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by m-i-l·7y ago·view on hn ↗
"... on a busy summer day, Kris didn't show up to open the park ... I ultimately caused the shutdown of the water park"

Am I the only one concerned about the lack of respect this shows to customers? Some families might have travelled a long way to get there as a special day out, there would certainly be large numbers of disappointed children, etc. Having a grievance with your boss and/or employer is one thing, but making innocent bystanders suffer as a result is something else completely.

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Imagine having a business so fragile that a single employee failing to show up could take down the whole show. This is entry level business school stuff, and something anybody running a business will learn first hand very quickly.

Would you have any sympathy for management that purposefully made sure they had a "bus factor" of one and then blamed that person when they inevitably got hit by our theoretical bus?

Maybe apply the same logic the hardware resources if it helps to think of things with less of the emotion in talking about a person; The company has a single consumer grade PC running linux in the corner of a cubicle serving up the entire companies suite of applications, no load balancing or backups at all. Many devs and admins have come and gone recommending a more robust solution but management refuses to consider other options. Whose fault is it when it falls over?

If one guy closes the whole park that's a failure of management.
Is this not a management problem? A manager disrespected an employee so much that the employee didn't even let anyone know they weren't showing up.

The ex-employee contains some blame. But what they did was probably rational and _just_ from their point of view. As a manager you need to not stack up abuse on the employee to make this rational. And you need to have people you trust to open the park, if one missing person can shut down the park.