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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by nitrogen on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:16PM (#14144944)
Like plugging a vacuum cleaner into a UPS.
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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by walshemj on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:15AM (#14146925)
Which actually happened at a subsidiary of British telecom I worked at - the cleaners unplugged the accounts receivable unix system.

It was a POS system the finance director brought and caused no end of problems at one point we were unable to cut a BACS tape for over 6 months

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