Why is live user data in the staging environment?! 😬😳

Oopsies accidentally bulk imported live data

Is it cleansed and masked? If so, it should be ok

@asgs it is not

I have my reasons..... ooh look a big export button

i have a customer who's regularly copying the live-database to stage.

which is even necessary sometimes, since the inherited codebase is such a heap of garbage, there's often no other way to reproduce bugs.

it's the level of garbage where changes in stylesheets can break things in the database. (please don't ask me to explain. i just finished this topic with my therapist, my other therapist, my rubber duck, and its therapist.)

wait till you realize your email batch job on your test server is about to send ANOTHER copy of that email this week :)

@fullstackchris we once generated and sent a lot of test invoices to a real customer in production and they freaked out

Thankfully, one of our Seniors who had good domain knowledge worked a full night to correct the data