And that right there is why I will go toe to toe with management over firing someone for making a simple mistake even if it affects production systems. That person just learned the tough lesson and will modify their behavior henceforth to be more careful making them a better employee. I understand that sometime there is no option but to fire the person (i.e. the case where the stock brokerage ended up losing ~$100 million) but in general that is the person you now want to keep as they won't ever make that mistake again.
Andy On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > First UNIX admin job, logged into server thinking it was the local desktop > and rebooted it. Lots of egg on the face and lots of wasted end user > hours. > > I took drastic action to triple verify where I was logged in after that. > Sometimes being a bit OCD is learned by not being OCD enough. > > I had also shut down mainframes before that with similar results (a few > times on purpose, a couple of times accidently when working as a systems > programmer in a large IBM shop). Mainframes had 2000 logged in (about 8000 > users in the directory that could log in) and Unix machine only had about > 200 users (it was where their home directories were located over NFS). > > Never really got into trouble for it, but I flogged myself more than any > boss ever would over the issue. ... such is life. We go on. Company > survived. > > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Allen Minix <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 11:23:47 AM UTC-5, Howard wrote: >>> >>> >>> Okay, I'm looking on the wrong server. Move along, these are not the >>> droids you are looking for. >>> >>> Howard >>> >> >> If I had a nickel for every time I've done that... >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > ><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " > - http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
