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  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    Probably “with great power comes no accountability, and therefore great responsibility”. It’s the lack of accountability that means responsibility is needed.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    I always thought the bigger miss of the common phrase is this: If “With great power comes great responsibility” then the converse must also be true “With NO POWER comes NO responsibility”. The level of responsibility must scale in direct proportion to the amount of power you have. If your boss is blaming you for something you have little to no control over, then it isn’t your responsibility, and you deserve no blame.

    Your manager saying “You need to find someone to cover your shift” would then be bullshit. Unless you have the power to hire additional staff, allow for allowed time off for regular life events, or increase the pay of staff to make others more readily want to take the shift, I don’t see enough power for it to be your responsibility.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      I mean as I read that, it immediately made me think of the scene in the first Spider-Man when he goes after the guy who killed Uncle Ben and accidentally kills him.