This reminds me of "The Machine Fired Me - No human could do a thing about it!" [1], where a guy got fired by some bug in the system and no one could stop or reverse it. It was posted on HN [2] three years agos.

[1] https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645