moment in work stupidity
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In my first job, I turned up one Sunday morning to publish two regional newspapers online - something I did every week. Except this time I'd been up all night boshing E and speed at a psychedelic trance night, so hadn't had any sleep and was in pieces.
I got about a third of the way through and got completely flummoxed by the simplest of things, so left a note affixed to the monitor saying little more than 'got confused, left'.
Awoke on Monday morning with the terrible realisation of what I'd done. Thankfully, I'm .. or at least was .. vaguely competant otherwise, so they didn't sack me. Not clever though.
I vaguely remember, in a different job, losing 6 weeks worth of site builds for a big online game we were working on well known TV brand, by cancelling a Cut'n'Paste of folders between servers (it was taking far too long). Little did I know that'd actually cause a problem. Thankfully, this episode was mostly resolvable and the hit was taken by the IT department who hadn't been doing their backups properly.