You would think so, but one time an undergraduate IT guy in my school's computer lab essentially ran an `rm -rf` on all the students' home directories 2 weeks f

You would think so, but one time an undergraduate IT guy in my school's computer lab essentially ran an `rm -rf` on all the students' home directories 2 weeks from the end of the semester. It turns out the lab's backups weren't working. The email from the department was pretty quick to throw that kid under the bus.