I respectfully disagree. I was a junior person who was given root level privileges on a production server. There were many layers of process and management that weren't in place. Today, I am a senior person at a multi-billion dollar company. I would never call "professional suicide" at a junior person who made a genuine mistake. I would scold them, and then I would try to figure out how we got into the situation where someone unqualified could cause us such a bad thing to happen.