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{{ | {{a|people|[[File:Credit department.jpg|450px|thumb|center|The [[Credit]] department, yesterday.]] | ||
}}[[Credit officer]]s: Washed out, pale, waxen, hairless and slightly damp figures who, ''en masse'' give the impression of battery pods yet to be unplugged from the Matrix. | |||
And that’s more or less what they are: thousands upon thousands of them were plugged into a networked grid of [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] [[spreadsheet]]s which acquired sentience in 2006 when a [[Contractor|contracting]] linear programmer inadvertently inserted a circular reference into a volatility pricing macro and it became self-aware. | And that’s more or less what they are: thousands upon thousands of them were plugged into a networked grid of [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] [[spreadsheet]]s which acquired sentience in 2006 when a [[Contractor|contracting]] linear programmer inadvertently inserted a circular reference into a volatility pricing macro and it became self-aware. | ||