Thought I would write this up to get my mind off the election.
A couple of years ago, I was working at an insurance company on a huge project working with very sensitive financial data. We had outsourced the project management to a well-known consulting firm that sent us, amongst other things, a fresh-out-of-college computer neophyte who couldn't grasp the meaning of "specifications." She kept bad-mouthing the head of the payroll department because he stopped sending her payroll information. His complaint was that she kept re-requesting the information with a different format every time, taxing the resources of his programming staff. He finally refused to deliver anymore payroll data until she firmed up her specifications.

The pissing contest began. She copied her e-mails to everyone in her address book and he would hit "reply all." Other people kept getting added to the list and it kept growing and growing and growing. Finally, she managed to supply him with a set of specifications for the payroll data that the payroll manager believed was final. He sent her the salary information for every employee in the company -- and "replied all" to a significant percentage of the work force.

I was delighted to discover that my salary was a fair amount higher than others with comparable experience :)

Any other stories out there?

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to OT - Corporate Stupidity by Ovid

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