And you thought you had a bad day

A story from Juneau, Alaska, by the Associated Press via MSNBC:

“Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.”

And also the backup, and the backup’s backup. They had to go back to 300 cardboard boxes full of paper, and re-enter all the data – more than 70 people working overtime and weekends over six weeks to get the job done.

The nicest part of the story? “Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident. “Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt,