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In a team of individuals, the term isn't necessarily "blameless". I'd never hold a weird or accidental outage against you personally. The major question would be: Why did that happen?

However, you're forever going to be the fucking guy causing a database outage on Christmas. You might have had no choice, but fuck you.

All of us have these scars.

But then the question is: Why do we all have these scars? Maybe the system we're dealing with is not as great as it should be? Maybe the localized amount of anger is just a thing leading towards a more systematic problem. Oops, back into the ideas of blameless post-mortems.




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