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Who, Me? Well, would you look at the calendar? It’s Monday already, and by lunchtime any fond memories of the weekend will have been erased by work worries of the sort The Register celebrates each week in “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column that tells your stories of making messes and somehow escaping.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Alejandro” who told us he once worked for a major multinational company and in the early 1990s was trained to perform a mainframe migration project. The plan was to bring a payroll app into the late 20th century by moving from a 1970s-vintage IBM box to a new NCR machine that ran Unix.

Have you made a mistake that meant you had to re-do a job? If so, click here to send us an email. The “Who, Me?” mailbag is in a sorry state and could really use your story! ®

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