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Solid Sonic posted...

You can replace an office worker quickly but it's not something you're just going to flip on a dime. Being able to troubleshoot a plumbing, AC, or electrical problem is something anyone who was trained to do it can do (because the problem is very standardized; there are rules and practices long-established that make doing such work a matter of simply learning those and applying them to any variant) but being able to tease out budget irregularities and schedules is something that needs a bit of spin-up in the very least.

inevitably a big piece of this is that the office is a big web of people's nonstandardized organizational systems that are understood only by people who actively work within those systems. no amount of college education prepares you fully for the work you'll do, you have to do it to understand it.

so when someone quits or is fired, the process of taking that system apart and making it usable for the new person hired to replace them isn't easy, and identifying a person who can do that quickly isn't easy either.

if employers treated office workers as though they were under a microscope 24/7, they'd quit constantly, and this process would slow productivity to a crawl
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