Boss: Sam pushed a bug into production last week. How do we prevent that from ever happening again? Me: Don't let anyone do anything. Boss: No, I'm serious. Me:

Boss: Sam pushed a bug into production last week. How do we prevent that from ever happening again? Me: Don't let anyone do anything. Boss: No, I'm serious. Me: So am I. So classic. But it's true, you could try to work with the Boss a little more. Maybe say, "it's impossible to prevent that from ever happening again, but there might be some things we can do to reduce the frequency of that happening." Then you can talk about things like (assuming that if your boss it that bad that maybe these things aren't happening) code reviews, automated testing, etc.