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by Chrisoaks 1306 days ago
But is there a zone, at least internally, where such communication is safe?

I would imagine that a firm is incentivized to want to know where their team members are leaving gaps.

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Maybe if you don't leave a paper trail. If you use a written medium to communicate failure, there is a good chance that will be exposed during discovery in a lawsuit, and now the plaintiffs can show that not only was there a problem, but that employees were aware of the problem and did not fix it.

The news article practically writes itself. "Despite repeated claims that all ice had been cleared, internal documents show multiple employees were aware that only 99% had been cleared. These emails show considerable concern about the remaining 1% of ice, but no further action was ever taken by the company to rectify the dangerous situation."