To their credit, the stakeholder that asked for my head personally came to me and apologised once they realised that entire airports have been shut down worldwide. But yeah, not a Friday/funday hahaha
Ye and these types make any problem worse. Any technical problem also becomes a social problem to deal with these lunatics and keep the house of cards from crumbeling.
It's not a management thing, it's very much a personality trait ... that for whatever reason seems to survive in pockets of management in most organisations over a certain size.
It's not a trait that survives well at yard crew level, trade assistents that freak out at spiders either get over it or never make it through apprenceships to become tradespeople.
In IT those who deal with failing processes, stopped jobs, smoking hardware, insuffcient RAM, tight deadlines learn to cope or get sidelined or fired (mostly).
To be clear, I've seen people get frazzled at most levels and many job types in various companies.
My thesis is there's a layer of management in which nervous types who utterly lose their cool at the first sign of trouble can survive better than elsewhere in large organisations.
But that's just been my experience over many years in several different types of work domains.
