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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Many Many Moons agoI used to work in the Multi-currency routing department of one of our popular high street banks (formerly Midland Bank if your wondering). It was a real sweat-shop atmosphere and more often than not someone absolute cunt would come up and scream in your face for some bullshit mistake that you may or may not have made. Basically the job was to take currency routing forms and convert currency values from one currency to another and then figure out which banks to send it through. Needless to say because of the high pressure, tedious and repetative nature of the work it was quite easy to put a decimal point in the wrong place or route something through in the wrong currency. Usually these mistakes were spotted by the inputters but I do remember one particular occasion when someone processed a form which should have been in Italian Lira but ended up been sent through in US dollars. Ouch!
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 13:44, Reply)
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