A Blameless Postmortem: Incident Review Engineering Tee

The review held after an incident, run on the stated principle that the system failed rather than a person did. It is a genuinely good practice and it is also the most delicately performed hour in the industry, because everyone in the room can name the person by paragraph four and the entire point is that nobody does.

Outside the building, postmortem means a body. A coroner, an autopsy, a pathologist with an unusual moral position. Putting blameless in front of it makes the reader more certain rather than less, which is why it is the strongest single word misread in the set.

Stamped INCIDENT REVIEW with NO FURTHER ACTION beneath, set small and formal like the heading of a document. The formality is the joke. The article at the front is part of the line and it stays there.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.