British Airways IT engineer blamed for outage(beta.nzherald.co.nz)

5 pointsby evadne9 ปีที่แล้ว4 comments

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British Airways IT engineer blamed for outage

http://beta.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11868636

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dazfuller9 ปีที่แล้ว

There's so much wrong with this picture. It's also an alarming trend where organisations are singling out employees for blame (also thinking VW). Were they entirely to blame? Did management put them under pressure to deliver quickly? Were they correctly trained?

Also, this kind of pokes massive holes in their DR processes!

fiedzia9 ปีที่แล้ว

> Were they entirely to blame?

Of course not. If they've made a mistake, someone designed the system that allows this mistake to be made, and to have such consequences. Blaming a person is an enormous lack of ethics and responsibility on BA side - as a whole.

iraklism9 ปีที่แล้ว

"It appears that alternative power sources including batteries and a diesel generator may also have failed."

So yeah, its was all down to the fault of one single person. Sure :)

lazylizard9 ปีที่แล้ว

if it were the fault of a single person, that'd be the cto then?