Flint Michigan

Saint_Ward said

As usual, there are technical issues/problems, human error, and then the group think issues when a bunch of people are trying to sort out a problem, especially when non-technical people are trying to make decisions on a technical problem.

I echo what a friend of mine said on this a few weeks ago. We are hearing all this chatter/anger over what the city officials did or didn't do, what the Emergency Manager did or didn't do and what the Governor did or didn't do. What were the Engineers saying? Who's running that plan? What was the approval process for the water system to be activated? Who over sees that?

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And here we have the root of the issue. I can't tell you how many times on a project there would be some wet behind the ears Project Manager straight out of a Construction technology course who would override what the Engineers, Craftsmen and Safety Professionals were telling him. And then it would all go to crap and they would start pointing the finger everywhere but at themselves. The preponderance of bureaucrats in positions of authority instead of experienced personnel creates issues like this every single day. Inexperienced or outclassed Supervisors feel they HAVE to be the final say in order to be respected and make knee-jerk reactions with no basis in available data, and then blame workers for failure to perform when it doesn't end up like they expected it to.