Thousands of people are responding to this Reddit user who had the ultimate worst first day at a new job

Perhaps you showed up in completely inappropriate clothing, or poured coffee over your new boss.

However, this story really puts things into perspective.

On Saturday, anonymous Reddit user cscareerthrowaway567 posted on the site describing his or her first — and last — day in a junior software developer role at a company. Along with the story, they asked the question: "How screwed am I?"

The post reads:

The user followed instructions they were given in a document, but accidentally entered in the given values instead of their own. The result was accidentally destroying the entire database.

It begs the question of how a company gave someone the information to be able to delete their whole database in the first place. However, it looked like nobody was going to take the responsibility for the mistake, and the CTO quickly blamed the employee and proceeded to tell them never to come back.

The Reddit community seem to be more or less unanimous in their support for the user. Several accounts point out red flags such as the company not sitting down with a new employee to explain things clearly, or apparently not having anything backed up.

One user, itishell, placed the blame firmly on the management.

"That CTO is the one to blame here, sure it's an accumulation of smaller errors made by other people, but the CTO is responsible to have appropriate measures in place and processes to prevent this. Sure it could always happen, but like that with all these flaws is just asking for it," they commented. "He's a bad CTO for letting that happen, but even worse for firing you and blaming it on you. He's the one that should take the hit. He sucks."

Other users bring up that this situation happened at Amazon, and the company was praised for how it was handled. Rather than placing blame on a junior employee, steps were taken to ensure the same thing couldn't happen again.

After a lot of feedback, the Reddit user updated the post to add: "Just to make it even more embarrassing, i just realized that i took the laptop i was issued home with me (i have no idea why i did this at all)."

We don't know whether they returned the laptop. However, after receiving thousands of supportive comments, the user is probably feeling slightly less responsible for what might just be the worst first day of all time.

Business Insider has reached out for comment.

Thousands of people are responding to this Reddit user who had the ultimate worst first day at a new job

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