What did you do at work that made you realize, well, I'm getting fired, aren't I?

I worked for a small computer company doing a couple of million a year in sales.

One of my tasks was to update price listings and have those changes reflect on our vendors' websites.

I put one less zero on one computer model and ended up costing our company $30,000 in about one day.

Someone had noticed the error and bought a crap ton of computers.

Even though there was a Q&A process to catch these things after me, I knew that I was getting fired.

In short, I got fired.

I should say that my boss was actually pretty cool about it,

but they had to put the blame on someone. He told me I could still use them as a reference,

and that I could label the position as a short-term contract. I'm a police dispatcher,

and one time at work, I was working the desk, and Toys for Tots workers came in. My boss joked that I should

ID them to make sure they weren't thieves. We laughed and the gentleman took the 10 trash bags

full of toys and left. Later that night, a man called and asked when he could pick up the toys.

After telling him that two guys already picked the toys up, he confirmed to me that we had most likely been robbed.

He asked if I'd ID'd them and I said, no. He spoke to my boss, and to my boss then informed me

that we would probably be on the news since a police station was robbed, which was ironic, and he

flipped out on me. It turns out it was actually an off-duty cop calling to play a

prank on me. I worked at an automotive parts manufacturing factory while going to art college,

and part of my job was boxing up parts and attaching a tag onto the box with thin wire.

But for every box I completed, one every couple of hours,

I sculpted a little animal out of the wire with needle-nosed pliers. I gave the little sculptures,

bears, rabbits, whatever, to random employees, which they left on their workstation. One day,

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