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> That's like a surgeon not bothering to sterilize his hands and then saying "oh well, hospital infections happen all the time".

And hospitals and doctors have malpractice insurance. They also go through an investigation where they have their own brotherhood where it is difficult to get other doctors to testify against. There's also stories of people writing on their good leg "The other leg" in Sharpie because such moronic mistakes of removing left appendage instead of right. So even doctors are not above negligence. We just have things in place for when they do. Why you think ClownStrike is above that is bewildering.

At the end of the day, mistakes happen. It's not like they have denied they were at fault. So I'm really not sure what you're actually wanting.



>It's not like they have denied they were at fault. So I'm really not sure what you're actually wanting.

Paying for their mistake. In money. Admitting for their mistake is one thing, paying for it is another.

If your doctor made a mistake due to his negligence that costs you, wouldn't you want compensation instead of just a hollow apology?


Want vs receive are two entirely different things. If someone did something against me in malice, damn straight I want ________. If someone makes a mistake, owns up to it, changes in ways to not make same mistake again, then that's exactly the opportunity I'd hope someone would allow for me to have if the roles were reversed. This particular company's mistake just happened to be so widespread due to their popularity makes it seemingly egregious, but there are other outages that have occurred that lasted longer and did not draw this much attention. Was it an inconvenience, yes. Was it a silly mistake in hindsight, yes. Was it fixable, yes. Was it malevolent, nope. Should you lose your job for making this mistake?




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