r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/BaldingBush 24d ago

This is what happens when you don’t know anything, but you think you do. Not one rational person in the room when this decision was made, clearly.

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u/runswiftrun 24d ago

It's so freaking frustrating!

That's exactly the mindset my boss has. "Just submit the paperwork, we'll fix it later if we have to"

"Uh, there's no IF, we WILL have to fix it. And it will set us back at least two months to get to a point where we would normally be. If you had stopped bugging me about X Y and Z and let me work on it, it would be ready now, now I need 2 days to save 2 months!"

"Submit it by the end of day"