Software doesn't fire people, people fire people. "Coding error" could mean anywhere from "we wrote an actual good-faith attempt to measure some sort of perfor

Software doesn't fire people, people fire people. "Coding error" could mean anywhere from "we wrote an actual good-faith attempt to measure some sort of performance, there was a bug, and we blindly followed what it said without double checking" to "the code we wrote to 'select * from employees' when firing people was in 'error' in hindsight because we now wish to have some of those people working for us again". No matter how you cut it, in the absolute best case scenario, the people doing the firing were so incompetent that no one can tell they weren't being malicious. The median scenario, they were simply being malicious.