Employees Are Sharing The Major Mistakes They Made That Made Them Think They Were Getting Fired

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“I used to work in a warehouse right after school. Not knowing how everything worked and it being my first real, full-time job, I just did what I was told and tried my best to impress the bosses. One day, in the packaging room, someone had thrown a screwdriver out of anger, and it stuck to the drywall. Out of hilarity, my manager bet the guy two gas station taquitos that he couldn’t do it again. This became a daily thing around lunchtime: everyone would gather around and throw screwdrivers at the wall, and whoever’s didn’t stick had to buy lunch. Well, we were doing this right over an $8,000 heat shrink machine. And guess who accidentally hit the control panel and broke the machine? Yeah. Well, one day, one of the owners came in the back, looking for something specific, and noticed the bludgeoned wall.”

“He looked at us and said, ‘So, you guys have been throwing screwdrivers at the wall?’ I hung my head and said yes. He said, ‘That’s cool,’ and walked away. I never got fired, but he was extremely pissed about the machine I broke. He ended up just buying a better one.”

—ogcrappy