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There is something other that a good scary film that can induce waves of horror. Give you that 'I have ice water running down my spine and my bowels just turned into a nursery school for rattlesnakes' feeling.

And thats having a right fuck up at work .. courtesy of yourself.
Have you ever screwed up large .. where either you lost your job because of it, or couldnt believe you didnt get fired ?

I'm not talking about something stupid you did on purpose, something completely by accident.

For example: .. many years ago when the work force was full of terminals attached to a mainframe (no PCs) i was working as a computer operator for a large company.
At the end of each week before the Friday night backups were run my job was to delete the junk files - the mainframe version of windows temp files.
This one Friday night before the xmas holidays I cleaned out the junk files (class J files).
Traditionally the week before xmas people work harder than usual to finish up year end jobs, etc so they dont have to come in between xmas and new years. (this is important to the story)

So the last thing i do 4:0pm Friday night is type the command :
del class J all.
I had done it a million times before but for some reason this time i added 'all' which was accepted as another argument.
I deleted class J then every other file in the work area. In otherwords .. every file anyone had worked on in the past week.
I didnt realize till i checked to see how much space i had cleared up ... and saw that it was a hell of a lot more than usual.
I nearly puked... i had a couple of the older guys cover for me .. who basically said .. dont say shit to anyone and get the hell out of here.

I have no idea how much $$$ I cost the company .. i felt bad then but i guess 25 years later .. its kind of funny.

I'd love to hear if anyone else there has had a nice royal fuck up like that ..

If you're in school - it might be there or at home that you screwed up ...

I'd love to know i'm not alone on this one ...

merry xmas.