EVERYONE who has ever worked in an office must have grappled with the bewildering complexities of operating a fax machine correctly.
Not everyone�s battle with the paper-spewing beast ends up costing their employer �70 million, as it has for one luckless Brussels bureaucrat.
Bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "paper error", a European Commission lawyer this week allowed five German banks to escape fines worth 100 million euros by loading legal papers into a fax machine upside down.
The result was that instead of receiving the commission�s 100-page legal argument for upholding the fine, the justices of the European Court of First Instance were sent 100 pages of perfectly blank paper.
That meant the banks - who had been found guilty in 2001 of price-fixing in their foreign exchange operations - were shooting at an open goal with their appeal.
I hate it when that happens. Details here from scotsman.com.