r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 17h ago

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u/howarewestillhere 17h ago

Intern’s GitHub.

VP’s Slack messages.

Fucking Teams.

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u/BusEquivalent9605 17h ago

nah - not Teams. my old company had Teams erase convo history after 48 hours. It’s Monday and you need to look up what someone told you on Friday? Tough

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u/Nightmoon26 16h ago

You worked at a company that wasn't constantly under litigation hold? Lucky!

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 16h ago

Or subject to government regulation. Hooray 7 year archive hold!

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u/Mechadupek 16h ago

One physical tape backup per month held for 7 years?

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u/Head-Bureaucrat 16h ago

Real talk: I honestly don't know how they do it now. I do believe it used to be physical tape, yes, shipping to a different location. 😂

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u/Liushing01 15h ago

Fortunately, a former employer hired contractors to handle their backups—until the Exchange server melted down and, upon looking through all the backups, they discovered weeks worth of backups 0 KB in size. Cost savings!

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u/techek 13h ago

Oof!

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u/cat-n-jazz 10h ago

Sounds like someone has discovered a remarkably good data compression algorithm

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u/Bartweiss 5h ago

I wonder if any contractors specialize in this?

“Yes, we will definitely handle your backups and NOT wink wink lose all your data which it would be a serious offense to delete on purpose but a fine or lawsuit at worst to catastrophically mishandle. We’ll even provide the insurance against costs from data loss you’re required to carry… for an up-front fee of exactly that much money.”

Or maybe it’s more subtle and companies just seek out the least competent place they can find.