A few months ago, my coworker somehow managed to delete almost an entire project from our servers! Luckily he wasn’t fired but it was close, what’s the worst mistake you’ve seen someone make at work?

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Oh no! I’m getting secondhand scared just imagining that. We had a shipping incident that was completely my fault. Luckily it was returned and we got it all straightened out, but that was a touchy time.

It was definitely rough! Luckily you managed to sort that out, we all make mistakes sometimes.

I had this once on one job where we sent an Arctic van full of props to a different country- and we have to do a carnet for this- weighing and measuring all the props. But it wasn’t let through the country as the weight was wrong! So it all had to come back and delayed filming….

How frustrating! It can be so annoying how accurate everything needs to be or it just completely derails everything.

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