I just want to say FUCK YOU to the guy who had the great Idea of putting the EDIT button 10 pixels away from the DELETE button on this internal batch processing scheduler tool.

it doesn't have a confirmation?

Instantly delete the job

@leviathan07 it does not. Click -> instadelete

I consider message boxes to be bad user experience. That's why I rarely use them. So, when users see them in my applications, they know it's serious. This would be one case where I would put a message box.

@WerewolfCustoms I agree, but in this case you could get rid of the possibility of a misclick (and a pop up for confirmation) easily by separating the two buttons apart.

I agree you may not have another area in the screen to place the button - which is not the case for the particular system I am ranting about - however if this happens at least make the delete button red, or whatever, to contrast the operations and convey different meaning from two similar objects close together - not the particular case either.