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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Ah yesThe amount of damage you can do with an undergrad and an NMR magnet is phenomenal. Mind you, I liked the (possibly apocryphal) story of the NMR lab who had a mahoosive sign on the door, banning the cleaners from coming in, due to the potential for magnet based accidents. One completely ignored the sign and was surprised to find her vacumm cleaner ripped from her hands and attracted at fairly high speed to the spectrometer. That took a fair amount of sorting out...
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