DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.

Exactly!

One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.

Yeah that’s some bad mojo

Yup. In the car world “ricers” are specifically upgrading cars with purely cosmetic add-ons. They are stereotyped as using Asian cars and/or being Asian. The term should be strangled in the crib.