This reminds me of the joke from the 80s:
Man on Red Square shouts, ‘Brezhnev is an idiot!’ He gets sentenced to 15 years: five years for insulting the Soviet leader, and 10 years for betraying a state secret.
The CTO is an idiot. BTW if you know what company leave a comment…
I don’t know what this company is, but if their CTO has never done it himself, I am baffled how he (it had to be a he) became one.
I totally made this mistake at the old company. Dropped a production table that everything depended on. It has to happen to everyone, at least (hopefully) once.
People in my team, back when I had a team, have done it too. I made sure to congratulate them on this rite of passage, and how having to go beg the dba (nicely) to resurrect what’s lost from backup, is a part of it, and how this is why we have paranoid rules about production.
every single boss I had has always been super understanding. For the same reason.
“The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge, embarrassing mistake”
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