A bad case of the bends…
This little credit card thingy is just about the most important widget in our business. We need this smart card to make all our payments - to our Dutch suppliers, to employees, to, well, everyone. It plugs into the side of my laptop. If we don’t use it when we make international payments, we have to revert to a ridiculously arcane faxpayments mechanism akin to waving a black flag in the dark at someone looking the other way. With their eyes shut. I invariably mess that up, don’t realise I’ve done so and then our Dutch suppliers ring up and shout at me, with good reason. Brilliant.
Given this is such an important piece of kit, I therefore look after it very carefully. I would never, for instance, sling my laptop into its bag, with said card still inserted. Because if I did that, then the card might get all bent out of shape and stop working, then no-one would get paid.
Oh.
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Filed under: Big Mistakes, Finance & Investment, General on May 21st, 2007
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