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Speaking from firsthand experience, business doesn't care. The managers know that a) no matter what happens it's likely that their jobs aren't on the line, b) t
by sqldba 11y ago
Speaking from firsthand experience, business doesn't care. The managers know that a) no matter what happens it's likely that their jobs aren't on the line, b) they already have stockholder money and so can just hand-wave any problems away as "once-off and we've fired the staff responsible".
So what I get to see are DR plans that are obviously faulty, where they cannot be tested for something as simple as we don't have 20TB of extra disk handy to do a single failover.
"That's okay", the boss will say, "as long as we have it on paper."
Okay dude. As long as I have your comment in an email to protect myself. I'm okay with being fired for something I warned everyone about, as long as I can also show that to my next boss, to prove my common sense^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpert advice gets overridden.