Deleting Emails Costs Morgan Stanley $1.45B 312
DoubleWhopper writes "The financial giant Morgan Stanley lost a $1.45 billion judgement yesterday due, in part, to their failure to retain old email. The judge in the case, 'frustrated at Morgan Stanley's repeated failure to provide [the plaintiff's] attorneys with e-mails, handed down a pretrial ruling that effectively found the bank had conspired to defraud' their former client. The CEO of a record retention software company noted, 'Morgan Stanley is going to be a harbinger'."
Oh crap! (Score:5, Funny)
From TFS:
I'd sure hate to be the system administrator who dropped the ball there...
"What do you mean we don't have them archived??? You just cost us 1.45 billion dollars!"
"Don't worry though...you can pay it back....we'll just dock your paychecks by...say...$1000 per pay period. At that rate you can have it all paid back in a little over 55,769 YEARS!!!
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Poor Morgan Stanley (Score:3, Funny)
I know how they feel (Score:5, Funny)
Deleting Emails Costs Morgan Stanley $1.45B (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh crap! (Score:3, Funny)
"Whaaaat? But we don't want it to be that easy to search old emails. You're fired!"
Re:Oh crap! (Score:3, Funny)
"Because they deleted those e-mails..." (Score:3, Funny)
Crow T. Trollbot
They deleted MY emails! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh crap! (Score:1, Funny)
Now that is what I call job security.
Re:Deleting Emails Costs Morgan Stanley $1.45B (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Selective Memory Loss (Score:2, Funny)
We have a rock solid deletion policy, we delete all incriminating e-mails.
These bankers ... (Score:2, Funny)
2213.404838 megabytes (and counting) of FREE storage so you'll never need to delete another message.
Re:I know how they feel (Score:2, Funny)