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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in another lifetime, I used to be a geologist in a gold mineOne day I accidently told the digger who takes instructions from me(it was an open pit mine) to start sending the high grade ore to the waste pile, and left him to do it for the next two shifts. The excavation contractors dont care, they get paid the same no matter what it is, and as I also did the reconcilliation (sort of like the gold accountancy) I was able to to fudge the figures to cover it. conservatively, I reckon we lost around 3 million dollars (about £1.2m) of ore plus the contracting costs, but its a drop in the ocean as working gold mines are pretty damn profitable. Thing is, I could easily lose the company around a million dollars a day by sketching a slighlty different shape with my pencil, and as the amount of gold in the mine is what I predict as a geo, nobody would be any the wiser.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 14:00,
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