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by GauntletWizard 1654 days ago
I have a significantly less happy story in this regard: I had just started at a new company, and the lead engineer went off to a holiday. On the drive up, he was struck and killed by a truck. He had the credentials for a lot of things that were core to the company. We got access to the AWS Account without too much trouble, after two weeks to receive a paper letter from them, but a few things were a real pain in the ass to recover.

It was really a tragic occurrence, and very sad - Curtis was a great engineer. I think my drink tonight will be to him.