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As somebody with full IT administration access I am just too aware of how easy it is to entirely destroy an entire company with a single inadvertent command. An
by blubb-fish 9y ago
As somebody with full IT administration access I am just too aware of how easy it is to entirely destroy an entire company with a single inadvertent command. And the risk of this happening increases swiftly with stress levels and work piling up and "just get this done quickly!", "why aren't you done yet?", "we need this tomorrow!" etc. And that work environment is the norm - not the exception.
- MBCook 9y agoI’ve been there, and I’ve seen someone come really close to ruining a company with that one mistake. But even in a small company there were others who could patch things. There were people above me who kept an eye on if patches were applied (or at least reported to be applied). It wasn’t just ‘we told guy X to patch and never followed up’.
- blubb-fish 9y agoit is also worth noting that the experience of being "responsible" for a company being destroyed could cause suicidal risks for the respective person. I once accidentally didn't close the door to the office with a key - the door had a defect which caused it to not lock sometimes - this made me realize how heavy of a burden it would have been if the company would have gotten robbed or something - which could have been very well its end. That was a very tough experience - luckily nothing happened.