Root Cause Analysis Satire: Blaming the Heavens

The Scenario: This root cause analysis satire cartoon features a confident IT professional standing before a board, presenting an "Outage - RCA" slide.

While the slide lists standard points like "Incident Summary" and "Corrective Actions," the punchline is legendary: "The root cause was 'divine intervention' — God's surprise audit of our technical debt."

It perfectly satirizes the performance art of the RCA meeting, where everyone knows the system is held together by duct tape, but they must find a "professional" way to explain why the duct tape finally snapped.

The Observation: At Kaapi with Ravi, we identify "The Liability Leap."

This IT operations humor mocks how modern infrastructure strategy often ignores technical debt until it becomes a religious experience.

When a system is so fragile that any minor change could trigger a collapse, the "Root Cause" isn't a bug; it's a structural reckoning.

The humor lies in the presenter's calmness—she has realized that once you blame the heavens, no one in the room can argue with the data.

In the modern corporate hierarchy, a "Root Cause Analysis" is the search for a person or deity to blame so that we don't have to admit our infrastructure is actually a digital house of cards.

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Series: IT Ops Cartoons

Theme: Tech Cartoons