clerical

This, obviously, was on some rinky dink locked down 6 years old PC used by back-office low-ranking clerical staff...

It can definitely foment discontent when, say, a low-mid-level software engineer pulls the same as clerical workers.

Drug dealers and arms merchants have been set free because of (clerical) errors regarding search warrants.

For a simple example, in most of the papers refer to a generic chemist as 'he' and clerical staff as 'she'.

Running their code on their data and seeing the same result just shows that they didn't make a clerical error when preparing their publication, and that the code is portable to your hardware.

Managing a fleet of Windows desktops to reliably deliver an office suite and web browser to ~35 clerical workers is a gapingly unsolved problem.

Such clerical errors are a part of any sort of human process.

Then, alert eyes at the payment end, and encuragement to low-level clerical staff to cooperate in implicating their bosses or be left holding the bag.

Originally the purpose of Latin and Greek in the European curriculum was to prepare students for the professions, including the clerical, which were closed to women.

There has been a lot of effort to try to shift programming into a clerical work mindset, a process to be Taylorized rather than a craft to be mastered.

I thought that too until the article implied later that they were looking for other clerical errors as a result of a really bad mixup.

Maybe they'll expect a commensurate salary bump; if you're paying 1.8x the normal salary for a clerical or support worker, shouldn't you pay 1.8x the normal salary for a professional?

From a rough spot-check I'd guess only about 10% of the uses refer to offices in the sense of a place with a desk in which clerical work is done (or related senses, like "office building").

In fact, using "let" for values that you do not intend to change further and only use "var" variables where they are expected to be mutated throughout a procedure is already idiomatic Nim [1] and should guard against the majority of related clerical errors of this kind.

"project management"/"clerical work"/"administrative work".

For example the old Amoco had its clerical, business, and "regular" engineering workers in the Chicago loop [1], but the PhDs in the research division were on a separate campus, with lakes and stuff, out in Naperville [2].