So then there was the one time I was engaged in sysadminery and had my cow-orker sitting next to me while we were trying to debug some issue. She says, "Hey, is there anything useful in the README file?"
I immediately typed "rm README" and hit enter.
Then I crawled under my desk and wouldn't come out until we'd gotten the file restored from backups. Naturally, it had no useful information in it.
Then there was the time, for no readily apparent reason, where I typed "DELETE * FROM table" (in the dev database). Fine, I thought, it's time to go home, and submit a request to get the DB restored.
It turns out that they kept one (1) day's worth of backups, which they took at 6:30pm or so. I submitted the request at about 6:00pm and the DB guy had already gone home; he did the restore about 7:00am the next morning. Yes, he restored an empty table.
I immediately typed "rm README" and hit enter.
Then I crawled under my desk and wouldn't come out until we'd gotten the file restored from backups. Naturally, it had no useful information in it.
Then there was the time, for no readily apparent reason, where I typed "DELETE * FROM table" (in the dev database). Fine, I thought, it's time to go home, and submit a request to get the DB restored.
It turns out that they kept one (1) day's worth of backups, which they took at 6:30pm or so. I submitted the request at about 6:00pm and the DB guy had already gone home; he did the restore about 7:00am the next morning. Yes, he restored an empty table.