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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
Terry, a municipal IT worker in the 1980s, faced reprimands for both clocking irregular hours and attempting to fix a data-loss issue caused by a flawed MOVE command on an IBM mainframe. His efforts to prevent data loss by rewriting the script were dismissed as overstepping his job responsibilities, leading to his eventual departure.
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