Sunday, February 22, 2009

Corporate Blooper

This is how technology dependance usually results in corporate bloopers. My company has an internal portal for employees. As a part of this site, there is a section that encourage employees by congratulating them when they complete a specific tenure... well ... and so it seems they take the data, not from the HR data but from the date on which their email ID was created.... probably for one, it was easier for the programmer to access that info and two because the data might not be way off the mark on the DOJ because a email ID is created within 1 week of joining....

but then things go wrong from there on.... one day I see the following screen

A person by the name "Application testid9" has completed 7 years in the organisation and tops the employee list for that day...

the error was later on corrected after some manual intervention...

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