>>Consider the fact that most engineers can explain the cause of ..., and the space shuttle Challenger disaster (where Morton Thiokol was told to take off their

>>Consider the fact that most engineers can explain the cause of ..., and the space shuttle Challenger disaster (where Morton Thiokol was told to take off their engineer hats and put on their manager hats when considering O-ring temperature certification). The money phrase: >>take off their engineer hats and put on their manager hats This is what kills people. To boil it down to one short course in engineering ethics: Whenever anyone tells you to do act like a manager instead of an engineer when making a technical decision, tell them, in no uncertain terms, and as politely or impolitely as needed to make the point: to fuck off; physics is physics, and neither knows about, cares about, nor yields to human concerns. (Unless, of course, you are OK with living decades of your remaining life after the accident knowing you accepted a blood-money paycheck to do bad engineering.) Is your current job, or your company's immediate future worth possibly killing people?