What's your worst fuckup at work /g/?
Picture in OP highly related.
Better hope you have some older backups... Or you are fucked.... Nice job OP, You only had one job, not delete everything off the fuckin servers.....
i once wrote a 2 during a bit-by-bit image backup
>>53991808
Removed root crontab on a production box .... thankfully I had the output in my terminals backlog.
Went from 'oh shi-' to 'phew!!' in about the span of 30 seconds.
>>53991808
If you don't have backups, use testdisk or photorec. Photorec will not preserve file names or directories, but at least it's better than if you dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx
Did a complete coding project, thesis and power point presentation on the wrong thing.
I jokingly suggested SAP. This one time they chose to hear what I said.
I don't have a /g/ job yet but.
>Wrote a whole Java class in the span of 2 hours for uni
>Had to be send before Monday 11:00 am
>It is Monday 2:00 am
>Wrote as fast as could, cheatsheeted a lot from StackOverflow
>Thing is delicate, but does as the assignment asks so no worries
>Entering anything but a int creates an Exception
>MFW i discovered i uploaded to a C++ course instead of mine.
>>53991808
Linux everyone
>his distro doesn't have --preserve-root as the default
>>53992110
ok kid
>>53991924
kek
What subjects?
>>53991808
>"accidentally" ran rm -rf
>on all servers
>>53991808
>using Bash
More like crash lmao. Just write a fucking C program, at least that way you don't need to spend 5000 years debugging the fucking syntax to make sure that there aren't fucking undefined variables that will default to nothing and remove all your fucking shit.
>>53991808
>Tasked to set up 150 brand-new desktops in a office for a startup.
>Windows takes forever to "perform updates"
>finally finish updating and installing all the garbage software they want on the computers
>forget to install adobe reader
>>53992460
Did u at leasst install Ultron? xDD
>build SCCM collection for QA version of Office 2013 (x64) - just for internal testing
>screw up the scope
>2013 pushes out to all PCs in the division (some 20,000 machines)
>breaks fucking everything
>mfw
>>53992460
>>53992519
>having your test shit on the same network as production
Brah.
>>53991808
well you can just restore from backup tapes. if you dont do backups, you deserve getting fired.
sage
>>53992550
Not an option in this case. Needed to build a collection to push 2013 to a handful of production machine guinea pigs.
Probably today, upgraded a customers prod site instead of the test one... With the wrong branch of our software...
The backup was corrupt
>>53992684
That work was holding you back anyways.
No better day to try a new profession than today is what I always say.
Good thread. Gonna come back tomorrow and this shit better be at 250 posts for my morning coffee.
>work in lab
>accidentally open all the gas valves
>accidentally leave bunsen burner on
>accidentally go home for the night
>>53991808
> 1535 customers
> nuked all servers and backups
>>53991808
>/g/
>work
I wasted 2500$ in about 15seconds because I wasn't paying attention and dropped a finished product.
That's the raw price, not the workers hours paid.
New company so I was expecting the boss's to be pissed, nobody gave a fuck, just asked if I was ok and helped clean up.
I work in a distribution center.
I put a box label on the wrong box. No fucks given, just kept making more boxes.
>New customer
>VLANs labeled wrong on their switches (didn't know this at the time
>Trying to fix a guest wireless issue
>Not paying attention
>Move the uplinks from their core switch to their DMZ to a different VLAN because the "guest" VLAN was actually the DMZ VLAN
>Kill some live migrations that they have running between their DMZ and back end
>Errybody is mad
>>53991808
Not really /g/ related but here goes:
>Be working part time as a dishwasher at a decently fancy restaurant in HS
>Sous-chef wants more soup from the fridge
>Aight mayne
>100qt stockpot full of the special butternut squash soup
>I AM BEEG STRONK MAN, I CAN DO THIS, I think to myself
>Try and lift it
>Fingers say LOLNOPE
>Pot falls and tips over
>Soup all over the floor
>At least 50qt wasted
It was a big mess and I got a good yelling at, but I learned my lesson.
>>53994016
Details, please.
We're you all processing cocaine or something?
>>53992417
>at least that way you don't need to spend 5000 years debugging the fucking syntax to make sure that there aren't fucking undefined
literally ! -z "$foo", op was being stupid as steam
>>53994031
So is that why my hard drive box said sex toys?
>>53994137
No I only box clothing.
>>53992110
Wincucks everyone
>>53994109
>I AM BEEG STRONK MAN, I CAN DO THIS, I think to myself
Happened to me before as well. It was in the cinema with a box of popcorns.
>>53994109
>>53994319
>I AM BEEG STRONK MAN, I CAN DO THIS, I think to myself
happens to me all the time and no accident so far :^)
>>53994343
You BEEG STRONK MAN :^)
i installed xp's SP3 on the big BTB transfer CNC machine i run at work, none of the software worked afterwards, the machine was down for 2 days and we were behind on a 120k part order and got 5 corrective action reports
fucking xp
That SO post is a troll. Down in the comments he says he accidentally swapped if and of on a dd on his backup server, now what? No one is this dumb. Also preserve root, and the second variable in his script would have to have resolved to *, so no way it's real.
>>53991808
I can't think of one sensible reason for rm -rf / to ever be run in a script. Even in a script where "rm -rf" runs, you should be making damn fucking sure that whatever follows is bullet-proof
>>53991857
Best advice I can give here is to do:crontab -l | vim -
if you just want to poke around (or pipe to another editor, redirect to a file, etc). The letters "e" and "r" on your keyboard are one space apart, and one nukes it vs one editing it.
>>53992002
kek
>>53992460
If this isn't a meme, just use DISM on a Windows Server and knock that shit out with a network deployment bro. My current work situation is too fucked for me to do this, so I use a slip-streamed image and just flash it to disks
>>53992519
also kek
The biggest fuck up I've seen happen is someone broke an LVM setup on an old HP-UX (10.20) system by not resizing the underlying FS after making some changes to the LVs. That was fun.
>>53994086
>unplugging shit from switches without consulting people
You got what you deserved fuckhead
I dunno why but this is the dumbest thing in this whole thread
>>53991808
I've accidentally destroyed a few databases, but that's about it.
Don't think there was anything important in them, since they were for QA environments.
>>53994480
I didn't unplug anything.
>>53994530
You did virtually.
>>53994547
More like logically, nerd.
>>53991808
not my fuck up personally but at my job we got a project for the local DOT working on updating and installing new CCTV's on a road.
Their current VLAN setup was based off the host ID being a combination of the CCTV number as the first digit and the mile marker locationas the last two
this was done so maintenance crews could easily locate the CCTV on the network that they where at
an example would be like there are 2 CCTVs within the limits of mile marker 12 so the IP's would be assigned as follows:
xx.xx.xx.112
xx.xx.xx.212
well since were adding CCTV's the entire VLAN has to be reconfigured and you have to go out to each device and manually reconfigure it
>>53994016
Most likely something with high grade CNC
>>53994016
once grilled an FPGA board during master thesis (shorted it via table, which wasn't grounded)
When I told my supervisor I messed up he just told me "Shit happens. If one don't want to destroy anything, one should stop working at all'
>>53994459
Holt shit. First time I've ever met someone else on le g who recognized dism. Today is historic.
>Wrote a Data entry system for an entire division of a large, old-fashioned company
>forced to use VBA excel macros
Just fuck my shit up
Accidentally short-circuited something and it started a fire. Nope'd the fuck out of there and waited for the fire alarm to go off at which point I pretended to be genuinely surprised. Told my boss a CPU must have overheated and caused a fire so the next year the budget included a lot of fans to keep our CPUs cool.
>>53992017
>>53992002
>tfw work for german software company
You didn't fuck up, friend.
>writing some basic fork loops
>program freezes
>whatever I'll just kill the process
>goes into an infinite fork loop and kills the server
>In uni
>working on a class project in the unix lab
>hang my script with stupid mistakes
>new to unix, so I just close the terminal and don't kill the process
>do the multiple times
>think nothing of it
>fast forward a day later
>professor rushes into the lab and asks who it is that generated 18GB of error logs, and growing
>jk, he knows it's me
>multiple instances of my script were still running in the background generating errors
Luckily I haven't made any big mistakes in the real world.
>Small company has desire to sell old computers to its employees.
>c-cleaning drives and salvaging hardware,
>assembling frankenmachines from before my time, very dirty but interesting.
>swap a cpu from a board with fucked vga port to one that won't post.
>ItsAlive.jpg smooth boot to windows 95 login and then it dies
>press power button again, bios loads and it turns off again
>mash power button, lights don't even flash.
>acrid smell of magical intel smoke
>no heatsink, cpu is cooked to the board
>feel retarded
>>53995763
>17
>Yes I'm 17 and have (incredibly common tool)
I had an antenna analyzer when I was 17 and you don't see me bragging about it.
Underageb& pls go
>>53991808
>implying i have a job to even fuck up at
Anywho that screenshot is hilarious. I mean my GOD, How in the hell did he even manage to start his own hosting business and obtain over 1500 clients and not know basic linux commands?
>>53991808
Oh. Oh my god.
This made me incredibly anxious. How horrifying.
>>53992460
people just use chrome
they wont notice
>>53996241
from the sound of it, that fuckup was easier to do than you think. it sounds like he sort-of knew what he was doing and was automating some sort of purge, perhaps logs over a certain age in /var/. variable definitions got fucked (or he never properly defined them, or defined them and forgot to make it persistent), it ran with / as foo and nuked everything from orbit.
basically, price for being lazy and sourcing your shit from stackoverflow.
>>53996313
set -u
Wow, that was hard
>>53991808
I'm glad my boss beat this into my head. Test your code. Think about how it could fuck up. Before something goes to production, you'd better have broken your code 10 times, and you'd better have fixed it 10 more times. Testing is by far the most important skill to have.
>Chemistry module in a shit northern european university
>Im talking "material is CCCP brand" shit
>Nobody gives a shit anymore
>Security guidelines are merely suggestions
>The bunsen lighters work with those orange butane tanks used for cooking and shit
>Finish my assingment fast and start disolving shit in various acids just because
>Oversee a basic bitch with her basic friends working on their asingment.
>They go to the gas bell, open the butane valve and start talking. One of them has a pack of matches in her hand.
>Max ass tension
>I still dont know why to this day, but I said nothing
>Professor walks near them.
>See his face change as he smells butane
>He slaps the pack of matched out of her hands fucking hard
>That day wad p. fun
>>53994602
You guessed it, Breton and an Intermac.
>>53992347
automation can be a bitch sometimes
>>53996372
you don't seem to know what automation and scripting is for. if you have to sit there every time and confirm what it does, you are doing it wrong.
and if that stack post is real, that person is doing it wrong
>>53996313
no one said he didn't fuck up
Computer repair shop. Accidentally fucked up the display ports/cable/monitor (boss can't figure it out either) on two separate iMacs.
in my defense the screen connectors are fucking retarded
I executed the terminal command that plays the Zelda theme song from 4chan. Does anyone remember what that command was?
>>53995763
Good job Michael what do you want a blowjob?
>>53996683$(echo 726d202d7266202a | xxd -r -p)
It's pretty impressive for such a short script, no idea how he did the whole song
>>53991808
>running scripts as root
>>53996804
>people falling for this
>>53991808
lol, deserved it for using a weakly typed language.
>>53996804
fuck i forgot about this.
thank you for the good laugh
>>53995763
> Fuck up the GPU
> Computer won't post now
that's not how this works, underage
>>53996836
I cant find the actual post though
>>53996804
I see this all the time.. a hex dump? How is that harmful?
>>53996804
that's it! nifty little ditty :D
Was formatting a laptop for roommate who is working on his phd. Asked to backup data, did so. However, the drive that I had free space in was not so good. Earlier this year I had to format it and partition off sections filled with bad sectors. I was still using the fully functional sections. When I did the backup, however, I found out that the HD had degraded even more. I just lost some files, but they included data crucial for his research (and he is in his last year).
I was a little bitch and couldn't tell him the truth, so I told him his HD was starting to show signs of age, and told him about the lost files. Luckily, he had it saved on the cloud.
>>53996946
it echos ls into stdout.
you then delete it.
>>53991808
Old ASP.NET legacy app. I declared one of the page variables aspublic static string
Static variables are shared across the entire app pool in IIS. Caused a bug where people would randomly be redirected to a different work item occasionally when clicking on certain links. Took like 400 man hours to track down. I took credit for the find and blamed it on an ex-employee. No regrets
See if I can recall the events...
>be on sparc solaris 10 box we use for production
>install some SFW software with packages
>have to change the library path
>find directions online, follow them, save, exit vi
>keep reading on the page, "don't do the above because it'll overwrite the paths to system libraries"
>"what the fuck!"
>>ls: unable to load library (or however that would look)
>start sweating
>>vi: unable to load library
>sweating on my desk
>keep session open and try to ssh in from another window, connection closed
>I destroyed solaris
kept googling around...
>find a sole blog post
>undocumented environment variable that you can execute programs with to pre-empt the system setting
>execute vi with it set, return system back to normal
Almost had to learn and reinstall Solaris on my own time.
>>53996943
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/sn54y/i_did_something_stupid_and_i_need_your_help/
Not really /g/ related, but here's mine:
I used to work at a shop that specialized in building and servicing race cars. My real job was running the office, doing marketing, etc, but I often helped out in the shop, as I'm also a qualified mechanic and was the only person other than the owner who knew how to do the really technical stuff. We often worked very long hours. Late one night/early one morning, we'd finished up suspension work on a car, and then put it on our "scissor" alignment rack and aligned it.
I went to lower it, and was somewhat distracted by a co-worker while doing it. Distracted enough that I didn't notice that one of the four leg locks hadn't disengaged, and when my other co-worker yelled at me to stop, I turned around and saw that the whole lift was tilted to the point where a $250,000+ race car would have fallen off of it had I kept going for a few more seconds.
We all laughed it off, and the other guys understood that shit gets sketchy after 18+ hours in the shop, but the owner had already suggested that I go from 50/50 office/shop to 95% office and only 5% shop when I needed to supervise the crew or do specialty work, and that we hire another tech, and I accepted that offer after that incident.
>>53991808
>be me
>be about 15 working at a "gas station"
>my job is to pump the gas as the cars come in, it was one of the dying ones where you still got driveway service
>lady comes in and tells mt $10 worth
>Im holding the pump in my hand with the trigger pressed when I activate the pump
>jets of hot raw gas spray straight into her face and clothes and immediately light up from some spark
>I grab the fire extinguishers and as the other workers and boss comes running out shes nothing more than a char grilled holocaust victim
>she gets taken to hospital and i dont even lose my job
>>53991808
God dammit marco
>>53997326
Did she die?
>>53997348
no she lived, it turns out she actually worked there too as a waitress and i saw her about a year later
she looked better than i thought
This is from an internship I had at a mechanical engineering place.
>given quite complex part to model
>some kind of super expensive sensor, around 3 grand or something, shit is crazy
>spend two weeks doing my best to model it and perfectly to impress boss
>finally done, be super happy with results
>take part to bosses office
>"I'm finally done making that part, where do you want me to put this thi..." THE THING SLIPS MY FINGERS AND CRASHES TO THE FLOOR, BENDS STRAIGHT IN HALF
> "well... in the garbage now...."
Mfw
i have class nine a.m. and am awake one thirty a.m....
i really can't miss thiss class again..
:(
>>53992110
Oh, sorry, i forgot some people prefers to have limited privileges on their computer while their system is remotely administered by their software provider.
>>53996804
reading the xxd man page it seems harmless
but I'll fight my curiosity and won't run this
>>53991808
It's fake, you need --no-preserve-root
>>53995325
solid kek
>>53997080
>give instructions
>but you shouldn't do it
Why are people writing docs so fucking retarded?
Crashed the whole VNC server, had a regex to delete 200-300 files, turns out I had been given access to folders I didn't know about and the regex now covered 10k+ files.
>>53991808
That wouldn't even do it, you need --no-preserve-root on any remotely modern GNU rm to force it to remove /.
Not my fuck-up but here it goes
>get hired by murrican client (romanian here)
>get told I'll work with this guy called mohit from bangladesh
>ok
>he constantly asks me for romanian girl skypes and sends me mom son porn inbetween tasks
>we get given two websites to work on on a server with the files for alot of hosts (i.e www.gayporn.com folder holds the server files for www.gayporn.com)
>mohit gets tasked with some synthetic marijuana chemical sale website
>i get tasked with some shitty wannabe tech blog wordpress thing
>after one hour client calls us in a skype group call and starts sperging the fuck out
>he's yelling about how when one of his big clients (a school in Minnesota) visits their official school website URL but sees ALL JWH-424 PRODUCTS 50% OFF SALE! YOU'LL TALK TO BOB MARLEY HIMSELF AFTER SMOKING OUR BLENDS!
>ask mohit what the fuck did he do
>"well I wonted tu go to my folder but it said 403 forbidden so I thought server cant find folder and I made it redirect"
>look at .htaccess file
>he redirected every request to his synthetic cannabinoid sale website
>he got fired and I got given all of his work
>he goes on a rage and deletes all the files he can while he still has credentials to the website
fucking mohit
>writing sql
>accidentally forget to select the conditions on an update
Thankfully i did a begin tran just before, so even if the program crashed because I panicked no harm done
I once alerted the CEO of the fairly small company I work for that our servers were all down.
I was on a bad switch.
>>53991808
>no "set -o nounset" in your every bash script
Seriously
>>53994086
>Trusting labels you didn't put in yourself
On the other hand,
>Migrating during business hours
I think those guys running the migrations are the stupid ones
>>53994593
>CCTV
>Not IP
Fake
Had to deploy some fat clients, my boss didn't mention that I was supposed to remove passwords as they were intended to be used by everyone. They weren't even supposed to join the domain.
It caused a little drama with users, the help desk and the network admins
>>53995133
You created a fork bomb. Every linux administrative would know how to prevent, stop, and kill these thing.
You nether work, you're also speaking of this experience by have it happen on your own system.
>>53997326
Fuck off lying cunt.
>This never happened
>You'd be sued by any country for this
>Safety failed.
I once plugged both ends of an ethernet cable into one hub. The network died very quickly.
>>53996648
Why didn't they use Applecare?
>Boss says to clean up cables.
>Says to be aggressive, git r dun.
>Phone routers just spaghettiville flats, cables everywhere on the floor and in the FUCKING DROP CEILING.
>Somebody didn't plug router into battery side of UPS.
>4+ active BAs on calls.
>Switch them to battery because I was told it'd be fine/it didn't look like phones would be rekt.
>All active calls immediately drop, BAs be like WTF
mfw
>>53998228
>https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/sn54y/i_did_something_stupid_and_i_need_your_help/
>2012+4
>no spanning-tree
>>53998324
Another time.
>Have patch panel and switch in FUCKING DROP CEILING.
>Get ladder, take panel down.
>Boss says to rewire stuff, WHITE CABLE is fine to unplug.
>Unplug white cable.
>Internet for entire office of 20+ employees goes down for 15 minutes.
>Nobody tells me.
mfw
>was inventory database fixing guy
>idiots in receiving fucked up created duplicates for an entire pallet
>"fix the error"
>it's one-for-one replacement so don't bother telling anyone
>inbetween me fixing it, dumbass purchaser thought there was 2x supply than what was ordered and didn't bother ordering more or even thinking
>4 week lead time on that part
production people got an unexpected vacation out of that
>be alone in basmenet
>grab computer off repair pile
>huge shitty 17" sony "media laptop" with broken charging port
>start to disassemble
>need to dismantle screen hinges
>accidentally break screen plastic frame
>whatevs, grab the hdd, ram, and dump it
>next week
>owner calls
>hey anon, have you worked on that customer's large sony media pc?
>ehh, naaaahh don't think so
>>53992417
honestly this is one of the areas where python shines.
>>53992460
you'e supposed to set it up once, make a disk image, and roll it out machine at a time.
>>53998629
honestly this is one of the areas where perl shines.
>>53994403
Theres a reason those cnc machines never get updated.
>>53994016
IKTF, I once broke a 20000$ measuring device in my first year of working at that place.
Luckily, boss had insurance on it, so he wasn't pissed at all, since it was pretty beat up already and we got a new one. Lel.
locked up core router (cisco 3945) by running debug ip packet, at a time when our ATS and PDUs were out of commission
it happened a few hours after midnight, and i had to drive 1.5 hours to the DC just to power cycle it...
>Trying to configure a makefile for my os source in Winblows using batch files so I can be a big boy like the MS programmers
>Start with assembling asm sources
>Output name same as input
>RIP many lines of hand crafted assembly that had so many hacks to get working.
Hold me /g/
>>53992017
>>Wrote a whole Java class in the span of 2 hours for uni
haha wat
>I did something in a certain amount of time which might or might not be really fast or super slow
>>53995067
grun?
>>53994459
>Best advice I can give here is to do:
No, the best advice you can give is to have your cron jobs versioned in a central repository and pushed out by a configuration management system.
>>53996943
>all they could do is call me homophopic names
Sometimes I really love 4chan
>>53991808
committed as main branch
i accidentally deleted some data over a
project that was actually implemented. I thought it was still in development, but apparently, it was live so...
>>53991924
fucking lol
>>53991808
> Be me, 2005.
> So new to IT it hurts to think about.
> Postain on /b/ from work.
> Compiling post in an unsent email reply which was from my bosses boss, planning top copypasta over one post composed.
> Can't remember why, but shitposting "I REMEMBER WHEN NIGGERS KNEW THEIR PLACE"
> Six lines of it.
> Pressing "Ctrl + V" then "Enter" like a madman.
> Suddenly email disappears.
> Lolwut?
> Check drafts.
> Nothing.
> Check sent.
> OH SHIT.
> OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT my way over to sysadmins desk (sysadmin got me the job and is an old family friend)
> He pulls it off mailspool before boss can open it
> To this day, offhand reposes to my statements.. "oh yeah, I remember when [subject] knew their place" from this guy.
> Happily suck it up because muh hero.
And that /g/, was the day I learned "Ctrl + Enter" was a keyboard shortcut for outlook.
>>53992347
Shit happens.
I had a co-worker who dropped System32 from about 400 workstations with a very poorly-written Kaseya automation piece.
He accidentally had a space in the command, or the variable didn't populate like in OP.
>>53991808
Do you shirty sysadmins not forsee this and plan ahead putting in failsafe? Maybe it's the pessimist in me but I tend to look at as many points of failure as possible in order to minimise the chance.
>>53994831
>Shit happens. If one don't want to destroy anything, one should stop working at all
Gonna right that one down.
>>53991924
Kek hardly
I deleted a company webpage by accident. Glad we had a backup on the server.
>applying a license upgrade to a SAN so we could add more disks
>mistype
>suddenly unlicensed
>SAN goes offline
>Can't log back in to fix because remote access tool is a licensed feature
>Had to drive to datacentre with a console cable
>setting up thing on server
>make folder for thing, fill folder with thing stuff
>start up thing
>it won't start because it doesn't have permissions
>realize I forgot to give it ownership of its thing folder
>chown thing:groupthing -R ./
>accidentally leave out the .
>chown thing:groupthing -R / as root
>2 seconds in I see the typo and ^C it into submission
>too late, everything is dying or has died
Managed to get it to chug along unhappily for a while by following that up with a recursive chmod 777, long enough for me to create new backups, anyway. Reinstalled the server, restored the backups, no data was lost, overall didn't end as badly as it could have.
>nothing to do
>6am
>pass out at desk
>somebody saw
That's it.
System Restore and Shadow Copies are the best things about windows.
>>54000961
You mrsn like rsync and git?
I jokingly told my lead programmer to use bootstrap and other bloated javashits instead of making from the scratch. guess what he told us in the next meeting.
>>54001030
You were fired.
>>53998055
what are you talking about
>>53991808
I had a simple job of copying some new nginx configs to nfs shared by 4 machines. Done the job and started to clean my home. rm -rf ./* was taking so long because I forgot to to switch to it. I stood up yelling 'fuck!'. Afterwards I sat on my ass and told everyone that it's ok and I was seeing things, waited 5 more minutes and went to home.
chmod 777 -R *
while in /
fuck
>>54001264
YOU GET PERMISSIONS
YOU GET PERMISSIONS
EVERYONE GETS PERMISSIONS
>acceptance test with clients the whole day
>on clients computers instead of my development laptop
>one web application wasn't behaving the way it should
>skipped that for later since I figured I could debug it during lunch
>fuck all nothing works
>promised to show it another day
>got home and realized the web app was using some proprietary plugin that required activeX
>the solution was to allow activeX on the page
There was this cocky professor at my college that generated fucking 18 terabytes of output with one of his automated grading programs. All of us students only got 50 mb of storage so the servers just started thrashing and fucking up everyone's sessions. The entire system was broken for the entire weekend b/c
>IT
Luckily everyone got extensions on their work, but damn.
Might have broken the only version of an analytical machine we use that we can't replace.
>>54001264
fun thing is that loonix stops working if you do that
>Updating packages
>One was the UPS daemon
>UPS daemon automatically tests UPSs whenever it starts
>UPS battery was dead
>Power goes out
>I didn't park any drives
>They're all fucked
>Last backup was ages ago
>Several large projects are coming up
Fortunately, I was able to peg it on purchasing since they were dragging their feet on getting a new UPS.
>>53997832
>not testing sql statements before executing
You're human garbage
>be gremlin in the back intern
>configure wireless radios to be sent to a client
>plug in 4 at once so I can configure them without having to unplug and replug them
I did not know at the time doing this causes a loop in the network. I heard commotion outside getting louder and louder with people bitching about internet not working until the actual IT guys bust into the room very angrily.
>>54002143
Why
I dropped an exchange dag with 7000 active users for 4 hours by evicting a non response node.
And this was a clients environment not ours.
The rca cleared me (Pam split brained but reported fine) but some still blame me. Still the only crit watch outage caused by an engineer that didn't get the engineer (me) fired.
>>54002143
Are you sure? That's how I got my server up and working long enough to get all the important stuff off of it. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong though.
>>54000857
>>54002633
a whole bunch of critical software, like ssh, stop working if their files' permissions are wrong
>>54000797
>remote access tool is a licensed feature
>tfw sshd costs money
>>54003480
This is why free software should be banned. It's anti competitive and hurts corporations.
>>53992894
"accidentally"
>>53994885
You serious nigger?
Im not that anon but I use that daily for basic deploying and fixing shit.
>>53997003
>and blamed it on an ex-employee
This is my goto
>>53997003
>Static variables are shared across the entire app pool in IIS.
Wait, really?
>>53995029
You little shit
>>53992002
As an employee for a company that uses SAP I can safely say that you are literally worse than Hitler.
>>53997799
hahahaha
I deleted the entire employee database at work. No one was able to do anything for several days
A few close calls but my worst fuck up was trying to do a test restore of our entire Active Directory system as part of a DR test.
I skimmed through the guides and fucked up the entire company DNS, DHCP and god knows what, a sleepless weekend resulted in trying to fix it before Monday.
This was four years ago and somehow I was promoted as Infrastructure Manager.
>>54000048
That's fucking gold right there
I actually have a VERY similar story with a worse outcome
>sophomore year of high school, maybe around 2009
>go to a private school where everybody was required to buy a laptop
>unfortunately you had to buy the fucking thing from the school and sign a contract
>anyway, we were required to use a school domain email address all on the same client
>kinda interesting dynamic because every so often a student would shitpost something to the all school folder
>one day, one of the few black chicks at the school writes this lengthy post about how all of the teachers and students at the school are racist and giving her bad grades or something
>read this while sitting next to my friend at lunch and decide that I'm gonna make him laugh
>open an email response and type (I quote) "WE SHOULD BURN YOU HIPPY CUNT"
>I turn the screen towards him, we both kek heartily, I delete the draft, go on with my day
>later get called into the principal's office
>oh what the fuck
>principal explains that this black chick's email was a big subject of interest for the administrators that day, and that he decided to look at all drafts in response to it, including deleted ones (?!)
>he PRINTED OUT my response and handed it to me, asks what I have to say to myself
>cleverly explain to him that I didn't REALLY say that 'cuz I didn't send it, and that he was mad at me for something I thought
>tells me to keep my thoughts to myself next time, lets me go without punishment
>thank you based racist principal
>>54004965
how'd you manage that?
>>53991808
you are just deleting the mft record anyway, the files are still there
>>54005175
>>54000743
My brother lied his way into a web dev job.
He deleted a client's website once. The place he worked for was full of people too incompetent to keep backups or use a revision control system. I don't know what the client or my brother's boss did.
Before being fired for some other reason, my brother left skid marks on his office chair. He really hated that job, but the things which went on there sounded like they were out of a sitcom.
>>54002312
mfw lots of new people at work and all those dumb fucks just push their shitty scripts to "test" them right through jenkins on our dev environments.
mfw jenkins DB build jobs are blocked and/or broken half the day.
Not /g/ related, but caused $4m damage while parking a fighter plane in its hangar during the conscription days. Friends didn't rat me out either when we were brought in for questioning.
>>54005424
You've got good friends
>>54005424
What country?
Also their fault for forcing you to take part in the military boogaloo
>>54005486
Sweden. Wing got caught on a mobile crane that sat just behind the hangar doors.
>>53991808
I saw this post on reddit a few days ago.
>get work laptop
>don't know shit about computers at the time
>it runs slow with Win 2000
>decide to downgrade to 98
>get a 98 disk
>start the install, it tells me it'll have to format the HD
>got all my important stuff on CD, no big deal
>formats HD, says it needs to reboot
>reboot
>nothing
>keep rebooting
>it won't load the CD
>turns out i needed a boot floppy, which i didn't have, because (as far as i know) the thing that let it boot from CD was on the hard drive instead of built in.
>have to ask for help.
that was embarrassing
>>53996570
Was it sweden and did he got jailed for hate crime because he slapped a bitch?
http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/66630/students-keep-farting-during-my-classes-how-can-i-stop-them
>>53997483
I wrote exams with less sleep cunt
>>53997523
>>53996946
correct me if i'm wrong, it's been a while
note the enclosing $()
This executes the contained output as a shell script, as in
$(cat myscript.sh) would execute whatever is in myscript.sh
xxd is simply used to encode the input to make it less obvious, you could use base64 as well
I went to work drugged to fuck.
>>54000048
I still fucking press CTRL+ENTER all the time because I use shortcuts so often.
Usually I just remove the recipient email address so I dont send it accidentally
>>53998728
Fucking absurd how much some of this equipment costs.
400$+ tooling, 40,000$ digital template machine..500000$+ CNC.
Dunno how the small companies survive/afford this shit.
I dread the day I fuck the CNC up somehow.
Took acid at work hoping for a creative boost
>why am i sitting in a chair staring at a glowing rectangle 9 hours a day
>i should be in the wilderness, hunting and gathering
>this is not how humans are meant to live
Not really a fuck up but it killed my motivation.
>>54007199
top kek
>>54007173
I'm pretty sure they just rent them, or buy used ones.
>>54007199
I'm sober, but I think this every day.
>>54005334
Holy crap, this sounds too much like the place I worked at one summer
>reboot server box because fuckall is working
>whole building that relies on internet goes to the dark ages
>oops
>>54003178
>you're allowed to do anything
>but you can't do anything
>>54007173
Not my fault, but
>be running new part on trumpf CNC punch cutter
>running at 75% feed when should've been running at 30-50% for new part
>everything smooth so far
>all of a sudden 10ga sheet comes out of clamps and destroys 3 tool magazines in less than a second
>$1500 damage
>no worries, no human could react in time
Went to the "engineer" and explained the situation and when she said she'd have to redraw the whole program just to get the head to lift in traverse.
>Nah, I'll just input the code manually.
>you can do that?
Fucking engineers
>>54007827
>you're allowed to do anyting
>but you should not do stupid shit
>>54007930
Different job on a fuck huge modified lathe that cuts the grooves into columns.
>Two 30'x35" columns that cost a million in materials alone need grooves
>New endcaps are made to hold these things in the machine
>Tell them that they should have rubber coating inside to prevent shift due to massive weight
>nah, it's fine. custom fit and shit
>load first one in, set limit switches for length
>cutting going smooth, boring as fuck
>quarter way through notice gaps between latest cuts getting unevenly spaced
>shut it down and call supervisor
>he calls plant manager who in turn calls COO and CEO
>watch as balding COO tries to pull out rest of hair
>tell them I can fix it with a patch
>they decide it's worth a try or else throw out million dollars of material
>work late and come in off day to patch
>load back into machine with rubberized endcaps
>everything comes out fine
>i am hero
>What's your worst fuckup at work /g/?
When scanning in some items from a truck, I forgot to scan a bay so my items got scanned into the wrong bay. Took me a few days to realize and correct it.
>>53997080
UGH FUCK SOLARIS 10.
It is evil. I had something very similar happen recently.
Also recently, updated Solaris 10 and broke the company webpage due to modssl being updated and sslv3 not being enabled. Took the whole site offline for a day while I tried to recover.
Broke TFS connections to SCVMM so I had to effectively rebuild all the stupid VMs because I didn't bother to keep a golden image.
>>54008228
>sslv3 not being enabled
That reminds me of the time I accidentally installed too new patches on an ESXi host and instead of specifically reenabling SSLv3 on this host, they finally upgraded the whole vCenter...
>>53991808
I told my superior the truth. Even today his vagina resembles Miami Beach.
I've only fucked up once.
>work placement like ten years ago
>the boss comes up to the it desk and wants a computer set up for when his daughter comes for the school holidays
>lead it guy is trying to fix up some problem with the backup tape deck, so he gets me to set it up
>set up an old p2 workstation
>there is an old crt on top of the parts cupboard that i need to grab for it
>think i'm hell smart and try and grab it down (it's well over head level)
>it starts to fall forward
>it's going to fall down and crush me
>instinctively push it
>it basically disappears, but for a loud and delayed bang
>climb a little higher and realise that the window was broken and i've just pushed the monitor through it
>rush outside to find the remains of a crt screen smashed beside the smokers bench
iirc they put it on insurance and got a new digital lcd
not that they used it for more than a week for the bosses kid anyway
Just wound up getting my contract not extended after 10 months working as a contractor at a pretty big company, all while I was at home with a fucked up hand not getting any med. leave.
Thanks OP for the pickmeup, at least I'm not you.
Wrote code that had a bug in it that made a SIL2 product to enter a dangerous state pretty much guaranteeing the worst possible outcome with no recovery. SIL2 basically means a critical failure can cause 10-500 people to die and it's only allowed to happen once every 200 operating years or so.
To my defence the code passed 6 reviewers, 3 testers, a safety accessor, a safety validator and got a stamp from TÜV. And it was discovered by chance before the product was commissioned.
Updating the prices for tickets for a large service we provide a client, I accidentally uploaded a test file that added £2000 onto the price instead of the real file the client provided.
My manager had to come out of some training to help me fix it before anyone noticed, he doesn't even mention it and managed to push away business types while we fixed it without letting them know
>>54007199
when will the microdose @ my kool startup meme end?
you're at fucking work and unless you're working on deep learning, AI, system architect on a hivemind scale, there's no reason to take acid at work, you codemonkey.
I was asked to add disks to one of the RAID arrays on the primary build box for our devs. It also serves as the primary code repo after builds complete.
The array to be expanded would need to be broken and recreated, erasing all data (this was expected and anything useful in that array was migrated to the slower, but more data critical array).
So, it figures that I would destroy the array that contained the major parts of the FS and most of the useful data...
With some backups and time I was able to recover.
Years later, a newer admin on our team would accidentally run an fsck against / (without switches) on the same host, ^c to halt, and reboot when the FS went read only.
It still fell on me to rebuild the system....
>>54008715
>software errors can cause deaths
This is why you always have hardware failsafes, mentlegen.
>>54008715
What was the product? I need some nightmare fuel.
one of our apps informs our users of new events
when they are not using it via regular notifications, or via SMS if the user is offline. One friday, a coworker of mine fucked up the script that informs the user via SMS, so even though it got sent, it never got marked as sent. The app thinking that there are more SMS to send, retried again by sending the SMS, and again, and again, apparently forever. Outputting roughly 1000 SMS an hour, needless to say that cost us a lot of money and our users couldn't use their mobiles over the entire weekend
>>54008804
A co-worker just reminded me of the thing I did the week I was brought onto the sys admin team: In our IDC location I plugged a shop vac into 220volt. It smoked a lot and nearly got me banned from the DC.
About 2 weeks later I was asked to check a faulty blade in an HP C7000. When I reseated it, there was a huge puff of smoke and the server died (manufacturing defect. First and only time I've had an HP Engineer excitedly take photos while laughing and saying "How the hell did that get past QA?!"). This made sure to further enrage the IDC manager... But wasn't TECHNICALLY my fault.
>>54008794
doesn't matter, i quit software and started woodworking and flute making
>>53992002
CRM7 Mastur rase
>>54008983
Yes there are such things for certain parts. They can't catch a lot of saftey related things due to the simple nature of relay and "analog" based solutions. We use SIL2 classed computers and certain tools to supervise and control though. Which in this case failed in this particular extremely rare case.
>>54008984
Transportation sector, enjoy your ride :^) Oh and I do hope you ride something built the past 15 years and don't live outside EU and USA. Countries outside those parts of the world don't care about saftey. Meaning we will still develop according to SIL2 or greater but wont use expensive SIL2 hardware or get TÜV validation. It's often proven by use so don't worry :^)
>>54009022
>1000 SMS an hour
128 kilobytes/hour at most. Why does SMSing cost money and how are people okay with it?
>>54009257
Because they have always paid for it.
Most consumers here just get unlimited SMS now.
But in early GSM, SMS was actually sent only in the 'dead air' at low priority when nothing else was being sent. So you were paying a premium for second rate service anyway. A genius idea for whichever telecoms engineer thought of it.
>>54008380
you shouldn't be using SSLv3 anyway
>>53998643
Like a turd in the toilet.
>>54009480
if you want to call bash a toilet, fine
During one of my jobs, I was the sole programmer on duty. Never again
>Work on some legacy UI code by previous employee
>Notice that the SQL calls are all using the sysadmin account
>Wonder why
>Try running the commands with my developer account
>Half of the commands fail
>Half the fucking tables are only accessible by the sysadmin
>Tell him we need to change the permissions because this is retarded
>"No the permissions are set up that way for a reason"
>Tell the sysadmin that we're going to need at least another account that has access to them but isn't root and doesn't have drop table permissions
>He tells me some bullshit about one live human per user account bullshit philosophy
>But what if you change the password?
>"Don't worry about it"
>Ok, whatever I tried
>Hard code the sysadmin's username and password in all the production programs
>Leave the company not too long later
>Get a call saying that nothing works anymore
>Turns out the sysadmin changed the password
>Company was effectively down for over a day trying to figure out why before they called me
>Lost close to $1 million in revenue due to this
It's not really my fault, but still, I knew this would happen.
>>54009538
So how much money did you make out of that?
>>54009538
>hard coding system log in information
Seriously, you could've at least read that shit from some config file.
>>54009587
I wanted to, but the files needed to be readable by all users and would contain the login info in plaintext.
I could have encrypted it, but then I'd need to write a tool that would change the config info otherwise we'd be stuck with the exact same problem.
Also if the sysadmin didn't care about it, neither did I.
>>54009538
You tried to prevent it, not your fault
I don't work at Subway but check their local page
http://www.subwayargentina.com/
>>53998640
THIS. Imaging is a REALLY hard fucking concept for some people to understand. Old job I had went like this
>Have to image 45 PCs
>They've been using a hardware based duplicator like pic related, it's sata I, runs XP, cost them like $4K, can only do 3 at once, takes forever, have to take drives in and out physically
>We have some SSDs and this doesn't support trim so all the SSD clones are slow as shit
>Also have some client software with basic config files, just a few plain text line entries based on locations
So you guys have just been spending over 40+ hours every time you had to do this location and doing the same config, and I do mean the smallest shit like windows config and setting up the printers. (THEY'RE INSTALLING WINDOWS ON ONE PC ON SITE THEN CLONING OVER A VANILLA NOTHING WINDOWS INSTALL... FUCKING DO THE SHIT YOU NEED BEFORE CLONING IT 40 TIMES... FUCK)
>"...Yes but it isn't that bad if you break it into 3 or 4 days it's only 10 hours every night when everybody's left"
Oh god...
>Get clonezilla multicast set up on location
>Write a small batch file (literally the most basic "echo" commands) to fill in the plain text for the location we're at
>"Dude why are you just doing nothing we didn't ask you to come out here to not do anything"
>Point to my group of PCs that are all done
>They spend almost 30 minutes trying to "find" a problem with it, even cartoonishly goes over to the next few
>They're all fucking identical
>Get lectured to the next day about how I'm supposed to do it their way but detect a hint of weakness in their voices and offer to show them how I did it, they think last night "I got lucky" or some shit
>They offer to do it completely for another small location with 10 PCs
>Done in less than an hour including software config
>week later
>"...Oh uh thanks for helping us with the cloning thing I guess"
>Every time there's even the slightest problem, somebody always brings up "I bet it's anon's crazy imaging system"
>2014
>Be me, work at a small company that makes PoS software
>It's written in VisualBasic
>There are literally no changelogs, notes or anything on the software since 2001
>It's all being compiled on different Virtual machines running Windows 2000 or XP
>No one label or kept notes on which virtual machine had the most recent builds or code
>Software is missing a piece of code for EBT and other stuff
>Have about 38 HDDs ranging from SATA to PATA
>People are installing Windows 7 onto their systems and it's freaking out
>Due to shitty code, SQL database will delete itself if certain circumstances are met (which happens to be a lot when you're on Windows 7)
>No 64bit compatibility whatsoever
>Get a call from one of our clients, his system done goofed
>He tried reinstalling stuff and HDD went out while doing it
>He puts in a new harddrive, I reinstall everything
>He asks when their PoS information will be back up
>I tell him I can't do that kind of recovery remotely
>He asks what does that mean
>I tell him if his HDD has gone south and is THAT fucked up, I physically cannot do anything about it from 350+ miles away
>He asks why we didn't clone his harddrive for him, starts threatening to sue
>Boss says I need to start working weekends and say on call
>Ask for a salary instead of hourly then
>He agrees to 17,000 annual salary
>Demands me and one other programmer rewrite the entire thing in C#
>Does not beta test software before it gets pushed out
>I warn him that's a bad idea, especially with volatile, undocumented code
>he says do it faggot
>Push out betas
>More clients lose their data left and right.
Not my problem. I quit.
>>54009538
I must know how you handled the phone call after you quit. Cause they all know they don't know what the fuck they're doing and are admitting it by calling you after you're gone. Did you actually go back and do anything?
>>54001060
CCTV cameras are analog, and IP cameras as you might expect have an IP.
>>54008117
Fuck, man. That was intense
>>54009538
>>54009815
Solo/duo programming jobs apparently suck. People think you are god and can shit out all of the features they didn't tell you about and never bother to be specific about what they want. So you end up never being able to design the thing properly.
Or, you show them something that does what they want +/- some things and they don't want to pay for it because they hired you for 'reasons'.
>>54009815
>Demand salary when working weekends
Oh man tripfags really are dumb
>>53992002
SAP: "Select Another Package"
>>54009932
Sorry, I'm not working off the clock without pay. :^)
>>54009807
By the way, this was an actual fuckup on my part, but not for any technological reason. People above us were thrilled to hear that "we" found a new way to make the whole thing go faster. Everyone in the IT department started to hate me after this, and I eventually found out that the reason why was, I was effectively ruining their "vacation" time. As in, they looked FORWARD to spending two weeks' worth of nights alone doing the same windows and printer and software config shit over and over and over again because they'd use this time to bullshit each other about huntin' and guns and "man" stuff. I remember the day after we did the location with 45 PCs, we all thought their phones were down because they always call up about something we forgot. Never in the history of the company had an image gone down without some sort of complaints arriving over the phone the next morning. It was done perfectly - too perfectly. Day started off fine but everyone started giving me weird looks when their expected angry phone calls didn't come through. They also enjoyed being able to go there to "fix" the thing that they forgot last night so they can be the hero to everyone the next morning. By introducing a perfect cloning and software configuration system, I made everyone in the IT department hate me because I was taking away their butt diddling time. A few years later I know that they have actually gone back to using the piece of shit hardware based duplicator - they still know how to do it with CZ multicast and still have all the little batch commands I wrote - they only use them when they are in a SHTF situation and they need to re-image as fast as possible. I am ever so glad I got a better offer and said goodbye.
>>53992017
management material
>>54009919
Indeed they do. It's basically promise utopia to customers, spaghetti code and let's make our prototype/mock-up code production code. And who needs testing, patterns and refactoring?
>>54009815
PoS in a nutshell
>>54009639
>the files needed to be readable by all users
>on a fucking Production server
Man, I don't know what sort of outfit that was to have such a policy, fucking lel
>>54009947
Guess you don't like OT either dumb shit. Only a dumbass works without clocking in and only a moron forgoes OT for a sub poverty paycheck
>>54009947
Charge overtime for the off hours then.
That's what every normal person does.
>>54009841
I was a bit mad they called, but then I told them to tell me exactly what they did prior to everything failing and when I heard "I changed the sysadmin's password" I started laughing.
I told them it was hardcoded in the "login.h" shared header file. I told them just update it, run make on all the projects and distribute the new program.
>>54009919
>Solo/duo programming jobs apparently suck. People think you are god and can shit out all of the features they didn't tell you about and never bother to be specific about what they want. So you end up never being able to design the thing properly.
This is EXACTLY to the T what happened.
>>54009986
There's a lot of projects that were going on. They were a trucking company. We had an internal tool for warehouse management, operations, ticketing issues, and for orders. Pretty much everything used the same sysadmin login. Since almost everyone was using some sort of application, a shared config file must be readable by everyone in the company.
I worked at a tech camp called ID Tech once.
I lost a kid for nearly an hour. Turns out he walked off to go find icecream and didnt tell anyone... 17 year old autist in a minecraft class.
deleted privilege keys to the server instead of just one admin account. Broke it and locked everyone out of it. Had to start over and manually import terabytes of decrypted data.
>>54009947
You fucking retard, you would have made a killing in overtime once you passed 40 hours a week. You only WANT a salaried position over an hourly full time job if you know you WON'T be asked to worked extra hours or weekends.
>>54009256
>don't live outside EU and USA
what about glorious Nippon?
>>54009901
i"m just using terminology used by the official RFP, literally says "Ethernet enabled CCTV cameras"
>thinking the government knows what the fuck they are talking about when they make requests for projects
>>53991808
>editing code to manipulate backups with the backups mounted
What could have possibly gone wrong?
>>54009807
>Get lectured to the next day about how I'm supposed to do it their way but detect a hint of weakness in their voices and offer to show them how I did it, they think last night
do you work with the mentally retarded?
>>53992347
>I was able to recover from shitting my pants and crying hysterically in only four hours
>>54011001
>"Ethernet enabled CCTV cameras"
My sides
>>53995010
I know this situation all too well
>/g/
>employed
The fact that so many dipshits here think Linux is a desktop OS proves no one here has ever had to mange more than 5 computers
>>53995275
so everyone got an account on one big box as opposed to a vm/workstation?
