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 agree, the Y2K stupidity was astonishing, but even so it doesn't come close to the abject madness of Covidiocy.
My mom, who was fairly old at that time, was worried about what was going to happen. I told her nothing would happen. Then my husband, the engineer told her the same, and she was good with it. From what I recall some IT people were making an entire career out of it at the time.
agree completely about the IT ripoff! I owned a small business at the time, so could have been disastrous, but my IT guy just said, go in and change the date ahead to January 5th or something, then shut off all your computers after changing all...then have a Happy New Year, when you get back to your office after the holidays, reset the actual day...no problems...lotta IT people grifted big-time, then retired...
Definitely a scam - just recall who was in the WH at the time....
Absolutely...that was the first time I experienced fear porn! It was full blown panic at our office. My husband and worked for a heavily regulated industry and the company was freaking out.
My husband was a Manager of Telecom which involves microwave dishes, Scada etc and worked closely with the IT Manager. Corporate was send an inspection team and we were located in the state headquarters. The IT Manager had bunch of stickers printed that said "Y2K Compliant" and stuck them on everything in the Server Room! Sheer genius. The pea brains from corporate walked through the Server Room with Clipboards checking off their lists.
Of course this was a month prior to Y2K and we still had to keep watch all night to observe that nothing happened.
THIS!!