Some of my biggest oopsies are the following:
when I had just started working for a company in the uk and I was given a new VW passat estate as my company vehicle. On that same morning I had to help with an installation of a copier, so I put the cabinet in my car and started driving to the customers. What I did not do was lay the cabinet on its back or strap it down, so when I accelerated away the cabinet went straight through the rear window. Watching me leave was the Boss and the rest of the service department. Somehow I managed to keep my job, as I was still on the probation period then.
Also with the same company, I did manage to take out a customer's Flag pole when I reversed into it.
Latest mishap happened not long ago
we had just taken on a new customer, and my boss was about to arrive to demo a new color machine to the customer. meanwhile I am moving the customer's existing machine (Konica 7210) to a different room. I try to find a outlet for the 7210 but for some reason the pins are not correct. I goto my car and find a converter tail made up.....It fits. so I plug it in, and as my boss walks in to see me I switch the 7210 on and watch as a cloud of thick smoke emits from the back of the machine. Not being used to the american voltage system, and thinking everything was 110 volts I had somehow managed to plug the copier into a 220volt outlet. Lucky for me, the only damage done was blowing up the power supply board, and for the moment no-one in the office lets me forget it.
when I had just started working for a company in the uk and I was given a new VW passat estate as my company vehicle. On that same morning I had to help with an installation of a copier, so I put the cabinet in my car and started driving to the customers. What I did not do was lay the cabinet on its back or strap it down, so when I accelerated away the cabinet went straight through the rear window. Watching me leave was the Boss and the rest of the service department. Somehow I managed to keep my job, as I was still on the probation period then.
Also with the same company, I did manage to take out a customer's Flag pole when I reversed into it.
Latest mishap happened not long ago
we had just taken on a new customer, and my boss was about to arrive to demo a new color machine to the customer. meanwhile I am moving the customer's existing machine (Konica 7210) to a different room. I try to find a outlet for the 7210 but for some reason the pins are not correct. I goto my car and find a converter tail made up.....It fits. so I plug it in, and as my boss walks in to see me I switch the 7210 on and watch as a cloud of thick smoke emits from the back of the machine. Not being used to the american voltage system, and thinking everything was 110 volts I had somehow managed to plug the copier into a 220volt outlet. Lucky for me, the only damage done was blowing up the power supply board, and for the moment no-one in the office lets me forget it.
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