IT Team Forced To Camp In The Office For Days After Y2K Bug Found In Boss's Side Project
The Register, December 11,2025
The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive
December 26th is a holiday across much of the Reg-reading world, but it's also a Friday - the day on which we present a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that recounts your tales of tech support encounters and exasperation.
This holiday season we're dipping into tales of tech support in the time of Y2K, starting with this tale from a reader we'll Regomize as "Cane" and who told us that in December 1999 he worked in the IT department at the UK branch of a "multinational booze purveyor."