"Working for an investment manager, he gave me an order to sell 80,000 dollars of Microsoft in a client account. Wasn’t thinking and entered a sell of 80,000 shares. MSFT was selling at $100+ per share at the time. Cr#pping bricks as I got the brokerage firm’s trading desk on the phone and waited on hold to hear if they could bust the trade…

They did. Phew."