Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
&gt; If people are trying to assign blame to a bug or outage, it&#x27;s time to move on.<p>This is one of my favorite excerpts. I once worked in a lab where we would have frequent catastrophic failures because there was never any disaster planning or contingency management plan. I personally triaged 3 such incidents alone or with people who happened to be there when the problem arose and attempted to disseminate some suggestions for how to prevent similar problems in the future. No one was interested. People were primarily interested in tearing my head off because I hadn&#x27;t handled the problem the way they would have done it (of course, they were out drinking beers or sleeping while I was dealing with the issue at 12 AM or on a weekend).<p>After the third time I said fuck it, the next time there is an issue I am going to insure my own projects are safe and then I&#x27;m going home and turning my phone off. Let someone else deal with it. That is the not the culture you want to be promoting.