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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A coupleManaged to make a couple of good ones where I'm currently working.
Every year, we have to go through and throw out any old stock (usually 2 years or older). This year, that totalled around 6 million seperate books. I love this time - it's hard work, but there is a lot of overtime involved, and over the course of two weeks I can almost triple my monthly pay. Unfortunatly, it can be a little too busy and stressful, and you're not always careful what you're throwing in to the bins. Add in to the mix a couple of extra temps who don't really have a clue what they're doing, and you have a recipie ofr long term disaster.
We're still working out the aftermath. So far, I've worked out that we've accidentally thrown away £120,000 worth of stock, which we've had to get quickly reprinted. Most of the stock we get in from outside sources, but where we can, we've been sneakily (and illegally) reprinting the journals ourselves - saves about 70% on buying them in again. I think my personal best was throwing away ~£8,000 of DVD's that had been specially commissioned - £250 each, and I definatly remember loading them on to the truck.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 13:08, Reply)
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