A bank employee
reportedly took a very expensive on-the-job nap when he laid his head down on
his keyboard, a German court heard this week. When the employee
woke a short time later, he discovered that he'd accidentally transferred
hundreds of millions of euros by holding down the "2" key, according
to a report from AFP.
What was supposed
to be a 62.40 euro transfer ($82.80) turned into a 222,222,222.22 euro transfer
($295 million).
How do you say
"oops" in German?
The mistake, which
occurred in April 2012, was reversed, but the sleepy employee's boss initially
let the transfer go through. The supervisor was reportedly fired for not
catching the mistake right away. The court recently
ruled that the supervisor was wrongly fired and ordered the bank to give her
her job back because the mistake was not malicious in nature, according to the
It's unclear what
became of the sleepy employee.
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