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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Whilst working...in a certain energy distribution company when it was "the electric board" and monopoly wasn't outdated at all, I sent a notice of intent to remove a meter with the good local magistrates in force (I say "in force" they signed a warrant, but they were right there I tell you)
When served, the customer turned around and said "You know you lot have been wanted to put a huge massive sub-station on my land to stop all the fault problems you have here, well, now you can't".
And a £1m project which the director had been overseeing to ensure supplies to millions of customers faced the scrap.
I got a disciplinary notice, the overhead lines which were supposed to go 1 mile ended up underground and 17 mile bypass.
And we still didn't remove the meter either.
They kinda deserved though, damn posh farmers of Lincolnshire...
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 18:18, Reply)
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