I'm so glad I work at a company with culture like one of the former and not the latter. As someone that has worked in real life high stakes physical scenarios

I'm so glad I work at a company with culture like one of the former and not the latter. As someone that has worked in real life high stakes physical scenarios (people can and have died in companies I worked with), being able to blamelessly own your mistakes is critical. Lowering the stakes doesn't change that. As long as your intentions weren't weren't intentional or knowingly and needlessly reckless, you will keep your job. Even when people did exceptionally stupid or willful things we allowed them to leave with all earned pay and some semblance of fairness. Nothing makes a situation more dangerous, or harder to manage than when people hide things.