I worked at a phone factory once. One day, an app stopped working. It was running on an old Linux server. Nobody had access to it, or so I thought. I noticed th

I worked at a phone factory once. One day, an app stopped working. It was running on an old Linux server. Nobody had access to it, or so I thought. I noticed the pings were showing high failure rates. I asked to check switch logs or the server's ifconfig output and got weird excuses why they couldn't check anything. One week goes by, people are living with the error and adjusting the factory to work around that. Many meetings, etc. Network engineer pulls me to the side and says "you seem like a nice guy, stop worrying about this issue. we won't fix it because if we do, this server becomes ours and we are responsible for this app.. so nobody will touch it. yes, the cable to that server needs to be redone. yeah we won't do that" I stayed there for 10 months and quit.