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The Tech World Is Rallying Around a Young Developer Who Made a Huge, Embarrassing Mistake


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"How screwed am I?" asked a recent user on Reddit, before sharing a mortifying story. On the first day as a junior software developer at a first salaried job out of college, his or her copy-and-paste error inadvertently erased all data from the company's production database.

Posting under the heartbreaking handle cscareerthrowaway567, the user wrote:

The CTO told me to leave and never come back. He also informed me that apparently legal would need to get involved due to severity of the data loss. I basically offered and pleaded to let me help in someway to redeem my self and i was told that i "completely fucked everything up"…

I haven't heard from HR, or anything and i am panicking to high heavens. I just moved across the country for this job, is there anything i can even remotely do to redeem my self in this situation? Can i possibly be sued for this? Should i contact HR directly? I am really confused, and terrified.

As subRedditors saw it, cscareerthrowaway567 made one mistake. The company made several. 

From Quartz
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