Falling asleep at work is one thing. Spending $293 mil while you snooze is another. A German Banker found out the hard way after falling asleep with his finger on the “2” key and accidentally transferring 222,222,222.22 to a bank account belonging to a retiree. He was only supposed to transfer 62.40. Great day for whoever was on the other end of that transaction.

Fortunately, the bank figured things out pretty fast and corrected the error. Unfortunately, the supervisor who was in charge of overseeing the transactions didn’t catch the mistake and ended up getting fired. She had already checked 812 documents that day and was pretty tired herself. The Hessen labour court took notice of the incident, and after realizing it was only an error and was without malicious intent, ruled to re-instate her job. Girl should have just gotten a warning.

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of pocket-banking: a few years back, a trader on Wall Street caused chaos by accidentally hitting “b” for “billion” instead of m for “million” on his BlackBerry, starting a universal running joke and demand for phones to accommodate “fat-fingers”. That, or it’s time for us to start investing in good-old fashioned dialing wands.

[via France24]