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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More drunken decimal points...The Revolution highlights one of the easiest and most dangerous pitfalls of modern business.
I work for an ad agency and one Friday afternoon I was putting together the final version of a schedule for the client (a fairly well-known charity) to sign off. Needless to say being a tad inebriated already and wanting to get everything done so I could return to the pub I didnt check my formulae as carefully as I should've.
Coming back in on Monday to find that only half the budget had been approved was a mild shock to the system to say the least. Since the campaign was starting that week we needed to find another £60k very quickly. Not much to some companies perhaps, but to a charity that's no small change.
In the advertising tradition we spent the next couple of days 'amending' some files and set up their marketing team and the TV sales people to take the blame. Obviously we could've just held our hands up, got a slapped wrist and saved 2 days worth of endeavour but where's the fun in that...
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 15:10, Reply)
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