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Who Plays the 'Blame the Tech' Game?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-fault-first dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I work for a marketing services company, and it is my department's role to develop and maintain reporting systems for all the data we collect. When a department manager sees a dip (or rise) in one of there KPI's the first thing they do is ask me to 'check out the reporting', because '[they] think there is a problem'? It's this just the culture of my company or have other readers experienced a 'blame the technology first, ask questions later mentality'?"

3 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. Re:They're asking you to do the job, grow up by jayhawk88 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I doubt it's a vast right-wing conspiracy.

    I agree. Clearly the left is to blame for this.

  2. You're not crazy... by ubernode · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems to be an epidemic. In other words, I've experienced the same thing (repeatedly). Does it stem from too many bugs in our code or something else? I have no idea. All I know is that pushing the "send to voicemail" button on my tele makes the problem go away until my boss sends me a ticket to investigate. Darn, we get it on both ends.

    Cheers.

  3. They shouldn't blame IT by shadowrat · · Score: 3, Funny

    When our software generates erroneous or otherwise false reports, i blame George W Bush.