I just broke a $5,000.00 bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac at work
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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You’d think it wouldn’t be in a cardboard box. I had a bottle of MacAllan 25 that was in a wooden box with leather belt straps holding it closed and had hay inside to cushion it and that bottle was only $1,500.
Did you at least try to slurp it up with a straw?Â
Happened to a Bar-back friend of mine at the Mt. Washington hotel, and they were fired after that.
Jesus Christ. I work at VA ABC. I would have died on the spot.
Did this with a £200 bottle of wine as a barman and that was my last shift.
You mean you heard the crash and came running to discover it?
I work in pharma and our mistakes are **so** much more expensive. I left a bucket of powder for a culture media sitting out over the weekend instead of in the fridge. 30,000$.
5 second rule
I was talking to a rep who told me someone broke a $25,000 macallen bottle after pouring only 3 shots. Showed me a hilarious picture too. The point is mistakes happen, learn from it and move on don’t let this ruin the rest of your week.
One time I processed a refund for a customer at a company with a shitty point of sale system. You have to run an invoice then you opened another (browser) screen to run a refund to their credit card.
I accidently typed the dollar amount in the invoice box and the invoice number into the dollar amount box. I attempted to refund the customer just over a million dollars. Corporate approved the transaction. Thankfully someone caught it before it hit the customer’s card.
Lol 5k but the packaging costs 15$ and does fuck all to protect the bottle 💀💀💀
Nothing here tops the guy that dropped a satellite, repairs cost $135 million.
Thats all your luck for the next 10 years, remember this post..
Where? I’ll help clean it up
Guy at work accidentally dumped 2,200 lbs (1034 kg) of ink on the floor Monday because he forgot to lower the forks on the forklift he was operating while back out. He got a stern talking to and mandatory retraining on Forklift operations. Also had to help clean up that god awful mess. Probably lost a good $10k-$20 from that. Accidents happen and it’s the price of doing business. Learn from it and try your best not to let it happen again. Carry on.
Lmao when I worked at Ruth’s Chris they had a fuckin cart for the Louis and would roll it out anytime somebody bought some
Does this come out of your paycheck and how many times can you afford to make such mistake before they fire you?
I work at an airport and a year ago I was in the bag room just casually taking bags off the conveyor belt when I realized too late a zipper was busted on a duffel bag.
Out came a couple thousand dollars worth of liquor all over the floor. The entire place reeked of whiskey the rest of the day and I’m sure the customer was pissed.
I made a $250k mistake at the hospital I work at. Subsequently I have also lost many more thousands after that.
Started over a decade ago and still there.
(I work prior auth, I lose money all the time)
When I worked at a liquor store, if someone broke something we were instructed to clean it up but keep the pieces of the broken bottle so it could be written off. I’m not sure of the details surrounding that but nobody lost their job over a broken bottle. Sure, a $5k bottle of delight is a tough loss but shit happens.
Get to lickin’!
That’ll teach them to value it at 5k!
In all seriousness, I hope no one got hurt.
This should qualify you for the witness protection program
Get a straw
No you didn’t you found it that way.
Just bring in a dozen eggs and call it even.
That’s what insurance is for.
Damn, that’s like a dozen eggs. Someones retirement.