Double ordered for over £40k - can the world swallow me please

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NC as I if my boss is on here she'll know it's me, HI!

AWWWWW Crab cakes. I duplicated a really large purchase order. My 'big' boss emailed me asking for a purchase order for '20 pieces of stuff we need" to be sent to a supplier for about 40k, I did it that day.

A week later my manager send me another email saying don't forget this PO. And it was a different email thread with the words "new order as follows: 20 pieces of stuff we need"

I didn't cop it was the same stuff so sent it to the supplier, who has now made both order.

To make it worse big boss asked me a few weeks ago, was there a duplication. He asked both me and the supplier. Neither of us replied. Which is very unlike me and I can't remember why.

I haven't liked and admitted I made a mistake with doing both order. It's the first big mistake I've made in this job, been here over 2 years. I hope big boss doesn't lose all faith in me

“Uh-oh, Spaghetti-Os” is a firm favourite round here.

Because I love crab cakes and this woman can dream about 40K in crab cakes.

It's not nice to push me into reality about the crab cakes. sigh

I already started fasting so I would have lots of room in my stomach for crab cakes! (also would have snuck in a cooler with dry ice....sssshhhhh)

Is the company feeling the pinch or will they be able to claw this back?

Drooling at the thought.....😛🦀🦀🍰🍰😛

Maybe you should have been more alert, but sounds to me like you were only doing what's requested. Assuming you've got a busy job processing purchase orders, are you really going to remember every one you've put through.

Oh, I like that one!

I did forget one I say if I am a bit befuddled or someone has irked me: "Well, whip me, beat me and take away my charge cards!" (It's most of a line from "Space Camp".)

Yes, its just you, and most of the comments on this thread aren't related to that at all.

Well if it’s PO you can always cancel it before you get the actual invoice ?

Grow up. There are, believe it or not, still some workplaces out there where swearing is frowned upon and people get creative in their minced oaths to cope with that.

I once did this for a fancy pair of bespoke curtains. It was something like - most suppliers said 2 curtains for standard split curtain with 2 pieces. This supplier said 1 for 2 pieces and 0.5 for two and 1.5 for 3 pieces. I forgot to change it and sent 3 so resulting in 2 sets of curtains.
They were the priciest curtains that I requested too. Typical. Nothing happened to me though, but I was only a temp and there was a lot of restructuring in the team.
Hopefully they were able to resell them.

We say fudge-kins and holy guacamole a lot in my house!

I once ordered 20 boxes of something eg say it was staples, except I ordered 200 (!) boxes each containing 200 boxes of staples each of which contained 5000 staples. So instead of 20 boxes of staples, we received 4000 x 5000 staples = 20 million staples. It was a History dept in a school. We sold them to all the other depts in the school and still had thousands left. They are still using them 15 years later.

DH says 'Fucky cack-pigs' when he gets something wrong.

At a creche where I worked as a receptionist I made the weekly order to suppliers for essentials on a Friday afternoon. On a Tuesday I happened to look in the log book to discover 30 2x litre bottles of milk was delivered. I ordered 13 bottles 🫣

The creche were fine about it, I was annoyed with supplier. Thereafter I made a point of triple checking the order over the phone. 🤨🤔

You win! 😆👏

uuummm...I really could use some staples. 😉

Now, if I could only get someone to let me order chocolate....🍫

Off-topic I realise. but if you are interested in alternative swear words, my very polite grandad used to use towns with a double name in moments of provocation. Usually Newport Pagnell, but also Milford Haven and occasionally Budleigh Salterton

That is horrible! Crab cakes and milk don't go together very well!

Now, just order some 🍪🍩and 🍰. You'll find that milk will be gone in a New York minute!😉

Can you get it back from the customer and then return it to the supplier for a full refund. Or will the supplier not take it back?

Oh god this is giving me flashbacks to when I ordered 500 strings of rattan ball fairy lights in yellow and red for a Spanish themed party before the client had confirmed. I thought it was a done deal and was being super organised.

They arrived and not only did the client cancel the event the same day BUT THEY ALL HAD EUROPEAN PIN PLUGS ON.

@SeptemberSuns no I have pretty flat rural accent

@LuluBlakey1 that is a LOT of staples!!😂

I had a meeting with my manager - not about this. She didn't bring it up so I did. She said she can see how the mistake was made. I said yes, but I was annoyed I didn't response to bb, that that's not like me. She said that's exactly what she had said to bb, it's not like me to not respond.

@Santasjingleballs no the PO means that we will pay the invoice, it's a contract as protection for our supplier.

It's OK, not ideal but thankfully not the biggest error. We will use the extra stuff, we would have been ordering more in a few months. Just doubled up on it now.

Unfortunately no crab cake party going on here it's funny that's what caught peoples attention 😁 . It's a fairly standard thing I say. 80K worth of crab cakes would be a LOT of crab cakes

Off-topic I realise. but if you are interested in alternative swear words, my very polite grandad used to use towns with a double name in moments of provocation. Usually Newport Pagnell, but also Milford Haven and occasionally Budleigh Salterton

Oh this is brilliant!

Big boss won't like it but this is one if those times where they should take a step back and look at their process. If ordering £40k of kit can be done incorrectly like they are very lucky it's only £40k. I don't know if £40k is a small or a large amount in your world but there should be systems and processes in place far beyond them e-mailing you and saying "order some stuff".

Oh BRAVO 😂