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		Tao3300 on May 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M de... Reminds me of that old urban legend about the trader who ordered the coal futures that eventually showed up as actual coal. In that story there's always an element where the subordinates who have to carry out the transactions have been abused to the point of never questioning his decisions.

agurk on May 20, 2024 [–]

There is a very well written version of this from many years ago on the Daily WTF:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/special-delivery

It is written well enough that I could just about convince myself this actually happened!

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