Not only should you confess to what you did promptly, confess to everything else too. If you do that often enough they quit believing you.... }:-)
-rje O> I've only made one mistake in my life and that was the time when I O> thought I was wrong. ;-) O> OK, getting serious... I've found it's best to QUICKLY be 100% truthful. O> If you get crucified for it then it may be that damagement needs to O> lighten up. Unfortunately the fear of damagement causes wheel spinning O> work-arounds to compromises of the facts. ;-) O> I once inadvertently brought a 24X7 production system down by shutting O> down a test database that was "managed" by Veritas Cluster Server junk. O> A hands on type director had added it to the cluster without telling me O> so when I shut down the test database the cluster stuff tried to fail O> over and everything came crashing down. I got the blame so it was a real O> "cluster-f***" because the damager wouldn't accept any responsibility O> for this episode. Later he decided to change some Unix stuff all on his O> own and the result was that the system was down quite some time. He as O> rather cavalier about the outage and danced around the truth. Ultimately O> his prevarications caught up with him and he was "dismissed" on the O> spot. "Justice" was served. O> -----Original Message----- O> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:59 AM O> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L O> Importance: High O> I always admit when I make a mistake. Gives me much more credibility O> when I say "this time it ISN'T me" -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Robert Eskridge INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
