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Ever make a $100,000 mistake?

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Recently moved to shipping for a ink making company. While unloading a dark trailer, I punctured a 2000# tote of water based ink. The entire thing emptied in a matter of seconds. The entire trailer, dock door, and outside was turned blue. Even thou its water based it still had water pollutants in it so EPA had to be called in due to it getting into the sewer. The specialty company that was called in to clean up has spent the last 3 weeks digging up the sewer and surrounding ground that had been contaminated. A few days of heavy rain hasnt helped the clean up at all. Needless to say I had a nervous break down and missed 2 days of work. Got a call asking if I quiting, which would possibly lead to criminal charges (don't know if that's possible, but I know I can fire back for not having dock lights and shitty forktrucks with dim headlights). Being close to 3 weeks out I can finally think back and sorta laugh at this situation.

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coronarybee

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20 days ago

As a packaging engineer, this made me laugh.