Re: OT - Getting fired for database oops
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:04:53 +0200
Message-ID: <8580d4110905180904q5177c1c5i9d7794dda406358_at_mail.gmail.com>
Maybe the moral could also be to not fire people while being angry, upset, and stressed out. I'm sure an organization that operates under the assumption that a mistake is a fireable offence does't run very well. From this story I'm pretty sure I'd have gone home and posted my resume the very day I heard how he had treated a coworker. I would not want to work for that manager any longer than it took me to land a new job.
Settling usually means that money is payed. I bet the company ended up paying...
Mathias
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Johnson, George <George.Johnson_at_gam.com>wrote:
> 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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> Subject: OT - Getting fired for database oops
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> 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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