Watch out for those dumb IT mistakes
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By Brody | Posted 5:21pm | November 3, 2008
You mean like the time I typed "format c: /s" instead of "edit config.sys" on the president's desktop computer back in the old DOS days and hit enter? Or the time I accidently whacked the boot partition on a clients computer? Who me? Make a mistake?! Never!!
By Anonymous | Posted 12:27pm | December 5, 2008
as a member of my company's system testing team, i accidentally truncated all of the tables in the PRODUCTION normalized database - instead of the TEST normalized database - because someone didn't think it was that important to update everyone's User IDs to only have read access to the Production databases.






Every IT professional has had "a most embarrassing moment." Don't deny it, just accept it and try to do better. While many in the IT management world would rather spend time complaining about the dumb things that users do, it's also time to 'fess up and admit that from time to time, you do some dumb things too.
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