LOL let me add some important info here on this prank.
1) I have been working really close with the mentioned employees and consider all them of very good friends (till now!! heh heh) so one of them losing their jobs over a mistake effects me personally. I like(d) these guys heh heh
2) The programmer in question is playing this off in hopes of winning an academy award. I am conpletely convinced that he is curled up in a ball crying about deleting the database and having a corrupted backup
3) The OWNER of the company calls me saying an affiliate calls him wondering where the stats are (yes, we give that kind of support to our affiliates)
4) The owner is INSISTING that not Brian, who usually handles the more technical aspects of the business, but I call him immediately when i know something for sure.....because it is an affiliate issue and therefor I am directly responsible...
5) I am the type of person who can go from zero to EXTREMELY stressed out in about a nano-second
when i clicked on the link..........well, I am still recovering
good one guys