It would be quite a good motto, if the places that have it tended to actually support the "and break things’ part by providing safety nets and the time and resources to learn from mistakes. Instead, critical errors happen and no one has a plan on how to fix them.
I got let go after telling my boss I wouldn’t open a new DB connection per request in our API. No pooling, he wanted me to dial a new connection every request. I had more dignity than that.
It would be quite a good motto, if the places that have it tended to actually support the "and break things’ part by providing safety nets and the time and resources to learn from mistakes. Instead, critical errors happen and no one has a plan on how to fix them.
But then what would be the point of breaking them?
I got let go after telling my boss I wouldn’t open a new DB connection per request in our API. No pooling, he wanted me to dial a new connection every request. I had more dignity than that.