Re: Accidentally Lost Data

gee - if everyone should be fired after a big mistake -who would be left?
Try some proper training, proper documentation & labelling, etc.
In my early days I brought a system or two down while we restored files.
Watched an IS Director giving a tour point to a System 34 and depressed
the "Load" button. Hour or two to come back up.Nobody fired her.
Fire the "incompetent" and train the rest.
jim franz

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Accidentally Lost Data

No.  That is the difference between working for a public entity,
probably protected by a public employee union and civil service laws,
and a private company.

Employment for life, regardless of performance ......

Pete Helgren


Rich Loeber wrote:

Oh, and here's my favorite part:

Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one got into trouble for the

     incident.

"Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no

     witch hunt," Corbus said.

I guess that's the difference between working for a company and working for the people.

Rich
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Rich Loeber wrote:

Hard to believe there was only one backup tape.

It is clearly a case of bad policy and bad implementation. I wonder if the good citizens of Alaska know about this? And, why is it only getting publicity now when

it happened in July?

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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Jim Franz wrote:

What's missing in their budget request is a better backup & recovery
system...
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Loeber" <rich@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:11 PM
Subject: Accidentally Lost Data

Hello list.

There is an interesting article on cnn.com today.  Worth a look.

       http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com

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