[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

So, you make a mistake typing in a $5,000 trade on a stock exchange and it ends up costing $225 million.

Do you get fired for that?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10394551/

Cowperson

I'm thinking that this is one of those instances where the guy who made the typo ends up standing on the sidewalk in front of the company while wearing a sign denoting his failures and the shame brought to his family.