RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:24:18 +0100
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My entire team got a very rude wake up call to ensure we paid attention when we were working. Usual stuff , we used to refresh a test DB from prod every night. Something went wrong one day, the oncall admin, while cleaning up what he thought was test, managed to wipe prod. So he called the DBA manager....
The DBA manager fired him over the phone there and then and told him to not bother coming into work the next day. As a final insult, the manager demanded that this guy call the next admin out to fix the problem! If he refused, the DBA manager threatened to have the company take him to court for willful destruction of company information. I think the admin who got fired, attempted to take the company to court for wrongful dismissal but failed as he had made a major mistake that was deemed to have threatened the company financially. It all got very sticky, but both parties finally settled on some agreement to which we were not privy.
Moral as always, check, check again, breathe 5 times, check again, 5 more breaths, check once more....then push the RETURN key.
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Sent: 15 May 2009 16:39
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Subject: OT - Getting fired for database oops
A colleague and I were just discussing DBA's getting fired for screwing something up/failing to do something (Not for being generally poor employees like showing up late, etc). Neither of us had heard any stories of either scenario. I know we sometimes have slightly off topic discussions on the list, so I was wondering if anyone would share any stories.
Chris Newman
Database Specialist
AITS, University of Illinois
217-333-5429
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