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on 2008 Jan 09 8:58 AM
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Hello all,
I have heard a story about two gentlemen who were some sort of Functional consultants travelling from the US to Germany.
Just to pick up a conversation , they have started discussing about the Bills of materials and stufff related to that.
In the process what they did not realize is that they were abbreviating it as BOM, which sounded pretty close to a BOMB.
One of those ultra cautious post-9-11 syndrome stuck Air Crew, found something fishy about the term and these two gentlemen and they have detained them from the flight and took them for a grilling session.
They have let them free only after confirmation from a SAP Expert that there indeed was a concept called BOM in SAP and was no way related to anything explosive...(Although we tend to say "Explode the BOM"..:)
Share if you have any such SAP related fun incidents..:)
Cheers and Regards,
Ravi Kanth Talagana
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This thread is turning into something else, not funny incidents.
Well I don't know if this is a real-life incident as is very SAP related. In one project we started to get strange billings for thoursands of euros. The
invoices where made by one of our consultants (a poor junior, haw haw : ) ).
We called him asking 'WTF are you doing?'. He told us that he was just testing and practising and that we didn't had to worry as he made a client copy for
the tests.
This guy was functional and had only a few months of experience, something was wrong, how did he made a client copy?
He copied the PRODUCTIVE entry of the SAPGUI and named it DEVELOPMENT-2, that was the client copy.
No doubt he'll be technical project manager soon.
P.D.: Guys plz avoid the political/world situation offtopic of this thread. This thread is a great idea, it can be SO fun, there are SO MANY incidents.
I have many others but let's see if the thread goes on.
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How can it be a "funny" incident - being detained at an airport in today's mad world of terrorist threats?! Hard to believe the story though, looks like someone "created" out of thin air.
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>
> How can it be a "funny" incident - being detained at an airport in today's mad world of terrorist threats?! Hard to believe the story though, looks like someone "created" out of thin air.
I found it funny. I'm probably not the only one. So that's how it can be a funny incident.
What i don't find funny - only worrying - is your response. What is mad in today's world is the response to the 'terrorist' threats. One man's terrorist has always been the other man's freedom fighter, and sometimes the opinion changes over time. When USA supported Taliban and gave them Stinger rockets to take out Russian helicopters the Taliban were freedom fighters. Some years later they were suddenly terrorists because it was no longer Russian helicopters they were shooting at. Confusing, isn't it?
What is frightening is how half the world let themselves fool into believing that dropping a huge bomb from 10 000 metres above someone's head, killing 200 civilians, is less of a terrorist act than using a small bomb in a car which kills 35 civilians. That's scary and shows how easy it is to manipulate the people. A certain German ridiculed in a movie called [The Great Dictator|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator] did that with a lot of success. Politicians today do it as well - apparently also with a lot of success.
Edited by: Kjetil Kilhavn on Jan 22, 2008 3:45 PM:
Reading this again, I now see that perhaps Ravi was not so much saying that one can not make jokes about terrorism as saying that it can't be much fun being detained at the airport. I agree with the latter.
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>Hard to believe the story though, looks like someone "created" out of thin air.
Can't agree with u more on this..!! Smacks of copying..! This looks straight out of a Dilbert cartoon strip.. Dilbert returns from a business travel and tells his boss there are lessons learnt in this trip saying be careful while u talk.. And the next strip shows Dilbert receiving a call from his colleague Jack.. And he kind of yells in happiness "Hi Jack" and ends up with the police.
Good that I am a Scott Adams fan being from IBM. It helped me see thru this.
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Wow..can't beleive Scott Adams can stoop so low, to the extent of copying a real life incident and not giving credit to the people originally involved!!!!..:D...(With all respect to the great man...)
chill out guys, looks like you people are way too much bogged down by SAP and work...:)
I'm glad that the incident has drawn some reference to the great comic strip though!!!!
Regards,
Ravi Kanth Talagana
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What is frightening is how half the world let themselves fool into believing that dropping a huge bomb from 10 000 metres above someone's head, killing 200 civilians, is less of a terrorist act than using a small bomb in a car which kills 35 civilians.
Depends, was the bomb aimed at the civilians? Was it an accident? Was it aimed at a military target, e.g. a command bunker that the civilains were sitting on top of?
While the unfortunate people are equally dead in either case, most legal systems (and the geneva convention) do take intent into account.
Oh, and I invoke Godwin's law.
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Ok, i'll quote another incident, which I felt , is funny.
In our part of the world, Fathers of prospective brides go on a background verification of the groom's job, in the wake of the "FAKE" resumes they get..(You have to believe it..)...
One of my friend got grilled by a father-in-law-to-be to such an extent that he was actually asked to login into SAP and execute a few transactions, to make him believe that my friend indeed was a SAP consultant...:D.(He has SAP IDES installed on his personal computer..)
Now, howzzat for a "background" verfication!!!!
Regards,
Ravi Kanth Talagana
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What do you mean by "make him believe..."? Did he fail on a SPRO IMG question, or of his own free will? (just joking)
Here is one which I just laughed off, but not everyone will necessarily find it funny, particularly if you have been mugged at Second Life
About 2 years ago I was contacted by a developer via email wanting to write a security report for his company and had some questions about which tables to use and how to interpret single fields of them. I sent him some infos, some search terms and a few links.
About 6 months later, I received a fancy html formated email from him (same name) with a prospect wanting to sell the tool to me. I replied that even if he gave it to me for free, it was not our intention to add more tools to our landscape when the SAP provided tools already worked for our purposes...
Then it happens.... I receive an email last year from a bank. They had bought the tool and after an upgrade of the SAP system it no longer worked. When they contacted the person (same name) who had sold it to them, he gave them my email address to provide support...
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Responding to private emails from foreign banks with problems is always a bad idea... (although I am pretty certain that it was true)
... as I am neither a consultant nor a salesman, I decided to do nothing and see what happened next...
... still waiting and have not heard from either again...
The bank must have known it's rights and which sort of contract they had... I assume they had nothing as a basis to take legal action on.
Besides, accessing SAP tables directly is not illegal; however a reliable source told me that it will be blocked in future releases... (which helps prevent the problem).
Cheers,
Julius
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Hi Rob,
The country in question has no competitive advantage over Switzerland with respect to labour costs...
So it would be an unlikely event that my job went there because of outsourcing... but you never know...
> how would you have felt if you found out that your job had been outsourced to this guy?
Not sure (though I would try to get over it as soon as possible). My feelings would be somewhere between:
- I had answered the bank and discovered that he had billed them for the support...
and
- how the British felt after having lost India in 1857.
... it would of course create a stink for a while if it did happened... and I would have to find something new, or a new employer..
If all else fails, I would go farming. Worste-comes-worste, apply for a job at the bank...
Cheers,
Julius
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Hi Ravi,
Love the story, however, I am a little concerned that any genuine terrorist, reading this forum, has now been given the perfect cover story if overheard discussing an atrocity they are planning. I just hope the "SAP Experts", which Airport Security seem to have available to them, have sufficient knowledge to blow their cover with very difficult SAP questions. We'll just have to hope the perpetrators do not have access to SDN when being interrogated otherwise they could get away with it!.
Regards,
Chester
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