>>I disagree with you here. If you give your kid a task, give him everything needed to complete the task including instructions, and the kid does it wrong, is it your fault?
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>Yea, I saw a boss who operated that way. I was working at a large bank and oneday all systems went down. 2+ days later things were back up.
>Investigation showed that restores done after a system failure were "faulty". Backups that had been running identically for many months were not useable!!!
>When asked how that could happen the BOSS of the department answered "I don't know why the kid did them that way".
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>Thankfully, the BOSS was demoted and the kid involved had no repercussions (he only ran the jobs and neve set them up or had responsibility to authorize them).
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>So, to answer your question, you have a job to do for someone and you give it to a kid and he screws up, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE! Simple.
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Maybe I wasn't clear enough. The kid has all the authority, tools, training and instructions to do the job properly.

In your example, I agree..the boss was at fault.