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This reminds me of what happened to the financial services Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, just replacing a system with hundreds of lost employees: https://www.n

• nobody9999 6y ago
  I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11. They had backups and were able to recover data and systems. By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional. The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems.
  • teagee 6y ago
    Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.
    • nobody9999 6y ago
      >Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes. I was there as a consultant and didn't know anyone there when I went. I won't provide any details out of respect for those fine people, but the grief was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife. As I said, I didn't know anyone who was there (or wasn't there) but after a day, I wanted to cry.