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I should have said that I don't blame any individual dev or sysadmin for failing to respond. It's a deeply entrenched organisational issue. Imagine fixing an i
by mjthompson 6y ago
I should have said that I don't blame any individual dev or sysadmin for failing to respond. It's a deeply entrenched organisational issue.
Imagine fixing an issue on a Model 204 mainframe, with a perpetually dwindling number of people you can rely on for help, knowing that if you don't fix it, people don't get their welfare cheque.
High stress, low reward. Unsung heroes in my books.
- jiggawatts 6y ago> people don't get their welfare cheque. A "fun" anecdote I heard was that every 1 day of outage of Centrelink's mainframe would result in 5-7 children with broken bones. You see, some alcoholic high-strung fathers in rural communities were spending their welfare cheques mostly at the local bottleshop. If the cheques stopped, their booze supply stopped, and their withdrawal symptoms would send them into mad rage. All too often, they'd take it out on their kids. Apparently someone at Centrelink was tracking this kind of stuff by gathering paediatric admissions data from hospitals. While I was there they had a 3-day outage that everyone just laughed off. You do the maths.
- mjthompson 6y agoTerrifying