You thought you had a bad work day lol

[minnseoelite]

Here is something I read in the news a few minutes ago......kinda makes my day not seem so bad after all

Tech Deletes $38 Billion
JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing information for an account worth $38 billion.
ADVERTISEMENT

That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents' biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.

[rize]

woah..............................

[mcfox]

Holy moly! I wonder how they are going to put this right?

Here's a link to the story - tech deletes $38 billion (http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4185)

[Jordan]

Wow, that's like the worst case scenario for a business.

The article says that they still have all the information but it's all on paper in 300 boxes...god that would be painful to go through again!

[Kasami2k4]

We Say: They managed to recover the data, and have instituted new backup and restore procedures. They don’t mention what happened to the tech, but they say that “no one was ever blamed for the incident.”

Thank goodness! I felt so sorry for the poor guy!

[LazyAK]

Wow poor guy!

[YabbaDoo]

Aww, I feel sorry for that dude, imagine knowing you just deleted that haha!!!!
That really would make for a great wind up on one of them "You've been stitched up!" TV Shows.
Good job they got it back though =/
Wonder what would happen if it never could be recovered!

[NYCBORN]

I read that yesterday and thought to myself "sucks to be you"

[minnseoelite]

i bet that guy had to go home and change his shorts lol

[laars]

i bet that guy had to go home and change his shorts lol
lol I bet he did.

I bet it sucks to be that guy right now.

[tmoney]

wow. that really sucks

[Connections]

I would be looking for a new job if I was that guy...

[minnseoelite]

Yea but if you was a company would you want to hire someone that lost that much money ?

[Connections]

Yea but if you was a company would you want to hire someone that lost that much money ?


you obviously wouldnt want to be showing your previous reference form the old job now would you, I would change my name and clean up my previous jpbs list and move country hehehe

[marcowitsch]

It must suck to be that guy now lol

[jrw64]

Yeah..guess our day is going pretty good when you hear that kind of news..OMG