[jjk166]

And the key to creating such a culture is to make the consequences of hiding mistakes substantially worse than the consequences of owning them. So either you reward people for making mistakes and coming forward (creating a perverse incentive to make mistakes) or you punish those who hide mistakes especially hard. Bonus points if in the process of punishing people who hide mistakes, you also remove those people from the organization, thus increasing the proportion of people in the organization who do not hide mistakes.

Firing these people is both just and pragmatic.