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> But if we don’t do our job right, people don’t get paid right, and while that may not have the same immediate impact as a doctor mistake, it’s... very much a real human impact.

As someone whose spouse is a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District (where they had a disastrous rollout of new payroll and HR software), the effects are very, very real and concrete to me. Luckily, I work in tech and our could handle the problems, but many teachers live paycheck-to-paycheck. We know of teachers who have donated blood to get rent money because they weren’t paid, and one teacher died from cancer while being denied healthcare as a result of the HR software being borked. Total disaster with real, negative human consequences, unfortunately.

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