fucked up. Movies don’t capture it realistically. You can get somewhat of an idea when you watch UFC, but this was another level. Heartbreaking. It’s like her partner was trying to physically dehumanise her, she was really not looking human.
She didn’t have any money so I let her pump $40 gas and she said she would pay it later (she didn’t). I wrote the whole thing down and explained to my boss in the morning. He wasn’t worried about the gas and said sometimes you have to do these things.
I offered to call the police etc but she didn’t want to. It irritates the fuck out of me that people stay with abusive partners. Take care of you and your own, and get rid of anyone in your life who is toxic.
This was in an area where teenagers would turn up at 3am asking to buy lightbulbs, and not the frosted kind.
I’m curious. What’s a lightbulb and not the frosted kind?
A clear one, obviously.
