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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No large scale blunders yetSo here's a small one: A few years back I bought various parts from a 20-year-old-pimpled-geek run shop in order to upgrade my old PC. These included a motherboard, CPU, and fan. Having assembled everything, I turned the computer on, the fan went on, but nothing happened. Into the shop to complain. As it happened, I had turned the fan 180 degrees, stretched the wires to the maximum and forcefully crushed the CPU. So I rested my case and paid £100 for a new CPU. Decided that since they would be laughing anyway the second that I left I might as well tell them about my C.S. degree. I'm sure that made their day.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 18:49, Reply)
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