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Ksusha

What was your biggest job epic fail?

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Hey everyone! How about to make this Monday hot with your epic stories at work? wanna read fails and laugh :)

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Corey Fruitman
Built a Windows 8 app. Intentionally made it better than my Win32 app with an eye toward that being the platform of the future. Needless to say, it did not work out. Win32 app is still going strong though.
Harshavardhan Reddy
Drove for 8 hours for a project requirement gathering, received a call from client stating that they are doing the project internally.
Harshavardhan Reddy
@ksusha_golovchenko ...and i have to drive 8 hour back to reach my home...😤😤😤
Sofia
I have a funny story from my Support days :) I've been working at a call center and it was my second week there, so I was still very nervous. My English was pretty good but I still struggled with pronunciation and it didn't mix well with a stutter from being too scared. At the beginning of every call I had to introduce myself: "Hi! Thank you for calling XXX Tech Support, my name is Sonia". And one of the customers just couldn't get it. I repeated myself numerous times but he didn't hear me correctly. My favorite versions from him were: a) Sushi, and b) Sausage. Maybe he was too hungry 😁 But I had to stick with Sausage in order to solve his issue.
Philip Snyder
Spent 3 months building internal tooling (per request) for the sales lead to come and say it wasn't needed anymore.
Eugene Yarovoii
Once I confused a team chat with a client chat. And the client saw something he wasn't supposed to see....