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I was forced to train someone so cocky that they ended up doing a rm -rf / on our production server a month after I quit. He also accidentally euthanized a lega
by orbitingpluto 11y ago
I was forced to train someone so cocky that they ended up doing a rm -rf / on our production server a month after I quit. He also accidentally euthanized a legacy server, deleted the accounting database when he was trying to do a hardware based RAID rebuild, completely destroyed the Windows domain server and mocked my daily tape backup regimen - opting to ship USB consumer grade hard drives in an unpadded steel box instead to off-site storage... The list goes on. He literally destroyed everything he touched. The only reason he wasn't fired was because he was a pretty man.
- chris_wot 11y agoOh man, this was my last boss who literally destroyed every one of the critical reports to key clients. I quit when I realised he was undermining me to the CEO, and the CEO was listening to him. He then completely borked the entire system so badly that he was forced to resign 6 weeks later. The company went from 25 clients to 4 last month.
- orbitingpluto 11y agoI think tech workers should have a 'strategic vacation reserve' specifically to deal with this situation.
- chris_wot 11y agoActually, that's what I'm planning on doing from now on. However, I'm going to have to make sure all my own processes are completely bulletproof and documented.
- static_noise 11y agoYou trained him well, master.