Re:The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network close...
by turtledragonfly on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:40PM
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I don't think the article proves that. I think these policies can be a bit of a McNamara fallacy[1].
When things go wrong, the benefits of aggressive termination are clear.
But when things don't go wrong (vast majority of time), the alternative's benefits are not so clear — employees have more time to hand-off their work, document things that are in their head, better good-will towards the company and its management, etc.
So, because one approach has a clear, measurable benefit (avoid some disasters), and the other approach has un-clear hard-to-measure ones, people sometimes dismiss the hard-to-measure side as unimportant. That's the fallacy.
When things go wrong, the benefits of aggressive termination are clear. But when things don't go wrong (vast majority of time), the alternative's benefits are not so clear — employees have more time to hand-off their work, document things that are in their head, better good-will towards the company and its management, etc.
So, because one approach has a clear, measurable benefit (avoid some disasters), and the other approach has un-clear hard-to-measure ones, people sometimes dismiss the hard-to-measure side as unimportant. That's the fallacy.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy