Easter egg oopsie

[David Newton]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c723n29vv9go

A shop in the Orkney Islands made a rather amusing error when Easter eggs were ordered. The guy meant to order 80 eggs. He accidentally ordered 80 cases of eggs, in other words 720 eggs. The population of the whole island is 500 people!

[Nathan45]

At least they are chocolate eggs.. you can never have too much chocolate

[Craiglxviii]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c723n29vv9go

A shop in the Orkney Islands made a rather amusing error when Easter eggs were ordered. The guy meant to order 80 eggs. He accidentally ordered 80 cases of eggs, in other words 720 eggs. The population of the whole island is 500 people!

Ah, the old unit of measure ordering fiasco again Blackadder!

I had a lad who once worked for me nicknamed “Power of Ten” after mistakenly ordering not 3,000 screws, but 3,000 boxes of screws. M2.5 x 6mm pozi pan self-tappers if anyone’s interested.

Three million screws. They filled an entire pallet.

Which some knob on the forklift then drove into.

Three million screws on the floor. Under racking and machinery.

Oh, did I mention they were non-magnetic? It took a year to find them all.

[kdahm]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c723n29vv9go

A shop in the Orkney Islands made a rather amusing error when Easter eggs were ordered. The guy meant to order 80 eggs. He accidentally ordered 80 cases of eggs, in other words 720 eggs. The population of the whole island is 500 people!

Ah, the old unit of measure ordering fiasco again Blackadder!

I had a lad who once worked for me nicknamed “Power of Ten” after mistakenly ordering not 3,000 screws, but 3,000 boxes of screws. M2.5 x 6mm pozi pan self-tappers if anyone’s interested.

Three million screws. They filled an entire pallet.

Which some knob on the forklift then drove into.

Three million screws on the floor. Under racking and machinery.

Oh, did I mention they were non-magnetic? It took a year to find them all.

Well, it's 720 chocolate eggs. Given that they can be preserved fairly well in the cooler, that's not to much of a problem. If 240 people have three each, they're gone. Not like it's 7200 eggs. And the cost of the eggs is probably under 2000 pounds, so that's not so bad either.

M2.5x6mm screws? You didn't find them all. There are still a number of them in small crevices, in the joints of the concrete floor, and in some corners.

[Bob Dedmon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c723n29vv9go



I had a lad who once worked for me nicknamed “Power of Ten” after mistakenly ordering not 3,000 screws, but 3,000 boxes of screws. M2.5 x 6mm pozi pan self-tappers if anyone’s interested.

Three million screws. They filled an entire pallet.

Which some knob on the forklift then drove into.

Three million screws on the floor. Under racking and machinery.

Oh, did I mention they were non-magnetic? It took a year to find them all.

are you sure you got them all?

[Craiglxviii]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c723n29vv9go



I had a lad who once worked for me nicknamed “Power of Ten” after mistakenly ordering not 3,000 screws, but 3,000 boxes of screws. M2.5 x 6mm pozi pan self-tappers if anyone’s interested.

Three million screws. They filled an entire pallet.

Which some knob on the forklift then drove into.

Three million screws on the floor. Under racking and machinery.

Oh, did I mention they were non-magnetic? It took a year to find them all.

are you sure you got them all?

Oh no. I’m certain that there are many left!

[JBG]

A colleague told me of an occasion in the state or federal public service, I don't recall which, when someone was asked to order x rolls of toilet paper for use by staff. Somehow the numnuks managed to order x pallets of toilet paper.

Needless to say, there were issues with storage when the trucks started to roll in.

Jonathan

[Micael]

A colleague told me of an occasion in the state or federal public service, I don't recall which, when someone was asked to order x rolls of toilet paper for use by staff. Somehow the numnuks managed to order x pallets of toilet paper.

Needless to say, there were issues with storage when the trucks started to roll in.

Jonathan

It happened with a police station here in Sweden. There were some news articles when they’d finally used it all up after a couple of decades or so.

[Edit] Translated news blurb:

Finally no more police toilet paper
UPDATED NOVEMBER 29, 2012PUBLISHED DECEMBER 8, 2006
For 20 years, the police in Hagfors have used paper from a giant order that was made by mistake. Yesterday the last roll was put into use.
One day in March 1986, a lorry with consumables arrived at the police station in Hagfors. Someone had made a mistake in an order. Instead of packages, pallets of paper towels, toilet paper and household paper had been bought, writes Nya Wermlands-Tidningen.

The police chief tried to stop the offloading, but failed. After four hours of carrying and stowing, parts of the police station, mainly the garage, had been turned into a warehouse. Then all that remained was paperwork, in the form of consumption.

In order to nibble on the stock, the Hagfors police have from time to time brought a few rolls to colleagues in the north. Economically, however, the rolls have been a good deal for the police in Värmland. The paper delivery cost SEK 60,000.

[Marko Dash]

Even pre-covid TP was always something i never minded having 'too much' of. as long as you have somewhere to put it, and it doesn't get wet, you are going to use it eventually.