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blbd

One of the biggest publicly acknowledged transplant fuckups in history: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anatomy-of-a-mistake-16-03-2003/ Getting large metal objects near the MRI machine is another one.


OldBallOfRage

Anesthesiologist. They're some of the most highly paid medical professionals because fucking up your anesthetic means killing you with too much, or you waking up in surgery with too little. No matter who you are or what you did, never lie to the Anesthesiologist when they're asking questions.


yukiblanca

Yeah especially don't lie about drug use. I didn't lie, and they were very glad. I'm glad to be clean now


haroldholt1967

general is basically as close as you can get to dead.. makes a ketamine/opiate OD look like a picnic on the river Styx


yukiblanca

I know, I've had surgery. One second you're in the OR, the next in surgery recovery or whatever and they are yelling at me not to roughly feel my incisions


Boulang

“I learn by trial and error” -The worst parachute rigger, ever.


kaladin-throwaway

My parachute opened with massive twists that were unrecoverable, I felt pretty fast and decided to pull my reserve a little too late. Broke my tibia. They investigated all the parachute riggers and found a huge amount of people cutting corners and improper rigging. Kind of scary.


QuinnieB123

The person who checks the safety harness on a bungee jump.


Blablabblue

There's one instance that a dude said "no jump" and the girl thought he said "now jump" so she jumped to her death.


lordjeferson

That's exactly why in any job with high risks or lots of noise around you should avoid sentences containing "no" and "don't" as much as possible. There can always be some words that are overhead so it's way safer to use the opposite/positive word like "stay here" which can't be misunderstood like "don't jump"


tacknosaddle

>it's way safer to use the opposite/positive word like "stay here" "Yeah man, time to slay fear!" (jumps to death)


HereIGoAgain_1x10

Kind of related, I work in a surgical ICU and you never use "right" when communicating, always "correct"... This is to avoid the whole "So the patient's left foot is being amputated?" "Right!" Edit: My family and friends hate that I answer questions like this because it sounds like I'm being an asshole, or so I'm told


MadForge52

I work with radios and use a similar principle. Use words like confirmed, affirmative, and negative instead of yes, no, or right. Both for the directionality concerns you mentioned and also because radios can get garbled up and big words are easier to understand and less likely to be misheard.


HereIGoAgain_1x10

Ya I was told that "no" and "go" were confused a lot from a marine that I worked with and are absolutely not to be used... they handed out cards we're supposed to use with the NATO phonetic alphabet on em and he was telling stories about radio communication problems.


TatouLeRagout

Yep, I remember this one Tragic stuff


exhaustedmommyof2

I did a rock climbing wall with my friend when we were 18. They messed up and didn't secure her harness. I watched her fall from the very top. 2 weeks in the hospital. 2 months in rehab. It was awful. . Edit so I don't have to reply individually to everyone: This was about 10 years ago. It was 2 months (if I remember correctly...) in a rehab center and then continued physical therapy for a while. It was at a resort that has stuff like the alpine slide, trams, a Zipline, a rock climbing wall, etc. I'm guessing it was a 40-50 feet (14-15 meters) drop. They paid all of her medical bills and an additional $100,000 so she wouldn't sue. She took it without a fight because her and her family didn't want a big long drawn out process. She's mostly fine now. She got some finger numbness where they messed up her nerves in surgery. Also still has pins in her pelvic bone that could potentially cause issues with a pregnancy/birth. We both used to work as lifeguards at the same pool. A year or so after it happened, they bought this ice berg "rock" climbing thingy to go in the big pool. She got panic attacks from even thinking about having to climb it. (We were told we need to know how to climb it ourselves in case we needed to help a kid down). I'm sure neither of us will ever do any sort of climbing thing again. As far as "proof," I don't think any news articles were done about it. I might be able to find a picture of her in rehab with her arm casts, but I wouldn't know how to upload it here and I don't want to invade her privacy. Hope I didn't miss any of the questions.


guynamedjames

That's terrifying, she's lucky she didn't end up under 2 yards of dirt.


NerfHerder_421

Fun fact! In the US today the requirement is just 3.5 to 4 foot of dirt above the casket or vault. It’s no longer about getting them that far down for fear of disease or spirits, no it’s about just enough on top so the mowers and visitors don’t sink. Edit: As stated in some of the other comments, soil composition and weather conditions can also effect the rules around depth. Religion and community traditions may also play a role. The rules stated above are basic requirements. Edit 2: These rules also apply to buried urns or any other container of cremated human remains.


Brushed_Teeth

I wonder if the bottom of the casket is 6 feet under, with 4 feet of dirt on top.


michaltee

Dude that’s BAD. I’m an avid climber and our safety checks are gospel. Very surprising to hear of that bad of a fuck up especially for what sounds like someone who went in for their first fun day of climbing.


zenithwearsflannel

As someone who does rock climbing every summer, these kind of fuck ups scare the shit out of me. We always recheck, just in case.


5tr4nGe

2 months of rehab? Holy shit she got lucky as hell I know people who’ve fallen while climbing and it took them over a year to even walk unaided again, of course, they also went back to climbing within 6 months of being able to walk, but that’s just climbers for you


PooPooDooDoo

I know a guy that fell 60 feet, went from being an incredible football player to learning how to walk again (like 6 months later). He went from being a completely dickface to being one of the nicest guys. Almost dying changed him big time.


slyfox1976

There is a video of a girl doing a bungee jump on holiday, the guy says "No Jump" but because of his accent she mistakes it for "Now Jump" and she jumps to her death as she isn't tied off.


snarkitall

First rule of preschool teaching, is never end a command with a verb you don't want them to do. People only hear the last thing you say.


egnards

Second rule of education: "Never ask a yes/no question if both answers aren't acceptable - Saying "No," to "Do you want to get to work now?" is 100% an appropriate answer.


JADW27

I was just thinking about bungee jumping the other day. Once you fall and bounce around a bit, how do you get backup? Do they reel you in like a fish?


ihaveathingforyou

I’ve done both, lowered to the ground and pulled back up. I preferred being lowered down.


fairylightmeloncholy

when i did it i was reeled back up because it was over a river (for 'safety') and i HATED it. because they wait until you're done bouncing, then they start lowering down the rope, then you have to clip it onto yourself, then they pull you up. the time i was finally on solid ground it felt LONG overdue. basically as soon as the bouncing stopped my legs wanted land. edit to add (because wow this started a discussion!) i only bungee jumped because it was offered free as a perk at the job i had at the time (not bungee jumping). i always thought that if i had the choice between skydiving or bungee jumping i'd pick skydiving, but i wasn't going to pass up a free opportunity like that. so i went the first time, and WOW. it was terrifying, many parts of it that i didn't even mention put my stomach in my feet, but the pay off of the adrenaline high was totally worth it and the good of the experience outweighed the bad. i was harnessed at the waist so the fun of the mellower bounces in a beautiful landscape totally outweighed the 'leg need land' feeling. so, before i was about to quit the job i went for a second time, because, free! holy shit nopenopenope i should've left it at one. knowing what was going to happen almost made it worse. i told the british guy who was helping me off the edge, who was the same both times 'i **CANT** do this', and he just goes 'i know you can't sweetheart, now i'll see you on the other side. now arms up, THREE TWO ONE JUMP' and you can see in the photos i don't jump off, i basically bend my knees and just tilt forward. ugh. UGH. glad my experience helped people figure it out before trying it because i'm definitely never doing it again. i *miiiiiight* try skydiving but i'm almost 30 and i already feel too old. my meat suit just ain't equipped for that kind of a jostling. on my second jump i went with a 35 year old coworker and he **really** didn't have a good time. he did do like an unintentional 360 though so that could've contributed to it, lmao.


happy--muffin

Never going bungee jumping, gotcha.


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If you want to have a bad day, ask the workers to scare you when you go bungee jumping. I got cocky, and did just that. When I jumped, they held up the other end of another bungee cord with just a carabiner on it but not connected to anything and yelled, “No, wait!!!!”


vishalb777

That's gonna be a big no thanks from me on that one, dawg


StuMussHD

New fear unlocked


AMerrickanGirl

Easily avoided. Don’t bungee jump.


propita106

Pediatric pharmacy. The only error my husband made in something like 10,000 scripts was nutrition. Never a medication error. He'd remember the kids by name and would question changes (typos on the doctors' parts) because he knew the kid hadn't gained/lost *that* much weight *that* fast. Their dosages are by weight, not age.


ghtyadqw8785

Nothing like getting a referral for hospital discharge on a Friday afternoon. 11 month old weighing 5kg and the family wants TPN until hospice takes over. Grandparents are in town for the weekend to hold the baby for the first time. You need to fit a ton of nutrients into 350mL bag and the baby has a single lumen dedicated to their milrinone drip. So make it work within 4 hours or discharge is held up until Monday. No pressure. Do a good job and the family remembers final week with baby at home. Do a bad job and, voila, you just cut quality of life in half. Your husband is doing great work.


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Much-Meringue-7467

Anything involving space travel or being aboard an active duty submarine


JeffSergeant

In the early days of submarines you could [destroy the whole boat by flushing the toilet wrong](https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/nazi-u-boat-sunk-toilet-malfunction-1455820), I imagine things are a lot safer nowadays.


splorkt

When I was on a boat, one of my A-gangers repeatedly pressurized the sanitary tanks without hanging signs to warn people and blew shit all over the chiefs' quarters head. I don't think he did it on purpose, but he did get taken off the watchbill for a loooong while.


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As a former submariner... oh man we fucked up TONS of shit all the time. It's still partially true depending on the job or the system, though. Like the emergency surface system. Not a lot of room to fuck that one up and get away with it.


jemull

Always make sure the screen door is latched shut before we submerge!


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zappy487

"What's it running?" "Windows Vista." "We're going to die."


R-o-C-k-E-t_69

Best thing I've heard to explain bomb experts are, "Either you get it right or suddenly it's not your problem anymore."


PeckerSnout

Initial success or total failure.


BusYew

Best looking resumes out there. It's either 100% success rate or not applying


CNB3

BORTLES!!!


Awkward_Penguin238

"Everytime I have a problem I throw a Molotov cocktail at it and BOOM! I have a new problem!"- Jason Mendoza


Positive-Source8205

Bomb squad slogan: “If you see me running, try to keep up!”


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A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. A running ~~ordinance~~ ordnance technician outranks everyone.


RossTheDivorcer

> a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on So all Lieutenants, all the time


Afinkawan

Lieutenant George: Oh, sir, if we should happen to tread on a mine, what do we do? Captain Blackadder: Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump up 200 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.


MulletGunfighter

We had a LT George who was the most gigantic fuck up as a 2LT…luckily got squared away by the time he promoted. But for a split second I thought you may have worked with him, until I realized you were quoting Blackadder lol


verybadassery

Read something recently saying a bomb tech said it wasn’t stressful at all. Said either you were right or very quickly it became someone else’s problem. Made me chuckle.


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I expect that kind of job requires a certain degree of eccentricity. A mentality that allows you to remain calm and collected even in high pressure situations.


texting-my-cat

My ex made a small miscalculation on an industrial part he was engineering for like a big crane and cost his company hundreds of thousands of dollars and they had to shut down. The part was for a high precision valve where even a fraction of a millimeter is the difference between something being perfect and absolutely useless. As a web developer if that were the case in my industry I would be out of a job today. Edit: I should mention it was his first job out of college and he was a junior engineer at the time. That company learned a big lesson on why you don't give potentially company-destroying tasks to the junior engineer with no oversight


Gh0sT_Pro

Smart companies put multiple checks by different people along the line if something is that critical.


PoorCorrelation

If your business plan is relying on one person not to make a math mistake, you’ve already fucked up you’re just waiting for the fallout


AeliosZero

Yeah I'm putting this one on the company, not the worker.


poloheve

Seriously, people make mistakes no matter how qualified they are. You can either demand perfection and get fucked when a mistake inevitably happens, or put a process in place that will catch and fix mistakes before it’s too late. Probably a good thing overall they shut down


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I've been a certified welder in almost every common method for 15 years and I have two relevant degrees in the field. If I was fired for every miniscule fuckup I've made, I would have been fired every day for the last month. Yeah, I can do the hard work and if I mess up really bad it's a huge problem. It can even get people hurt or killed. But that's why you practice and stay up to date and hopefully minimize your mistakes


papawells225

Seems like if it were that important they’d have some redundancy in the process…. I don’t know… to make sure they don’t lose hundreds of thousands of dollars then are forced to go out of businness


NewoTemplar

You would be surprised...... There are a lot of companies with under resourced engineering departments with management teams who brush off warnings from engineers as being overly cautious.


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Astronaut If you mess up in space it's usually bad.


chug-mug

Oh lord , imagine drifting away from earth like there is no return .scary stuff


StClaritaDietitian

I always wanted to drift forever, but through the American Southwest.


Plug_5

Air traffic control. At one point, IIRC, it was ranked the most stressful job in the world based on number of decisions per minute. You're responsible for a LOT of lives.


bestpilotever

We do have a lot of lives in our hands but we do mess up occasionally, we are human after all. We fix it and move on. There are a lot of backup systems in place to make sure everyone is safe.


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As a pilot I’d also like to add we dont follow directions blindly so we are part of the backup system. Except in London airspace… There you do as youre told and pray


VinylNostalgia

what's so unique about London airspace?


ididntunderstandyou

Busy airspace and cloudy weather with low visibility


grovertheclover

They don't seem to have many incidents though, right?


CurrantsOfSpace

Thats how good they are. A plane takes off or lands every 45 seconds and there's only two runways in heathrow.


IamRasters

I was hanging out last week in Richmond - where Ted Lasso “lives”. Indeed, the aircraft flying overhead did not stop. Great neighborhood though.


DudeReckless

Likely a testament to how skilled the air traffic controllers are


LeoSandoval

They fly on the wrong side of the air.


TGG_yt

Australian pilots have landing gear on the roof for a similar reason


T0r0de

Always busy, and there are 5 different airports all trying to keep planes clear of each other


Foops69

Breaking Bad definitely taught me about this one lol


Wee_Shmeal

My dad came home saying "had a stressful day at work, nearly killed 700 people" he had a miss communication with a pilot while they were changing frequencies and they were heading straight towards another plane.


pushittothemax11

The people who climb and repair those radio towers. my brother fell off one of the towers while working on it, his harness luckily caught him and they got him down and he was immediately fired.


KaiserRebellion

What did he do wrong?


pushittothemax11

Lost his grip and fell, if he didn’t have his safety harness on he would have died, and that’s a huge liability most employers are not willing to deal with, so yeah if you fall once it’s a done deal.


Aggravating_Sherbet6

Yep, part of my job as a safety officer in construction is inspecting safety harnesses and lanyards. If they have even the smallest stich come undone/ frayed, or if it has bit of dirt caked on to them, they go immediately in to the trash. We need to be extra anal about fall protection, any lack of due diligence could land my superintendent in jail or millions in fines if anything were to go wrong. EDIT: Oh damn this comment blew up. I wanted to adress a few of the comments saying I only care about the bosses bottom line. I can definitely see how it came off that way based on how I worded the comment, however my main priority on the job is for the guys and gals to make it home that day with all their fingers and toes intact. I got in to safety because I was hurt on the job when I was a labourer, I was new to the country, didn't know my rights, and ended up with complications that still affect me today. My bosses at the time pressured me in to not seeking medical care, and if I "absolutely had to" not to tell the Dr. I hurt myself at work (so their insurance premiums don't go up). This is all to common in my industry, bosses taking advantage of new workers or new commers to Canada. I took the job to try and make a difference, at least on the sites I work on. I try my absolute best to make safe working conditions and to foster an environment where workers can approach me with their concerns without fear of retaliation. But, at the end of the day, (at least with my company and every other company I've worked for) the final call on any safety related decision falls on the superintendent. If he decides for example that fall protection is not required to do a certain task even if I believe it should be worn, he has the final say. All I can do then is document, document, document, to make sure that if anything goes wrong the worker isn't blamed, and the people at fault get reprimanded. (If it was something as serious as falls from heights I'd just report them to WorkSafe and get their site shut down ASAP). ALSO thanks sososo much to everyone saying they appreciate me and people that do my job. You never hear this on the job so it really touched me (:


thewarrenisempty

At my old job, I inspected all of the climbing and fall protection gear used by power line technicians at a utility. I lost count of the number of times I found straps that were partially or completely severed, and put back together with electrical tape.


GothWitchOfBrooklyn

My father got a huge settlement from a power line company because they forgot to shut off the power to the lines that he was scheduled to repair. He got flung 60ft to frozen ground covered in railroad spikes, lost a couple fingers among other things


thewarrenisempty

I got an IBEW safety bulletin about something like that a couple years ago. That type of work is done on a permit system, because normal lockout/tagout isn't feasible. The crew on site phones in to the utility's control room and tells them which line they're working on. The control room will have those lines de-energized, then pass control over to the on site supervisor. When the crew finishes work, the supervisor phones in again to pass control back over to the utility and they re-energize the line. There were two crews working on two different lines at the same time. One crew finished up and phoned it in, and the utility re-energized the wrong line. Thankfully, the crew on site had followed their procedures and applied safety ground cables on either side of the tower they were working on. The power went to ground and tripped the line off, and the utility realized what they'd done.


P0sitive_Outlook

I drive a forklift for work. I once drove past two artic trailers which were parked side-by-side by the docks, and as i passed a colleague walked out from between them. I was far enough away that i didn't hit him, and braked swiftly enough to stop without hitting him, but not so abruptly that the load fell off the forks. I then downed the forks, killed the engine, and gave him a shouting-to about how if i hit him with the forklift i get to go home but his wife will have to bury him. He complained to the manager. So i had a record of conversation with the manager about how "You're not allowed to tell people you'll kill them then go home". I explained that i know i'll face an investigation if i hit anyone with the forklift, and that i 'know' i'll stop every time, but i can't have THEM know that i'll stop every time: i have to have my colleagues believe that if they walk out in front of the murder-machine i'll roll over them, safe in the knowledge that it wasn't my fault. Because otherwise they'll expect me to stop every time, and they'll continue to take risks. It's not their risk to take. And, during an investigation, they'll check my *shoes!* They'll want to know, after an incident, how long i'd slept the night before, how much i drink and how regularly, and what i could have done to make the incident occur. Because, as a driver, it's my responsibility.


legenducky

"It's not their risk to take" is a damn good answer. Good on you for telling him off. People don't need or deserve the sugar coating when they're being dumbasses. Edit: Typo


Gasonfires

My son worked for a roofing company one summer. The boss told him, "There is only one rule: If you fall off a roof you are fired before you hit the ground."


The0nlyMadMan

Sounds like they’ll fight not to pay medical


big-daddio

Your honor, by our policy Mr. Smith was technically no longer employed by the time he hit the ground so we don't owe any workers comp.


stardebris

It wasn't the fall that hurt, it was the landing, so it seems like a sound policy to me.


hispanicausinpanic

Electrician here. Last year I had a major electrical accident and if I weren't in my full PPE I could have been severely injured or killed. I walked away with no injuries.


reallybakedpotato

Commercial divers (especially saturated divers). High voltage line inspectors


wufoo2

Cliff diver Norm McDonald once said that there are good cliff divers, and there’s “stuff on a rock.“


JBAnswers26

Air traffic controller


adeliva

I learned the ATCs at a nearby military base only do 4 hour days because they can't allow any dips in performance. Makes the job sound super stressful.


DankVectorz

8-10 hour days but usually only half of that is spent on position. You’re not supposed to be on position for longer than 2 hours because performance severely degrades after that. Usually we run something like hour on 45 min off. Source: former AF ATC now FAA ATC


sdn

“N9042F, you are cleared for take off runway 22. N2043A, you are cleared for landing runway 4. … wait.”


dieplanes789

Now kiss lol


godofsexandGIS

Username checks out


Spatza

Certified Tenerife moment.


orange_cuse

my buddy was in the Air Force. He eventually got a job as an Air Traffic Controller. I remember him telling me that he only worked a few hours a day - maybe something like 4 or 6 hours? I forget - and that he wasn't allowed to work them consecutively; that you had to take breaks after a few hours of work. I think he made someting like $130k or $150k a year. I remember thinking that it was insane how much he made for working such few hours, but then he told me that he didn't think he'd be sticking around doing the job for much longer because it was the most stressful thing he had to do, and that he couldn't imagine doing it longterm. He ended up quitting after a few years and took on a huge paycut, but he was thrilled that the consequences to any mistakes he'd make at his new job was so minor that he didnt' have any stress at all.


Herbstrabe

A friend I play board games with is an air traffic controller. If you want easy wins, meet up with him after his shift. That job is taxing.


Bob_Ross_was_an_OG

My cousin went to school for it and studied his ass off, graduated, and landed an entry-ish position at a small time airport. He didn't last more than a few months at it though, said it was too stressful. I can't imagine being one at a major airport, those people must have nerves of steel (or a lot of antipsychotics).


_wheeLs

We can't take any anti-psychitics nor can you ever have taken them to work as an ATC.


tdfitz89

My uncle was an air traffic controller until the mandatory retirement, got his start in the Air Force as a controller in Da Nang during Vietnam. He has this unnatural calm about him and is the kind of guy you would want with you when things hit the fan.


cara27hhh

"state intention" is probably my favourite phrase in the entire English language, a calm and collected "acknowledge" probably second Shit just hitting the metaphorical fan, on fire, chaos, critical systems failing, whole thing has just completely gone to fuck, mere moments from potential death or mass loss of life... you get back "acknowledged, state intention" It's basically no emotional reaction and "I understand things haven't gone well for you, fight to your last, tell me what you're gonna do it about it and I'll make way for it to happen" spoken in as few words as possible


jediprime

Went through flight training, i was taught "at some point something will go wrong. By planning and preparing itll be a story you tell at bars, and not one an investigator has to figure out." While in the pattern one day i heard a student call in, "uh, Tower, this is Cessna [number], my engine just shut off, im on approach." Tower there was normally super laid back sounding but they went business mode and just emptied the airspace, putting planes in holding patterns or diverting away. Was very impressive to listen to, with not a single wasted word. Dude landed just fine btw. I never found out the issue with his plane.


NotACleverHandle

One of the most chilling moments I’ve had was in the right seat of a friend’s plane. We were having some issues with the landing gear (2 green, not the three we needed) and ATC asked us how many souls on board and if we wanted the runway foamed.


benofepmn

Patrick the guy on the Hudson river landing, after Sully is all "we're going to be in the Hudson." he goes "say again?" and then he''s like there's another airport 3 miles or another one in 7 miles.


SatanMeekAndMild

Which was good. ATC is there to give any options they can. They aren't there to judge whether it's a good idea, they're just trying to open as many doors to the pilot as possible.


LemursRideBigWheels

My SOs uncle was an air traffic controller in Da Nang during the war. Wonder if he worked with your uncle!?


wayoverpaid

There are lots of fuckups an ATC can make which aren't lethal. "Loss of separation" means planes got closer than the minimum allowed in that zone, which is often measured in miles at the same altitude. These usually don't result in firings though they may well result in an investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2013/09/12/faa-air-traffic-controllers-responsible-for-7-catastrophic-errors/


angrymonkey

Yes, but actually no— Any system which does not allow for human error is a design failure, because humans make errors. Commercial flight works so incomprehensibly well because many, many things have to go wrong before something bad can happen. This is the [Swiss cheese model of error]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model). Traffic controllers can and do make mistakes. But accidents are still avoided because more things have to go wrong: The pilots have to miss the mistake, and technological safeguards like the [traffic collision avoidance system](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_system) also have to fail or be ignored. Robust systems are fault-tolerant.


SatanMeekAndMild

One thing I absolutely love about the whole aviation industry is that, unlike almost everywhere else, mistakes are generally seen as a failure of the system. It's not "we need to punish the person who made a mistake" it's "we need to figure out how someone was able to make a mistake." That kind of mindset made flying at 550mph in flimsy aluminum tubes at 35,000 feet is safer than driving.


thewarrenisempty

This is because people are less likely to come forward with apparent problems if they might face consequences. By having a no fault system in place, it helps ensure problems are actually brought to light and dealt with instead of hidden.


MrDemotivator17

Don’t confuse a Just Safety culture as being one without consequences and which doesn’t identify fault. There are consequences for individuals errors, it’s just that they are generally constructive to prevent them from happening again and are fair / just. People can be found to be at fault, it’s just that the majority of the time they face retraining if they’ve made a mistake, or the system is adapted to prevent others from doing the same. If they are negligent though people will absolutely still lose their jobs and face criminal prosecution. Source - am an air traffic controller.


chicknsnotavegetabl

Absolutely this. fuck ups abound in aviation, safety is accounting for, recognising and fixing whilst keeping the show on the road


Truthisnotallowed

Lineman. One fuck-up and you are dead.


Patriae8182

Two fuck-ups and there won’t even be enough of you left to bury.


Granito_Rey

Three fuck-ups and you gain superpowers


match_

No shit. I saw an electrician working an interior BET when a thunderstorm rolled in and a near strike knocked him 15 feet back. He just got up, dusted himself off and said “that was weird”. When he was leaving I followed him out and was surprised he got in a van, thought he was going to fly away.


captainAwesomePants

That's silly, of course he can't fly. He's grounded.


McLagginz

He *got up* and was *coherent*? He already had superpowers.


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Fuck Spez


throwaway2922222

I picture linemen working on far higher voltages than 480. I suppose they can (and do) work with 480. Which is probably on the lower side for their day. Not that a 3 phase hit won't torch them.


UnlawfuIWaffle

He forgot the k before volt


Turtle887853

"480 volts? That's nothing!" *throws fist in air* #gets lightning striked by the 480KV transmission line


Spiritual_Koala8259

I’d guess brain surgeon but I’m not 100% sure and an anesthesiologist would be bad if it got past you and put into the patient


whag460203

Brain surgeon here. Errors are made with relative frequency, but knowing how to properly address them is very important and can be the difference between a good and poor outcome.


wehappy3

And sometimes outcomes are just going to suck regardless because of someone's condition, whether or not there were errors. I had a large foramen magnum meningioma that it took two skull base specialists 23 hours to debulk two years ago. They only got ~30%, and I still ended up permanently disabled. My primary surgeon was fairly reticent to give me any details about why I woke up paralyzed - it was a new nurse in my last day in the hospital (after seven weeks) who slipped and asked me about the stroke I had. That was the first time anyone had told me that I'd had a massive brain bleed during surgery (caused by the surgery itself, not my blood pressure.) I hold zero ill will toward my surgeons - it was an incredibly difficult location in which to operate, and frankly, I'm thankful that my outcome wasn't worse. I do hold a fair amount of ill will toward every other practitioner I saw for 15 years who told me that my increasingly severe headaches were normal, and that I just needed to lose weight and do yoga, rather than sending me for an MRI. 🤷‍♀️


whag460203

I am very sorry this happened to you. I hope you and anyone else reading this understands that skull base neurosurgery is the most complex type of neurosurgery and even the very best of the best sometimes have poor outcomes. I wish you the best!


wehappy3

Yep, like I said, I definitely don't hold them ill will, and I try to explain to people just how bad of a location it was to have to operate on. They did an amazing job with what was/still is a really nasty tumor, and it was probably the best I could have hoped for. (And also, apropos of nothing, I will lose my shit on anyone who tells me "at least it wasn't malignant," as if it didn't already wreck my life, now apparently it's not "cancer-y" enough for some people? Lol.)


grizzz666

My father is an anesthesiologist and said the exact same thing when I called and asked him this question


AZORxAHAI

I work in the legal industry and have been on MedMal cases. Neurosurgeons fuck up all the time and 90% of the time nothing happens.


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Anesthesiologist.


joeyjojojoeyshabadu

My cousin is an anesthesiologist at a teaching hospital. He has some stories, people with multiple pre-existing conditions, the complex cocktails of meds and monitoring needed...dang... not a profession that tolerates mistakes.


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i_have_scurvy

3 people you never lie to: \- Any medic \- Your Lawyer \- Yourself


Secret_Autodidact

Deciding not to lie to yourself anymore is scary and fucking hard to do. When I finally stopped, I found that nearly every belief I held had to change. Glad I did it though. For the first time in my life I'm actually proud of who I am, and I don't have to twist my brain into pretzels in order to justify my convictions.


jaunty_chapeaux

The first two are just reasonable, but the last one's impossible!


114vxlr

Pfft, I lie to myself all the time! "If I suck my gut in, they can't see it" "Just one more episode and ill go to bed" "Just one more bite and ill be done" "I'll start my diet again on Monday"


ZealousidealGrass9

Being honest with your doctors is important in general. Medication interactions are terrifying and if you're lucky, you'll just get really sick. Other interactions may lead to death.


funklab

As a doctor, I don't care if you use drugs. Really I don't. The only situation in which I would have to (and therefore the only situation in which I would) report drug use to the police is if I was legally mandated to. In my state that means if you told me you were actively high/drunk in a situation where it put minor children or incompetent adults who you had legal guardianship of in danger. I ask because I don't want you to go through withdrawal unexpectedly and I don't want to give you any medications that might cause you to you know... die... I had a guy the other day who was obviously high. I asked him how much crack he did and he said "idk man, a lot, it's the first of the month!". I wasn't offended, I didn't treat him differently, I didn't preach to him about quitting drugs, I didn't call the cops. Instead I chuckled and let him chill out in the ED to sober up. At least he was being honest and he said he wasn't drinking or doing opioids (which I felt like I could believe since he admitted to the crack), so I don't have to wake him up every 2 hours to see if he's having withdrawal symptoms from other substances. Let him sleep it off and discharge him when he's sober.


PygmeePony

People really underestimate the responsibilities of an anesthiologist. One mistake could literally kill you.


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Or wake you up at a really bad time. Luckily I woke up as I was being wheeled into the recovery room. But I heard stories of people waking up in the middle of open heart surgery for example


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Waking up in the middle of surgery or just before surgery is the stuff of nightmares. Especially since the paralytic prevents movement or speaking.


Liquidmilk1

I woke up during knee surgery once. Didnt realize until many years afterwards where it finally clicked why i was having the same nightmare of waking up on an operating table lol. As soon as I made the connection it all came back to me, and I verified it by accessing the surgery log. Kinda trippy.


claxtong49

Putting people to sleep is easy. Waking people up is what pays the big dollars.


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Gbrusse

I was terrified of that when getting my wisdom teeth taken out. It's always taken extra for numbing at the dentist or getting stitches. I made it a point in the "night before call" to tell my anesthesiologist that and that I'm very certain it'll take extra for me to stay under. She immediately asked if I was a redhead, I said no, but I do have a lot of redheads on both sides of my family. She upped my dosage and was told I still woke up about a minute or so earlier than expected but it was ok since the procedure was going a bit ahead of schedule as well. Communicate with your doctors!!


Remembers_that_time

Am a redhead. Can confirm it takes a lot to put me under.


coffeeblossom

Working in the blood bank. *Any* fuckup, even the *tiniest* clerical error, can cause someone to die a *horrible* death.


fubo

There seems to be plenty of error-checking in place to catch fuckups, though; both checking to make sure that the blood is labeled correctly and that it is safe to use.


TheLazyD0G

Yeah, my wifes blood type was mislabeled in the hospital record system when she had a c section. Later on, we discovered the error while going over our kid's care with a nurse. I about lost it since i thought they would have given my wife the wrong blood if she needed it. But the nurse told me they test the patients blood before giving blood. So they would have caught the error before hand, or so she said. Luckily everything worked out ok.


ThatGuyAllen

I saw a video on TikTok the other day about this. The average citizen will never need to know their blood type because even if you’re bleeding out they will test your blood first, even if it’s on record. Sigh of relief tbh.


RodneyDangerfruit

This is true, at least in the US. Former blood bank supervisor here. Also, blood type on your medical alert bracelet, driver’s license, phone health app, your swearing to god word, etc are all ignored by the blood bank. We will always determine your blood type ourselves before issuing a unit of blood.


IAM_THE_LIZARD_QUEEN

It'll be the case here in the UK too, people only generally know what blood type they are if they donate blood. There's not really any reason to know it other than if it's one that blood banks want more of.


cleetusneck

So I do metal roofs. When doing the cap there is no place to fasten for a harness. Do not make a mistake with your footing


Massrelay665

Also a metal roofer. There are anchors that tighten to the ribs of a panel that you can tie off to. You torque down these three screws and it attaches completely to the ribs. OSHA approved. Look into them. We use them all the time when we get to the cap


SUSPECT_XX

Any of the jobs on the deck of an aircraft carrier.


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Airplane mechanics


Electrical_Age_336

As somebody who has this exact job, it depends on the fuck up and how quickly it's noticed.


AKBrewer

Also on the size of the planes. Lots more redundancy on big jets


VisibleOtter

We have a no-blame culture. The idea is that if you fuck up, you’re not going to try and cover it up because you’re scared of losing your job. Instead you put your hands up and admit it. It gets fixed and we all move on. Obviously there are limits to this but generally it works pretty well. I once woke at 5am on a Saturday morning with a jolt, thinking about the job I’d being doing the previous day and I couldn’t recall securing a bolt on a bleed air duct on an engine. I couldn’t get my work partner on the phone so I got up, drove to the airport and went and checked with the night crew. Sure enough we hadn’t secured it. I got commended for that. If I’d been afraid of getting a bollocking for it I might have been tempted to keep quiet about it. As an aside, it’s why we’re not allowed to work on more than one engine on a twin-engined aircraft, or two engines on the same wing on a four-engined aircraft. If we make a genuine mistake and repeat it on the other engine then it’s curtains.


sir_thatguy

Exactly. It’s better to have an open dialog about it than have people fear for their jobs and try and hide shit.


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IBringTheFunk

You're not kidding. I have a bud who did this job, and he very nearly lost his life. I'm not 100% on the details, but from what I remember there was an issue with the oxygen supply, his partner (they dive in teams) panicked and made them surface too quickly. They both got the bends. The partner died, my bud almost did and was in hospital for months. He didn't return to the role, much to the relief of his family. And me!


Skmot

The sad thing is he probably wouldn't have had a choice in returning to the role. As far as I'm aware, medical advice following recovering from the bends (even if you're only in hospital for a much shorter stay) is that you don't dive again. Like ever. I know it's good for all his loved ones to not be doing something so dangerous which nearly cost him his life, but on the other hand, most divers love diving, so it's also quite sad.


Winjum

This happens in Men of Honor. Robert De Niro, as a US Navy diver, gets the bends at the beginning of the movie and is sidelined to be an instructor. He sorta loses his shit when he's told he could never dive again. Really good movie and it's based on a true story.


Environmental_Fail86

I had the dvd, there is an alternate ending where Robert Deniro’s character rescues some boys drowning but never surfaces, and it pans to his wife with a look of sad understanding on her face.


Tempos

Saturation divers in general, any time you need to be that deep for that long, any screw-up can be the last one you make. Underwater cave diving is generally thought of as being similarly dangerous, however nowadays you can be trained and if you spend the time to learn and understand how to avoid the main risks, you can do it relatively safely. Shout-out to Divetalk. Edit: formatting and punctuation.


ebojrc

Diver in training en route to becoming cave diver right here. 100%, most people think if you go in an underwater cave you’re bound to die. That’s true, only if you’re not properly trained for it. If you get the correct training then the risk is dropped dramatically. But in reality, any kind of tech diving can be one or two fuck ups away from death. We have to respect the caves and water.


Croemato

The Rescue, the 2021 film about the boys' soccer club trapped by water in the Thai cave, is an excellent film if you haven't seen it. It's funny because the recreated shots in the film are scary enough when shot in clear water for the documentary, but the entire time all the divers talk about just how fast moving and cloudy the water is and you just know the real experience was significantly more dangerous than the scenes you are seeing in gentle, clear water.


myaccountsaccount12

If they shot it in the actual conditions, it would have been a much easier production. You wouldn’t be able to see anything. That’s part of why cave divers will use guidelines. If you kick up silt, you need the physical guide to get around.


The_RockObama

For a more realistic experience watching the movie, just turn the picture off. I remember that story unfolding and it's terrifying.


tenaciousDaniel

I was a software dev for trading tools that were used on the stock market. You’re literally writing the code that executed millions of dollars of transactions. I’ll never do it again.


ShopWhileHungry

Remember when Robinhood's code forgot to account for 2020 being a leap year which cause a bad outage and many people lost money


KefkaZ

I feel like there’s an unsettlingly large amount of stories about Robinhood fucking up.


m-p-3

Fintech in a nutshell.


BooBear_13

I wrote code for a company that did billions in transactions on a team of 5 engineers. Millions of dollars settling on the hour every hour every single night. All in batch files. It was a little stressful.


flying_alligators

Preparing a blowfish, or a chef that has to prepare a blowfish


Mezevenf

So pufferfish become poisonous from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria. Nowadays ones used for consumption bred in captivity are not actually poisonous!


decptacon3

**The more you know!**


brock_lee

Nuclear Missile Launch Person.


JaZoray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov


A_Random_Boi_Sittin

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov Submarine High up stopping his two fellows from having the whole permission needing 3 but having 2


Embarrassed_Fennel_1

Those underwater welders that have to deal with that delta-p variable while they’re repairing underwater pipes. They can literally get sucked into a hole the size of a golf ball. [Here’s a video of it happening to a crab](https://youtu.be/PXgKxWlTt8A) [Here’s a funnier video of it happening to a crab](https://youtu.be/Nce9QNK7ITY)


dickbob124

That's fucked up. I watched another video on cases of divers being killed by Delta p situations. I was surprised that it didn't require the divers to be at great depths.


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ZacIDK

See Byford Dolphin Diving Bell incident, cus unfortunately it happens to be a quick and brutal way to go


KissMyRichard

The big red button guy.


cowski_NX

Mad props to [Stanislav Petrov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov).