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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Aw bless 'emMy job used to often involve finding code and user errors in financial systems. Millions could easily disappear just because of a simple account code mistake.
But best was looking through a file of reconciliation errors at on of the charities I've worked for, which used a lot of often elderly volunteers in their shops. Each error had to have an explanation put in by the manager of the shop. Some of the entries were terse and clearly the result of someone reaching the end of a tether:
"till short because geriatric volunteer can't tell difference between a £5 note and a £20 note."
"volunteer thinks she forgot how much she was given, so to play safe gave change of £20."
"elderly volunteer can't count."
"alzheimers, I'm sure of it."
(, Fri 26 Oct 2007, 14:24, Reply)
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