Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

WHO, ME? Mistakes happen, and when readers of The Register make them, we like to share those tales of woe in a Monday column we call "Who, Me?" It's our guide on how not to get ahead in the modern workplace. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as Clay, who in the 1980s was the most junior member of the management team on a Swedish construction site. "We had two site engineers, and they were the only ones with computers," he explained to The Register. This was a time before PCs had become ubi
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