Royal Bank of Canada Software Upgrade Goes Awry

Reader mks113 writes "Many Canadians living payday to payday have been in for a shock this week. Canada.com along with many other sources is reporting how thousands of customers have been inconvenienced following an unsuccessful software upgrade at the Royal Bank of Canada on Monday. All government employees (including me) in several provinces had their direct deposits delayed by a day or more." RBC has a comment on the mess.

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That's nothing.

[Anonymous Coward]

As an employee of Interplay, I can say that a 1 or 2 day delay in pay is nothing at all to worry about.

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This is why

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

I don't keep all of my money in a bank, I've never had the hole in my back yard, under the oak, next to the stream, 5 steps from the bush refuse to give me a withdrawal. Well, except for that one time the stream flooded.

Sure, I don't earn interest on it, but at least I have some in an emergency

Re:This is why

[MooseByte]

"I don't keep all of my money in a bank, I've never had the hole in my back yard, under the oak, next to the stream, 5 steps from the bush refuse to give me a withdrawal."

Is that the blackberry bush or the raspberry bush? Never mind, I think I found it.

apt-get install bank-upgrade

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Lou, you're in the unstable branch! Gaah!

I can see it now...

[j0eshm0e]

junioradmin@rbchost:/> rm -rf core *

waiting

waiting

thinking...this is taking longer than it should

phone rings.

ctrl-| ctrl-| ctrl-| ctrl-|

this just in.....

[presmike]

a beer drinking beaver was found at the mainframe keyboard typing I AM CANADIAN over and over. More details to follow...

Darn...

[presarioD]

We finally reached an agreement with this Nigerean wife of an ex-general that she found $10,000,000 in a hidden vault behind the ex'es private toilet bin and agreed to give me 10% if I provide them with my checking account number.

Darn Canadian Bank, now the whole deal might not go through...

Re:Eh

[delcielo]

Programmer 1: It happened like 3 days ago, eh.

Programmer 2: And welcome to day 3.

Programmer 1: "make install" hosed it.

Programmer 2: Hosed it down, eh, like backbacon at a Bah Mitzvah.

Programmer 1: But it's okay, eh. I got my thinking touque on and the beer and pizza are on the way.

Programmer 2: Yeah, we should have it back up by tomorrow, eh. Only, we're gonna need some more vacation after this.

Programmer 1: And beer, eh.

Programmer 2: Yeah, more beer.