This happened yesterday. I work at a bakery that, in addition to bread, also sells drinks. Behind our counter we have a bar setup with tea dispensers, shakers, and the whole assortment; including a sealer that takes in plastic cups and uses an extremely hot ring to press down a plastic covering onto the cup thus sealing it (If you don't know what it looks like google "drink sealer", some images will come up) On the same table the sealer sits on, we have multiple appliances like a portable stove, and each of these appliances has their cord plugged into an extension cord nearby. Some of our appliances we keep stowed away and only bring them out when we need them.
Onto the tifu part. After taking my 10 min break, I come back to the front to help out. My coworker tells me to help seal a couple of drinks that were just made and send them out. Of course I rush over to help as I've done this a hundred times. Put the drink in the cup, sealer will seal it, check for leaks and send it out. So I naturally place the drink in but this time sparks fly out and a large pop noise is heard in the store. Of course I'm frightened by this flamboyant extra step I never knew about (When do drinks ever explode into sparks) so I yell out "SHIT". At this point the whole store is dead quiet and staring at me. I look down at the machine and in a sort of comical way, the sealer pushes out the drink normally as if an explosion hadn't just occurred and to my surprise, I see a piece of cord stuck between the plastic covering and the cup. A cord from the kitchenaid mixer nearby had gotten inside the sealer right between where it comes down on the drink. The cord was not on the little holder where the drink was placed, otherwise i would have noticed the cord in the way, it snuck it's way inside. You know how when a thick cord is uncoiled from a loop it sort of bends and doesn't keep straight? The bend was inside the machine where i couldn't see it. The sealer came straight down and cut a piece of the cord cleanly. The mixer was plugged into the extension cord as well and i thinks thats why there were sparks flying. So of course i just broke a $260 mixer, but it doesn't end there. All of the appliances plugged into the extension cord don't work. At first i was worried i fried everything there, but it turns out the gadgets worked fine on other outlets. Next we had to move a fridge nearby hiding the outlet in order to see if I broke the entire outlet it was plugged into we tried multiple things but none worked. Shit, i just broke an outlet and now it needs repairs, which cost more money. Luckily we found out it had something to do with the electricity breakers if that makes sense. We just had to turn it back on and everything was fine, except of course the mixer. The owner of the store just happened to stop by to check while we had the fridge moved so I had to explain what I did, and what we were doing. Not fun, even if the owner wasn't visibly mad or anything, bless his soul. Anyways, the blame was also partly to be shared with the person who took out the mixer and placed it so that the cord was inside the mixer. I was just unlucky because I sealed it at the wrong time. Anyone else would have made the same mistake as me. But at that point it looked like my doing completely and I didn't want to drag someone else down with me like that. I ended up just taking the fall for it. With it I also took on a heap of guilt. So much unnecessary guilt. My managers kept telling me it was ok and tried to cheer me up by telling me "we needed a new mixer anyways" We already replaced the mixer with a brand new one. I'm already super self-conscious about how i perform at my job because I'm not good with memorizing drinks, and I also recently showed up 90 minutes late to my morning shift, leaving only one person to open the front of the store. For this to happen now is truly a sign that god hates me.
TL;DR: I put a drink inside a drink sealer without paying close attention, and cut the cord from a nearby $260 appliance cleanly, coupled with sparks flying out, a loud pop, and a surprised "SHIT". Guilt trip ensues despite everyone reassuring me it's ok. And I now wonder if my days being employed there are number due to other "mistakes" i've made before
Edit: i just had a dream last night about the owner finding this reddit post and firing me because of some sort of breach of privacy thing?
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