Forbes - 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
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strvtСлучайно наткунлся на замечательный список - 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Шедевры, просто шедевры. Сначала собирался постить особо понравившиеся, но потом понял, что их слишком много. Вообщем читать всё :).
На затравку - две цитаты:
10. Electronic voting machines
49. German screw factory
50. The Defense Department
На затравку - две цитаты:
10. Electronic voting machines
Election officials in Florida promptly order 5,000 units
Diebold tightens security after it is revealed that a simple virus can hack its electronic voting machines. Months later a hacker uses a picture of a key from the company website to make a real key that can open the company's machines.49. German screw factory
The red-light district in Amsterdam immediately closed
A worker in a German screw factory smuggles out 2,000 to 7,000 screws per night, ultimately stealing more than a million units. He sells the screws below cost on the Internet, artificially depressing the entire screw market.50. The Defense Department
Makes you wonder what it would cost to ship a million German screws
Exploiting a flaw in a Defense Department purchasing system, South Carolina parts supplier C&D Distributors rakes in $20.5 million in shipping fees on just $68,000 in sales. The scheme is finally detected when a Pentagon clerk spots a $969,000 bill for shipping two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas.
