Because when the company has to man up, and tell the reason of the Fuck up to the stakeholders, the should not be pointing fingers to a person who was not even on their payroll.
It was someone's job to avoid this from happening, or they do not have people covering such cases... either way, someone other (person or the company as a whole) than the fired employee messed up for the business/customers and they are liable/answerable.
Because people fail... all the time. Good, Smart, Sincere people fail. (not in this particular case, though)
This is just how things are. We all have heard numerous stories of rm -r / or drop database or something similar. Hell, the whole widely accept idea of "bugs" in software industry is based on the fact that people WILL do something wrong. Not because they are bad people, want to do bad things, but to err is human.
So your process should not be designed around the idea of people doing the right things always.
It was someone's job to avoid this from happening, or they do not have people covering such cases... either way, someone other (person or the company as a whole) than the fired employee messed up for the business/customers and they are liable/answerable.
Because people fail... all the time. Good, Smart, Sincere people fail. (not in this particular case, though)
This is just how things are. We all have heard numerous stories of rm -r / or drop database or something similar. Hell, the whole widely accept idea of "bugs" in software industry is based on the fact that people WILL do something wrong. Not because they are bad people, want to do bad things, but to err is human.
So your process should not be designed around the idea of people doing the right things always.
This is what I think he means (and I concur)