Craig March
nixCraft 🐧JURASSIC PARK was released 30 years ago today. Also, Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate IT staff :P https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-is-the-role-of-the-system-administrator/
RedMagus Clawmus@nixCraft all that would do is take the IT budget and split it across all staff lol
Matt ⎊ 
Sir Thomas Goodwin, M.S.@nixCraft Maybe that 1 IT guy was being punished. All the others were work at home except him. Hummmm.
Rohith
gavinisdie 
@nixCraft I honestly think it would have happened IRL if we had the technology to bring back dinosaurs due to incompetence
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@nixCraft Counterpoint: Jurassic Park could've been avoided even better by hiring NO IT people at all.
Sal De Gusto@msbellows @nixCraft IT person here. Endorse.
niki@nixCraft The original Jurassic Park predicted incel culture. What a beaut of a film.
Fardels BearIn retrospect, hiring Newman from Seinfeld was a mistake.
Aanto Jeyaseelan@nixCraft its quite realistic tho. Them C suites treat IT like a scam out to steal their precious profits. Too many companies have like 1 IT guy. I was one of those one IT guys.
Raptor 
@nixCraft TBF the book is a bit more clear than the movie that he wasn't alone, just the main programmer working on the security system and there was other staff who'd already gone to mainland for the storm. If anything though it's a great showing as to why background checks for IT personnel are normally a thing and why personal finances are included in background checks, but Hammond was CHEAP, cutting every corner he could.
mhd@nixCraft That's what I would've said 30 years ago. Nowadays I'm more afraid of how much more damage more IT guys would've caused.
Dan Palmer@nixCraft Ok this is a hill I think I've already died on, but the original story is even better!
In the book, Dennis runs an IT consultancy, who are going out of business, so he low-balls the software contract, then can't deliver it on time so happens to be on-site to debug it, communicating with his team in the US, and the phones are down so he can transfer a new build over the T1 line.
@nixCraft Hammond "spares no expense", but it's all for show. He buys a Cray supercomputer because it's something he can boast about, but when it comes to the software no one cares about that, no one will know, so he gives the contract to the lowest bidder.
There's even more, but it's all *so* relevant to IT, consulting, project management, and all the failures we end up repeating again and again.
David Kampmann@nixCraft Would have solved the problem of having all the backup and restart systems so hard to get to. No way IT folk would go for that.
John Lusk
The Candle B*tch Co.@nixCraft yes the guy that tries to take the dna from the Lab. That was a rough scene. He didn’t stand a chance after coming face to face with that dinosaur in the rain. He was definitely underpaid and had no job security.