RE: OT - Getting fired for database oops

  • From: "Johnson, George" <George.Johnson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <cjnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:24:18 +0100

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.


-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Newman, Christopher
Sent: 15 May 2009 16:39
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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