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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100,000 worthless CD'sI had developed some key skills e-learning for schools when working for Edexcel (back in the days when it was all CD rom), a company some of you might remember who have done A-levels and GCSEs for regularly fucking up exams. i had forgotten to include the cover graphics to the printers after it had gone through all the checks. so I quickly added them, and zipped up the package again and re-sent it. Unfortunately, I forgot to zip the upper level directory which had one UCD file (authorware) that it required to run. Result, 100,000 dud CD's for landfill. Luckily, the board of directors were in open warfare against one another at the time and nobody really investigated my fuck up. It was taken over by Pearson a few months later and most people were laid off anyway.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 14:14,
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