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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Hired HandCharming guy - always liked him, even when he slept 24 hours straight on the garage floor, with only my irritable, biting bunny inflicting puncture wounds as a companion.
About the time I hired him, he decided to switch from cocaine to methamphetamine. He would talk to the voices and complain about bullying from schoolchildren that no one else seemed to notice.
He built a fountain in the yard, then worried passersby couldn't see his handiwork. So, he trimmed the yard's hedges from the bottom up, so now I have freaky-looking bare-bottomed hedges that no longer function for privacy's protection.
He chopped down a fruit tree. Just a misunderstanding....
Trying to keep water out of the basement, he drilled holes in the front porch that just accelerated the flow of water into the basement. Can't have water pooling on the porch, can we? Just trying to help!
He found a leaking can of toxic waste and left it in the garage. Last weekend, I smeared some of it in my car by mistake, and broke out with chloroacne on my arms, likely as a result.
Yet he was fun to have around. Things would happen to him that never happened to anyone else. He once ate some fumigant-laced almonds that fell out of a transport truck and spent the night in a hospital getting his stomach pumped. Who eats random nuts off the pavement? Who else?
Expensive mistake, but I'd hire him again, just for the story value....
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 20:40, Reply)
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