Nurhachi Che, a 37-year-old I.T. consultant from Cherry Hill, N.J., was looking forward to two hours of uninterrupted work on her first-class flight from Philadelphia to Kentucky in February.
grindset moment
Ok, as someone who’s somewhat worked in and keeps up with the IT industry, not a consultant but as the guy actually managing the servers and shit: If a single team member being behind on two hours of work will ruin everything, in a deployment big enough to need a consultant who flies first class, your tech stack is already screwed beyond help. Especially in large enterprise scales, you build in automatic redundancy, failover, and backups for a reason, it’s so the computers can buy themselves enough time till a human can come in and sort it out, even if the humans are running late like humans often are. Maybe you should consult the owners on making their IT deployment more resilient.
Or, if you’re pushing the work off till literally as you’re flying to your destination, that’s on you, not the babies in your vicinity.
It’s IT consultancy so there’s a good chance their work involved drafting emails and things like that especially considering that they aimed to get it done on a flight.
Oh, so literally the most first world of first world problems.
I’ve SSH’d into a web server and fixed something while on a crowded bus using my phone and the cloud hosting provider’s shitty browser-based terminal emulator, searching shit up on Stack Exchange and all. The hardest part of that was getting the cloud provider to let me in while I was away from my home IP address and the computer I normally use. I think you got this Ms. IT consultant who probably doesn’t even know a single CLI command.
