What am I missing?

From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd_at_ccp.com>
Date: Sat Feb 9 00:08:36 2002

>>>>>snipo<<<<<<<<
> >
> > Is this attitude common in industry? Am I wrong? I know that
> > my wife has a cousin who works for an accountant who
> > NEVER makes a back-up of the client files.
> >
> > If I am correct, is there any way to get my point across or is
> > this a Catch-22 situation?
> >
> >
We had a pC with a dos based program for character generation at the tv
station I worked at. Program had a nasty habit of corrupting its files
when you ran out of disk space or memory, causing random hits and making
life miserable.

First time I slowly worked through all the hits, and over several days,
got it to work okay again. Then we got a bigger hard drive. I
suggested a backup of some sort, but not floppies. Request ignored.

Second time the file (which was loaded as one gigantic mess) was bigger
than the 16 meg we had in the machine and caused the same problems.
Again it took days to work out the bugs. Again I strongly recommended a
backup system, one easy to use, and was ignored again. Management
wasn't happy, with the bumpy road for a week, and I said the other
alternative is to reinstall the software and system from scratch and
loose ALL the gfx files in the process.

People will never learn until it goes up in smoke. Then afterwards they
do what was needed and blame you for not doing it in the first place.
Doc Daneeka was right telling Yossarian.

Gary Hildebrand
ST. Joseph, MO
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 00:08:36 GMT