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James48

(5,149 posts)
12. Fun fact-
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:08 PM
16 hrs ago

I used to work for the Feds. We had great IT people who were also Feds in our agency.
The bean counters came in, and outsourced all the IT services. The guys we worked with- suddenly became contractors, or assigned elsewhere. Nobody could get anything done IT wise- it took two days to get a IT human callback.
All those backups? Somebody forgot to add that into the contracting out- turns out two years were not backed up at all. With a change of contractor, all history goes out the window, including backed up data.

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Fbi says," The internet ate our homework !" questionseverything 18 hrs ago #1
and besides... RussBLib 17 hrs ago #7
How convenient. FalloutShelter 18 hrs ago #2
Bullshit- there are always backups. walkingman 18 hrs ago #3
Exactly... total panicked bullshit. FalloutShelter 18 hrs ago #5
Yes. All agencies are legally required to maintain temporary and permanent records. Starfury 18 hrs ago #6
The missing data is in the same place as the missing minutes DavidDvorkin 18 hrs ago #4
How convenient purr-rat beauty 17 hrs ago #8
"lost" progressoid 17 hrs ago #9
This coming from our Dept. of Justice. republianmushroom 16 hrs ago #10
I do hope Iran releases all they were able to access.... Bev54 16 hrs ago #11
Fun fact- James48 16 hrs ago #12
I can attest to that BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago #14
I'm with everyone else on this debsy 16 hrs ago #13
Musk orangecrush 16 hrs ago #15
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