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A dead man walking. A condemned prisoner chained like a butterfly on a wheel, who, at some point in the unknowable future, will eventually take the rap for some avoidable calamity though we cannot know how, when or through whose agency this undoing misfortune will be visited on her. | A [[dead man walking]]. A condemned prisoner chained like a butterfly on a wheel, who, at some point in the unknowable future, will eventually take the rap for some avoidable calamity though we cannot know how, when or through whose agency this undoing misfortune will be visited on her. | ||
The operator is the poor sod who management inevitably blames when system errors make themselves known. We see an unfolding example in the horrifying case of {{casenote|Citigroup|Brigade Capital Management}}, wherein a [[right-shoring|right-shored]], outsourced operations center in India — staffed of course, with the proverbial [[School-leavers from Bucharest]], or Hyderabad at any rate — erroneously sent out nearly a [[yard]] of cash to some lenders to a distressed cosmetics firm who weren’t expecting it, but then, figuring it was the best offer they were ever going to get, refused to give it back. [[Litigation]] is ongoing. | The operator is the poor sod who management inevitably blames when system errors make themselves known. We see an unfolding example in the horrifying case of {{casenote|Citigroup|Brigade Capital Management}}, wherein a [[right-shoring|right-shored]], outsourced operations center in India — staffed of course, with the proverbial [[School-leavers from Bucharest]], or Hyderabad at any rate — erroneously sent out nearly a [[yard]] of cash to some lenders to a distressed cosmetics firm who weren’t expecting it, but then, figuring it was the best offer they were ever going to get, refused to give it back. [[Litigation]] is ongoing. | ||