In the 90s, I worked for an ecommerce network, Sterling Commerce, that processed data for Ford part suppliers. The suppliers would download purchase orders, and

In the 90s, I worked for an ecommerce network, Sterling Commerce, that processed data for Ford part suppliers. The suppliers would download purchase orders, and be required to respond quickly with advance ship notices, or be fined. Through a testing SNAFU, our network failed to correctly implement an advertised change in Ford's network specs, finding out on the day that the final production cutover took place. One of the products I supported was a software package that could connect to many ecommerce networks, and I had successfully implemented a script that worked with the new Ford specs. For about 3 days, while our engineers screwed around trying to get our network to interconnect with Ford correctly, I ran all of our customer traffic headed Ford's way through my work computer with the comm script I had previously patched, with a series of Windows scheduled tasks, batch files, FTP scripts, and a bisync modem. Despite preventing dozens of companies from getting fined, my heroics went completely unnoticed by my company.