‘With one click I lost everything’: Boss assigns employee with complicated task unrelated to his field, employee makes mistake that costs him his job

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    F11 F12 hor fn "I deleted data that can't be restored" ]
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    Guess who is losing their job
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    Short answer, it's me! This happened today, let me tell you a short story... Our company is currently undergoing migration from Google Workspace to M365,
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    because half of the company either use Google or Microsoft. My boss want to use only 1 system. I was doing migration of 1 phone because we use Google
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    device policy and apperantly the only way to get rid of it is to reinstall the whole phone. So I had one empty phone where I would transfer all the data and then factory reset the
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    data and then factory reset the phone with Device Policy. After this, transfer all the data back to the original Android phone without device policy.
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    After I've wiped the original phone, I've also accidentally wiped the second phone where was all the data waiting to be transfered back.
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    So that means that I've lost all the phone data for the user and there was no backup. Photos, documents, contacts, messages, 2FAs, all gone. Whoooopsie! :D
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    I was asked by my boss if I can help with the migration and I said yes, even when my main role is web dev. I wanted to help the company, now I'm the biggest idiot in the IT department :)
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    Responsible-End 7361. 3 days ago Sorry to hear that, though it seems like an honest mistake. If you get fired just for something like that you are probably better off in any other company.
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago . edited 3 days ago Yes, it was a honest mistake. I was working under pressure on 2-3 devices at the same time because users wanted the phones back fast.
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    thatohgi 3 days ago • That's why users shouldn't be present for these things and should be expected to pickup their device when it is ready. When I was doing the mobile device management I always doubled the estimated
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    time and told the user to go entertain themselves. They when they got back it would be ready and I wouldn't be stressed. If they were in a rush I told them where they could wait or they could tell me where to find them.
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago Yes, I was rushed by my boss. Another user gave me phone during migration of 2 phones. Now I have 5 phones on the desk, rushing to migrate all of them in a 30min window LOL. No wonder I've made mistake.
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    Leberkassemmel2 - 3 days ago I'd argue if there was no backup, the data didn't really exist in the first place.
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago That's a good point, I will definitely use that. Thank you!
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    dragonfornicator · 3 days ago What would have been the policy if the device was lost or got broken somehow? I don't think that accidentally borking a users phone(data) would be a sole reason for firing someone.
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago . edited 3 days ago If the device policy would still be on the phone after we remove everything from. Google, the phone will be bricked.
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    dragonfornicator 3 days ago Sorry, i misused the word policy here What would the company do if the phone got bricked or borked in some other way where the data was not recoverable?
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago Now I get your question. Everything would be lost, maybe contacts would be the only thing we could recover.
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    Traveling-Techie · 3 days ago I've done worse and faced zero consequences because they were understaffed and I was needed. Same company fired me years later for a much smaller mistake as part of a purge of a VP and everyone he hired.
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    Torvaun 3 days ago Procrastination gods smite adherents I k ed a television show by formatting the wrong drive, and kept my job. Certain data and documentation procedures changed as a result.
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    JakeThe2ndSnake - 3 days ago not saying you didn't make a mistake here, but the user did too if they didn't back up any of it. nowadays it is incredibly easy to back up documents, photos, even 2FA to the cloud,
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    whether that be to their Google account or some other way, and if your company hasn't implemented any of these, then that's a whole nother problem lol this would be an incredibly surprising thing to lose your job over.
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    xdreamsk OP. 3 days ago You're absolutely right. I will mention this issue on the next meeting.

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