What is something good you made/did that got you in trouble?

When I was working at a fairly large hosting provider, I was on a team that discovered that our reporting tool was showing that backups were occurring that actually hadn’t been done recently, or in some cases had never been taken. Meaning that some customer systems had no backups at all, and for some the last successful one had been completed months or years ago (supposed to be done nightly).

I fixed the inaccurate reporting and this turned our main monitoring dashboard from all green to have a whole lot of red as it then correctly reflected that backups were in a terrible state.

Got blamed for “making us look bad” and “putting a lot of work on a lot of people” because the reporting had been made to reflect reality.

The clown manager who spouted off about a lot of work on a lot of people wasn’t even correct as I personally fixed most of the issues. Because I scripted it, but also because I had more experience with more OSes than anyone else.

So that was fun.