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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by saas_co_de on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:40PM (#16495425)
> blunders this big usually don't take this long to suss out

This is actually pretty minor league compared to U.S. government failures.

e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated...

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Re:Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B by microcolonel on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:47PM (#16495479)
Idunno, that doesn't really seem like such a big deal. The whole idea was rather pointless (in the face of all the bigger fish they have to fry) to begin with. With such headed, small minded planning, it may have been a blessing if they never bothered to implement it.
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