"Oh oh, I have something for this! I broke $20k of equipment and kept my job!

I was working on a gas chromatography machine, and through some dumb@$$ery, blew a channel—the carrier gas line was kinked and I didn’t know. I was like “oh that’s weird” replaced it, and instantly blew it again because there still wasn’t carrier gas being pushed to the instrument.

All told, about $20k USD mistake. Nothing ever happened to me, I was upfront about what happened and my boss just shrugged. This was the first time I realized I was dealing with Real Money— that’s a drop in the bucket."

AtomicTaintKick