CYA (opens in new tab)

Working in any sort of large organization, you quickly come to recognize the signs of people trying to avoid blame or to just plain old scurry for cover. There’s one I always remember from my early days in the industry when we had a pretty useful fire in a fume hood across the hall. This was about 1990, in a building that doesn’t even exist any more, with a company that doesn’t exist either! I’m not sure how it got started, but someone from that group was walking towards a door and noticed th...