Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

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Never believe a suit who says they're handy with tech

WHO, ME? Mistakes happen, and when readers of The Register make them, we like to share those tales of woe in a Monday column we call "Who, Me?" It's our guide on how not to get ahead in the modern workplace.This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as Clay, who in the 1980s was the most junior member of the management team on a Swedish construction site."We had two site engineers, and they were the only ones with computers," he explained to The Register.

This was a time before PCs had become ubiquitous, so Clay was curious about the machines.

"One lunch break, I asked the junior engineer if I could try his PC," he told us.The junior had little choice but to comply, so Clay sat down at the machine and used the only command he knew.