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User fired IT support company for a 'typo' that was actually a real word

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Peeing files ?

I was hired by a Dutch company and in charge of a contract with a Dutch third party ... my Dutch was really poor and I was hoping Outlook spell checker was going to save me ...

I wanted to write "I put the file on the server" so wrote Ik heb het bestand op je server geplaast. instead of Ik heb het bestand op je server geplaatst.. That missing t made the difference as Outlook stripped an "a" and it became geplast which means urinated.

Minutes later my manager was in the office, I had handily cc'd him ... no harm, I was allowed to write in English from then on.

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