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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Similarly, to remember..."Shit flows downhill." Very important to remember when you're the low man on the totem pole and something bad happens.
One day one of the engineers was explaining to me why he chose a submersible pump for an application rather than putting one above ground, and he explained that the submersible pump pushes water instead of pulling it. At a certain point you pull a vacuum and the water won't rise any further, so if you nead to pump higher than that point you use a submersible- "Because you can only suck so high."
I commented that this applied to careers as well. He said very little to me after that.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 31 Oct 2007, 12:38,
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