Database admin gets boss fired by rerouting critical messages to his pager that go unanswered: 'His face falls, he knew right then he screwed up'

You're going to get things wrong, and that's just a simple truth. There's no way you're going to get through this life without making a simple mistake. Owning that mistake, however, is a skill and one not a lot of people seem to possess—especially when it's your boss.

This database admin worked on a team that had a requirement for an on-call rotation. If you've ever been on call, you probably know where this is going… Everything about the on-call system worked well, and the team even had its own goodwill system in which anyone on-call who failed to respond to a call out would have to buy the rest of the team drinks to make up for someone else having to respond to the call—you know, the kind of thing that you can only really pull off on a close team with a strong dynamic.

Unfortunately, the shifting landscape of the industry led to mass layoffs, putting an end to the status quo and landing this admin on a team under a toxic new boss who was all kinds of bad. The new team's call-out was fielding all kinds of requests that didn't need to be answered in the middle of the night, so the admin developed a workaround process, which their boss took immediate issue with. When the boss demanded that "the team" receive all callout notifications, the admin made sure that it was done—exactly as demanded—leading to a series of events that would see their boss out of a job.

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