Hmm... I'm always reminded of my professor telling me that it's never the fault of who pressed the button, responsibility lay upon who decided to make them able to press a button that can cause such catastrophic issues.
Somebody from my engineering class had an internship at DuPonts main facility/production line. Was implementing something that managed to complety shut down production for an entire shift & cause a large fire, ended up being something in the millions worth of damages from production loss and fire damage.
Intern wasn't even yelled at IIRC. He actually went on to do some very helpful things the rest of the internship. But man, did the person who let an intern be in the position to single handedly cause such a mess get absolutely fucked by his superiors.
What about the middle manager who gave that supervisor the power to put an intern in a such critical position without review?. You can keep going up like that .
In most companies someone is the fall guy depending on much impact is there. It is not uncommon for that some guy to be the CEO if the fuck up is big enough .
Somebody from my engineering class had an internship at DuPonts main facility/production line. Was implementing something that managed to complety shut down production for an entire shift & cause a large fire, ended up being something in the millions worth of damages from production loss and fire damage.
Intern wasn't even yelled at IIRC. He actually went on to do some very helpful things the rest of the internship. But man, did the person who let an intern be in the position to single handedly cause such a mess get absolutely fucked by his superiors.