tquid@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”English
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9 months agoThe word is bootlicker. There are of course bad union leaders, and the cure is the same: organizing.
One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.
DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;
And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.
That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.
Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.