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by NikolaeVarius 3307 days ago
What happens when IT for a hospital goes on strike?
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Not to mention an airline. The recent British Airways debacle was caused by a technical problem, but if the IT workers had gone on strike, similar problems could have resulted.
Same thing that you do when nurses go on strike. You hire a bunch of scabs and muddle through.

The difference is that IT usually sucks so much that nobody notices.

If it's infrequent enough, reliability may go up as there's a moratorium on production environment changes.