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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Another mainframe one...Mainframes are used by hundreds of people simultaneously so you get billed per microsecond of processor time that your program uses.
My colleague forget to include the "read next record" statement in his program so it got stuck in a loop using processor time as fast as is physically possible, but never finishing.
There are checks in place to ensure this doesn't happen but he was in a hurry and skipped them, set the program running and went home.
And then did the same thing the next day.
The cost was more than two years' worth of his salary.
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teedyay, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:56,
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