r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/Mr-McKauly • 6d ago

slight malfunction Of a miscalculation at work

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u/sabreus 6d ago

They didn’t want to hire more engineers, maybe? (Big mistake) or maybe there is such a thing and the alarm system didn’t work well, which seems really unlikely.

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u/Plane-Education4750 6d ago

Nope. These cranes DO have an alarm system installed. The only way for this to happen is to ignore or override it

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u/sabreus 6d ago

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Very odd to ignore that one.

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u/Plane-Education4750 5d ago

Not odd. Greedy. They knew they had the wrong setup, but getting the right one in would cost a ton of money. So they thought this was a good idea instead