Harsh. Unless there is more to the story being fired for a mistake like that is ridiculous. Everyone fucks up occasionally, and on the scale of fuck ups I've ce

Harsh. Unless there is more to the story being fired for a mistake like that is ridiculous. Everyone fucks up occasionally, and on the scale of fuck ups I've certainly done worse than a 1hr DR site outage, as I'm sure pretty much anyone who's ever run infrastructure has. A consistent pattern of fucking up is grounds for termination, but not any one off instance unless there was an extreme level of negligence on display. > Sidenote: I asked the bank infrastructure team why the DR site was in the same earthquake zone, and they thought I was crazy. They said if there's an earthquake we'll have bigger problems to deal with. I bring this sort of thing up all the time in disaster planning. There are scales of disaster so big that business continuity is simply not going to be a priority.