Hundreds of parents terrified after school wrongly sent all of them texts saying their children were - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Hundreds of terrified parents were left panicking after a school wrongly reported their children were missing after accidentally sending them a bulk truancy text using its automated service. On Monday, the parents of children at Wadebridge School in Cornwall received the text message saying their kids had not arrived for the day. But when they frantically called the school they were told the message had been sent in error. Despite the school's initial claims there was an issue with its automated truancy service, it was later confirmed that the message was sent after a mistake was made by those operating the service.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939344/Hundreds-parents-terrified-school-wrongly-sent-texts-saying-children-missing.html[/url]

This school is one of my companies customers, we thought it was our software so we all shit ourselves as our software can send communications to parents but it turned out to be a completely different bit of software pheww!

Just imagine being the parent who dropped their kid off at school, drove off to work, and got this text. Probably would be really pissed off.

[QUOTE=Svinnik;47075427]Just imagine being the parent who dropped their kid off at school, drove off to work, and got this text. Probably would be really pissed off.[/QUOTE] "Goddamnit that's the third time this week, I told him if it happens one more time he'd be grounded for the rest of the school year!"

[QUOTE=smidge146;47075387]This school is one of my companies customers, we thought it was our software so we all shit ourselves as our software can send communications to parents but it turned out to be a completely different bit of software pheww![/QUOTE] i was heading some development on a piece of software that was serving various automated emails to thousands of people from about 8 different councils down south. one day i handnt realized that there had been an issue in our dev environment and it wasnt suppressing email sending, so i was testing stuff creating records like 'testtestestestest' and 'test123434212' while trying to resolve a bug that was causing emails to send out 3-4 times, shit myself when i looked at the logs and realized i had just sent a couple thousand emails out to grouchy council employees who started emailing back complaining about it.

[QUOTE=Cushie;47075741]i was heading some development on a piece of software that was serving various automated emails to thousands of people from about 8 different councils down south. one day i handnt realized that there had been an issue in our dev environment and it wasnt suppressing email sending, so i was testing stuff creating records like 'testtestestestest' and 'test123434212' while trying to resolve a bug that was causing emails to send out 3-4 times, shit myself when i looked at the logs and realized i had just sent a couple thousand emails out to grouchy council employees who started emailing back complaining about it.[/QUOTE] lucky it was you, most people I know end up using stuff like "fuck" and "why the fuck aren't you working" when they're testing stuff :v:

Imagine how lucky the actual truants must feel.

"Except you, Barbara. Your kid actually is missing"

[QUOTE=Seth2492;47076300]"Except you, Barbara. Your kid actually is missing"[/QUOTE] Oh my god but imagine if it sent them all when there was only one person meant to get it though. "Oh thank god it was just a mistake, I don't know what I'd do if I lost Robert." "Ma'am, did you say your kids name was Robert? I have some bad news for you..."

[QUOTE=Cushie;47075741]i was heading some development on a piece of software that was serving various automated emails to thousands of people from about 8 different councils down south. one day i handnt realized that there had been an issue in our dev environment and it wasnt suppressing email sending, so i was testing stuff creating records like 'testtestestestest' and 'test123434212' while trying to resolve a bug that was causing emails to send out 3-4 times, shit myself when i looked at the logs and realized i had just sent a couple thousand emails out to grouchy council employees who started emailing back complaining about it.[/QUOTE]I did a similar thing except I sent out 80k text messages and emails to students from around the country with "meow test" Schools subscribe to use this 'notification' delivery service and it immediately sends out texts and emails. Since I was one of the developers, I had access to send it to every school that was a client of ours. Oops.

[QUOTE=PortalGod;47076094]lucky it was you, most people I know end up using stuff like "fuck" and "why the fuck aren't you working" when they're testing stuff :v:[/QUOTE] "Email Subject: Hello Message: Is it me you're looking for?"

[QUOTE=TehWhale;47076586]I did a similar thing except I sent out 80k text messages and emails to students from around the country with "meow test" Schools subscribe to use this 'notification' delivery service and it immediately sends out texts and emails. Since I was one of the developers, I had access to send it to every school that was a client of ours. Oops.[/QUOTE] I don't know that I could be put in a position where I can send any message I want to 80,000 people at the same time and not abuse it. :v:

[QUOTE=TehWhale;47076586]I did a similar thing except I sent out 80k text messages and emails to students from around the country with "meow test" Schools subscribe to use this 'notification' delivery service and it immediately sends out texts and emails. Since I was one of the developers, I had access to send it to every school that was a client of ours. Oops.[/QUOTE] On the bright side, you're not in the army. Had a friend told me some guy got fucked real bad because he was testing the emails, and then send out to the big guys. I'm talking real big, like he head of a unit battalion. He got like a stoppage from leaving camp for weeks, just one punishment short of going into detention prison