[bumblehean]

Firing someone for an honest mistake is a great way to make all of your employees afraid to push changes out of concern that they'll be next (although to be fair this was a pretty big mistake).

Things like this are usually a systemic failure rather than being 100% attribute to a single person.

[IFC_LLC]

There are magnitudes of mistakes. I can drop prod 4 times a day on a project that's being used by 4 old grannies to sync their excel file and get away with it. I can get scolded for 5 minutes of downtime at 6 am.

There is a point of responsibility in here, and it is up to the management to triage the fallout of this "mistake".