Drop and go
Anon as I work for the company still and so do the other people.
There was an issue with an application running on a database where it hadn't imported data for some days, our overseas team that wrote the software gave a bunch of fix steps to run through the first of which involved "drop", the rest of it "worked". The person running the fix steps is not a DBA and does not know what the commands meant, was just told, it would fix it.
Queue the customer saying, "there's no data".
Cue the restore and then replaying multiple days worth of data that took a couple of days to complete.
DBA rights promptly removed that day to everybody that was not in fact an actual DBA.
Also, steps that any "run these list of commmands" issued from any other team was reviewed by multiple people to determine what it would actually do.
Fortunately, I did not get sucked into that maelstrom, just managed to snigger from afar.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
