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It was my sister’s birthday and I was over her place helping set everything up for the night party and then she said “dad’s not picking up the phone”
I had the gut feeling then and there something had happened and indeed he had had a hearth attack that morning
I went to check on my brother in law while his parents where camping. Found him dead in their bed. It was the night before my birthday. Devastated…
My old company stopped contributing to our 401k even when they were taking the $$ out. The CEO Irma gave us her personal message that they were going to take care of it and that we were doing just fine.
Then we got a surprise video meeting over memorial day. The oh shit moment was everyone was told via the call that we were indefinitely furloughed. I didn’t even know that was thing. Unfortunately when you get furloughed like we did, you can’t get unemployment since your not terminated, you can’t get insurance, and paychecks started to bounce from over a month ago. It was a bad situation. So yeah that was my oh shit situation.
k even when they were taking the $$ out. Th
Happened at a previous company for me too. They were paying people with their own 401k’s for quite some time before they went under. Some of my coworkers were putting in max contributions.
No one ever saw any of that money back. The management just rolled into a new venture like nothing happened. There were tons of lawsuits but they had all their money hidden away.
Did you ever get the money they owed you? I had a much less exciting version of that where a job I had was taking money out of paychecks for insurance that was never actually provided. Many years later the courts sorted things out and a few thousand showed up in the mail.
No it’s still going through the courts. The FBI and the SEC got involved.
Continue…
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I pooped my pants 🤯
September 12, 2001. I accidentally shut down an entire production plant. Management didn’t even get mad. They closed the plant for the day, I kicked off the boot cycle (takes hours for the system to be ready for production again) and everyone went home to be with their families. Nobody’s head was on right that day anyway.
EDIT: A few years later I was testing some BigIP configs on a tertiary unit when suddenly the entire e-commerce site went down. Apparently this unit used to be a primary before being demoted and someone (not me) forgot to disable replication, so when I wiped all the rules from my “test unit” I inadvertently wiped all the rules to the production units. Technically it wasn’t my fault but it was still an “oh fuck” moment.
Just one?
I’m going to tell a story on behalf of my husband.
He was 13 and in Boy Scouts. Their troop was told that some older scouts went missing and the troop had to look for them. They formed patrols and were searching for over 3 hours when the leaders said that the older scouts were located; one of them was disemboweled and needed a medical helicopter to come from Denver. That was the “oh, crap!” moment…
Turns out the whole thing was staged. No one ever went missing. They just wanted the troop to learn how to do search and rescue. There were younger scouts there who were crying and terrified, definitely scarred by the experience.
And that’s how things were done back in the 80s.
I think this is a common thing with boy scouts. We happened upon an accident in between stations at camp. A kid ran up and tells us his dad crashed his car and he needed help. There was a man who was laying in front of the truck on the ground. His arm was bleeding profusely. We needed to administer first aid. The guy had a bunch of blood all over his arm and he was acting all incoherent. We decided to Jerry rig a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and send someone up the road to find a phone (pre cell phone days) The whole experience was super traumatic. All staged. Fuckers. They even had a pump shooting out fake blood from the guys arm.
Was the “injured” guy’s name J. Walter Weatherman, by chance?
LMAO. I didn’t remember that name but I had a feeling I knew who it was. This guy’s arm stayed on though
Well, there goes that theory…
I took down the home page of one of the top 5 websites for around 5 minutes.
There were two existing functions that were written by a different team: An
encodemethod that took a name of something (for internal use only) and returned a numeric identifier for it, and adecodemethod that did the opposite.Some existing code already used
encode, but I had to usedecodein my new code. Added the code, rolled it out to 80% of employees, and it seemed to work fine. Next day, I rolled it out to 5% public and it still seemed okay.Once I rolled it out to everyone, it all broke.
Turns out that while the
encodefunction used a static map built at build-time (and was thus just an O(1) lookup at runtime),decodeconnected to a database that was only ever designed for internal use. The DB table only had ten replicas which was nowhere near enough to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.Luckily, it’s commonplace to gate changes, which is how I could roll it out just to employees initially. The devops team were able to find stack traces of the error from the prod logs, find my code, find the commit that added it, find the name of the killswitch, and disable my code, before I even noticed that there was a problem. No code rollback needed.
That was probably 7 years ago now. Thankfully I haven’t made any mistakes as large as that one again!
Boss walks in: “can I see you in my office for a moment…”
Fuck corporate life and I’m sorry to everyone living in it… -former boss
When I realised that full-blown corruptions (sometimes of of entire folders) are happening on not just the HDD that I store games on, but also the HDD that stores Windows. This computer’s old and my next one will have SDDs but I’ve decided I want to make the most out of this computer since it still runs games very well, and I’ll go to the computer store to buy a new one once it inevitably bricks itself.
You are aware you can just replace the drives right?
“We need to talk.”
I was in charge with creating, designing, configuring, and running an e-commerce site on Shopify as well as responding to customer emails and orders. This was for a start-up. First orders would get a promo code for a 15% discount on a next purchase.
CEO tells me we need to get rid of stock fast as possible, so make a storewide discount on certain models. I go and do that.
We receive a bulk order of 50 of the discounted units while also using the 15% off promo code we sent out to early purchasers. Realized I should have put in a rule that doesn’t allow discounts to stack…
CEO and other members all unanimously voted to get rid of me a couple of hours later.
Shit job from 10 years ago. Getting too drunk at the office Christmas party and talking so much shit about my horrible fucking boss to a couple of influential senior managers who are close to the CFO. Freaked out all weekend about it, severe anxiety attacks. That mixed with the hangover I was just vomiting all weekend.
And then: Run into one of those senior managers early in the office on Monday morning, apologised for being inappropriate. Get a response “oh, we all know how bad she is, can’t believe you haven’t quit yet”.
Senior managers were also awful then; part of their job is making sure that the lower level managers don’t suck, and they weren’t.
Absolutely. A few months after this I went directly to the person above my boss and explained the situation- mental health, physical health, turned into dependence on weekly psychologist sessions.
Basically told me to get over it.
This was a non profit organisation dedicated to helping homeless, refugees, victims of domestic violence, and elderly people who are unable to afford aged care. The people on the ground doing the work were amazing people. But the people in charge were all cosplaying as big business shitheads.
I’ve heard that kind of thing about a number of non-profits. Makes me wonder how they manage to attract so many awful people.
Or maybe people in general are just awful.
Virtue signaling. Its easy to look good running a nonprofit.
I heard that “who let the dogs out” by the Baha Men is about ugly girls coming to the club.
I was explaining this to a coworker, and one of my female coworkers were around. After I said it, I looked at her and said “oh my gosh I’m so sorry” because I thought it was inappropriate to say at work.
She took it as I was calling her ugly! (she was though)
Ironic, it’s about dogshit men who catcall women
The lyrics support this.
Well, the party was nice, the party was pumpin’ Heya, yippie yi yo And everybody havin’ a ball Huh, huh, yippie yi yo I tell the fellas start the name callin’ Yippie yi yo And the girls respond to the call I heard a woman shout out Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who, who, who?
I was testing some code late at night in the test system. Rolled out the changes, log on to the admin interface and write a short news article about how one of the more hated profs at the university had died suddenly and unexpectedly.
Result looks good, roll out changes to prod, about to call it quits for the night. Think to myself: common reason people get fired, maybe delete the story from test system. Check test system, no story there… Uhoh.
Story has been live for about three hours. Hope no spiders have caught it yet, hurry to delete it and learn how to purge all evidence from database.
Turns out the shithead admin had copy and pasted the server config for the test system from live and forgotten to change the admin rewrite rules to test system. Phew…
“Oh, there’s a word for what I feel? I guess I’m trans.”
Might not have been an “oh crap” if not for my Catholic family or my wife and daughter. Personally it was more of an “oh, joy, this is okay!”
