My company mandated a mental wellness check-in. 48 hours later, my database access was quietly revoked. – Part 1
Story code: ST-001281 Part 1: The Safe Space Trap The SQL console returned a fatal syntax error I had never seen in my four years on the backend engineering team. Error code 1044: Access denied for user ‘marcus.t’@’localhost’ to database ‘prod_ops’ (Read-Only). I mashed the backspace key, retyped the standard status update command, and slammed … Read more