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[โ€“] siph@feddit.de 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would hardly call it your fuck up. You wanted to back up the data manually and were told not to - that's on your supervisor/boss/whoever called the shots. Not on you.

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your not wrong, and definitely not the first person to tell me that. But it still fucked with me for a while. There were a lot of really good people there, just trying to make there way. My actions, whether my fault or not, indirectly caused probably like 150+ people to lose their job, and that's on the day shift, idk if they even kept the night shift. I know it's not my fault, but like, I still feel a lil shitty about it, ya know. This was probably 6-7 years ago. Sense then I've learned my lesson and never ever keep my mouth shut and make sure I have all concerns documented. Ho boy has it saved my ass.

[โ€“] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did this guy just like... have critical company data not backed up, only on his laptop?

[โ€“] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, apparently that's exactly right lol. I was kinda green on that job so I didn't realize how wild that was. Thinking back on it, what the fuck?