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Dozekar t1_j42ezzp wrote

Reply to comment by kobullso in At NASA, Dr. Z Was OK With Some Missions Failing by Maxcactus

This isn't true. I've worked with a lot of motherfuckers that haven't done anything. They never fail, you have to at least try to fail. Their management failed though, by hiring and keeping them there as long as they did. Usually they corrected that failure by firing them.

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MJR-WaffleCat t1_j42inen wrote

I mean you could argue that by doing nothing, they failed to do anything, or that they failed to be productive.

And in the scenario you gave, they failed to keep their jobs.

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710AlpacaBowl t1_j449l03 wrote

I think the exclusion of a statment that they wanted to keep the job at least bars them from the failure to keep. Its hard to argue against them failing to do anything unless the objective is to do nothing then successfully doing nothing surely can't be comparable to failing to do anything....can it?

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