"Today was my first day on the job as a Junior Software Developer..."

And he has permissions to delete the production database? Heads much higher up the tree need to roll.

This was the general consensous on r/sysadmin when the post made it over there.

If you can destroy a buisness on your first day, or even severly hobble it, you have larger issues than a green dev.

My most stressful times as a developer always were related to database and manipulating production data.

Subtle corruption that silently degrade your whole company's data, hearing customers come back with complaints days after you've released your code because stats don't seem to make sense anymore... And understanding after you found the issue that you'll have to run batches to manually fix the bad data and restore anything that was affected.

That's definitely an experience i'll never ever forget.

I too have nightmares about working at a place so poorly run that it would be possible for someone to delete the production database on their first day.