Re: You should have been sacked
In some cases, maybe. But the reason my 1990s washing machine didn't spontaneously combust and shake itself to bits wasn't because of heroic efforts of software engineers, it was because it was a mostly electromechanical system that was too dumb to know or care what the date was. The only thing it knew was how long in minutes since the dial flipped round to the particular section of the washing machine program it was currently on.
Also, computer systems fail quite frequently. It is a nuisance when they do, but we mostly manage to survive it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
