On the first day as a junior software developer at a first salaried job out of college, his or her copy-and-paste error inadvertently erased all data from the company’s production database. https://qz.com/999495/the-tech-worl...veloper-who-made-a-huge-embarrassing-mistake/
Yep. If anyone should be in trouble its the CTO. I did not read the article posted as I actually read the Reddit post when it was first made. The reason this even happened is because he was given a paper with the instructions to login to a test environment with the Username and Password listed not as "Example" or something but the username and pass to the actual production server. How dumb does that CTO have to be?
As subRedditors saw it, cscareerthrowaway567 made one mistake. The company made several. It didn’t back up the database. It had poor security procedures and a sloppily-organized system that encouraged the very error cscareerthrowaway567 made. Then, rather than taking accountability for those problems, the CTO fired the rookie who revealed them.
