But...but where are your PRIORITIES?!?
It's time to review this IT shop's disaster recovery plans, and the topic of staffing comes up, reports a longtime IT pilot fish who's in on the discussion.
"Management figured they'd just ship the important technical staff out of the area and put them up in hotels, and they'd work at the DR vendor's site," says fish.
"Possible disasters ranged from issues with the building -- fire, broken water pipes, power problems inside -- to external natural disasters such as hurricane, tornado or earthquake, to civil strife.
"Knowing that the majority of the important technical staff live within a couple miles of the office, I asked about families in the case of the external disasters.
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