Ask HN: What's the worst mistake you've made at your company?

1 points by kotrunga ↗ HN
What's the worst mistake you've made at your company?

Did the company know about it? If so, how did they respond?

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I work for a company that does work for a utility.

After starting I saw some huge inefficiencies, and decided to write a program proposal for an analytics and tracking program to increase efficiency and decrease turnover. (more efficient company = better for the utility = better for the customer, right?)

I ended up with a few meetings with company leadership, and things seemed to be progressing until they accused me of causing a data breach when I gathered my non-identifiable test dataset.

After threats from corporate counsel to sue/prosecute and a secure wipe of my hard drive, they backed off.

I'm still there, just trying not to notice the inefficiencies for us and the utility. Really kind of broke a part of me.