# What was your biggest screw up at work?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 12, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-biggest-screw-up-at-work/274335 "2004-11-12T04:37:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-biggest-screw-up-at-work/274335/21 "2004-11-13T14:33:00Z")

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Back in the day, I used to drive [one of these.](http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/images/UTB-41.jpg) Well, when at the pier, the boat is plugged into a pretty hefty electrical shoretie, as well as the mooring lines. Getting underway one summer day, we brought aboard all lines save the shoretie.  
:smack:

The sound of fiberglass and metal all cracking and breaking and ripping out of the side of the cabin is one I won’t soon forget. Forunately for me, the damage was localized to the recepticle, and it took the support electrician a few hours to fix it. He was not happy with me.

The Chief of the station took it real well. He told me “if that’s the worst you do as a coxswain, then you’re doin’ all right.”

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