everyone in this thread, In case anyone wondered the result of this, they took away my database credentials(which became an issue when they needed me to look things up but meh) instead of removing my ability to delete tables(which would have made so much more sense)

BUT, I got to keep my job and I have been here for almost a year now. I just recently put in my notice for another job, so I'm doing good. Thanks everyone who commented on this and helped me get through that terrifying time!

This is a great post, I'm so glad you shared it! I totally feel this too:

-Took AP Computer Science in high school, get a C+ but get told "You might want to consider other career options."

-Told my high school grades weren't going to get me into any decent colleges, and that I should start working as soon as I could out of high school.

-Started building websites and games as personal projects over 8 years of working at fast food places, restraunts, retail, sales, and a job at a gym.

-Get a job as a junior web developer, work there for 2 years and recently changed to another web development position.

So I definitely feel the whole being told no thing. I have been told I'd never get here because I just wasn't good enough. It's been a struggle over the last 10 years since I graduated, but I'm very happy where I am now.

@deusprogrammer That would be an interesting project for sure!

@deusprogrammer Unfortunately It needs to work with a legacy LAMP stack. I'd jump at the chance to do ANYTHING to modernize this system.

@KittyCrumpet check out the chrome extension called StyleBot I I use that so I can override different websites css. So far I've made a dark theme for Facebook and StackOverflow.

@localdam I used to do acting, id totally do it as well haha.

@jakallergis I definitely dont hate him, we just finished a, 12 hour day. We're in crunch time for the full launch. We've been joking all weekend about what happened. Every time I tell him we need to change something in the new db he's like "So you want me to delete everything?" I'll never live this down lol

He got his boss to buy pizza so we could cram till 9 and was cool with me coming in a bit late today knowing we'd be working so late, and that I wanted to stop at the store before work to get coffee and energy drinks.

This is one of the best working environments I've ever had and it'll be very hard to replace.

He's definitely a good leader and I think we all recognize it. He's getting the team and I where we need to be, and I'm thankful he thinks I'm a valuable part of the team.

I mention devRant to him pretty often. I mentioned the stress ball today:

Me: "...the stress ball will hopefully help"
Boss: "And by stress ball do you mean handle of rum?"
Me: "That would help too."

@zfor ill literally use it every day. It will totally help. Not even joking

@Letmecode yeah definitely, I don't know if he drinks but definitely a coffee and lunch. I'm glad it worked out too. I'll be honest as stressful as the new software launch has been, I actually don't hate this job. It's my first programming job and I wouldn't go back to doing anything else, I like programming too much.

UPDATE: Monday rolls around. Buissness users are losing their mind over all the lost data. Freaking out screaming at people. Only my boss and devRant knows it was me my boss was awesome and kept it under wraps which is probably why Im keeping my job.

DB is working finally(we figured out the schrodingers table situation)

Also THANK YOU EVERYONE WHOO 200+1s! Excitement!

Thanks everyone again for supporting me in this time of crisis.

@kimailis remember that games can be as simple or as complicated as you make them. Ask yourself what makes this "hard" or "complicated".

I write js games all the time in jsfiddle for fun, im on my phone right now, but ill look up one of them later and link it here. They are all "simple" games. One is a 2 player collection game. First to 30 coins collected wins. Another is a basic rock paper scissors game I made for another guy I met on devrant.

My jsfiddles are normally well documented and designed to share some concepts involved with making games.

What kind of simple game are you looking for an example of? If I don't have a close example written ill quickly make one while on break at work tomorrow.

I'll be doing this on Tuesday. Good luck!

UPDATE: We had to drop the table and reapply the backup(losing another days work) but we're back up and running 100%

I've still got to work through the weekend to work with our provider to get replication set up for both the new and old systems.

We go live in 2 days, and I have like a weeks worth of work to get done...

UPDATE: Schrodinger's table. So the DB is up and running, but we're having some issues with a few tables being missing, and we can't create them because it says they exist, and we can't drop them because it says they don't...

From what the DB guy can see, the .frm files for the tables is gone, but the Storage Engine says it exists. So we have to figure out how to fix it. Either recover the files, or do a mysqldump, then reset the storage engine, and then load the records.

On another note: for now my Job is safe! I have to work my ass off to fix everything, but I believe for the time being they don't plan to let me go.

That sounds like it could lead to a bad time.

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Our coffee machine broke once and the HR woman come out with a unopend coffee machine. She had purchased it when she started at the company but hid it from everyone so 4 years after she started she would be prepared for that very moment it broke.

@NMerz maybe it'll get me a stress ball, after today I think I need one hahaha.

Everyone has been super supportive and its amazing. It's really helped me through this. I was honestly ready to pack my things wipe my computer and leave my key, but everyone helped convince me to push through. And because of it I might still have a job.

UPDATE: more clients are back online, weve found some small caches of data laying around and are trying to use it to fill the holes.

I've only been here an hour but so far everything seems to be not on fire so its a start.

@mrtakaaxe thats what im wprking on. Im in the office and im not fired yet so... Maybe im safe? Or maybe they're waiting for me to finish fixing things before tossing me out

@oortCloud surprisingly yes, that helps. Haha thanks for that.

@FitzSuperUser is that a git pun? Hahaha anyway I appreciate the support!

@SweetHuman id have no idea how to do that. Im not a DBA or anything I only learned php in the last year or so, specifically for this job. Prior to starting here I knew nothing about php.

@alandemaria im hoping I dont lose my job. One of the silver linings im getting from this is "at least when we ask for more servers for replication and backups, nobody will complain"

@Marnsghol I basically did just that luckily everyone had left so I was alone in the office and nobody had to see it.

@lquessenberry we had a 19 hour one but it won't go back in correctly. We dumped it to a different db and have to manually move tables back in.

It's a big mess.

@maximizer thanks. I guess that's a silver lining I didn't think of.

@HaehnleinMar interesting ill have to suggest that. The software was originally written by one guy and to make one fields change in the front end takes like 6-10 queries its super inefficient, which Is the reason behind rebuilding from scratch.

@Letmecode I'm hoping so too, I'm positive the long hours had something to do with it.

@herdani im hanging in for sure. I dont disagree. Higher ups got rid of replication as a buisness decision to save money because the company was losing money fast. But i dont fully blame them because we didn't fight for it very hard because at the time we IT didnt have a very big voice. We didn't think anyone would hear us.

@dfox yeah I almost did that once but caught myself in time.

Just got up... Thanks everyone for the support, ill try and get to everyones comments. Heres the morning UPDATE: we managed to restore A backup to a different DB because of some issue with the indexing system(the guy who originally built it used z-tables instead of auto increment and nobody had ever changed it) and we're slowly trying to get all 10 or so clients back online I guess one is up so its going to be a process. Idk if im fired yet but I am headed in now and we'll find out then.