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by happyopossum 1407 days ago
> I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?

Well, nothing. Unless you’re MLB.com and have tens of millions of people paying you >$100/yr to have that information readily available. If that’s the case, you’re issuing credits (which is a huge time and money sink) and losing customers.

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Then maybe they should pay people to be ready to fix bugs 24/7.

They won’t. No one will. They want their salaried employees to also be firefighters and the premise is absurd.

I don’t take calls at night; you cannot reach me. What are they gonna do, fire me?

Good joke. I run interviews and staffing someone who knows their left hand from their right is nearly impossible. Leverage works wonders.