• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    “humans make mistakes”

    so many goddamn iNvEsTiGaTiOnS I have to write for work boil down to this

    if you’re too cheap to engineer out the possibility of human error, don’t come crying to me, a human, about it

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      8 hours ago

      Aren’t those done to figure out how things happened so they could minimize the risk of it happening again? Someone made a mistake but what led to the mistake and what could be changed so that either this doesn’t happen or when it does, it’s not as bad.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s what workplace investigations are supposed to be, yes. My workplace unfortunately seems more preoccupied with assigning blame to operators and writing increasingly complex rule changes that wouldn’t be necessary if they spent, let me see, literally more than $0 on upgrading our tech…