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==NatWest’s errors==
==NatWest’s errors==
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 — a bit of a schoolboy error, frankly — 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. 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]]”.