Comments | ann_mcn: Cowboy BossLady

ann_mcn

Cowboy BossLady

Jun 08, 2010 12:09

/Last week, the day before I was to have my scheduled two days off, BossLady merrily informed me that she was deleting inactive customers. "Don't worry," she said, they were set up when we got this software 8 or 10 years ago, and they've never bought anything ( Read more... )

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ann_mcn June 8 2010, 16:18:22 UTC

Small business, she's the owner's wife, and is antsy. I *STILL* haven't convinced her to get a good AV on the computers!!

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ann_mcn June 9 2010, 00:30:03 UTC

Heh. They're super paranoid about identity theft, so that particular approach wouldn't work. But geeze, so many others would!

technoshaman June 8 2010, 17:25:38 UTC

AAAAAAHHHHHH!!! NOOOO!!!

When you deliver this little pile of stink, slather it on thick, and make sure the "I told you so" you're pounding in gets all the way to the medulla oblongata...

we HATES it when that happens. Hateses it we does, my precioussss...

ann_mcn June 9 2010, 00:32:03 UTC

The programming classes I took 20 (OMG, that long?) years ago have been useful in so many ways. Everyone should be required to take a few and learn down in their marrow how interconnected everything is.

shadowycat June 8 2010, 21:05:29 UTC

It's so frustrating when you see it coming, but can't do anything about it because they get to decide while you have to mop up afterwards. Grrr.

Is she going to go through those "back up tapes" to retrieve the information if it's even there? I imagine she forgot to take into account new accounts who hadn't bought much yet...

ann_mcn June 9 2010, 00:32:51 UTC

She said she was paying attention. Hah.