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"I worked with a network engineer who misconfigured a router that was connecting a bank to it's DR site. The engineer had to drive across town to manually patch
by xchaotic 5y ago
"I worked with a network engineer who misconfigured a router that was connecting a bank to it's DR site. The engineer had to drive across town to manually patch into the router to fix it.
DR downtime was about an hour, but the bank fired him anyway."
so prod wasn't down and he fixed it in a hour and they fired the guy who knew how to fix such things so quickly. Idiot manager at the bank.
- go_prodev 5y agoI agree it was very heavy handed, but I suspect there was more at play (not the first mistake, and some regulatory reporting that may have looked bad for higher ups)
- datavirtue 5y agoHad a DBA once who was playing around with database projects in visual studio and he managed to hose the production database in the course of it. This caused our entire system to go down. Prostrate, he came before the COO expecting to be canned with much malice. The COO just asked if he learned his lesson and said all is forgiven.