[maxxxxx]

That's a very american thing. I remember reading about engineers from Germany who worked with NASA engineers on a project. The americans were surprised that when something was wrong the germans just took a wrench to fix it where for the americans it was policy to call a technician.

From my own experience the US is a weird mix of "can do" attitude on the one hand with strict hierarchies and enforced policies on the other hand.

[ashark]

We're all terrified of doing something wrong and losing our livilihood, if not our freedom, over it. Or of doing something right but having something unfortunate happen anyway, and not having followed the proper blame-deflecting or blame-halting procedures, and so suffering for it. Seriously.