The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired
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#2When you consider the stacked selection biases that apply to the people who come to find themselves managing the government vaccination programs this sort of thing falls squarely within the expected failure modes.
The chain of people who fired this guy got where they were by following rules and covering their butts. People don't wind up managing important things for government by bending rules where appropriate, assuming responsibility and using discretion. The system either marginalizes, removes or crushes the spirit of those kinds of people.
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#3Spent a long time reading about how vast bureaucratic inefficiencies are created by people worrying that "the wrong person" will benefit from government programs or that someone "undeserving" might get theirs before I do. This falls squarely in that bucket. Tragic.
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#4I guess when you do society with "Everything Not Forbidden is Compulsory!" the corner cases cause problems.
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#5This is just Kafkaesque. People in a position of authority with blind adherence to rules intended for optimal scenarios. They're literally saying he should have just thrown them away instead of distributing them as best he was able. This whole thing is a logistical clusterfuck and they're trying to throw this dude under the bus. It's obscene.
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#6Nobody is safe from a social media drive by.
But honestly I'm not surprised. Lockdowns and isolation have turned some of my more reasonable acquaintances into rabid social media junkies who do nothing but judge anyone for the smallest social infraction.
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#7As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
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#8Spent a long time reading about how vast bureaucratic inefficiencies are created by people worrying that "the wrong person" will benefit from government programs or that someone "undeserving" might get theirs before I do. This falls squarely in that bucket. Tragic.
This is the root of a lot of problems. We spend far too much energy making sure "bad people" get what they "deserve" and don't get what they "don't deserve", and put in too little of that same energy in the case of "all people".
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#9As stupid as this sounds, this is extremely standard policy in many, many jobs. Just because something is expiring doesn't mean you can use it against the standing rules and procedures.
...it almost certainly makes sense to push back in those cases too, then.
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#10Spent a long time reading about how vast bureaucratic inefficiencies are created by people worrying that "the wrong person" will benefit from government programs or that someone "undeserving" might get theirs before I do. This falls squarely in that bucket. Tragic.
A lot of people treat the government as authority to rank people, beliefs, etc. in importance. A lot of people, in fact, want the government to do this.