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It bothers me that people have expectations of perfection. Of course there will be breaks in the chain the lead to doses being wasted. There are thousands or mi
by anitil 6y ago
It bothers me that people have expectations of perfection. Of course there will be breaks in the chain the lead to doses being wasted. There are thousands or millions of ways for it to go wrong, and only a few ways for it to go right.
It is an astounding miracle of human progress that we can get to this point.
- DarknessFalls 6y agoI was ready for the knee-jerk response to pounce and heap damnation on the plant for messing it up. But you have a very valid and insightful point.
- BLanen 6y agoI was ready for the knee-jerk hackernews response where people complain about deserved criticism. I don't know how you people expect things to get better if this wouldn't happen.
- kodah 6y agoThere's a big difference between complaining and curiosity. Really, there's a whole host of ways to think and vocalize improving a system without complaining.
- Guthur 6y agoThis is a failure of leadership to ensure that a quality product is being delivered by the system they're responsible for. I'd usually be pretty forgiving especially when there is a high degree of novelty. Maybe this particular vaccine is novel and that benefit of the doubt should be extended in this case, I'm not sure though. It's also possible this is common variation but we never hear about it.
- mulmen 6y agoScenario: An engineer who you pay $200,000.00/yr in salary pushes code to prod which brings your totally unique SaaS product down. Accounting says the incident cost $2,000,000.00. Do you: A) Fire the engineer on the spot. B) Conduct a thorough investigation of your testing and deployment practices and implement changes to avoid such a mistake in the future.
- Guthur 6y agoMissing a lot of information to actually answer that question. Was the engineer wilfully negligent of checks and balances put in place. Was he wilfully negligent because of undue pressure to deliver more in the same time and without any system changes. Did his mother recently die and he couldn't take time off to grieve properly. There are many aspects that make up the analysis of a failure in quality, and that is the job of leadership.
- mulmen 6y agoOk let me expand the choices then. C) Fire the engineer's manager. D) Resign.
- Guthur 6y agoI've a feeling that everyone has misinterpret the sentiment of my remark. What i was trying to imply is that there's something to be reviewed here and it's leaderships responsibility to do so. I'm feeling that potentially with covid and all it's a little too emotive and the whole comment was misplaced and doomed to degenerate into a slinging match. Also there is a lack of detailed knowledge that precludes me from making more detailed statements.
- fermienrico 6y agoObviously, option A. Improves the morale instantly.
- jamesrcole 6y agoHow easily avoidable was the error? If it was caused by gross negligence then it’d be fair to criticize those at fault. We don’t know, but you seem to be assuming it wasn’t as the result of negligence.
- eecc 6y agoExactly, particularly during an emergency where many procedures are being redefined in the interest of time and new processes learned.
- yellowapple 6y agoAccepting that mistakes will sometimes happen does not absolve the need to prevent said mistakes from happening in the future. It certainly doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't be critical of the events leading up to those mistakes.