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Dream situation

We have been discussing the correct term for the inadvertent deletion of data: Roger Audley, now at Notts County Council, writes to let us know that when he worked for the Freemans mail order catalogue business, he too experienced the emotion.
‘Where else but from the live online ordering system of a large catalogue company could you succeed in removing all the underwear and half the shoes from everyone in the call centre?’ he asks. And with a single keystroke.
Some of you have a recurring dream a bit like that, don’t you?

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