‘Everything’s down, like everything, the whole system crashed’: Computer tech paid $85,000 to save the company after a smug boss fires him, implodes the client database, and begs him to fix it – FAIL Blog

Oh, to have the confidence of a 50-something-year-old boss with literally zero qualifications! 

Boss-types have a nasty habit of assuming they know how to do everyone’s job better than them, but oftentimes, they have no idea what they’re talking about. Ideamen at heart, they love to imagine they know more about servers, databases, and system admin protocols than their computer engineers, but just because you listen to one podcast about tech, it doesn’t make you proficient in computer science.

Alas, this smug boss thought he knew better than his computer engineer, firing him when a complicated server transfer was taking too long. However, only three hours after his termination, the boss came crawling back, begging for help… Except this computer tech wasn’t so interested in bailing him out.

It took 12 hours of groveling, 2 lost clients, a personal call from the CEO, a senior job offer, and $85,000 up front for this computer wiz to come in and fix the problem. 

Oh, and he got his old, snooty boss fired in the process.