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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...Expensive mistake (Mine)
Once upon a time I had delusions of writing talent. So I signed up for a writing correspondence course. They sent me the first exercise and I get a terminal case of writer's block. A year later I finally get round to contacting the school to see if my tutor could give me some help and they'd gone out of business. (Or taken the money and run away.)
So I effectively paid £250 for a really nice binder and a packet of envelopes.
Expensive mistake (Someone else's)
My employer spent many thousands of £'s on an all-singing, all-dancing flexiclock system, complete with nice, shiny clocking-in stations by every door. Come D-day it's switched on. D-Day plus 1 and it's utterly knacked. When I left four years later they still hadn't managed to get it to work.
(, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 13:04, 1 reply)
Ours packed inwhen someone mistakenly swiped a credit card through one of the readers, bollocksing up the entire day's clockings!
Needless to say, that little "feature" has been fixed now!
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eXOBeX, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 0:07,
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