• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m in IT. Made a mistake so bad last week that I AM this meme, was literally updating my resume.

    Me and another guy got what we were looking at mixed up and decided it was safe to delete an account we had been aiming to kill. So I deleted it. Bit later and people are popping all over Slack, “Customer reports they’re not getting their report emails.”

    Holy shit. We had to do a crash upgrade rollout to use the proper account. Meanwhile, my dumbass is watching all the activity going, “Huh. Wonder what that’s all about.”

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      8 months ago

      That shouldn’t make you lose your job though, unless you work in a really shitty place. Own it, recover from backup, bring the account back up to date, then everyone has a bit of a laugh at your expense until next time it happens. Small inconvenience for the customer, who quite rightly complains about it, but they’ll get over it. Absolutely not a big deal.

      If you haven’t got backups then it’s not you that should get fired but the backup guy, unless of course you ARE the backup guy.