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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Wrong mapA mate of mine had a temporary job in local government.
He was just there to do some basic computing work but, as is the way, ended up filling in for his way more experienced colleagues.
He was asked to print off a street plan of a certain location and to make sure he included all pipes/cables etc.
So he printed off the map, a bloke came round to collect it, and that was that as far as he was concerned.
Until, several days later when he was asked about the map printout. It seems he'd printed the wrong section of street. Instead of tearing up the surface and finding the relevant section of pipework, they found nothing.
Cue two days of umpteen specialist teams digging up most of the stretch of road in search of a missing pipeline. Of course, nobody questioned the veracity of the map as that would be just stupid wouldn't it?
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