The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this, is a monumental fuck up. You're gonna cost us millions in revenue".
No, the CEO was at fault, as was whoever let you develop against the production database.
If the CEO had any sense, he should have put you in charge of fixing the issue and then making sure it could never happen again. Taking things further, they could have asked you to find other worrying areas, and come up with fixes for those before something else bad happens.
I have no doubt that you would have taken the task extremely seriously, and the company would have ended up in a better place.
Instead, they're down an employee, and the remaining employees know that if they make a mistake, they'll be out of the door.
No, the CEO was at fault, as was whoever let you develop against the production database.
If the CEO had any sense, he should have put you in charge of fixing the issue and then making sure it could never happen again. Taking things further, they could have asked you to find other worrying areas, and come up with fixes for those before something else bad happens.
I have no doubt that you would have taken the task extremely seriously, and the company would have ended up in a better place.
Instead, they're down an employee, and the remaining employees know that if they make a mistake, they'll be out of the door.
And they still have an empty users table.