My Cage "Classic" 12/15/2008
Added 2022-06-13 10:55:08 +0000 UTCWhat's the dumbest mistake youve seen an incompetent co worker make?
Originally run Dec 15th 2008.
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One of the inventory scanners at work has a habit of dropping the first character from the item code and the location code. Annoying but an easy fix (just CTRL+H to add the proper character in)> One of my coworkers insists on manually correcting things one line at a time, because they can't wrap their head around CTRL+H. Depending on what's being scanned, that's a list that can go hundreds of items.
Freezer
2022-06-13 21:50:24 +0000 UTCWhen we switched from sending 5 1/4 diskettes to 3 1/2 diskettes to our branch warehouses with data they needed I got a call from one of the warehouses and the person said the the diskette was unreadable and was stuck in the new computer and that they hated the envelope it came in because it was so hard to open. I asked about the envelope and after several long exchanges I realized that the envelope they were prying open was the diskette case! They did not understand the difference between the old and the new diskettes.
Kenneth Glaldden
2022-06-13 21:08:23 +0000 UTCBack when PCs still had 5.25" floppy disk drives, a new hire confused the PC's power switch for the floppy eject button. He turned off his computer instead of ejecting the floppy. Want to know the dumbest mistake *I* ever made? I'm not going to tell you.
Bob Alexander
2022-06-13 12:56:19 +0000 UTC
