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The meeting where everyone will ignore all of the other forces at play that caused the outcome, and pretend that if only Joe or Mary had been better in some way, the whole disaster never would have happened.

Yeah, fuck that shit.

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I'd say it's a bit early in the morning to get worked up over something that as of yet took place only in our minds.

Pretty common scenario in tech engineering.

Pretty common scenario in the universe. -FTFY

This is, at root, my conclusion as well.

I'd be willing to wager there are at least 100 HN members that had that exact meeting, with those exact dynamics, before this thread was even posted this morning.

At a previous job they sent everyone in the IT department to cause map training to improve root causes analysis. Mainly to get away from blame assigning.

Wm. Edwards Deming would agree with the actions of your previous employer.

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