I cost my company about 5 times my yearly salary once, long ago. I sampled an enormous amount of seismic data at 2ms instead of the proper 4ms. This was back

I cost my company about 5 times my yearly salary once, long ago. I sampled an enormous amount of seismic data at 2ms instead of the proper 4ms. This was back when we rented IBM our mainframes for a pretty penny. The job ran for the entire weekend and Monday morning I was summoned by management, informed of my error, and asked, "You won't ever do that again will you?" and sent back to work. Knowing that you are allowed to fail, but are very much expected/required to learn from your failure, makes for rather a good employee, in my experience.