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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.
{{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.
{{Box|'''Learning Number 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 [[Amwell J|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. 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]]”.


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