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Because you're not talking about that thing that ops people are talking about. We build reliable systems . You're talking about reliable software. Ops people come from the perspective that all software is inherently unreliable including your app, especially your app and have to work within those constraints. Terraform and Ansible look like gyroscopes compared to the build process of any modern software stack. We offe…
Oh boy, a whole pizza!
Nothing demotivates people like a half assed reward. If you want something never to get done, offer a bad carrot. If you want only one thing to get done and nothing ever again, offer a good reward but then make the recipient fight you to get it. I thought pizza parties were the worst, and then I got an award that was announced but not delivered, and spent almost eight hours over the next month poking people to give me my goddamned prize. It became a second job and at the end I ended up resenting the entire experience.
Later at another job when we in theory had a generous reimbursement process that was actually a ton of red tape, I had flashbacks to that incident.