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DBA jobs are not a-walk-in-the-park
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| A friend of mine was hired last Dec2001, on a well-known insurance company, big bucks and all, he is 8i DBA (with 8i DBA cert), MCDBA Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and other certs.
[he told me...]
Some day, while performing a hot backup, 8i died, and for some unknown reason, "end backup" on those datafiles, failed. Well, the database was down for a few hours. Bad day. Some guys fixed this database remotely (guys working from Oracle Corp.)
He got fired last week.
Do you think it is fair to fire this guy. | |
| aneesh_bhatia 2002-01-31, 7:57 am |
| He was hired, without any experience?
Was he the only DBA?
Did he have any superiors to guide him? | |
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| If this happened in the US, he should contact an attorney. Seems like wrongful termination. | |
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| as wrongful terminiation. Almost all jobs, unless you sign a contract, you are an at-will employee. In such cases the employee is free to leave without reason or notice and the employer is free to fire without reason or notice.
If the person is a minority by race, gender, or religion and can prove discrimination, there could be a case. If you get the big $, you'd better be able to deliver.
I'd probably have fired him too. Big dollars = no excuses. I don't think I would have been messing with backups at a hi profile insurance company during the day. If you screw it up, and take the DB offline people get pissed. I hope your friend finds something else though. |
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