Dana Niederer Case Study

December 31, 1999. A day, one would think, that everyone celebrates due to the coming of a new millennium. This, however, is not the case for Dana Niederer. Many people, including herself were scared of this day because of a scare known as the Y2K, or year two thousand, scare. What it was, was a time when programmers and many people in the world were terrified because many programs had been set to have only the last two digits of the program’s year change not four. Dana said, “When the Y2K issue was going on, the direct effect it had on me started in April of 1999. My company, C&R Mechanical, had known that we needed to upgrade its main software because it would not be compatible with everything dated for the 1980’s-’90’s” (Niederer).

“I remember going around and shopping for the new software and within that same time frame, I had also been pregnant with my first daughter Kylie Danielle Niederer. I knew that it would be a different kind of strain than the average pregnant person would normally go through, especially with it being
I had to go in and get my blood pressure checked one of the times going, and it was very very high due to the stress of everything going on. They took it again before I had gotten the chance to leave the doctor’s office and it was still high. Due to the fact that it was so high and that I was starting to have contractions, I was put on bed rest. It wasn’t very strict but I was told that if it did not go down they would rush me to the the hospital by an ambulance and be admit me” (Niederer). This scared Dana because this was her first child. She was also worried of what work would say because she did not want to look like a bad employee if she was not doing anything at all. “It was a very bad day”