An equally sufficient solution would have been to install a safety switch on any button with that much importance. Something like this but probably smaller, or just a plastic cover that fit over the F7 key: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/15a5/
A fireable offense would be lying about the action or trying to cover it up.
Should the lady who asked for the reset be fired for playing a game and asking him to reset the computer?
Should the technician that didn't install some sort of safety be fired for not foreseeing this issue?
He would be much less likely to make the same mistake in the future than the person who would replace him.
If there are terminals that could erase a presidential report and there is no backup available, you send a non-critical staff member to guard every one of those terminals, or at least put a sticky-note in the middle of the monitor.
I'd say several other people deserved to be fired for this, but the intern was not one of them.
An equally sufficient solution would have been to install a safety switch on any button with that much importance. Something like this but probably smaller, or just a plastic cover that fit over the F7 key: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/15a5/
A fireable offense would be lying about the action or trying to cover it up.
Should the lady who asked for the reset be fired for playing a game and asking him to reset the computer?
Should the technician that didn't install some sort of safety be fired for not foreseeing this issue?
He would be much less likely to make the same mistake in the future than the person who would replace him.
If there are terminals that could erase a presidential report and there is no backup available, you send a non-critical staff member to guard every one of those terminals, or at least put a sticky-note in the middle of the monitor.
I'd say several other people deserved to be fired for this, but the intern was not one of them.