I now know what it is to know from somebody about a mistake that was done as part of work without you realizing that it was a mistake. I am not a big risk taker at work but landed up in a mess that I have never imagined. First was to know from a colleague that this issue had been escalated already and some lead came up to me and asked me if he guessed my name correct. Oh GOD! I hate to be in discussions where it is of no advantage to either of us. I was asked to meet him in a small meeting room and the grilling started. He started probing me as if he had figured out a breach that I could have gotten away with. I told him straight that I had no wrong intentions but just the project delivery that was more important than anything else and that only commitment pushed me to violate a procedure. I violated but with clear approval from one of the architects in the group. If that was not enough, you can very well treat this as a mistake of mine and the reward process can follow. I was never really bothered about what would follow after all life doesn't end with that. I have worked with customers as big as this and dealt with more confidential data than this. But, nobody doubted my integrity or honesty else where. Why would anybody like to even discuss with somebody you don't think is integral, honest and committed? I at least will not even think of discussing but will show the door right away. The big man who started grilling me was not lending any part of his ear to understand the reasons and effects of this violation. I think I did a great job controlling my temper.
I came out thinking that this is end of the discussion and work just goes on. But, my GOD! Unfortunately, that was not end of it. A group of managers (colleagues) asked me and my team to assemble at a conference room at 6:00 in the evening and started to give funda about the confidentiality of data and how that is linked to the business opportunities. Nothing made sense as I could not relate anything that they spoke to what I and my team involved in. We just wanted some of our deliveries to go through and did something that is definitely against the security policy but with permission from somebody who we could not question the authority. What we hear from people who are so concerned about this is that we did not question the authority of the person who approved this. I truly appreciate and understand why the policies are defined. But, if there is a group that monitors all this, they are expected to look at the effects and reasons behind the violation. If it is just about grilling people and telling management that they found this many incidents in so and so time span, I do not see a point. I can understand the reasons why these individuals behave that way. If they have to survive, they should find some dumb incidents and create a big hype about them as if it would have ended their businesses to run.
If using an ID that is not assigned to me to pull some sample data to build a prototype is such a big mistake, I like not working here. I am feeling ashamed to have committed such a mistake that a bunch of jokers are so eager to question. I just could not imagine 100 person hours getting wasted discussing such a silly issue. If I had to deal with this, I would have had a discussion and tried to understand the reasons behind it. Not everybody is as smart! If I was smarter than what I am, I would have not committed the stupid mistake that costed this many man hours. This is the way it is. It is probably one mistake that an individual with any brains can afford to commit in his career. Why commit a mistake and be apologetic about it? Stay away from committing anything that can create some kind of work for few assholes. Let us see what happens now. If I continue to work on this implementation, they played an april fool game with me. I would be very surprised and disappointed if I am not shown the door.
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