$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a failed deployment (2014)

Re:$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a fa... by callalex on Sunday September 10, 2023 @05:20PM (#37460190)

It’s fine to have that kind of responsibility, but it has to actually be your responsibility. Which means you have to be empowered to say “no, we aren’t shipping this until XYZ is fixed” even if XYZ will take another two years to build and the boss wants to ship tomorrow.

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Re:$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a fa... by salawat on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:16PM (#37460675)

Yep. Until the capacity to say unoverridably "No" materializes, there's a lot of code I refuse to have responsibility for delegated to me.

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Re:$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a fa... by wruza on Sunday September 10, 2023 @06:57PM (#37460948)

As a profit non-taker, which responsibility a worker can even have? Realistically it lies in range of their monthly paycheck and pending bonuses and in a moral obligation to operate a failing system until it lands somewhere. Everything above it is a systemic risk for a profit taker which if left unaddressed is absolutely on them. There’s no way you can take responsibility for $400M unless you have that money.

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