All this does is highlight best practice for data backups. Accidents happen, be prepared.
I have my electricity billed directly to my bank account, I hadn’t noticed that they haven’t charged me for months, and last week I received a payment notification for ~900€. I was… Surprised, to say the least.
I think some things should require human intervention.
Why I will not trust autopay.
There’s a phrase you might give useful/insightful.
“Trust, but verify”
I use auto pay extensively so that if I forget (ADHD, yay) it still gets paid. But I do (try to) check every month that all the auto pay stuff did trigger properly.
My wife and I talk about this. We make a mistake and the smackdown comes in a torrent of fines and interest and instant loss of things we need. Corp makes a mistake and oopsie daisy.
I have to imagine there will at least be a lawsuit here. It will probably amount to a rounding error on the size of the fund though.
just like i accidently forgot to mail my rent check on time.
Gee maybe the massive layoffs Google’s McKinsey CEO did weren’t the greatest idea?
I think that people will start learning this the hard way about the cloud. Some things are too important to trust to store on someone else’s computer.
“This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,”
Somehow I’m imagining some lowly overworked, outsourced account reviewer decided to apply the strictest consequence for some minor violation on the account and screw his employer for making his life a living hell and underpaying him.
What if I told you “the cloud” is just someone else’s computer.
“Accidentally”
“Deleted”
That too.
Wondering if they maybe divested Google, lol.
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wait, shit…
Exactly the sort of thing that should NEVER be on a 3rd party system. Ever. Ever ever.
Grumpy old sysadmin. Get offa my lawn!
