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Re:Twitter was down by UncleMeat on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:34PM (#20414886)
Yeah but does anybody believe that the engineers would deliberately break things so they could have to work in a stressful environment bringing things back up just to get some free beer?
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Re:Twitter was down by alexanderdmitri on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:52PM (#20415127)
If your incentives are aligned w/firefighting as opposed to fire prevention b/c management is not motivating and rewarding the extra work that goes into avoiding these scenarios in the first place, you're encouraging fire.
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Re:Twitter was down by Jach on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:14PM (#20415340)
Indeed, the usual motivation to try and be called a hero for putting out the fire you started is much more valuable than free booze: a title promotion with a pay bump.
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