Good Guy Colleague
I had a junior developer on my team that made a mistake. He had only been there a few months and although the mistake was easy to make, it would end up costing the company $40k. I was a senior dev and relatively untouchable due to a lot of fixed mistakes that others had made.
For two days management was talking about who made the mistake and what they would need to do. As soon as I realized who it was (he was unaware at that point that he had done it wrong) I said I did it.
Nobody said another word about it except me who quietly explained the correct way to push code changes to the junior dev. Story credit: Reddit / Technical-Bet-2023