Driving my parents’ GMC suburban home late one rainy night from my job, I took the turn into the driveway too tight. I scraped the side of the truck against the chainlink fence gate post. The hinge pin cut a gash in the side of the truck.
I knew my dad would be pissed. Everyone was asleep already, so there was nothing to do but do to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning and told my mom, she said she knew and she told me not to say anything to anyone and my dad was going to take care of it.
As it turns out, they were using me as an example of a good driver to shame my brother and my sister, and they didn’t want them throwing it back in their faces.
Something similar happened to me with a neighbor’s car. I turned too wide into my parking space and ended up bumping the back of my neighbor’s van, leaving a noticeable mark. I immediately went up to their door and knocked to apologize, but no one answered AFAIR. I decided if it was a huge problem, they’d come to me or my dad about it, but they never did. So technically I wasn’t forgiven, but I wasn’t reprimanded either.
Ever taken the internet offline to a 70 story residual building? I did because when I plugged my laptop in to troubleshoot something the UPS chucked a massive wobbley and decided to reboot.
I’ve plugged a standard console cable into an APC UPS. did that twice before I realized what was going on. APC decided to do a pinout on their serial platforms that gets triggered with a “Cisco” console cable to shut down. What. The. Fuck.
chucked a massive wobbley
Gonna start using that at work
I’m a system administrator for a relatively big SaaS for a relatively big company.
I was attempting to configure a new inbound email protocol in the TEST environment. I needed to reference how it was configured in PROD so I could copy certain settings into TEST, so I had both up on my screens (you can see where this is going). But first I needed to clear out the old cloned configurations in TEST.
…And not even half a second after I deleted those config files did I realize what I’d done: deleted inbound email configuration on PRODUCTION. In the middle of the day. Killed inbound email for the system for the whole company.
The whole reason I had PROD open was because I didn’t have good documentation of how it was configured (what was cloned into TEST was old and not correct). So now I was seriously fucked. I had to redo the config from scratch live in PROD. Even tried backing out the deletion but that failed.
Had to advise my boss of the fuckup. He was new. Had only been with the company for like 2 weeks. I had to assure him that I am NOT actually a total fuckhead and I usually don’t do stupid shit like this. I felt terrible, because I knew he’d have to give the post-failure analysis review on this to his new bosses, and that would definitely be awkward.
Anyway, he was cool with it. Assured me that he’d done something similar at a previous job. He let me do my thing to fix it, which I did. Inbound email was only down for …well, a long time (3-4 hours), because once I was able to get the config working, I had to re-register all of the inbound email addresses to use it -which had its own sordid story. That took some time.
After the fact, we modified the TEST environment to have a different “theme” (header colors) so it wasn’t identical to PROD on-screen, and I documented the email configuration thoroughly.
I once brought my flash drive to show a presentation for my AP English class during the last week of school.
Little did I know my flash drive had a virus on it that propogated through the entire school’s network.
I think even IT came into the room the same day to tell my teacher what had happened.
They did inform me the source was my flash drive.
If I’m being honest, maybe it was a virus/worm from a porn site or something that had been left over and found its way onto my flash drive, or some vulnerable outdated program that had been compromised and breached my flash drive.
Always verify your file integrity, folks!
In an airport’s baggage claim area, I accidentally hit a middle-aged guy with my luggage. There was like around 30 kilograms worth of stuff in there, going directly to his torso, bringing him to writhe in pain. In my defense, the guy was standing too close, and this was an intercontinental flight, so of course everyone’s bringing big-ass luggages. Regardless, I immediately apologized profusely.
I wrote some inefficient code by accident, that worked completely fine in test with 1 fake end user (me), but it had a critical flaw that caused it to literally be exponentially inefficient to the amount of users in the customer’s business. So a small 10 employee business would create 10! network requests. We had some businesses with 2000 employees, so it tried to do 2000! network requests… it brought our servers down immediately after I released it, and I had to figure out a way to block the incoming requests, push out the patch, and get customer’s to update without allowing them to DDoS us again. It took half the day and I was extremely stressed out. Stayed back late a few hours to make sure it was all good. Boss was mad but I didn’t get punished for it
We had some businesses with 2000! employees…
3.316275 × 105735 is probably too many employees.
For context, here's that number written out fully.
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You’re absolutely right — I could have worded that section better, that’s on me. I’ve now edited it for clarity.
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That…sounds like a tiny mistake compared to whoever made it possible to change all of the passwords in a database in one go.
Like immediate as soon as the mistake was made or immediate as soon as it was atoned for?
Either is probably fine
