Stupidity At Work

**Mr. Kilt** · 15th February 06, 08:37 PM

After I got my Class 1 drivers license (tractor-trailer trucks) in the fall of 2004 I managed to find a job with a local trucking firm who were willing to take on a newbie driver. My second day on the job I was pulling a 53' trailer around to the front of the shop for some repair work. As I rounded the corner of the parking lot I felt a slight "tug" on the rig and looked in the drivers side mirror just in time to see bits of my pickup truck's taillight go flying. Yes...I cut the corner a wee bit tight and ran over the corner of my pickup truck. What made it worse was a bunch of the employees were sitting outside on a coffee break when I did it and they saw everything.

**646guy** · 15th February 06, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Al G. Sporrano

After I got my Class 1 drivers license (tractor-trailer trucks) in the fall of 2004 I managed to find a job with a local trucking firm who were willing to take on a newbie driver. My second day on the job I was pulling a 53' trailer around to the front of the shop for some repair work. As I rounded the corner of the parking lot I felt a slight "tug" on the rig and looked in the drivers side mirror just in time to see bits of my pickup truck's taillight go flying. Yes...I cut the corner a wee bit tight and ran over the corner of my pickup truck. What made it worse was a bunch of the employees were sitting outside on a coffee break when I did it and they saw everything.

At tleast it wasn't the boss' truck or that would have been a seriously shortlived job!

**Southern Breeze** · 15th February 06, 09:00 PM

KCW, the memory card was not a survivor.

I've worked in construction and landscaping nearly 15 years.If it can be ran into or over, I've probably done it. Porta-Potties are near the top of the list.

**UmAnOnion** · 15th February 06, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Southern Breeze

KCW, the memory card was not a survivor.

I've worked in construction and landscaping nearly 15 years.If it can be ran into or over, I've probably done it. Porta-Potties are near the top of the list.

Now thats a lovely visual - i hope they were un-occupied at least!!!

**pdcorlis** · 15th February 06, 09:09 PM

I once taught a college class with my fly open (Dang Them Pants!!!!)

**Yaish** · 15th February 06, 10:21 PM

Why just as recently as Monday I was giving a presentation to a bunch of the new hires. About 5 slides into my presentation, someone noticed that the slides I was reading from the laptop and referring them to were not displaying on the projector.

Oh well, the key in that sort of situation is just to roll with it, so I did. I just went right into the presentation fully verbally, giving them orally the information they were missing visually. Being really conversant with your materials is definately an advantage! (always make your own presentations, never gives the info to someone else to make a presentation for you)

**Jerry** · 15th February 06, 10:35 PM

I don't do stupid things at work!. I'm retired. But, then there was that one time, I was installing a new recorder in a control panel made out of 1/4 carbon steel. It was going on the bottom of the panel and I'd measured just a little too close, so the recorder wasn't quite sliding into the hole i'd cut with a reciprocating saw. So, I started cutting just a bit more out of the bottom of my hole. I just needed to rock the saw downwards a bit, then there was a shower of sparks and the lights went out. I'd managed to saw into a conduit and short out several 110 volt ac wires. The whole screening building went down. The area supervisor wasn't a happy camper.

**Graham** · 16th February 06, 06:13 AM

Sorry to hear about your camera, they definitely don't like D6's.

Stupid things? I do them every day.
today I installed a sign on a brick wall, figured I didn't need to measure, my eye was good enough....it wasn't.

**MacMullen** · 16th February 06, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by Graham

Sorry to hear about your camera, they definitely don't like D6's.

Stupid things? I do them every day.
today I installed a sign on a brick wall, figured I didn't need to measure, my eye was good enough....it wasn't.

Is that the offending brick wall in your post on the FK?

I once spent an afternoon with a family writing the obituary for their mother's funeral, then went home with it to type it up. Went to the funeral the next day, 65 miles from my house, and forgot the only copy.

Called a child by my son's name at his baptism. The parents corrected me.