[wlug] Yet Another Spreadsheet Screwup

The British Army had to retract a bunch of notifications about promotions incorrectly sent out <https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/07/army_promotion_excel_snafu/>. I suspect the phrase “incorrectly sorted” means they forgot to select all the right columns before doing a sort of the rows, leading to a scrambling of the data. This kind of thing is all too common.