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To: central_va

so naughty


22 posted on 02/13/2020 11:56:55 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: SteveH

My brother worked at DEC back in the early days, and they had a VIP customer who had a system failure, and in trying to fix it, seemed to bring in more and more people to go down more and more obscure remediation alleys, until they had a large group of people (including the VIP customer and DEC bigwigs) watching, and when they ran a command, after a long pause, the terminal said “System go bye-bye”.

Some coder somewhere thought they had sense of humor, and probably thought that if they coded that little fun in, that branch would be so obscure nobody would ever get to it (much less the customer) but in front of that important crowd, it popped up on the screen.

Apparently, the VIP customer AND the DEC bigwigs went ballistic, and they got so angry they tracked down the guy who wrote the code and fired him.


32 posted on 02/13/2020 12:11:38 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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