Unsubtle watermarks ahoy!
Not me, but a lad I worked with were trying out our new accounts production software - we were both juniors, so never got formal training on it. The system had just gone to Windows (in early 1999!) and we were marvelling at the watermarks that we could adorn our clients' accounts with. My mate had created many watermarks including the words "cunt", "cuntalicious", various abuses of the partners of the firm and his own name in various forms.

Knowing that any changes made to the system propegated through to all users on the network, I became concerned about the lack of a delete button, and indeed, all twelve new watermarks were stuck in the system… not just on that PC, but on all of them around the building!!!

To make matters worse, they were selected alphabetically by default and since "cunt" comes before "draft", it wouldn't have been long before somebody else saw one.

Mate looked like he was going to poo himself, but a quick chat to a friendly manager (who thought it hilarious) and a call to support, and we were helped with editing a few files to replace them all with spaces (put down later to an installation error).

In the next maintenance release, a 'delete' button was added to that window. :o)
( whelkboy is old now, you see, Thu 26 May 2005, 20:02, Reply)