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 remember at my company all the money we spent converting mainframe code. Y2K was a big deal - but it was remediated successfully at most companies. Had nothing been done, a lot could have potentially happened. Even my own software I wrote had a Y2K bug that I didn't see until after the fact - and it broke my software. Catastrophic world scenarios might have been far fetched, but serious impact to business and the economy could have occurred had it not been for all the remediation.