No matter how bad you've ever screwed up at work, it probably pales in comparison to the 3 million euro blunder made by a Dutch police worker.
Making matters worse, the catastrophic error has now been compounded by a Dutch judge who declined to make the software company return the money to the hapless police department.
It all started back in 2008, when a law enforcement employee accidentally ordered 13,656 licenses for a special home-working edition of Microsoft Office.
Despite the massive mistake, the order went unnoticed by even the finance department which shelled out a staggering €2,961,029 (about $NZ4.5 million by today's exchange rate) for the software licenses, reports Dutch media.
Once they realised what had happened, the police department filed a lawsuit recognising the mistake and asking for the money to be returned in full.