Neither here nor there, but about 15 years ago while I was a fresh grad/hire at Amazon, I realized that the crawler that was supposed to enforce this had not been running for multiple years. I went out and fixed it and got it running again, and I showed about $8M/month revenue increase from this.

What did I get? From my skip level manager: "Great job, but too bad about that bug. Next time if it's perfect we can talk about promo" (the crawler went down for a day from an edge case that was preexisting, I fixed it same day)

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cjbgkagh 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I made a BigCo $130M p.a. with a general improvement but was similarly denied a promotion. Changed my career plan after that and got out of there. These same companies complain constantly that it’s so hard to hire good people.

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_DeadFred_ 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Brave to tell about that time you fixed the snitching machine. But I appreciate you telling it and I don't think you should get downvotes

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IncreasePosts 21 hours ago | parent [-]

If a machine catches you doing something you weren't supposed to do, it doesn't seem like snitching. Are red light cameras snitches?

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harimau777 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Red light cameras are put up by governments not private corporations.

	▲	tbrownaw 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thought they tended to be by private corporations with government contracts.

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Spivak 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, what do you think snitching is? There's an automated security company called tattletale. That's what they do.

The fact that there's so many social norms about not snitching is a beautiful illustration of how disconnected the rules we live under are disconnected from our own interests.

	▲	brewdad 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn’t that so much of why our legal system exists. You want to get to work a few minutes faster, so push through a light as it’s turning red. Another driver doesn’t expect that and the collision causes delays for hundreds of other people at best or injury or death to you or the other driver.
	▲	IncreasePosts 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"snitches get stitches" - yes, I guess it is in my interest to not be attacked by a psycho because I told the police what the psycho did, but I wouldn't really call that norm related to my interests as a potential snticher, more like a norm meant to protect people who would be snitched on.