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Once in a great while, the hallway loudspearkers at my company are used for enterprise-wide announcements. Apparently, the controls that operate them are very complex, as it sounds like the speakers toggle on and off a few times before the announcer's voice comes through. I've been told that this complexity has once had "unintended" consequences.

A long time ago, way before the Stan era, the announcer tried to do his job, but aparently the message was interrupted a few times by him fumbling with the controls. Thinking that the microphone was finally off, the announcer exclaimed, "Well, I f@#ked that up!"

Heh. The microphone wasn't off, so the whole company heard the poor guy's self-assesment.

Wish I was there.