That someone was me when I used to be on call as a Fab engineer. I took responsibility and my team relied on my alertness when shit hit the fan a couple of times during my career. Yes, someone has to do it. The negativity and cynicism on HN astounds me.
refulgentis|3 years ago
It is possible to have someone who can say "oh there's a world shaking event in Japan" before paging engineers.
In fact, wouldn't this be an obvious efficiency improvement at world-wide scale?
It is also possible someone believes that is possible without them being a "negative cynic".
In fact, it's unclear why having this idea for an efficiency improvement would make one a "negative cynic"
I suggest coming with curiosity and asking why people believe something rather than working towards explaining what it says about people if they actually believe exactly what your mindreading says they do.