many moons ago i worked for a financial firm in Dublin, i was a very new system admin geek…. they had a dealing desk of about 6 dealers and one day doing my ‘routine checks’COUGH i started to mess about with one of the servers that was connected to the main feed of reuters and another bespoke financial software live feed….
10 minutes later blue screen of death, no idea what i had done, no idea how to fix, 6 irrate dealers screaming at me to get the system back up, to this day i still don’t know what happened but the company lost a load of money and we had to call out the cavalry to fix it.
when i was 18 i worked for a small brewery, they used to let me use the forktrucks even though i didnt have a license, one day the main guy was ill so we have a a few lorries from brains turn up for unloading, truck one easy, truck two easy, truck 3…. unloading 2 pallets of 22gal kegs i reversed back hit a pothole the fork truck and the pallets fell over, if this wasnt bad enough it was right infront of the main offices and one of the kegs smashed through the back window of the MD’s 3 weeks old Rover 800.
do i win?