Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
FAIL! Everyone messes up at their jobs once in a while, with varying degrees of consequences.
If you work in the IT field, you better have your head on straight. If you don’t, you could make some seriously huge mistakes that might lead to enormous headaches.
Here, AskReddit users share their own IT horror stories.
1. Ooops…
“I was trying to determine where some cables were going and had to open the cable management for that. I accidentally cut through the fiber connecting the two data centers of that company.
I was called Edward Scissorhands after that.”
2. Gone
“I deleted 50-70% of the photos on the site/project I’ve been working on. (Not mine, customer photos) =).”
3. Time to make amends
“I do test automation for an insurance company. Once, I accidentally pointed tests at the production environment and bound a bunch of policies. It took several people a couple hours to clean up the data before it got migrated to accounting. This was all after 4:00 on a Friday afternoon.
The next week, I spent $250 on a pizza party for the team to make amends.”
4. Don’t turn your back
“I was tasked with mounting a switch in a network closet alone. Those things are a bit heavy and difficult, even moreso that I was alone. So, I barely got two screws in and I released it and it stayed. I turned to get my other two screws and the switch fell 5 feet and broke the mounting bracket.
Not me but someone on site also delete an entire database and backed it up. So, basically, all data was lost.”
5. Sorry, Doc
“Lost a doctor’s spreadsheet she’d put ten years worth of work into.”
6. Panic
“Deleted my entire hard-drive just from moving too fast.
i was trying to delete some files, but i didnt realize i had the entire root directory highlighted instead of the one directory i needed. deleting took no time, and then i went to clear the recycling bin which happened to be in OSX – and i got curious as to why there was a progress bar that projected like 6 minutes to clear the bin. i was like oh well, just a system hiccup.
it was systematically scrubbing all thirty thousand files from my…
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