Started my day with a good ole “Well this is how we’ve always done it” after suggesting a process improvement.

So 👏 thankful 👏 only 👏 managers 👏 get 👏 to 👏 make 👏 decisions👏

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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I understand your frustration but I also know that 9 times out of 10 those process are there for a reason and messing with them without fully understanding why they are the way they are end up creating giant messes.

Eventually, it's managers and senior managers who have to clean up and then taken to the back of the shed for.

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That was is just as bad as this one… Well, we’ve tried that already. Just because you or someone else has tried it in the past and it didn’t work doesn’t mean it isn’t the right thing to do and to try it again.

Hmm it depends! I am not trying to disagree, but sometimes it would be a waste of time to try again.

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Well, if we can get all parties to agree….

Were we in the same call?

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