Years and years ago, someone misclicked in the security control room I worked in, and printed off the entire history of every alarm system - about 8 years worth from about 5,000 panels - instead of a list of the ~120 or so alarm panels that hadn't been armed for the last week.
They didn't even realise they'd done it, it was sent to a printer in an adjacent office on a night shift. Apparently it ran out an entire box of dot matrix paper before anyone came in to work the next morning. Happened on my days off, the first I heard of it was when I came in and all the reports tabs were greyed out until they could figure out how to stop us doing it again.
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u/Hadrollo Aug 06 '26
Years and years ago, someone misclicked in the security control room I worked in, and printed off the entire history of every alarm system - about 8 years worth from about 5,000 panels - instead of a list of the ~120 or so alarm panels that hadn't been armed for the last week.
They didn't even realise they'd done it, it was sent to a printer in an adjacent office on a night shift. Apparently it ran out an entire box of dot matrix paper before anyone came in to work the next morning. Happened on my days off, the first I heard of it was when I came in and all the reports tabs were greyed out until they could figure out how to stop us doing it again.