You know many of us do not frequent that forum right?
Wow. Someone and someone's 3 chains of managers just got fired.
Someone could've died as part of panic and trying to evac sick and elderly
This was always something that bugged me about bad guys in movies & cartoons...a henchman would screw up, so they'd fire or kill them because of their mistake. But I've read several business reports from managers who oversaw huge mistakes and the smart ones never fire the person who did it...there was one story I read where somebody made a $100k mistake, and the manager being interviewed said it'd be stupid to fire that person because that guy now had an extra $100k of experience & would be even better & more careful at his job as a result of making that mistake (obviously, that's barring people who are literally incompetent or don't care), versus having to hire someone new & train them on the process & risk other mistakes after the original mistake had been patched. I think that's a pretty smart approach, especially since there should be controls in place to prevent people from royally screwing things up in the first place, so to blame people for mistakes they didn't intend to make is a bit silly, even when it's a big-ticket item, because that responsibility should really fall on the organization to manage. That's not to say people should be absolved of all responsibility or consequences from their business mistakes, but in this case, the system boiled down to a single point of failure, which was eventually tripped over.
Seems a little ridiculous to fire people though, mistakes happen. If you have everyone having to walk on egg shells it just makes mistakes even more likely to happen.
It depends on the size of the mistake and how high up (or replaceable) the person who made it was. If you'd doing something that has risk of bad consequences, you double check your steps first. You know, the old measure twice, cut once.
Sorry, but I laughed when someone commented about evacuating.
Where the fuck are they going to evacuate too?
I can't believe everybody is still going on about this honest mistake.
I used to live on maui during the 80's. Glad I left permanently for lots of reasons. They say it was a mistake, just human error but I bet it was really a drill.
38 minutes to announce its a false alarm? That seems like a flaw in the system. 'Hey we can alert everyone instantly but only once'
easy....and how do you even post a pic now...
A drill for what? They are on a tiny ass island.
HI...sorry.That is what gets me, the person who fucked up should have known that they fucked up rather immediately. I get that there isn't really an "undo" button but seriously, 38 minutes to tell everyone it's a fuckup? Seems like a few phone calls could have handled that within 3 minutes max.
Presumably fallout shelters, more remote parts of the island, caves, etc.