These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    if the company is functioning properly this is absolutely not the case

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      11 months ago

      I guess I’ve never worked for a company that functions properly, then. They must be pretty rare.

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      11 months ago

      Even if absolutely everything is documented there is still the loss of familiarity and comfort working with a given system.

      Having perfectly documented processes still might mean that a new engineer could take multiple hours following instructions to do what the person who originally built the system managed off the top of their head in fifteen minutes.

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      11 months ago

      In these advanced and complex spaces loosing an employee and starting someone new is like starting a university degree. Shure, the knowledge exists and you can “just read the books”. But that takes a fuckton of time in which the new guy is not productive AND needs someone else time to teach them.

      So it’s a really big loss.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Oh shit where can I get a job with one those properly functioning companies? Because my job right now I got was because I was able to figure out on the interview what the guy before me was doing and the same thing happened with my previous employer.