Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California
by wsinks on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:06PM
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I'm so sorry that you seem to do your job in an elegant way and that the other humans can't seem to respect that.
Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California
by stronglikedan on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:04PM
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They respect me and I respect them, and I'm far from elegant, so I'm not really sure how you inferred any of that. I just find it funny how fast they forget processes that they did everyday for years, after relying on the automation - just like the pilots in the story I was relating to. I'm the one that has to remind them what their manual processes were, which is why I ask the question and document the response first and foremost.
Along the same lines:
I work in manufacturing, and design systems to automate processes. "What is the current, manual process?" is the first thing I ask for when beginning a new project. I then try to design the automated system, so that the manual process can be used as a fallback should any part of the automated system fail. What happens when we have a network outage or something similar? The people involved suddenly forget the manual processes that they had used for years, and sit around twiddling their thumbs and calling IT every 5 minutes asking when the system will be back up.