Rant about new age "senior" IT "specialists" who don't know how to wipe their butt.

That's kind of a horrifying thought. One our junior devs accidentally borked their Linux(unfortunately ubuntu) setup because it was updating and thus not letting them install new packages.
So they killed it using instructions they found online, then deleted the lock file, then installed their packages, which went fine until they rebooted. They had a broken boot menu because killing it while it's rebuilding the menu is a bad idea.

Can you imagine giving that kind of destructive "I don't know what I'm doing so I'll just ignore/force through everything that gets in my way" approach access to other people's machines?

At least with the decision to become a developer they only had access to their own machine and anything that might affect the codebase was reviewed by other people(as well as being very easy to revert).

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