Bank clerk falls asleep on keyboard and accidentally transfers US$294million to customer
Published: 2013 August 26 11:57:12 (5935 Views)
A bank clerk who fell asleep on his keyboard accidentally transferred €222,222,222.22 (US$294million) to one very lucky customer.
The tired bank worker had been making a payment of €64.20 (US$84) when he fell asleep at his desk with his fingers on the number two key on his keyboard.
The huge transfer was then missed by the clerk's supervisor and was only caught later in the day by another colleague who managed to correct the mistake before it cost the bank millions of euros.
A court in Germany has now ruled the 48-year-old supervisor should not have been dismissed by the bank for missing the clerk's error, claiming she should only have been reprimanded for the unfortunate mistake last April.
The judges pointed out the unnamed woman, who had been at the bank since 1986, had already checked 812 transactions that day with only a few seconds to check each one.
They have since ordered that the supervisor should be reinstated.
- Metro
The tired bank worker had been making a payment of €64.20 (US$84) when he fell asleep at his desk with his fingers on the number two key on his keyboard.
The huge transfer was then missed by the clerk's supervisor and was only caught later in the day by another colleague who managed to correct the mistake before it cost the bank millions of euros.
A court in Germany has now ruled the 48-year-old supervisor should not have been dismissed by the bank for missing the clerk's error, claiming she should only have been reprimanded for the unfortunate mistake last April.
The judges pointed out the unnamed woman, who had been at the bank since 1986, had already checked 812 transactions that day with only a few seconds to check each one.
They have since ordered that the supervisor should be reinstated.
- Metro
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