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One of the consequences of this is when something goes very wrong, and the people involved say it really shouldn't have because something like 4 separate things
by Karellen 4y ago
One of the consequences of this is when something goes very wrong, and the people involved say it really shouldn't have because something like 4 separate things have to fail at the same time for that to have happened.
What they don't realise is that, thanks to the FFT, 2 of those 4 things actually failed over a year ago and the system has been continuing to work ever since without anyone ever noticing. One of the other things actually fails intermittently a couple of times per month, and while a couple of people have noticed that and reported it, either it's not been investigated at all, or when it was investigated everything looked fine and the report was put down as an unexplained glitch. All that was actually needed was for the 4th thing to fail, to cause this "can't happen" failure mode to suddenly ruin everyone's day.
- salawat 4y agoAll of this is further exacerbated by the modern business take on capitalism of "optimize away work that doesn't positively produce". Just because you're paying someone to go check and they don't find anything 99% of the time, you don't get rid of that. If you do, there goes the pnly sensor capable of propagating that signal to the rest of the control network. Applies equally well in electronics/circuits/or human domains.
- EricMausler 4y agoIf only C-levels and Boards viewed such jobs as a good excuse to provide someone with a living as opposed to poor worker utilization hurting their bottom line