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munin@infosec.exchange
Having to be a hero once could happen to anybody.
But absolutely refuse to work with anyone who makes a habit of it.
Heroism is an error condition: it means that problems were allowed to get bad enough that extraordinary intervention was required to address them.
It's symptomatic of a failure to understand and preempt hazardous situations, and implies either an inability to conduct operations safely or a lack of planning.
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Paul Barker
pbarker@social.afront.org@munin I made a habit of it when working in live events and IT for a student union in my early 20s. It was absolutely an error condition, but I'd argue it wasn't a personal one - we were not given enough resources by management to do the job to a high standard, but we were there because we wanted the organisation to succeed and we wanted students to have a great time.
The solution was to move on to a non-broken workplace.
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JamesAshburner
JamesAshburnerCBR@aus.social@munin The famous military maxim is
“Prior Planning & Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance”.
Part of that first P triplet is *risk assessment*, including both questioning assumptions (safety, reliability, predictability), and considering unexpected events, complications, or failures. This inverts “what could possibly go wrong” complacency, so it becomes a powerful tool.
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Lorenzo Stoakes
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Lorenzo Stoakes
ljsAll too easy for junior engineers to have blame put on them for things that are the fault of senior people or to imagine they can somehow fix things if only they proposed a brilliant enough idea.
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