Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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I'll have a P please, Bob.I once renamed 20,000 people on our work database "Robert".
If you ever get random mail addressed to Robert *Yourname*, it was me. Sorry.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:49, 2 replies)
SimilarThere was one in the computer press around 10-15 years ago where a guy had written a mailshot to target the company's top 10,000 customers.
He set up a test customer called Mr Rich Bastard. Needless to say 10,000 people all received the same letter; "Dear Mr Bastard,..."
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:59, closed)
WHERE oh WHEREThat'll teach you to remember the WHERE clause... :-)
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 12:28, closed)
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