The biggest mistake I ever made...
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2022
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Tbh, you should make more MattKC stories. I bet many people can agree with this.
As someone who has almost done the exact same thing in your position i said “just ask” as soon as you said “just ask.” Learned that lesson once and have retained it since lol!
Working with IT stuff, I have had many very similar “onosecond” moments. One time, during my first week of being on the new database system team at work, I accidentally replaced the OCR field of an entire document database with blanks. Wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that it was for 7
If there is one thing, I have learned as a programmer, its to never just delete, always move and wait for someone to ask for the moved file
The moment you said what you did, I knew exactly how badly you messed up. That really is THE WORST mistake anyone in tech support can make. It really is quite rare that deleting something you assume to be unimportant doesn't backfire catastrophically.
the sweet sensation of sweating bullets while you're hyperthreading in your mind after realizing what you've done. it all happens in a nanosecond
As someone who used to work as a technician for a long time; this story hits really close to home. It's painful how many mistakes can be made when we all just follow a flow; instead of taking steps to verify if what you're doing is the best way to do it in that scenario.
Damn, hearing about things like that hurts almost as much as living similar experiences.
I used to get pulled out of class constantly. Always a good time when I would get paged down to the principal's office to fix their MS Word.
The "rm -rf" route is dangerous.
A channel sub-section called MattF'sUp showing mistakes every now and then is something I'd totally love to watch. Gives an opportunity to raise awareness of certain issues and also to be informative. Great video!
I am so careful with things like this, for this exact reason. What might be a completely routine clearing of space could be detrimental to another persons entire workflow
We need more MattKC storytime!
This is exactly the reason why when I was working computer repair the store had a policy that whenever we needed to "handle" data(remove, copy, etc) we would have the customer sign a data handling sheet which states all of the obvious dangers and functions as a extra check during the intake. This prevented more situations than we'd like to admit. Even though no one liked having the customer sign the paper :)
This and the "failed projects" video were honestly really insightful. I'd love to hear more stories like that - I think seeing things go wrong every once in a while is far more valuable to learning than just seeing everything that goes right.
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As a person who does repairs and restores for a living, this is my worst nightmare. I've had a similar incident to this once and I felt so bad! I always make a backup of anything i want to try deleting now, when possible.
As someone who also does computer work for friends, I now always image their drive before doing any work purely as a precaution, as there will always be something I miss. It's saved me once in so far and that is once too many for me!
Thank you for sharing this story - such a valuable lesson. And very relatable!
Haha this story was great, love your content. Can't wait for you to hit 500k!