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Most costly typo you ever made
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Best typo I ever made...in late '04 I was buying some shares of AAPL. I meant to only buy 50 shares of it, but I was distracted for some reason and typed "100" instead. I quickly realized my mistake, but decided to hold onto all 100 shares.
When I sold the position a little over a year later for more than triple the price I paid for it, I was awfully glad to have twice as many shares as I had planned on. That was a nice little $6000 typo in my favor...
When I sold the position a little over a year later for more than triple the price I paid for it, I was awfully glad to have twice as many shares as I had planned on. That was a nice little $6000 typo in my favor...
You know I heard from news about how people are writing in internet language more and more in school papers. Saying people use short wording that professors/teachers are really concern how computers are degrading writing skills.
Typo was last year
I asked Spanish translator to let me know how Round of 16, and all those names for the World Cup is written in spanish sadly he failed and didnt really put effort into it. that cause a print job to go bad. The product was still in use but from 10 people who love soccer none said anything till the product was actually printed. The company lost 1.2k. Not really my fault but since I design it, I get the blame.
Thats why I hate working on projects when they are rushing you because you dont get to see it subjectively.
Apparently as I'm transcribing Stevenotes, typos can have a $250M impact on the stock market... or so I'm told. 
I was working in an investment company and had to type in the cost of a unit of shares. I added too many 0's. Fortunately, they were so many additional 0's that the person on the other end caught it in time. Moral of the story: make your mistakes big enough to be seen
I was working in an investment company and had to type in the cost of a unit of shares. I added too many 0's. Fortunately, they were so many additional 0's that the person on the other end caught it in time. Moral of the story: make your mistakes big enough to be seen
I did something like this once - I was ordering paper and ordered the correct amount (a couple thousand sheets, most likely), but in our internal accounting system, I mixed up the data I put into the fields, so it showed up as over $500,000 worth of paper that I had ordered. The folks at corporate were somewhat concerned, to say the least.
Sheesh
When some code pisses me off, or if the class or assignment pissed me off, I just name everything something stupid and irrelevant/confusing (like "88713d" and "887l3d" right next to each other), or do things in an extremely convoluted/hacked way but not so much so that I'd get points taken off.
Once in an assignment I added some questionable comments (along the lines of /* what the **** was I doing here? */ and /* this assignment is stupid */) to the code, only to realize the prof had only glanced at it and decided to show it to the entire class one day because he thought it was impressive (i was blushing and had my head hidden behind my laptop the entire time
).As for a costly mistake...I don't think I've made any that were non-trivial, but once I ordered ~10 drinks at starbucks and the guy only charged me for one drink. I went back to tell him he didn't charge me enough, and he ended up charging me for ONE more drink and giving me a free drink coupon to boot. WTF?
I once tried to charge someone $100 instead of $10 on the credit card machine at work.
Luckily I hit cancel quickly enough (and about 30 times) so it didn't go through.
*whew*
Luckily I hit cancel quickly enough (and about 30 times) so it didn't go through.
*whew*
This one cost Rogers 2000000
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/
Now I understand why they keep raising rates for everything every couple of months.
Those grammar classes for lawyers have to be costly ...
Not really a typo...
As you can see from my sig I live in Japan. We use Yen. And there are a lot of zeros -- bit nowhere near as many as Argentina!
I was traveing in the US and using my cash card. I typed in the amount I wanted in the local currency and got my cash -- which was partially spent at an
Apple Store
Anyway, the recipt is usually in $US but this time it wasn't. I had a balance of about 550,000 yen which is about $5,000 but the receipt said $550,000.
I wish I could have gone into the bank and asked them to close out my account and write me a cheque for the $550,000
As you can see from my sig I live in Japan. We use Yen. And there are a lot of zeros -- bit nowhere near as many as Argentina!
I was traveing in the US and using my cash card. I typed in the amount I wanted in the local currency and got my cash -- which was partially spent at an
Apple StoreAnyway, the recipt is usually in $US but this time it wasn't. I had a balance of about 550,000 yen which is about $5,000 but the receipt said $550,000.
I wish I could have gone into the bank and asked them to close out my account and write me a cheque for the $550,000
I have some good ones. I was at Dick's Sporting Goods once to buy all new tennis gear (shoes, racket, bag, balls) and the checker gave me 60% off each item rather than the final bill. In the end, the final bill was only $10 or so dollars more then the actual cost of the $60 racket.
My mistake was kind of funny in an English paper last year.
"The University isn’t all that the papers make it out to be. So we burned a coach a few years ago on May Day, but what college hasn’t done something equally extreme?"
...yeah.... lol
My mistake was kind of funny in an English paper last year.
"The University isn’t all that the papers make it out to be. So we burned a coach
a few years ago on May Day, but what college hasn’t done something equally extreme?"...yeah.... lol
I wrote a very horny email to a young lady I was dating. Her email was almost identical to her mother's, who actually received it. Things did not work out well for me.
that's not a typo, that's true.
Did you try to rectify the situation by saying it's only because they don't beat around the bush?
A few days ago, I used my frequent flyer miles to purchase a plane ticket home (to surprise my mom for her birthday). The ticket cost me $7.50 since I redeemed miles for it....then I realized that I (stupidly) made the reservations from Thursday-Monday instead of Thursday-Sunday. It cost $50 to change thet ticket. We found out before I changed it, though, that I would have to change the dates ANYWAY because my mom decided to go out of town that weekend....so the $50 would have been spent anyway.
Whew
That would of been a very costly mistake indeed haha. Good thing you got the item cheap 
Oh, that sounds like fun. Also sounds like something I would do in a heartbeat.
As for me, I tend to use the "replace 'c' for 'x' " mistake. Quite a lot of my friends have gotten angry at me on AIM because I say 'just a sex' to them. I don't think that anything more major than that has happened though, that I can remember.
mispellified...I love it! Even if it requires a Dubya to say it.welshandrew said:I once mispellified the continent of Iraq, when I really meant Iran.
But hey-ho.
Regards, Dubya
Oh well, I'm sure my idiocy will suffice.
