expensive mistakes

[Jumbonipondon_squilobidon]

what's the most expensive mistake you've made?

 

[tony.towa]

The first wife!

 

[pete0nline]

Betting on Black at the Casino

 

[ian.settle1]

The first wife!

Now you've made the mistake of being on number 2

 

[Spudmiester]

Not being honest with the Tax Office

Cost me time, money (lots of money), stress, grief, and what was left of my hair. Oh , and more money.

 

[Bane]

Me!

(If you employ me, you'll find out why!)

 

[Carter]

Listening to a civil servant and naively believing that they knew what they were talking about. Seriously, this nearly finished us off. My contempt for them is now boundless, I hate and despise them so very very much.

Oh and parking a firms van on double yellers. Cost me more than a fine I can tell you.

 

[Bane]

Listening to a civil servant and naively believing that they knew what they were talking about. Seriously, this nearly finished us off. My contempt for them is now boundless, I hate and despise them so very very much.

Oh and parking a firms van on double yellers. Cost me more than a fine I can tell you.

Could you elaborate on them both please Carter?

 

[Carter]

As to the first one I really would prefer not to revisit it, each telling is a new catharsis and it takes me a frickin' week for my blood pressure to drop. Suffice it to say, during a business start up a series of public sector misdirections, incompetence and malpractice saw us reduced to practically 'street homelesness' over the space of 9 months. 6 months petitioning local councillors and our elected waste of oxygen (MP) produced absolutely zero. Completely futile.
Never having used public provision/benefits system etc. before then I naturally assumed they were the experts in these matters and believed what I was being told, it was only when I had to contact a solicitor (who actually knew the law) that their incredible series of errors came to light and by that time the damage was done. We have now rebuilt but are much changed by the experience. I've always been ambivalent to the public sector but in me they have created their own worst sworn enemy by ****ing me over. I am like a bitey terrier now whenever someone brings evidence of this council's unfailing f*cking incompetence to my attention, (and they do)

As for the second one...
http://www.electriciansforums.net/chit-chat-off-topic/2067-criminal-record-post14448.html#post14448
like I say I just can't stop m'self sometimes. If something's wrong then I am at the front of the queue thumping the desk of whoever is responsible, don't care who they are or what job title/legal position they hold. Doesn't impress me one iota. If they're wrong I f*cking tell them, often at direct cost to me self. Don't care anymore, I still tell 'em. Someone's got to do it and it looks like I've ended up in life as one of those 'someones'.

 

[No.15]

Bought a Megger 1552 multifunction tester only to find out it doesn't have GS38 compliant fused leads. ffs!

 

[sparkyork]

Me!

(If you employ me, you'll find out why!)

mmmm! lol!!

 

[Bane]

Yeah, thought that one might end up biting me in the arse Rich

IT WAS A JOKE!!!

 

[sparkyork]

pmsl!! lol!

 

[Cirrus]

Could you elaborate on them both please Carter?

Bane! For crying out loud when are you gonna realise that it is a mistake to ask Carter to elaborate on anything! Our servers are struggling with the epic posts he submits. I can hear the cogs grinding to a halt in Canary Wharf as I write!

 

[piggyitm]

I once sent 240 down a 24v beldon that was linking an addressable emergency lighting system on the shopfloor at Glasgows Big "W". All the overdoor exit signs set on fire!! oohps

Oh..... and i once dropped a 12mm washer down a little gap down the side of the copper busbar in a new changeover panel.Im gald I was 3 floors away when all the knobs in suits came round for the big change over ceremony!!oohps

Oh....and letting one of the lads convince us that all the christmas copper would be safe from f*cking theiving gyps c*nts in his back garden.There was over a tonne waiting to be stripped.oohps