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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oopsI work on a financial transaction network, a few years ago I made an upgrade to one of our external settlement links. 3 months later, I noticed every transaction we had processed on that link, had in fact been billed at zero pounds due to a slight 'oversight' on my part during the upgrade. We are talking losses in the double digit millions. Career ending brown trousers time. I could taste the greasy air and was rehearsing my best "would you like fries with that sir?"
Oh how we laughed when the card/settlement provider said "Thats ok, we will pretend it never happened. Heres the money"
(, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 22:17, Reply)
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