Re: Accidentally Lost Data

Booth Martin wrote:

I once saw a dump truck driver dump his load without releasing his tailgate. When the dump body went over-center, the truck reared up on its back two wheels and then the frame bent in half and the front two wheels dropped to the ground. Someone said that that was one ever-so-fired truck driver and his boss said "No WAY. That guy will never make that mistake again, and I'll be damned if I'll let another outfit gain the benefit of this training!"

So, I betcha this department, including the dude or dudette, will be more careful about Ooops Planning from now on. As to the $225,000... hey, its money into the local economy, right? A good thing. And its certainly not a major amount of money, especially with $2.30 gasoline.

Pete Helgren wrote:

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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