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coopsweb 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".

(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Most expensive mistake....
Hmm now that is a tricky one, not sure if it's the most expensive one I've made, but certainly an expensive one....

I was working on site up in Coventry, what a shite hole that was. I was with 4 other members of staff and we were staying in the Coventry Hill Hotel, which basically looks like a massive council block, only not as nice inside.

So anyway, I was seeing a girl at the time and abusing my mobile something stupid, so one night I asked the hotel receptionist what the price would be like to call a mobile, she said that it would be charged at standard rate (whatever the fuck that is), but I didn't enquire futher (for some stupid reason). Instead I rushed off to my room and had a 30 minute ""phone call"" with my girlfriend.

£120 later (30~ minutes), that was the most expensive wank I've ever had!


Edit: It was charged to the company and I had to pay it back :-( Not fair, what happened to perks of the job??
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 12:35, Reply)

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