Even More Tales of Technology Terror: Personal Stories of Tech Disaster
From earthquakes to worldwide email disruption to business processes that won't stay dead, we round up personal tales of IT terror.
The IT Man Cometh…Thankfully
Typing in anger leads to careless mistakes—especially if you hit “Enter” too soon. Just ask one of our own, Senior Editor Kim Nash. We’re happy to say her friend survived the scare, but he needed some serious help….
I remember when a friend of mine in California was spewing vitriol about his boss to me, in Massachusetts, via e-mail. Yet he mistakenly addressed the message to said boss—which he realized only upon hitting the “Enter” key. It was after-hours on the East Coast, and my friend, now panicky and more than a bit sweaty, paged his IT manager at home for help.
Can you say, “Desperate to keep my job? Please, please, please?” In those days, the IT manager couldn’t do a thing from his house, so he bundled up, got in his car and motored into the office to obliterate the offending e-mail from the system before his boss opened it the next morning.
That act of human kindness got the IT manager a bottle of fine, fine California wine FedExed to him the very next morning.
Don’t you wish all these stories could have such happy endings?
