In honour of the CrowdStrike outage, people are sharing their biggest work f*ck-ups – 19 of the best/worst

In honor of CrowdStrike, what was YOUR biggest work fuckup?

1.

PippyLongSausage
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2.

I accidentally deleted an entire project folder right before a big presentation. Spent the next 12 hours frantically trying to recover it. Learned to double-check everything after that!!!
dirtythoughtsxx

3.

I cooked $10,000 of PA speakers after I let a hip hop artist’s audio engineer run the system too loudly for an entire show.
EightOhms

4.

I clicked on “reply all”, so instead of just making a smartass answer to my supervisor it went to every office in the Federal Highway Administration.
KnitNGrin

5.

As a janitor I mixed ammonia and bleach to try and clean fresh tar stains tracked in on a vinyl floor. Almost died that night.
Earnestweasel2

6.

I deleted the email app off everyone’s phone in the entire company and it had to be fixed by manual intervention. Was about 2000 people.
Fiascoe

7.

LanceOhio
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8.

Leaving my mic on while i shouted obscenities after screwing up my talk break over a song intro live on the radio in a top-50 market. I didn’t get fired at least.
Jester29

9.

I broke a very expensive vacuum that cleans our pool and when the new one came i dropped the device that controls the vacuum in the water and broke that one too…
cipherthesouls