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8" floppies. Now that does bring back a memory for me. I was working on a project in Texas. The customer was in Kentucky as I recall. I fixed a problem and gave an 8" floppy to our Shipping department, to send to the customer. The customer called me on the phone, to inform me that the floppy had been bent, so it would fit into the box. As I recall, it did work, after he straightened it out. For the rest of the time that I worked there, I packed things myself, before they were shipped, and that wasn't my job. I couldn't believe someone in the Shipping department was that stupid.
Are you kidding? The shipping and the mailroom departments are usually the first place that get their budgets cut. That is where every bodies kids get summer jobs, and are often very transient in employment.