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One thing guaranteed to make a hangover worse...
Posted by Merv on 30 June 2010 - 11:36pm.
...is a call from your employers asking why you bought $520 million of oil futures on your laptop last night!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7862246...
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Let's be honest
we've all done it...
Yeah, but
drunk-dialling is a bit different! And being able to say 'woah, I was so wasted last night I pushed global oil prices to an 8-month high' certainly knocks any of my drinking stories into a cocked hat.
Seriously, though, a $9.7m loss is heck of a night's work!
I have a friend
Who went out drinking in Camden...
...and woke up in a holding cell at Harare Airport, with no memory of anything that had taken place in-between.
I need to get out more
Seems like everyone has better drinking stories than me!
An alternate voice says...
This story actually makes me angry. How dare he wreck such havoc. It's expensive enough at the pumps without this moron's drunken spree. Should have been banned from trading for life.
*end of rant*
Calm down dear
As the article said
So at least he's being looked after financially, which is always the point of a hefty fine.
It's ok, I've counted to 10
I'm glad they found a fine that suited him. Poor lamb.
I thought that too at first
But a £72,000 would hurt anyone - even if it only meant he had to sell his second-favourite sports car - and the idea is not to bankrupt a guy for one mistake.
Or am I just being too much of bleeding-heart liberal about this?
In a word
Monday.
They should have installed that thing
You can activate on GMail, where if you try to send emails late at night (possibly under the influence), it won't let you do it until you've solved a tricky maths problem.
Imagine the opposite happening..
You make some reckless, pissed-up deal which, the next morning, you have no memory of, and it turns out to be an absolute belter which nets millions for your company.
How do you talk your way into it?
Interesting dilemma for your employers too
As, technically, they would have grounds to fire you - and probably should, since you are clearly a liability and might not be so lucky next time - but the adverse PR could be a nightmare!
This isn't something
you're likely to hear down your local Currys the next time you're considering squandering your hard-earned on the latest must-have kit, more's the pity...