Tone does matter.  Similar to others' comments about the tone from their teammates / supervisors affecting them, it's part of the reason I left my last job.

My manager...

So, as pointed out, this isn't *currently* a real piece of tech.  But I suspect, give it another couple years and there will be automated avatar-type systems, potentially on both...

Where I work, we also use Commvault for our SQL backups, and despite backups failing I've never seen a "backup failed" in the SQL logs.  Lots of "backup completed" but...