This morning, the news media here in NZ have been widely reporting that Geonet (the Government-funded service responsible for monitoring and reporting on all the Earthquake + Volcano + Tsunami activity, and a much valued resource during the Christchurch Earthquake sequence we had over 15 years ago, along with every time an earthquake sequence frequently rattles nerves across the country) had for the first time been left understaffed - specifically, that there was *no* duty seismologist on duty (i.e. the desk was unmanned for a particular shift) due to "staffing constraints" (i.e. everyone else was sick or on leave, and the originally rostered person couldn't make their shift for whatever reason).
WTF?!
For a country as seismically active as ours (especially in relatively recent history), this is once again pretty indicative + damning of the brokenness of the idiology peddled by the "efficiency" and "reducing wasteful spending" folks.
Cutting staffing levels to "minimum viable" levels means that you lose resilience, resulting in downtime / loss of service if any abnormal circumstances occur. And that "wasteful" redundancy they so loave then becomes a much more expensive capability to build back up again when we inevitably need to fix their mistakes once the general populace wakes up to the flaws of all that gutting again.
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