How the work-life balance of one IT guy threw the NYC subway system into chaos
IT guys and gals get a bad rap for being grouchy cave people, but everyone knows that offices basically stop functioning without them.
That goes quadruple for one of the most notoriously dysfunctional mass transit systems in the world, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). Apparently, in the midst of a crisis, the MTA only had one (unreachable) IT guy capable of rebooting the broken ticket vending system.*
Hello, MTA? Have you tried turning it off and on again?