Swear to god, the story is true!
We were able to restore most of the work because someone didn't pull the updates. (I should have added it in the story, didn't think it was important) But it was nerve wracking :')
Obviously this person had all the privileges required to force push the previous commit in order to save the day. The old adage of never fact-checking a good story holds true however. Not sure it's a good selling point though, by nerd sniping everyone to explain in detail what the actual problem was no one will read to the end.