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Re: Quick Tale: Lost production database because of keyboard and Veritas Cluster Server

From: koert54 <nospam_at_nospam.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:12:08 +0100
Message-ID: <3c7e038b$0$7110$4d4efb8e@news.be.uu.net>


if it's interesting reading it's fine by me ! :-)

"RSH" <RSH_Oracle_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:9omf8.3712$gK2.312789_at_bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I sincerely apologize to those that tried to offer advise to this guy
> instead of making him feel bad; a lot of my work for many years has been
> mentoring junior programmers, DBA's, System Administrators and such, and I
> reacted viscerally and without distinction in a fit of rage. (And I didn't
> even eat any Twinkies; that got Dan White or whatever his name is off when
> he was tried for murdering the Mayor of SF and that other politician that
> was gay.) [Gay? In San Francisco? I'm shocked!]
>
> But I was wrong to blast everyone and I do hope you accept my apology.
>
> I've spent many (maybe too many) years in IT as a manager and a do-er, and
a
> lot of people helped me along the way, and none of them ever lorded it
over
> me that they were smarter or had more degrees or made fun of me for not
> knowing something that "everybody knows", I guess that rubbed off.
>
> Again, I am quite contrite about blasting everyone like that; it was
> terribly unprofessional of me. I can send a pound of flesh packed in dry
ice
> by FedEx to anybody needing more of an apology; I could stand to lose the
> weight.
>
> RSH.
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 04:12:08 CST

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