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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An entire print run pulpedI was working for a rather esteemed newspaper company and was the guy who had to design the hideous front pages of the newspaper similar to 'loot' - free ads etc.
The idea was you did your layout and digitally overwrote the previous weeks cover. Then call the 'guys downstairs' who would update the file in Quark (page layout program for those uninitiated) and send it off to the presses. Print run was maybe 100,000.
I mistyped the filename, so it didn't overwrite. The 'guys downstairs' didn't notice the cover was the same as the previous weeks cover (date and all) and let it go to press.
100,000 copies of newspaper ended up in a skip for recycling.
The amazing thing was i never got into much bother over it as It was deemed the fault of 'the guys downstairs' for not noticing. I felt so guilty..for a day or so.
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 17:14,
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