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We used to, but at some point my job just consisted of signing off on trivial stuff like moonbases and space stations all day.

• Symbiote 9y ago
  About a week after I started university, I received an email along the lines of "the final payment for the new biomedical engineering building is awaiting your approval, £80 million to be transferred please". It turns out I shared the first initial and surname of the financial director of my university, and the other senior staff hadn't noticed they were emailing a first year undergraduate. My first name was earlier in the alphabet than his. (Not my name, but "Graeme" and "Graham" would be equivalent.) I replied saying I was the wrong person, but the email didn't seem to be noticed, and I continued receiving emails on the subject. I replied a few more times over the next week, and eventually received a long and sincere apology from the rector's secretary, CCd to pretty much the whole of the university's senior management, saying they needed to take care not to email me ever again. They didn't.
  • dazc 9y ago
    You should have emailed back that you'd negotiated a cash discount.
  • sydney6 9y ago
    I wouldn't have paid.. at least not in a single transaction.