A rather expensive mistake at work
Damn! A three-month old source of income leakage has just been discovered at my workplace and I think I just might be found out to be the chief culprit amongst those who allowed this happen. Simply because I could have prevented the huge loss which comes to several tens of millions of Naira by being diligent in my work at a certain point in time. As fate would have it, the income leakage started at a time when I was no longer in charge of the lossy application. The leakage was due to the presence of a software bug, which was first brought to my notice over a year ago. And now, because of sheer tardiness on my part, my employer has lost so much in income. I feel utterly terrible, for the simple reason that I had envisaged the possibility of this occurrence but failed to follow through on ensuring that the bug was fixed in good time. Until I eventually forgot about it. I recall that I had gone as far as informing the application vendor of this bug, and if I remember correctly, the...