News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on ‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room. Parent comment

Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by inferiorhuman on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:05AM (#21239339)
Making a long-term investment to squeeze it for unsustainable short term profits is genuinely stupid.

If you've got a better name for it I'm all ears. But PG&E has been neglecting their infrastructure at least since the early 90s when their lackadaisical approach to clearing brush led to the Sierra Fire in '94.

Keep in mind that PG&E's record keeping was so lax that they blew up a neighborhood in San Bruno after increasing the pressure on a gas pipeline without knowing if the line could support such pressure. Apparently PG&E also got sued a couple years ago by shareholders alleging gross mismanagement and demanding safety reforms. I'd say there's plenty of stupid and greed at PG&E to go around.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room by roenxi on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:47AM (#21239692)
> If you've got a better name for it I'm all ears.

'Incompetence' would be the normal choice. And standard run-of-the mill incompetence has nothing to do with profit motives or incentives.

You can get incompetence with any governance structure; it isn't related to profit motives. If they are being sued by their own shareholders that is quite solid evidence that it isn't capitalist incentives that are the problem.

[ Parent | on HN ]