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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Oh man, I made the biggest fucking mistake of my entire career just now and took our main website down for 3 hours.
This has included a 2 hour call to Holland and a 1 hour call to, well, central london. I made a mistake and it wouldn't supprise me if they let me go after it. Only thing I can say is that I was the one who came up with the fix before anyone else, but I'm so fucking gutted I made the mistake in the first place that I want to fall down into a tiny little hole with a few tablets the size of my.... well, the size of my mistake.

It wouldn't supprise me if I get sacked on monday =(
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:34, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
no company would you bin you for one mistake, at least you fixed it Gonz.

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:41, Reply)
Schools will be bin nonces at the first attempt of anything though.
You should probably bear this in mind.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:49, Reply)
Why would the father of a small girl antagonise someone he thinks is a nonce?
You're a bit stupid.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:53, Reply)
Because you're clearly in to boys.

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:55, Reply)
If you make it personal I'm sure an exception could be made

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:56, Reply)
i hear she's gota cracking figure

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:42, Reply)
Is it the first mistake you've made in the job? Are they happy with your performance overall? What was your last appraisal like?
If you've been doing well until now it is highly unlikely they will sack you - even though they make money through the web.

Nobody is perfect & it would cost them money and inconvenience them to have to recruit a replacement.

Act a bit "mea culpa" and you should be fine.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 18:48, Reply)
This
also come up with some recommendations to ensure it can't happen again/things you will do differently in future so as not to do it again.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:01, Reply)
Good point.

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:04, Reply)
I tried to start that quiz and my brain melted

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:05, Reply)
Sweet, yeah', just did that. I'm exasorating when I say I'm gonna be sacked, but I bet I pissed off a lot of people today.
=(
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:17, Reply)
This is what I sent
Hi team,

I'm really really sorry about today's fuck up. I'm more than gutted that I made this mistake twice (once locally and once on Live) and it caused us to have 3 or soo hours of down time, especially on a Friday night causing K to have to stay in the office so late, and also for D to have to deal with this while on Holiday (again, on a friday too).

I normally spend about 5 seconds before I click any kind of 'push' / 'pull' buttons, since the last time, and I must have lost concentration this time because I pulled the wrong repo and pushed it all the way to Live. To make sure this doesn't happen again, I'm going to create on my computers sevral copies of HG that only have refference to the right places.

Really sorry for all the hassle it's caused, actually mortifide when I realised what happened. They're no famous acrynims online like 'lol' for 'Sware Out Loud', but that happened quite a few a few times tonight.


Cheers for baring with me tonight and getting the site back up and running the way it should.

- P
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:23, Reply)
Oops
Too excited at the thought of all the cool birthday presents we're going to send you on Monday?

As has been said, you owned up to it immediately, you fixed it, and you said sorry. It inconvenienced people, but they've got the weekend to calm down, and a big treat basket in the office on Monday should help, too. i wouldn't worry too much about it now.

Actually, instead of a treat basket, you could make them some special brownies. then they'd definitely forget all about it.

In other news, I've just been asleep since 4, and I've cricked my neck. I'm going to give up in a minute and go to bed. Man, do I know how to spend a Friday night or what?
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:37, Reply)
I'm so fucking dense, I was walking outside when a bloke and two women who are drinking downstairs, bloke asked me if I like skinny girls, "G'wan, name one skinny girl who's fit?"
So I named a few, and he said "don't you like curvy girls", so I said "I really don't care, as long as they're happy in their own skin. If they're unhappy with their skin, then they need to change something, sometimes it's their weight, sometimes it's their attitude. I'm more concerned that someone's comfortable than the way they look", and the two girls were like "awwwww" and the bloke asked me what he thought about them, so I said "Stunning, seriously...I afraid I gotta run though, if I didn't have a stinking cold i'd join you".
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:54, Reply)
Must be one hell of a cold

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 19:59, Reply)
She's quite pornstar fit too =/

(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 20:16, Reply)

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