An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
The Enterprise I work for is currently implementing a new idea - where they hire a crack team of generalists - and give them complete and utter unfettered access to production (including databases).<p>This is despite our databases being controlled by my team and having the best uptime and least problems of anything in the entire business. Networks? Fucked. Infrastructure? Fucked. Storage? Fucked. But the databases roll on, get backed up, get their integrity checks, and get monitored while everyone else ignores their own alarms.<p>The reasoning for this is (wait for it...) because it will improve the quality of our work by forcing us to write our instructions&#x2F;changes 3 MONTHS IN ADVANCE for generalists to carry out rather than doing it ourselves. 3 MONTHS. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. AND THIS IS PART OF AN EFFICIENCY STRATEGY TO STEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOSSES.<p>Needless to say the idea is fucking stupid. But yeah, some fucking yahoo meddling with the shit I spent my entire career getting right, is sure to drop a fucking Production database by accident. I can guarantee it. Your data is never safe when you have idiots in management making decisions.