With the disclaimer that this is a work of fiction and very definitely not associated with the day job, we very explicitly anticipated and avoided, at a previous day job, "We can't tell you if we have a backup plan because backup plans are on an affected system."https://twitter.com/badthingsdaily/status/1024087309879103488 …
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Paper binders: 100% uptime. We very literally had numbered copies in N locations and knew how high each location was above sea level. (Also, a change management process for the paper binders so that they all updated simultaneously)
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(I have complex thoughts with regards to the mainline of Japanese management culture or engineering culture but "Some of us will be around on day N+1 to pick up the pieces and we *shall* bequeath to them what they need to be successful" not my least favorite part.)
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Incidentally if you want to see the "We are canceling the apocalypse!" speech but Japanese engineer version watch the 2016 (?) Godzilla film; there are a bunch of moments like that.
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"That's a silly recommendation to make in the context of serious observations about engineering culture." The entire movie is a very thinly veiled retrospective on responses to the Tohoku earthquake; it just happens to star Godzilla.
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