Question for IT workers...

[Senior Member]

Have you ever royally screwed up on the job, spent many hours rectifying the mistake (during which time IT operations were significantly hampered), and then come out of it looking like a hero to your non-technical boss and co-workers? Just curious...

 

[FoBoT]

no, i usually screw up the old fashioned way, make a mistake, try to hide it, get caught, look like a dumb @ss

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no, i usually screw up the old fashioned way, make a mistake, try to hide it, get caught, look like a dumb @ss

...then blame it on someone else

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: edro13

Originally posted by: FoBoT
no, i usually screw up the old fashioned way, make a mistake, try to hide it, get caught, look like a dumb @ss

...then blame it on someone else

Yep!

 

[rh71]

LOL at the 1st two responses... yes everyone screws up at some point... it's how you learn. You can't make big leaps without making mistakes.

 

[damiano]

Originally posted by: Senior Member
Have you ever royally screwed up on the job, spent many hours rectifying the mistake (during which time IT operations were significantly hampered), and then come out of it looking like a hero to your non-technical boss and co-workers? Just curious...

yes
many times

 

[TommyVercetti]

Yep, getting blamed for problems you were only 1% responsible for feels really good.

-Praise the Lord.

 

[ATLien247]

One time a PS went out in one of the ancient external SCSI drives we used to have. Since it was covered under a maintenance contract, all I had to do was call in a tech to fix it.

I ended up getting a bonus for fixing the problem so quickly, when in reality I didn't really do anything of merit...

Having a non-techie for a boss can have it's perks. Then again, come budget time, it can also have it's down sides.

 

[Rogue]

Yep. Lost my site director, now Vice President's entire mailbox on Exchange. I seriously thought I was fired for that one. I managed to have a full database backup from about a week earlier, restored it and was back in business again. Of course, I told her that it was near impossible to recover her e-mail at first.

 

[whaleskinrug]

no they just blame their idiocy on me and my evil machines

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Senior Member
Have you ever royally screwed up on the job, spent many hours rectifying the mistake (during which time IT operations were significantly hampered), and then come out of it looking like a hero to your non-technical boss and co-workers? Just curious...

Wasn't it Arthur C. Clarke who said, "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic"?

What's really funny is how much they want to believe that you did something godly because of thier own seemilngly deliberate ignorance.

We shouldn't feel guilty for it, that's why we're paid well, so non-techs don't have to think about the problem and it just gets fixed. Having realized this in my own life, it's become exceedingly difficult to pay tradesmen what they want. It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts to fix plumbing, but they charge out the wazoo, (no pun intended).

 

[Senior Member]

rh71 and djheaters: Good points; thanks for the responses.