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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Missing ChequesI shudder to think how long ago this was but it has bugged me ever since.
Worked in a suburban bank for a while, one of my jobs was to post the cheques drawn on other banks to the clearing house every day. Trouble was that the big bag full of paper often didn't fit into the mail box slot so I had to cart them to the nearest post office where the slot was bigger. One day the cheques did not reach the clearing house.
They were stamped with our banks big red oily stamp so were valueless to anyone else. Thousands of dollars worth but much more in cost to sort it all out.
Did I leave the damn bag on top of the mail box and walk away forgetting them? Would I remember a few days later if I forgot them? Of course I would. Wouldn't you? Or did they get pinched by some postal worker who soon found they were worthless and chucked them out? I'll never know.
Cost - a few thousand AU dollars at the time which might have bought a nice car. When I see the cost of some of the stuff-ups here I feel a lot better. Thanks you b3tards, specially those in the oil and aviation industries.
(, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 13:56, Reply)
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