[treis]

I've seen this sort of Zen of CEO type story a lot but it doesn't match up with reality. Someone that deletes a production DB by being careless or reckless is likely to do something similar again. Perhaps not in the exact same way, but there's infinite ways to break things. Those that stumble upon one are likely to stumble upon another.

[bzzzt]

In that case everyone making 1 mistake is 'out'. Seems "cancel culture" is leaking into ops...

I was in the room when the CEO told that (one of the nice things about small companies) and have had contact with the person responsible for a few years until he got another job. True story ;)

There were changes though: the 'two pair of eyes' principle was enforced a lot stricter from then on.