What happened was LargeCo wanted to get into India because apparently Amar has thousands to spend on LargeCo's expensive products (hint: they didn't.) LargeCo contracts IndianCorp to write a new warehouse control and order management system, replacing the TPS2/CICS systems currently in use. IndianCorp writes program, tests it, all it well. The day of cutover, the world is offline as far as LargeCo's ordering systems go. The system crashed, and hard. Turned out curryniggers had tested the system with item. Item, as in one item. When the 100,000s of SKUs in the old database got dumped into the system, it crashed hard as the computers they used tried to process all the data. It came back up a few days later, but parts and orders from that day were showing up until I left a year later. If the system couldn't figure out what to do with it, it just stuck it in a location called BLAKHOLE (because 8 characters is enough for anyone...) 99.9% of the time any item located here was already long since gone and allocated. The Indians writing the software would take any bug reports, say they couldn't reproduce, and magically it would work the next time you tried it. The best part of this is my being in tech school at the time, and having a programming class where the instructor (an old graybeard) was gushing over the ability of Indians to program well. As I related the above story, he simply had no comment.