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by shoo 797 days ago
> I had to fill out a report about how I was observing myself working safety while management still had no clue what was happening.

see also https://eddiots.com/2301

  > How do you know what's going on if you're not there?
  > Ask a restaurant manager. Or a bartender. Or the manager of a retail shop. Or a call center or an office. Or the supervisor of a factory or warehouse floor. What do you think they'd say? [...]
  > Ask anyone responsible for something, "How do you know what's going on if you're not there?" and you'll always get the same answer: "You won't."
  > Unless they were an I.T. manager.
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Not really though - that's an entire article about how IT is so unique and special in how disfunctional it is, nobody else is like IT, aren't we the special snowflakes. That's almost the opposite of what the previous poster was saying!