One of our longer term contractors had been asked to 'kick off an image' on a developer's PC. This entails using a piece of software to take a snapshot of the PC prior to making any amendments so you have a rollback option if it all goes wrong.
When asked to 'kick off an image' our friend translated this as 're-image that PC with a standard image, thereby wiping any data and hard fought configuration that the user had been building up over several months'.
GC: "Did you kick off that build on SG's PC?"
SS: "Huh? Yeah, yeah I did."
GC: "Good. Once it's finished we can install that new bloggs inc. software. If it screws up we can rollback to your image."
SS: Now, he's just realised what he's done and gets a little nervous. "I'll be back in a minute."
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