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First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired

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Since this should be a controlled document...

That's assuming a lot. Given the general level of competence demonstrated, either it was controlled inasmuch as it was written and never revised, so there was never a need to do change management, or their control process was along the lines of "use the document in this directory, it should be the latest version", which happened to have global write privilege.

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