There's something they'll never live down. I'd quit if I wasn't fired for that, because that would just be too embarrassing.
Coworker: "Hey! remember that time you destroyed the whole warehouse? So don't bother giving me any advice on how to drive a forklift"
I worked as a surveyor for the City as a co-op student. The story I was told was that one of the surveyors for the local electrical utility had once used the wrong spacing for the electrical poles along a new road.
Nobody noticed at the time because it was a new arterial road to serve a not-yet constructed subdivision, so there weren't any landmarks to go by for "common sense" checks; it was just a big open field... but when they went to build the subdivision itself, they realized that one of the poles was right smack dab in the middle of where a cross-street was supposed to go.
Obviously, the pole had to be removed. But not just that one pole - electrical poles can only be so far apart, so they had to rip out a long stretch of brand new poles and cables and re-do it all with the proper spacing.
That had happened at least 20 years before I got there, but people
still called him "Wrong Pole Phil".