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==NatWest’s errors==
==NatWest’s errors==
{{tag|Schoolboy error}} no.1 was to have notice deadline which expired during the Christmas holidays. But that’s as may be. (In fairness, it’s not ''that'' outlandish to expect a hotel to be open in the Christmas holidays.) But  as a rule of thumb it’s best not to have your options expire at Christmas.
Schoolboy error no.1 was to have notice deadline which expired during the Christmas holidays. But that’s as may be. (In fairness, it’s not ''that'' outlandish to expect a hotel to be open in the Christmas holidays.) But  as a rule of thumb it’s best not to have your options expire at Christmas. Anyway, the learning here is this: ''Don’t set options that expire in when everyone’s likely to be out of the office.''


*'''Error no. 1''': Don’t set options that expire in when everyone’s likely to be out of the office.
Error no. 2 — less of a schoolboy one, in [[Jolly Contrarian|this reviewer’s]] opinion – was to presume that an [[email]], being, after all, an '''electronic''' mail '''message''' sent over a computer '''system''' (so sayeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Wikipedia]) counted as an “[[electronic messaging system]]”.
*'''Error no. 2''': Less of a schoolboy one, in [[Jolly Contrarian|this reviewer’s]] opinion – was to presume that an [[email]], being, after all, an '''electronic''' mail '''message''' sent over a computer '''system''' (so sayeth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Wikipedia]) counted as an “[[electronic messaging system]]”.


===Wait - [[email]] is ''not'' an [[electronic messaging system]]?===
===Wait - [[email]] is ''not'' an [[electronic messaging system]]?===