It's a lovely idea; I've even worked in a place or two that it's true in. But I've worked in more places where doing that will mean that you're going to be fired inside of six months. Unfortunately, I've never thought of a way of fixing it that would work; unless everyone from the CEO on down is in on the idea, and unless the inevitable office politicians are not tolerated by the rest of the office, then the no-blame culture always seems to lose out and only those who paid attention to their posterior's exposure seem to survive.
(Personally, I think that that's a bad thing - I just haven't ever heard of a way of changing it that seemed likely enough to work to bet the job on :( ) On 26 October 2012 13:52, Ryan Frantz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2012 12:29 AM, "Danielle White" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> A "no blame" culture helps greatly in this regard... Some people > >> unfortunately (with cause) fear loss of job if they own up to a mistake. > >> > > I've had some organizations and managers who were that way. At my > current one I'm quick to own-up to mistakes for that reason. > > > > The most crucial part of "owning up" to any mistake is truly owning it. > In other words, it's not enough to tell the boss you goofed; you've got to > follow up with "...and this is what I'm going to do to correct it. Also, > here's what I think can be done to prevent this in the future." > > As sysadmins, we're also responsible for creating/maintaining a blameless > culture. We do that by handling issues with professionalism and clarity. > > Ryan > > > -- > > Danielle > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Mark Dennehy
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