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Most costly keystroke?
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Join Date: May 2002
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Bad keystroke leads to 251 million stock buy
A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job.
You know, a simple "are you sure?" dialog box would have saved this person's job…
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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I think the term "ouch" pretty much describes this one.
You mean there is no: "Do over" key? Dang.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Command-Z, COMMAND-ZEEEEEE
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Fubon said that the trader was unfamiliar with new computer systems and will be fired.
well, who's fault is that?
most five-why analysis usually leads to a conclusion that the root issue is poor management decisions.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Hmm those would probably be in one of a few angry messages to a friend or two 
I've accidentally deleted things and such... but that generally involves the trash and I don't think I've ever accidentally trashed anything that big.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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Blame the computer... If I was making a multi million dollar exchange, I wouldn't do it alone... but perhaps she does it all the time?
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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If that company were smart, they'd say this: "Fire you? Why would I do that? I just spent $12 million dollars training you!"
(That's from a management class I took, where a boss said just that to someone who'd goofed up, though it was only to the tune of $10,000 IIRC.)
But it's true: unless the person is a blithering idiot, they won't make that mistake, or any like it, ever again.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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I'd probably have pulled the plug right out of the wall... and sat there.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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That is a very sad story. Maybe if she had a Mac, it would have been a different story. 
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Baninated
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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"I'd probably have pulled the plug right out of the wall... and sat there."
Priceless.
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