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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Ever wonder why it took so long???I used to be a surveyors assistant at a well known stadium in London that took far too long to build... now there were all kinds of reasons for this, strikes, death threats from the russian maffie etc (!!!) but the real reason is general incompetence.
Many times that we were sent out to do final checks on stairwells, escalators and the like, it was obvious even before the instruments were set up that something was wrorng.
A good eample is a 20m high supporting column we were sent to check. From a good 50m away you could see that the column sections weren't straight, they were leaning out a good foot or so towards the centre! So the whole column has to be dug out, set out again and replaced.
What moron welder thought that would go unnoticed!
There were far too many examples of this to go into. Looks fucking great now though, and was a great place to work on my year out.
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 21:10, Reply)
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