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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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....