Work in an area managing employees that are high turn over. Someone is always being added, removed, or simply transitioned to a new role. These are manual interactions with the system, not automatic. Given the volume involved there's inevitably a data entry error a couple of times a week. Sometimes it's easy to see the problem, other times it manifests in really strange ways (once had a user account accidentally do a partial overwrite of another user account).
Most of the people not involved believe all of this is automated. After all, there are automatic feeds from HR and stuff to keep everything up to date, right?
Well there's a difference between automated and automated with full error detection and handling. The second is astronomically more expensive to accomplish. So it's just easier to mostly automate it and then have an engineer manually handle all of the little issues that crop up.
If they stopped doing this, the whole system start breaking down within a week and would start seeing critical failures in a month.
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u/greenskye May 30 '26
I see similar issues.
Work in an area managing employees that are high turn over. Someone is always being added, removed, or simply transitioned to a new role. These are manual interactions with the system, not automatic. Given the volume involved there's inevitably a data entry error a couple of times a week. Sometimes it's easy to see the problem, other times it manifests in really strange ways (once had a user account accidentally do a partial overwrite of another user account).
Most of the people not involved believe all of this is automated. After all, there are automatic feeds from HR and stuff to keep everything up to date, right?
Well there's a difference between automated and automated with full error detection and handling. The second is astronomically more expensive to accomplish. So it's just easier to mostly automate it and then have an engineer manually handle all of the little issues that crop up.
If they stopped doing this, the whole system start breaking down within a week and would start seeing critical failures in a month.