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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File Server Cannot Be FoundI was working a weekend instead of leaving until Monday and I was working on a knackered Novell server.
So I rigged an ethernet cable from the server to a test switch that only I was patched into and started to see if I could find what was wrong.
IPX client says "File server cannot be found"
Odd thinks me so I beetled off back into the poky server room to see what was wrong.
"Ah! That's the problem. Somebodies nicked the fucking server!!"
I looked out of the open firedoor (Open because I'd opened it as the room was too hot - no air-con) and saw a scruffy type manhandleing my server into the back of his boot!
I let him have it. It was shagged anyway and I wasn't going to risk fisty-cuffs for something that wasn't even mine. Insurance paid for a new one - after I'd jimmied the lock on the fire-door that is....
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 11:25,
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