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".
(
chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
« Go Back
Not me, but a "friend"Sorry, 'bout this. I don't remember enough to keep from being vague.
Anyhow, a slide of some one-of-a-kind culture thing was loaned to the lab my friend worked at. The only reason they trusted such callow youths of chemists with such a priceless item was my mate's boss, who accomplished something or other noteworthy in his career as a young man, but now was pushing sixty.
He carefully lifted the slide out of its packaging, put it on the stage, looked in the eyepiece, and adjusted the focus.
CRUNCH!
He ran the objective right through the slide. One rather expensive microscope objective ruined, one priceless slide ruined.
It cost the poor bastards who loaned him the thing in the first place--not him--but his face was a picture!
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 2:46, 1 reply)
I managedto crash a microscope head into a sample once too, but in my case it was a £165,000 atomic force microscope!
Fortunately, I only broke the tip, so I replaced it and said nothing about it. My sample was knackered too, but at least I could make another one.
(
K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 9:03,
closed)
« Go Back