the failure question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
Something I keep coming back to: the failure question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board. Escalating faster than the…
accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
writing it down is the useful part, not the outcome
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.