In both cases, critical data with no backups was deleted by an ex-employee. In the "first day" story, it just happened to be both his first day and last day. I

In both cases, critical data with no backups was deleted by an ex-employee. In the "first day" story, it just happened to be both his first day and last day. I guess the difference is that one was a developer and the other an admin. No telling from this story if the person who deleted the data was an employee when they deleted the data.