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Originally Posted by iyportne
I know this is unfortunate, but as a continuous improvement professional I know none of us have gotten to where we are without backward steps, and I trust FIRST will fix and make good on this process as well.
My bigger concern now is tempering the attitude of my students who may be reading this thread. Some may come away with the idea we should never try new things and take risks to move forward and just keep doing what we are to avoid ridicule should things go wrong.
Remember, everyone can predict something that just happened, and everyone can solve an isolated issue without the entire context.
Perhaps we can use this thread as a case study for Gracious Professionalism vs. Ungracious Pro-victimism...heaven known we have the evening news for the latter.
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I am not ridiculing FIRST. And I know that we all make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes have lasting, serious consequences. This is thankfully not one of those instances.
This is a professionally created tool that is an essential part of the FRC process. As such, the robotics community has reasonable expectations that FIRST upholds their portion of the implicit agreement. We postpone work, schedule lunch early, have someone cover for us, etc. We will now have to do it again for next week. And for those of us in district competitions, not too long again after that.
It's reasonable that if you try something and fail, people call you on it. I did say that there are plenty of resources out there to help troubleshoot and remediate the problem.