Originally, Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was meant to release
straight to video, much like Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, Pocahontas II,
Journey to a New World, and Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. Disney was so
impressed with early footage, the film was upgraded to a theatrical release,
which meant a restructured storyline, increased workload, and more stress for
everyone involved. In the middle of this, one Pixar employee (who will remain
nameless) was doing routine file clearance on internal servers and accidentally
entered a delete command on the movie’s root folder. File servers were quickly
shut down, but 90% of the work was lost. Toy Story 2 came very close to not
happening at all. Enter Galyn Susman, supervising technical director. Galyn had
given birth six months earlier, and had set up a system that copied Toy Story
2's database so she could work from home. The moral of this story? Remote work can
be a blessing – for everyone.
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