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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A Sparky I once knewWas rewiring an old windmill that someone had bought and was refurbishing the whole of the inside and turning it into a house.
Every room was circular, and so everything that was to be fitted had to be especially made to fit, and the kitchen is where this blunder took place.
Having measured the circumference the Kitchen designers wrote down all the measurements, and no doubt drew up a plan of the place, submitted the information, most likely over a two way walkie talkie because the curved worktops arrived soon after with the arc of the wall transferred to the inside arc of the worktop, and subsequently it wouldn't fit. God knows how much it cost, but I would have thought it was good for nothing more than a rubbish skip.
(, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 19:40, Reply)
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