The Night The Servers All Went Down

Virgil Kaine is the name
and I served on the devops team
'til Harvard MBAs came,
and downsized us all again
in the winter of '23, 
we were running a skeleton team
by may the 10th, our uptime had fell
it was a time I remember oh so well

the night the servers all went down
	and all the pagers were ringing
the night the servers all went down
	and all the admins were singing, they sang
No, no no no no no, 
no no, no no, no no no no no...

Back with my team in building three
when one day they called to me.
Virgil, quick come see, 
they called an all hands meeting.
Now I don't mind after hours
or the C suite, in their ivory towers
we write what we need and import the rest
but you should never have skipped running it in test...

the night the servers all went down
	and all the pagers were ringing
the night the servers all went down
	and all the admins were singing, they sang
No, no no no no no, 
no no, no no, no no no no no...

Like my trainer before me,
I double check my commands
Not like Jimmy Mackenzie,
who screwed up and got himself canned.
He was twenty-three proud and brave
when he dropped the production database
I swear by a neckbeard's fluffy cat
You can't save your job at all with a move like that

the night the servers all went down
	and all the pagers were ringing
the night the servers all went down
	and all the admins were singing, they sang
No, no no no no no, 
no no, no no, no no no no no...

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