My girlfriend (at the time) slapped my ass hard while I was bending over to pick up my underwear after we had sex. She missed… I guess she didn’t realize that when bending over, balls are exposed from behind.
Slapped me full force right on the berries. I let out a yelp, fell over, and had a wheezing/laughing fit. It was both hilarious and incredibly painful. She was laughing & apologizing/trying to help me up.
I’m a system administrator for a relatively big SaaS for a relatively big company.
I was attempting to configure a new inbound email protocol in the TEST environment. I needed to reference how it was configured in PROD so I could copy certain settings into TEST, so I had both up on my screens (you can see where this is going). But first I needed to clear out the old cloned configurations in TEST.
…And not even half a second after I deleted those config files did I realize what I’d done: deleted inbound email configuration on PRODUCTION. In the middle of the day. Killed inbound email for the system for the whole company.
The whole reason I had PROD open was because I didn’t have good documentation of how it was configured (what was cloned into TEST was old and not correct). So now I was seriously fucked. I had to redo the config from scratch live in PROD. Even tried backing out the deletion but that failed.
Had to advise my boss of the fuckup. He was new. Had only been with the company for like 2 weeks. I had to assure him that I am NOT actually a total fuckhead and I usually don’t do stupid shit like this. I felt terrible, because I knew he’d have to give the post-failure analysis review on this to his new bosses, and that would definitely be awkward.
Anyway, he was cool with it. Assured me that he’d done something similar at a previous job. He let me do my thing to fix it, which I did. Inbound email was only down for …well, a long time (3-4 hours), because once I was able to get the config working, I had to re-register all of the inbound email addresses to use it -which had its own sordid story. That took some time.
After the fact, we modified the TEST environment to have a different “theme” (header colors) so it wasn’t identical to PROD on-screen, and I documented the email configuration thoroughly.
Yeah, his congressional district is adjacent to mine. I drive through it or visit places within it all the time. There are some safe areas, but plenty of deeply red areas throughout.
These people do not care if their representative is a domestic abuser, as long as he’s a republican. They have zero moral philosophy beyond “democrats are pure evil.” I went to a county fair in his district once and the people there were all extreme MAGA cultists, sporting very aggressive / downright hateful pro-trump t-shirts & hats, signs, flags, etc. It was gross.
Yeah I read that now too. I just thought that it was weird that they went from “System 7…” up to “OS X” just like Apple did. But it’s just very plausible coincidence.
Why not both?