Screwing up at workSomeone on the security team signed off that a fake bomb had been recovered at Old Trafford when it hadn't. Cue one controlled explosion and a postponed soccer game. Tell us your tales of workplace screw ups and the consequences of your mistakes.
(, Tue 17 May 2016, 8:59)
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SimilarWorking on a PDP-12 or similar I used Purge to delete all files of a particular name, thinking it left the most recent version. It didn't, and of course no one had thought to make backups of the file in question. So I had to reprogram the entire thing. On the upside, I learnt how to program in Pascal. On the downside, I've never had to program in Pascal since.
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