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by lavamantis 3738 days ago
Yes I think everyone has had one of those "Wanna get away?" moments. Hopefully they're very early in your career and only ever happen once. Mine was small and I was very Jr so nothing more than my pride got hurt.

The worst is when someone else notices it before you. We came in to work on Monday and some reported that they couldn't log into the system. We checked logs and noticed there were timeout errors on some SQL queries. Huh, that's odd, why is there a query "update Users set deletedat=now()" with no "where" clause running in production??? Turns out someone was in a hurry and tried to make a test pass without thinking to much about what the code was doing. Then - push right to prod on a Friday evening!