As a former Google employee, I can assure you that there have been far bigger screw ups than that... and it's just part of the learning experience. The bigger t

As a former Google employee, I can assure you that there have been far bigger screw ups than that... and it's just part of the learning experience. The bigger the screw up, the more money you've invested in training them :) (i.e. When I was there, one man single handedly instantly brought down 10,000 machines in a hard reboot... fortunately because of the way Google replicates and distributes things, the world was none the wiser. It really gave me great respect and trust in their infrastructure and no he wasn't fired.)