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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/SadDoughnut1073 on 2026-06-20 01:52:59+00:00.

TL;DR tried to help out my team made things 100 times worse.

So, my engineering team was tapped out for a bigger project and I’m a project manager. We had to move a test rack for one of our products and I was like “easy enough, I’ll help out”. I got everything unhooked successfully, like a boss.

Then, I had to move the rack. Things were moving fine until the elevator. I didn’t realize how big the gap is between the elevator and the hallway. Well, the rack wheels got caught in the gap and tipped the rack and the test computer up top fell six feet. It’s a spectrum analyzer. We’re still assessing the damage, I’ll be lucky if the damage is just cosmetic.

So far, nothing absolutely fatal. But I’m mostly just so embarrassed. “Hey, I’m not just a PM! I can help!”

Only to need adult supervision.

I’m trying to take solace in that I was trying to do something good and I was taking care of an actual internal requirement. But yea.