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by g051051 2575 days ago
In 30 years of software development, I've never seen a dev fired because of a buggy release. You get fired for 3 reasons: long, ongoing performance problems; violating company practices like stealing or sexual harassment; or when the company needs to cut salary and staff to meet numbers.

Also, I've never seen a developer who behaved like S did in the story.