<story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.&lt;p&gt;Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&amp;#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &amp;quot;people, work hard do recover while we&amp;#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&amp;quot; wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done it.&lt;p&gt;You just commit to something when you know that you won&amp;#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokedhs</author><text>I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&amp;#x27;ll never made that mistake again. If you fire him and hire someone else, that person might not have had the learning experience of completely screwing up a system.&lt;p&gt;I think that employees actually makes less mistakes and are more productive if they don&amp;#x27;t have be worried about being fired for making a mistake.</text></comment>
<story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.&lt;p&gt;Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&amp;#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &amp;quot;people, work hard do recover while we&amp;#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&amp;quot; wouldn&amp;#x27;t have done it.&lt;p&gt;You just commit to something when you know that you won&amp;#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_luc</author><text>I remember this from the &lt;i&gt;Field Guide to Understanding Human Error&lt;/i&gt;. Making recovering from human error a well-understood process is important, and as you point out, that process will work best if people aren&amp;#x27;t distracted by butt-covering.</text></comment>