Techie Went Home Rather Than Fix Mistake That Caused A Massive Meltdown
The Register, Monday, June 23rd, 2025
And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Stuart" who hoped his career would see him pursue pure research but found himself working as IT manager for what he described as "a very young startup spun out of a local research center to commercialize a novel gene analysis technique."
The IT team was small - Stuart plus a couple of contractors - but that meant our hero had "very nearly free rein in designing the systems, so the job was anything but boring."