'Ever Make a $100,000 Mistake?': Ink Shipper Shares Four Pics of His Costly and Staining Mess-Up
Have you ever made a $100,000 mistake at work?
That's the question u/M0NG00SY posed to the r/wellthatstinks subreddit while sharing four photos of his own.
"I’ve made a $70,000 mistake by leaving some cloud servers running over a long weekend. Literally just because I forgot to hit an off button," one person commented.
M0NG00SY recently started shipping for an ink company, but everything went wrong when he accidentally punctured a 2,000-pound jug. "The entire trailer, dock door, and outside was turned blue."
Despite being water-based, the ink caused enough pollution that the EPA and a special cleanup company were called in. They've "spent the last 3 weeks digging up the sewer and surrounding ground that had been contaminated," M0NG00SY added.
"As a truck driver of things that can dump, tip, be destroyed and costly, you have my sympathies," another commenter said.
In the middle of a "nervous breakdown," M0NG00SY took two days off of work before being threatened with legal action. "I know I can fire back for not having dock lights," he said.
Fortunately, this whole incident doesn't seem like it will leave a permanent stain on his reputation or his conscience. "Being close to three weeks out I can finally think back and sorta laugh at this situation."
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