Responsibility

I had to paraphrase this as to not disclose useless secrets:

Guy from "Team A" (after a big effort to clean up this one problem): "You guys should fix this."

My manager: "Actually it is your responsibility to fix, for these reasons...."

Guy from "Team A": "Oh I was hoping someone [else] would fix this, but this is a really hard problem...nevermind."




The moral of this story appears to be that the severity of an issue, even one that takes several programmers from multiple teams over a week to fix, is inversely proportional to your ownership of the software flaw that causes the issue.

There was an enormous effort to move "Team A" out of the organization my team is a part of. This move was hailed as an alleged success story. The biggest impact of this move appears to be that the people on "Team A" can act like total dicks to us because they no longer report to the same people.

Thats just my opinion though.