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PSA: I automated our office snack ordering with a spreadsheet and it accidentally bought 72 jars of pickles.
The formula for our monthly 'snack diversity index' got a cell reference wrong, triggering a bulk reorder from the vendor, and now the break room smells like a deli (has anyone else had a process automation go this hilariously wrong?).
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the_drew8d ago
Automation fails are a special kind of office legend. At least you've got a story better than most spreadsheet errors. Good luck finding uses for all those pickles.
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skylercooper8d ago
Wait, pickles? They were making pickles? That's the part that gets me. Most automation messes up something boring like labels or dates. But a whole factory just pumping out pickles nobody ordered? That's a new level of weird. What do you even do with a warehouse full of accidental pickles?
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