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Title: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: KKOB on June 02, 2017, 09:34:04 AM
British Airways looks set to pin the blame for its £150million IT meltdown on a single worker who rebooted the system too quickly when the power failed, it emerged today.

The engineer allegedly failed to follow proper procedure at a Heathrow data centre and caused 'catastrophic physical damage' to servers leaving 75,000 stranded across the globe.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4565236/IT-engineer-blame-BA-s-150million-global-meltdown.html#newcomment
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: KKOB on June 02, 2017, 09:35:13 AM
It reminds me of this:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren G. Bennis; As cited in: Mark Fisher (1991) The millionaire's book of quotations. p. 151.

Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: scorcher on June 02, 2017, 09:47:09 AM
Word on the street is that their system had been hacked and this is a smoke and mirrors ploy. No idea whether this theory has any credibility.
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: Colwyn on June 02, 2017, 10:49:58 AM
I wonder if there is an agency called, something like, Scapegoats-R-Us which hires out employees, at huge wages, who are to take all the blame for major corporate disasters. [I would have used a more appropriate term as the last in that sentence but don't want to provoke the sensibilities of those who so easily take offense]. Or perhaps there is only one employee who goes round lots of organizations, tripping up BA over computers, and Mrs May over calling a snap election, and Titanic over the iceberg, and Donald Trump over nearly everything,  and all those other grand catastrophes. Very busy little bee. Perhaps it is KKOB when he isn't watching TV?
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: KKOB on June 02, 2017, 12:26:16 PM
Perhaps it is KKOB when he isn't watching TV?

Seems like I get the blame for everything bad on here. I know just how he feels.  ;)
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: Stuart T on June 02, 2017, 12:42:13 PM
I am KKOB......
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: mary62 on June 03, 2017, 13:56:57 PM
I am KKOB......
No I am KKOB  ;)
Title: Re: 1 BA employee gets the blame for the computer meltdown
Post by: sadler on June 03, 2017, 14:49:33 PM
KKOB doesn't 'arf get about!  :)