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Re:A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage. It was als... by greggarious on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:30AM (#34353978)
>Agencies like the FAA are notoriously risk adverse. Basically the motivations of most employees seems like, "if I mess up once, I get fired

Weird, my impression was federal employment is the opposite: mess up as much as you want and you’ll be retrained and reassigned.

Or a that only in contexts like harassment or drug use?

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Re:A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage. It was als... by metacritic12 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:38AM (#34354087)
You're right, my "mess up once, get fired", I really mean if a flight crashes and the FAA could have done something, they'll get political flak. High level political appointees may need to resign. Whereas if an agency does nothing for a term, the political leaders get to stay.

For routine FTEs, as a sibling post mentioned, you can probably mess up in a lot of ways (short of murder or being really non-PC) and still keep your job.

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