I was considered “brave” and “crazy” for offering to work that shift. People were losing their minds. It was the first time I realized how gullible the general public was. I was the calm in the storm. I reminded them that air was not controlled by a computer and we would survive. It would be like “camping nursing.” Midnight -NOTHING- and people felt stupid. I’m ready for that feeling again. It was priceless.
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I can attest that everything you said is 100% accurate. I made a ton of cash as a contractor "fixing" Y2K problems but they were just funded projects under the guise of Y2K readyness.
Same here. I really did find a bug which was directly related to y2k but it was in a non-critical system and had a pretty trivial effect. I was still Mr. Big Dude for a day though.
One of our contracts to update BIOS for every PC and server in a very large financial company, but we knew the BIOS would work with no problem, but the company wanted to be sure. The amount companies wasted on Y2K BS was biblical. We raked them over the coals, and they were happy to pay.