BONUS - The $70,000 Mistake That Went Viral

Ever had a day at work that went horribly wrong? On this episode of The Double Show, we dive into a jaw-dropping workplace disaster: a Delta flight attendant accidentally deployed an emergency slide while still at the gate, costing the airline tens of thousands of dollars and stranding passengers. Plus, listeners share their most embarrassing job blunders—from cotton candy chaos to wax museum disasters. Tune in for laughs, shockers, and the reminder that we’ve all had those “oops” moments at work.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You ever have a bad day at work, it's the
Double Show. We all have had bad days at work, right.
I mean, if you just listen to the show for
five minutes, you'll hear at least twelve mistakes made by
me on a daily basis, Because I think it's ridiculous
that companies expect you to be good at your job
every day, let alone expect you to work on Wednesdays,
which I never understood.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Anyway, let's be honest. Most of us are killing it
out of a job one maybe two days a week. Yeah,
but normally when you make a mistake at work, it
doesn't make international news. And one employee made a little
snapfoo at their job that not only caused them to
be a national embarrassment but cost his company almost one
hundred thousand dollars and a ton of upset customers. You'll

(00:39):
find out what happened in three minutes. Also, what's the
biggest mistake you've made at work? Call us up eight
ah eight three four to three one oh six one
eight eight eight three four three six one and a
text in four to one oh six one, what's the
biggest mistake you made it work? And we'll tell you
about what happened at this guy's job. Right after this
the double show, I thought it it'll be funny to

(01:00):
set a cap filter on my boss's Zoom account before
leaving for work one hype. I didn't know that she
had a forty five minute presentation the next morning, and
she couldn't figure out how to turn it off, so
she did the forty five minute presentation as a oor
fluffy tabby cat. Fun We didn't get the deal, and
she was very upseting me. That's a text message we

(01:23):
just got in at four one oh six one because
I asked, what is the biggest mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
You've ever made while on the job?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
And I asked the question because one employee is making
international headlines today because of something that happened while they
were on the job. That is making headlines and costing
their company thousands of dollars. Also, a bunch of upset
employees call us eight eight eight three four three one
oh six one eight eight eight three four to three
one oh six one, what's the biggest mistake you've ever

(01:50):
had on the job. But here's what happened. A Delta
flight attendant made a big mistake during a flight last
week when he accidentally deployed the emergency slide.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh no, oh, the plane was still at the gate
getting ready to depart.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh goodness, But you can't just repack that thing, you know,
and get on your way. It's a complicated process to
put that back up in the plane, and it probably
cost the airline between fifty to seventy thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wow. Yeah, I bet.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
The flight was supposed to go from Pittsburgh to Salt
Lake City, but it had to be canceled and passengers
had to be put on later flights the next day,
so they had to miss their whole flight, all because
of the flight attendant accidentally deploying the emergency slide.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
One passenger said.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
The flight attendant did apologize, apologize to travelers and said,
and it's twenty six years of experience, things like this
had never happened before.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened more often. This is
the first time I've ever heard of this.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Same Apparently, the back door was closed, and then his
job was to close the front door, the one where
the gate where the slide thing comes out and attaches
to the airport.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You know, they walk through it. Very technical terms there.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
But but if you close that door and then if
you try to move the handle, apparently it sets off
all the emergency stuff. So he closed the door and
then somehow accidentally jostled the handle for that door, and
the emergency slide came out.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Wow, that thing is not very like that's easy to do.
While I'd be mad, I also think it's kind of cool.
I have never seen that slide and cool, well goodness,
I mean yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
And the thing that sucks is that the passengers that
were on board had to wait until they fixed everything
to get them off the plane so they could get
on a new plane to cancel the next day. So
they had to sit there on the runway. What when
I'm like, you got the slide all ready to throw?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Please? Yeah, I put a kiddy pull at the bottom,
making a little water slide. That's what.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Make it worth it costing his company at least seventy
thousand dollars a bunch of upset passengers. Yeah, making national
news for a little screw up that he had at
his job.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
So what's the biggest way that you screw up? While
it works?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Calls up eight eight eight three four three one six
one text in four to one O six one.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Imani yet, Hey, how are you? I'm good?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
What was the biggest group you've had at your job?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
So I was a senior in high school.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I had pretty mediocre job experience, so I was still
getting used to the workforce.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
And there was a con candy.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Machine that we had that I'd never used before, and
I was asked to use it on my like first week,
and I kind of had some overconfidence and left it
unattended because I don't know, the movies are misleading. I thought,
you just put it in and you walk away and
it does this thing.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
And I slowly throughout my shift, I start smelling smoke
and I'm like, oh, that's weird. And I look up
and there's just a whole big cloud of smoke in
our food lobby. And my manager comes printing over and
it's like what happened?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I'm like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
I just the con canyon is start acting up on me.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
And he said, did you walk away?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
And I'm like, oh, well, maybe I did.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
And we then had to be escorted outside of the
building and then be reminded how to use the con
canyon machine, not unattended, and I'm really embarrassed.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's always fun when you have to sit there while
they say that.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
For some reason, we won't we won't name names, but
she's standing over there with her head in her hands.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Anyway, she walked away from the cotton candy machine. Thank
you money text in four six.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
When we got this text in at four one o
six to one, somebody said I worked at a max
wax museum once and fell asleep during the night shift.
I woke up and panicked and accidentally hit the fire alarm,
which triggered the heat sensor. All the wax figures melted.
The next morning, it was just soup and I was jobless.