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Re: the Acceptance stage.
Years ago I worked at a family-run business with a good working environment. The staff were once told a story of how, earlier in the company's history, a manager made a mistake that caused the company a substantial monetary loss.
The manager immediately offered their resignation, but the owner said to them, "Why would I let you go now? I've just spent all this money so you could learn a valuable lesson!"
So yeah, generally, most managers' reaction to accidentally deleting vital data from production is going to be to fire the developer as a knee-jerk "retaliation", but if you think about it, the best response is to keep that developer; your data isn't coming back either way, but this developer has just learned to be a lot more careful in the future. Why would you send them to a potential competitor?
A developer shouldn't be able to do this thing either. So unless they were the person in charge of securing things, it's not their fault that it was even possible to do. Setup processes with oversight.
If a junior dev somehow finds a way to drop our prod database, that is on me, not them. Why did I give them access to do that?