The Curse of the Ultimate Meat and Cheese Breakfast Burrito
From time to time, I will bring in a Sonic breakfast for myself, usually when I’m just running a few minutes behind in my morning routine. Usually it’s a breakfast burrito of some sort, a side order of mozzarella sticks and a drink. However, we’ve noticed that whenever I bring in an Ultimate Meat and Cheese Breakfast Burrito we have some serious network or server issue. This has now happened 5 times over the past 2 years. Other burritos don’t cause any mischief, but the Ultimate Meat and Cheese ALWAYS causes problems.
The first appearance of this Curse was Crowdstrike. The second was a major production down issue with a critical server that just crashed seemingly out of nowhere. Third and fourth were public-facing web servers and most recent was a user account that was compromised and emailed out thousands of phishing emails to our entire organization and beyond.
It’s gotten to the point where my boss and the guys in our Desktop Support division ask me (playfully, we’re all really close friends who have worked together for years) what I had for breakfast whenever something goes down. I wasn’t a believer at first but five times can’t be coincidence - can it?
Are there any “curses” in your offices like this? Do you have any suggestions to help us break this curse?