What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve seen someone make in 10 seconds? – 17 pricey blunders that happened almost instantly

‘Personally, I was in the last week of tomato hauling season so I had a $3000 safety bonus coming.

In five seconds I flipped my back trailer spreading 20,000 lbs of tomatoes across the road.

Goodbye safety bonus.’
-MEWilliams

‘Pretty much all of the people that have said something racist on video. RIP to careers and businesses.’
-ipercepti

‘I work in the film industry and the UPM (unit production manager) of our show emailed the full film’s budget. I’m talking director’s pay actor’s etc. etc. to the whole crew…. (This was about 12 years ago btw)’
-totalgauche

‘My friend bought into the otter box ads back when they were first coming out. He decided to test its protection by throwing that current year’s iPhone at his fence. He didn’t put the case on right, so it busted open on impact and annihilated his phone.’
-SheZowRaisedByWolves

‘A coworker once accidentally deleted the entire production database during a routine update. No backups. The company lost years of customer data and had to rebuild everything from scratch. Cost them well over a million dollars in lost business and recovery efforts.’
-Total-Pay7839

‘I watched a guy doing donuts on the flight line at Minot Air Force Base slam the truck into the side of a B-52.’
-Judoka229

‘New guy we hired was about two weeks into his employment as an entry engineer. One day, he presumably finds himself needing a volumetric flask (sometimes we work with chemical solutions). He ends up finding two flasks filled with clear solution.

What does he decide to do with said solutions? Pours them straight down the drain. What were those solutions you might ask? A special polymer coating used in our detection instruments. Our executive manager, upon seeing him wasting $300-400k worth of solution, immediately grabbed the solution out of his hands and shoos him off.

Guy was unemployed within a few days of that event.’
-Biggy_DX

‘No one is going to mention conception?’
-DbG925