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The real metric is dollars per second of destroyed hardware ;)
I once watched an engineer blow up a $200k prototype with a terminal alias.
That's impressive. I'm glad I don't have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.
I once worked with someone who accidentally deleted our company's entire Git server. We had backups thankfully, but they were nearly a week old.
Thank the gods for git being distributed, so the vast majority of the work from the last week was recoverable because it was on someone's machine locally.