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Comment by hashkb

8 years ago

He didn't follow the docs exactly. That doesn't matter, though, your first day should be bulletproof and if it's not, it's on the CTO. The buck does not stop with junior engineers on their first day.

> He didn't follow the docs exactly

Sure, but having the plaintext credentials for a readily-deletable prod db as an example before you instruct someone to wipe the db doesn't salvage competence very much.

  • I wouldn't be surprised if the actual production db was never properly named and was left with an example name.