Untrained Techie Botched A Big Hardware Sale By Breaking Client's ERP
The Register, Monday, February 24th, 2025
'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'
Who, Me? Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you tell us how you escaped from nasty scrapes of your own making.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Kane" who told us about a job he said was "the most horrendous and grueling experience of my IT career."
"If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived," he wrote.
Kane took on this terrifying job when he worked for a giant global hardware vendor and was asked to help an account executive sell a big batch of new servers to an existing customer.
The buyer wasn't keen, because the vendor had provided it with switches that were causing problems with virtual LANs.