I've encountered the idea of a Chaos HR Simian. People get random, unplanned, multi-week vacations. Mentioned here: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2016/3/24/th

I've encountered the idea of a Chaos HR Simian. People get random, unplanned, multi-week vacations. Mentioned here: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2016/3/24/the-new-normal-embracing-failure-with-netflix-the-chaos-monkey-and-chaos-kong https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2016/3/24/the-new-normal-embr... I know I've been on teams that were significantly disrupted by jury duty, medical incidents, traffic accidents, etc. So it seems like a reasonable way to simulate this.