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A technician working for an IBM dealer in the late 1980s discovered an extremely profane error message hidden in IBM's AADU software while exploring it with Norton Utilities. After showing the discovery to his IBM contact, the situation escalated to IBM's CEO, who sent a formal apology letter. The technician never managed to trigger the error message despite multiple attempts, and wondered whether any IBM developers lost their jobs over the incident.

IBM CEO apologized to techie who found rude error message

<p>Seriously? Why even bother? Who cares?</p>


<p>This right here is the dark side of corporate life. Instead of caring about actual problems, they make a big deal out of  minor, tribial, and insignificant things like this</p>
