> At a place I worked, a DBA was let go after he repeatedly brought production down for 45 minutes to an hour at a time by running intensive queries of his own

> At a place I worked, a DBA was let go after he repeatedly brought production down for 45 minutes to an hour at a time by running intensive queries of his own design for data-gathering, in some cases, after being explicitly told not to do that against the prod database. This was a person whose job description required him to have access to prod. Trying to have some sympathy: Was he given an alternative? Or was it a "stop doing that important thing -- I don't know how else to do it, figure it out" situation?