For those wondering what "accountability" and "responsibility" should look like:
They do not need to mean punishment, they can just mean "clear, concrete intent for remediation and improvement".
The remediation part is implemented by the severance package.
The intent for improvement, is nowhere to be seen.
When somebody makes a mistake, punishing on its own is meaningless. The point is to remedy the mistake (eg pay money if the mistake incurred a financial loss) and prevent further future mistakes. No, the CEO should not resign, they should just identify why things went SO wrong and show a clear plan on how to prevent such mistakes from the future.
If someone deletes a database, I don't expect them to resign, I expect them to restore it from a backup, and find a way to prevent such mistakes from the future (eg run migrations in a reversible transaction)
They do not need to mean punishment, they can just mean "clear, concrete intent for remediation and improvement".
The remediation part is implemented by the severance package. The intent for improvement, is nowhere to be seen.
When somebody makes a mistake, punishing on its own is meaningless. The point is to remedy the mistake (eg pay money if the mistake incurred a financial loss) and prevent further future mistakes. No, the CEO should not resign, they should just identify why things went SO wrong and show a clear plan on how to prevent such mistakes from the future.
If someone deletes a database, I don't expect them to resign, I expect them to restore it from a backup, and find a way to prevent such mistakes from the future (eg run migrations in a reversible transaction)