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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Working in a garage on the YTSRemember them?
This happened in the late 80's, was seconded from my I.T colleage to a garage in Scunthorpe to do basic office work etc.
On one day the garage had a delivery of battery acid. The storage tank was upstairs (crazy!!) The delivery chap plugged in the pipe and commenced the delivery, he then went for a butty.
A couple of hours later, one of the mechanics noticed that acid was running DOWN the outside of the delivery pipe, alerted the delivery chap(had just started another butty with lashings of tea) he then turned off the pump.
You've probably guessed what has happened, the tank had overflowed, the acid had seeped all over the top floor (wooden floor) and had started to eat into it, therefore weakening the structure.
It also seeped thru the floor, and a deluge had gone into the managers office, burning it's way thru his microfiche machine and his desk (thankfully he was on holiday). The computers went down as it ate it's way thru power cables and network trunking.
Took approx a week before all traces of it was removed and they had to get building inspectors in to check the integrety of the floor.
Needless to say, the battery acid tank was moved downstairs...
(, Thu 1 Nov 2007, 8:22, Reply)
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