How I Fired Myself
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How I Fired Myself
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#2Whoever cancelled the backups was equally responsible
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#3Whoever cancelled the backups was equally responsible
Literally every engineer who didn't think to have a dev database can also be responsible. This is just a case of 'shit happens' since nobody had the sense to not work on, not back up, the live db.
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#4Whoever was your boss should have taken responsibility. Someone gave you access to the production database instead of setting up a proper development and testing environment. For a company doing "millions" in revenues, it's odd that they wouldn't think of getting someone with a tiny bit of experience to manage the development team.
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#5You should fire the company for not having a staging environment nor up-to-date backups.
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#6Whoever cancelled the backups was equally responsible
Perhaps more responsible was the person who decided that development work happened on the production database.
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#7Whoever cancelled the backups was equally responsible
More responsible, I would say. You expect a junior to make mistakes; the company should be structured to handle that happening.
Though I would look askance at whoever hired a philosophy grad as well, to be perfectly honest. The author admits he didn't have the experience to spot bad practice at the time.
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#8I doubt the problems this company had started when they employed the author of this blog post!
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#9Sounds like no one else at that company had any more of a clue what they were doing than you did. The whole scenario is horrifying.
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#10Wow, that's quite a story.
If your company is ever 1 button press away from destruction. Know that this will eventually happen.
I'm quite surprised stuff like this hadn't happened earlier. When I am doing development with a database I will quite often trash the data when writing code.