• Shambling Shapes@lemmy.one
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    “Train new people”

    What do you think is going to happen if you hire a brand new person out of college, give them no directions, mentorship, processes, or procedures, and literally say “don’t ask me, I pay you to figure it out”?

    I can work in a “ask for forgiveness, not permission - move fast and break things” culture. But then people shouldn’t be getting mad when shit breaks.

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        They were already broken, I just gave the ok to throw them out. They had been sitting there for more than half my lifetime, no one was doing anything with them, near as anyone could tell I was now the “owner” of them, I wasn’t going to waste my time investigating 15 year old problems. So I said, “sure, make them disappear”.

        Someone in Finance (remote support, I didn’t even know this person existed before this event) took issue with that, something about making the $15 million value of those parts appear on the books correctly. Nice to get my first high-dollar mistake out of the way early!

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          Thats really on whoever started saving them originally. Anything being saved like that should have a note attached stating why it is saved. I have some parts that need to be sent for repair and each of them has a note stating what is wrong, when it broke, and to contact me with questions.

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          Damn, what kind of 15 year old broken parts are still worth $15 million?! I feel like they should have been depreciated to nothing, like, a decade ago, unless they’re made of unobtanium or something.