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by GuB-42 912 days ago
This is most likely a honest mistake. Smart managers don't fire employees for such mistakes unless their behavior regarding that mistake is inappropriate.

As the story goes, after a junior admin wiped a production database. The boss was asked if he should be fired. To what he answered: "Fire him? No way! Not after such an expensive training." Now, he knows.