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Some poor soul earning his stripes at Spotify today. (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren't correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a "email changed notification". Followed by another.. And another.. And another...

I went out to lunch

[–] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We hired a DBA that put a read lock on a production database table and went out to lunch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That's, you've really added value!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

was this really your fault then?