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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Ciscoa few years back, when I worked for an internaational ISP, I had just taken delivery of a rather large Cisco 6509 chassis, worth approx £7000, and also the processor module which was about £25,000.
Both were boxed seperately, and as I was quite excited about this delivery which I was waiting for, so i could start on my new project, i pushed the processor board into the chassis, except I didnt quite line it up on the guide rails very well, and i pushed it all the way in, and it just wouldnt go that last bit, so i used a bit of brute force. Nope, it still wouldnt go in. So i pulled it out and had a look. I totally fucked up the edged connection pins on the processor module board, and i looked into the chassis through the processor slot, and I had toally fucked up the backplane where all the pins had been mashing agounst the wrong place on the circuit board.
Oops!
Thankfully they were covered by Cisco Smartnet, so i had replacements sent within 4 hours.
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turb0t, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 17:38,
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