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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Ouch on the video. :(<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">A company I used to work for had two notable incidents:<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">1. They were about to go to backup power (because power was due to be out at the building for half a day) when the network admin turned the backup power switch the wrong way, taking the entire system offline. He was known as blackout from that day forward.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">2. And then there's the time I used killall on HP-UX, knowing only its Linux use. And yes, I did it as root. (That is basically a kill -9 everything right now.)<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Not as bad as when a sysadmin deleted the Oracle rollback logs not realizing they were important, but still….<br></div>
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<div>On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Paul Zander wrote:<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>I was never in IT, but I used to ask about the IT department when interviewing. The one time I didn't ask, I found myself at a company that treated IT as a cost to be minimized without concern for how much time and frustration that caused for everyone else.</span><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Speaking of unexpected horrors: this morning, the television had an item about a woman. She quietly took a break from her current company to go to a job fair. Somehow the local TV station got her on camera and broadcast the clip.</span><br></div>
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<div style="display:block;"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:small"><hr size="1"><b><b>From:</b></b> Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre@deirdre.net><br> <b><b>To:</b></b> Conspire List <conspire@linuxmafia.com> <br> <b><b>Sent:</b></b> Wednesday, August 8, 2018 9:56 AM<br> <b><b>Subject:</b></b> [conspire] Why you should always test your backups</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Junior dev wipes out production on first day, can’t be restored:<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/">https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/</a><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Linked to from an unfortunate thread yesterday about someone who accidentally stepped on (and killed) a dog they didn’t know about while whiteboarding in a job interview:<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/">https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/</a><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Let’s just say it made me feel better about my recent round of job interviews.<br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Deirdre<br></div>
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