Whats the biggest mistake you’ve made at work?

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I once took down a companies email and no one could get email for a few hours. I laugh about it now tbh but I was worried at the time.. funny thing is I acknowledged it before anyone else did. I was randomly thinking about the issues Id dealt with that day and realised the steps I carried out on one issue would have meant no one would get email. Flew back into work to fix it.. shocked no one clocked on tbh but it was a small company of around 40 people if that.

 

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How long have you got ha ha. I don't think I have made any monumental mistakes...that I am aware of, I do own up as that is the best way to be fair and I think people respect you more for admitting that you have messed up.

I do make ill judged comments to be fair, when I was first starting out and some staff we having trouble with Active directory and I found out that our set up was a bit all over the place, I did ask if we could start all over again with AD ha ha ha

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I kicked off a VMware snapshot once of an Exchange server I was about to run Windows Updates on. In those days reverting an Exchange server to a snapshot would be really bad (I think it's less bad these days?), but it didn't matter because I also hadn't understood the way VMware snapshots work, so I filled up the host's disks in no time flat and took down email for a bit longer than originally promised, also I had to wake up two senior engineers to fix it for me. I have been punished for these sins by having to wake up and fix similar nonsense myself many times in the years since

And I once remotely patched and bounced an elderly SBS server on the last workin day of the year after all the users had gone home. I understand it was revivied on lke the 3rd of Jan when somebody was finally able to press the F1 key. Most of my worst mistakes have caused a company to lose email for a while.

 

Hahaha brilliant!

 

My first job ever was back in 1992 at a computer shop. My job was to build PCs to customer specs. Someone else picked out all the parts, handed them off to me, and I assembled them.

At the time, the most expensive CPU we had was the Intel 486-DX2 66 at about $800 each, and I remember getting my hands on it for the first time. This was also the days before the ZIF-sockets (Zero Insertion Force, meaning we had to jam those things into place). Well, I put it in wrong. So I had to peel it out and try again. Ended up bending every single pin getting it out, and rendering it unusable.

 

Dated someone. She turned out to be an absolute Psycho! Both in and out of the office.

 

Yeah, but was the sex any good?

 

Meh!

 

haha, men are men! well, that would be definitely the biggest mistake you’ve made lol