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No. The workers said "if we don't upgrade the server, X will happen", then X happened, and the boss was upset with the workers (according to the story). Doesn't

No. The workers said "if we don't upgrade the server, X will happen", then X happened, and the boss was upset with the workers (according to the story). Doesn't matter how smart or clueless the workers may be, if you're angry at workers over things they warned you would happen then you're the asshole. If the boss wants to fire the workers in a professional manner, so be it, but that's not what happened.

zarzavat 3y ago
No bears around therefore the bear patrol must be working. If you’re out of your depth admining a machine and then the server has a failure in software, that’s not proof that you were right all along that new hardware was necessary. New hardware may solve the problem incidentally by gifting you a software environment that you’re more familiar with. Given that the author was doing some very strange things with this Mac mini we can’t rule out a misconfiguration. Moreover, almost any hardware can fail so unless you buy two new servers you’re not going to get many more 9s out of only one “real” server compared to just buying redundant drives for the mini. It depends on how close they were to the maximum capacity of the mini. Their biggest grievance seemed to be configuration related, they don’t say that the mini is on its knees trying to keep up.
- Buttons840 3y ago
  You're arguing over whether or not the workers are right. I'm saying it doesn't matter whether or not the workers are right. If the workers tell the boss "we don't know how to keep this server running", and then the server goes down, and the boss treats them badly, then the boss is morally wrong. If the boss is professional and says "well, we need someone who knows how to keep the server running, so we're going to hire someone else" then that's better. However, that's not what the boss did here, probably because (if your argument is true), the boss doesn't treat people very well and competent people wont work for him.

zarzavat 3y ago

No bears around therefore the bear patrol must be working. If you’re out of your depth admining a machine and then the server has a failure in software, that’s not proof that you were right all along that new hardware was necessary. New hardware may solve the problem incidentally by gifting you a software environment that you’re more familiar with. Given that the author was doing some very strange things with this Mac mini we can’t rule out a misconfiguration. Moreover, almost any hardware can fail so unless you buy two new servers you’re not going to get many more 9s out of only one “real” server compared to just buying redundant drives for the mini. It depends on how close they were to the maximum capacity of the mini. Their biggest grievance seemed to be configuration related, they don’t say that the mini is on its knees trying to keep up.

Buttons840 3y ago
You're arguing over whether or not the workers are right. I'm saying it doesn't matter whether or not the workers are right. If the workers tell the boss "we don't know how to keep this server running", and then the server goes down, and the boss treats them badly, then the boss is morally wrong. If the boss is professional and says "well, we need someone who knows how to keep the server running, so we're going to hire someone else" then that's better. However, that's not what the boss did here, probably because (if your argument is true), the boss doesn't treat people very well and competent people wont work for him.