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Originally Posted by Special_K

About 3 months into my job out of school I fucked up on a design and cost my company about 14k... I thought for sure that was my ass, I was seriously ready for my final check and a lousy reference. Thank god my boss was chill as hell about it. He took me to "The Boneyard" to give me a tour of all his failed designs, concepts, prototypes. Gave me a story about hard work and always improving and learning from my mistakes. Now, I'm much more confident in my designs and have moved from making little parts to million dollar machines with only minor hiccups to accompany me.

I tried tallying up how much money was sitting in the boneyard in material, machining, labor, time, etc. I figure it's somewhere to the tune of $35 million just collecting weeds and housing wasps.

I could show you a couple of million dollars in failed production equipment just from pictures currently on my phone. And these were designed by experienced engineers that do nothing but design production equipment (not our engineers).