Many years ago at a very large company in London which I won't mention I accidentally mis-selected a small '=sum' cell in Excel
missing out the top-most cell of the intended formula, easily done I'm sure you'll agree, we've all done that kind of thing before now, I'm still convinced it was simply a slippy mouse-surface myself. Either way the revenue held in that cell would have been very helpful to the company at the time but as it 'wasn't there' the financial results were far lower than had been expected and a significant number of people had to be made redundant. I know for a fact at least one of these unfortunate chaps lost his wife and kids due to his unexpected joblessness. The odd thing was that via other people's calculations we all somehow managed to receive far larger than expected bonuses that year! It was only the following year when I was preparing that years' calculations and slides that I noticed my mistake, I never told anyone at that company what happened.
(Chopper3, Sat 27 Oct 2007, 9:06, Reply)