It's also possible the company has processes that make doing the right thing take so long it's infeasible.

If that is the case, these broken processes will cause far more damage than that one employee.

> It's also possible the company has processes that make doing the right thing take so long it's infeasible.

If it caused outages and disruption, it wasn't the right thing.

I understand the temptation to just do my own thing and bypass everything to get a deliverable done and be the hero. But in the long term that's never the responsible thing to do. Follow the process to avoid disruptions like this one. If the process seems inefficient, work to improve the process to bring consistency benefits to everyone.

If he had had loyalty, it clearly would have been misplaced since they laid him off.