* Posts by alsarg72

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First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired

alsarg72

Should be more surprising than it is.

This person did nothing wrong at all. The story should be unbelievable, but unfortunately this kind of halfarsedness is not surprising. Halfarsedness is rampant in the industry. An investigation into security, configuration, documentation, and other things would undoubtably reveal plenty of people and processes at this company that are to blame, and no shortage of people who have privately or loudly complained about it and expected something like this to happen eventually. This person is a victim of the company's collective stupidity, and the CTO and the company deserve no sympathy. Anyone there who tried to highlight such problems, and this poor person do deserve sympathy.