[nonameiguess]

This is probably made up, but if real, the CTO should have fired himself. Some of the shittest practices I've ever heard of. Why would you use a real persistent database for your test scripts, whether it's a production instance or not? Spin up a lightweight mock server on the fly and autogenerate fake credentials. Heck, one of the test cases should be that you can't just delete the whole thing. Why on earth would you store credentials in an onboarding guide?

Anyway, for a real story, back in 2002 Sears before they totally tanked tried to open a home decor business called The Great Indoors. I was one of their first retail employees hired to work the stock room at a new opening. First day on the job, a week before the place was going to open, someone spends about 30 seconds showing me how to operate some forklift-like crate carrier called a wave or something like that, and I'm supposed to move some stuff to another floor via freight elevator. I accidentally accelerate when trying to slow down and promptly destroy the elevator.

Store manager was irate and promptly spends 10 minutes screaming at me in front of everyone and then sends me home permanently. You know what? 21 year-old me internalized that shit and believed I was actually at fault, but in retrospect, that place was bullshit and both Sears and The Great Indoors deserved the fate of eventually going out of business. The ensuring two decades have been up and down, but I'm in a great place now. I hope, if this really happened, that this junior dev landed all right, too. Life is way too short to stick with a toxic workplace, and when you don't have a family to feed and still have the freedom to just walk away, you absolutely should.

[nmfisher]

USA doesn’t require forklift licences?

[nonameiguess]

Does but I'm guessing this vehicle somehow qualified under regulatory minutiae as not actually a forklift.