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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Not me but a FOFI never got to test cool software. :-(
He and his team were to test a new pc game. They were given a beta of the US/English release version and told to check several different Eastern European language versions against that.
Thing is, after a couple of weeks, looking at "Do you wish to create a Game Folder?" in Czech gets a bit dull so they opted instead to play the US version in Co-operative play. For three whole months this went on. In fact, they'd got bored with the original game and, having found other games on the build server, decided to 'test' them instead.
The client company eventually found out. The team were disbanded, and their company had to refund the client all the money they'd been given plus they were barred from ever bidding for a contract ever again. When the client company went into games consoles (we'll mention no names - oh alright it was X), the company suddenly realised how much out of pocket they were going to be, thanks to half a dozen slackers, and fired them all.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 12:44, Reply)
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