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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Address HorrorLost other people some money, actually.
I used to work in IT at a marketing company. My proudest moment - managing to delete an important database link resulting in 8.5million customer records with no contact info.
Thank fcuk for backups!
However, the data capture temps hated me after that: not only did they lose the thousands of records they'd typed between the last backup and the restore...they all got sent home early unpaid as it took a whole afternoon to get the data back.
Dunno how much the company lost in revenue, I think I was hiding under my desk after that.
Sorry, bit geeky, and not all that funny.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 13:27, Reply)
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