Thank goodness my boss wasn't mad. He patted me on the shoulder, laughed and said "30 parts in a year and a half? You're doing way better then your predecessor."
The best one I've ever heard of happened at my last shop...
The place is an FAA Repair Station so we frequently reworked aircraft engine components. We had finished up with this housing that was worth about $1,000,000 and then the shipping guy picked up the box it was in with a forklift and dropped it in the cardboard compactor! Thank his lucky stars he was a union guy or he'd have been canned on the spot.
Been there done that. Years ago when I was a cnc machinist, I put in the wrong offset. was supposed to .0004. I put .0400. Lets just say it knocked the doors off. Seriously, it knocked the doors off! LMAO.
Back in my OFI/ FLB days, I accidently entered 10 inches instead of 100 thousandths in a move point. Rammed the fixture at full speed and broke the PH9 completely off the machine. Luckily it was designed to break off but all I could think of was how to explain replacing a $15,000 probe head.
My best crash was similar to yours...I was at T1A97.5B180 probing the bottom of a part. Tried to make my clearance plane Z-0.100...accidentally put in Z-10.00...
The machine did exactly what I told it to do & crashed straight down into the granite so hard that it raised the entire bridge up about an inch and a half. =/ That was a fun conversation to have with the owner...
Go flog yourself.
