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by wildmusings 3720 days ago
>I came in to work after the break, and everyone was freaking out because all their code was gone.

What happened next? This cliffhanger is killing me.

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I honestly don't know how they recovered from it all. I think they were able to recover parts of it from some people's workstations, but still had to rewrite an awful lot of their code.
Once again proves, you have to A) look at what your scripts are actually doing and B) test them manually at least couple times somehow, otherwise this is plain unprofessional (in one of the many ways sadly and funnily possible).