[brandonwamboldt]

This tends to be over-used though. Unfortunately some employees would continue making $500,000 mistakes and never learning. It really depends on the employee's attitude and response to the incident, as well as the circumstances of the incident.

[floatingatoll]

It depends also on the employer's attitude and response to the incident. If the employee behaves perfectly and writes an impeccable post-mortem and is then fired "at the request of a client", that's on the employer, not the employee.