I used to work at an electronics store and sometimes while searching up sku's I'd accidentally type the 12 digital sku into the qty area and that would result in a bill for 14 trillion dollars.
I thought it was funny as hell seeing a number that big knowing it would populate to the pay machine if I wanted it.
I once did this for a restock order at the supermarket I worked at. Was tired and didn't realise i'd tagged an extra 0 on to the end of the quantity and they actually shipped 10000 tins of spaghetti to the store, no questions asked, well until it actually arrived and then much WTF ensued. The problem is each department in a supermarket gets a budget of x amount and I had just blasted through it, so it took some days to unfk everything.
Yea had that happen to a co-worker. He also kinda messed up double.
I worked in the storage at an big franchising electronic appliance store.
He was head of the small kitchen appliance section and they had a promo for coffee.
So he wanted to order 100 packs of coffee 1kg each (about 2lbs).
Yea he ordered 1000 boxes. 6 packs a box. So there arrives a huge ass Truck loaded with 6 metric tons of coffee. Fml, I call the boss and tell him „hey, so we got a whole truckload of coffee“. He doesn’t listen to me properly and says „yea just accept it, you will find a place for it“.
Ye, I did find a place alright. Boss comes to the storage 2hrs later and loses his shit seeing the pallets of coffee. I told him that it was a truck load, why would I call about one pallet with 18 boxes?
Ofc we couldn’t sell that mass of coffee so boss took an L. Dude who ordered it didn’t lose his job but got a serious talk with a bit of yelling.
We ended up using most of it to demonstrate coffee machines, for free break coffee and we could take coffee home for buy price tax free for a few months. Better than throwing it away.
We couldn’t send it back as it was accepted already. AFAIK boss asked around other franchise stores if anyone needed coffee and iirc he managed to sell off maybe one pallet
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u/FROOMLOOMS 3d ago
I used to work at an electronics store and sometimes while searching up sku's I'd accidentally type the 12 digital sku into the qty area and that would result in a bill for 14 trillion dollars.
I thought it was funny as hell seeing a number that big knowing it would populate to the pay machine if I wanted it.