Imagine being one of the 7,000 who applied to UC Berkeley. Your grades might not be the best in the world, heck they might be the worst of the 7,000 but nevertheless your prayers are answered. You get a “Welcome to UC Berkeley” email and dance around naked in the bathroom. WOO WOO!

And then you get another email. Sorry, that last email was some DUMBASS sending the wrong email. You’re not admitted, because you’re stupid, and we don’t admit stupid people. (Well, apart from the dumbass office worker, and dumbass - Edward Tom, Director of Admissions - training him).

As Tom himself says:

“I hit the Send button,” Tom said, describing the mistake. “Normally when we do [training] for real, I have another person on staff who’s an expert.” But that worker was not available when the new employee started last Friday.

“I’ve never had a glitch with that expert in six years of training new staff members,” Tom said. “It takes a bumbling fool like me.”

Yep, it does. Maybe you should stay away from computers? Have you used one before?

The Computer World article points out right at the bottom of their article:

Tom said that about 10 applicants who received the errant e-mail informed him that were very distraught after learning that it was a mistake. About 90 others sent notes to him offering their understanding and accepting his apology.

Only 10? I think that UC Berkeley might be having some applicants suing them…