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I just sent an automated email titled "Gary is a Dinosaur!" to a lot of humourless clients because the ancient application I was testing assumed I was in the production environment. 🙃

Lesson to self: stop using bogus names in testing.

Still, it could've been a lot worse... 😂

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  • 13
    6y
    Bogus names are much better for testing instead of real names/data. With real data you could leak someone's personal information. Or cause massive panic, like the case in Hawaii.
  • 3
    6y
    @netikras oh, well I live under a large rock, so please do share the Hawaii incident 😁 I wouldn't ever use real names, but maybe not "Gary is a Dinosaur!" 😂 Maybe "This is a test only"?
  • 3
    6y
    @Jilano Wow! Can't believe I missed that news 😂
  • 5
    6y
    Once I accidentally sent out a document for client review where I had a marker that there was still some work to do, a big fat "BANANA" in yellow. Client was confused. ^^
  • 4
    6y
    @Fast-Nop hahaha! Oops! 😂
  • 8
    6y
    @netikras imagine getting an official alert saying "gary is a dinosaur".
  • 2
    6y
    "HQ, my cover has been blown. Requesting immediate extraction, over" - Gary
  • 0
    6y
    @Jilano Risky click 😏
  • 1
    6y
    Once I tested automated customer email responses and sent this to the client by mistake.
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    From: batman@xxx.com
    Does this product contain gluten?
    ---

    He was amused.
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