Inspired by <a href=“https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114592526697383722” rel=“ugc”>this post on senior engineers telling junior engineers about their mistakes</a>, I am asking you all to share your stories or even existing posts about a situation where you royally fucked something up. (Bonus points for every story that is turned into a blog post just for this thread)
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i changed the timezone on a production database server. i was juggling a half dozen remote sessions and changed the wrong one.
couple of days downtime for ~ 1500 people. eventually they fingered me. they told me to go stand in the corner and think about it.
That’s a brutal punishment. Did they at least use lube?
Ran out of disk space… Two days ago
