{"id":5100,"date":"2013-06-11T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2013-06-11T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:26:57","slug":"millions-transferred-while-napping-on-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5100","title":{"rendered":"Millions transferred while napping on keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nappingonkeyboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5101\" title=\"nappingonkeyboard\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nappingonkeyboard-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nappingonkeyboard-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nappingonkeyboard.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An obviously tired German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead &#8220;fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard&#8221; &#8212; making it a huge 222,222,222.22 euro order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bank discovered the mistake shortly afterwards and corrected the error.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was taken to court by the man&#8217;s 48-year-old colleague who was fired for letting the mistake slip through when verifying the order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court ruled that the plaintiff should be reinstated in his job. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obviously tired German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday. The Hessen labour court heard that the man was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead &#8220;fell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5100\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Millions transferred while napping on keyboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[3023,3024,3022],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-3023","tag-222-22-euro","tag-napping-on-keyboard"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/nappingonkeyboard.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}