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My sister worked there as a kid and labor on demand had certain chaotic results. To give an IT analogy if an IT department staffed based on corporate's seeming
by VLM 5y ago
My sister worked there as a kid and labor on demand had certain chaotic results.
To give an IT analogy if an IT department staffed based on corporate's seemingly random rolls of the dice it could be painful to make sure weekly backups get done weekly, for example. Especially if the only feedback was when the restore process occasionally broke down. Whereas if some dude is always at work every Friday morning at 8am he can get in the habit of being the guy who always runs the backups. Also imagine if the only way to run backups was to flip the power switch for a half hour and hope you know how to complete the backup in less than a half hour... nobody wants to be that guy who shut off the DB server even if maint is required...
- ethbr0 5y agoOn the other hand... if you're swapping people in and out of a roll, it forces you to have an SOP and training. If it's the same person for 5+ years, I can guarantee there's nothing accurate written down (even in regulated industries). Given the two problems, I've seen more dumpster fires as a result of the latter than the former.