Businesses in general seem to have a really hard time dealing with training and institutional knowledge transfer these days. As an example from another industr

Businesses in general seem to have a really hard time dealing with training and institutional knowledge transfer these days. As an example from another industry, my father was working as a mechanic/greaser in a power plant for the past 17 years, alongside a millwright who had been there for 30, since they opened the doors. In the last six months, they both retired - after telling management what their timetables were about five years ago. The company never brought in anyone to train under them and learn all the minutia of how the plant works that is locked away in their heads. They haven't even hired anyone full-time to replace them. Needless to say, equipment all over the plant is starting to break down, because simple things like greasing bearings regularly isn't being done properly, and when things break down, they aren't being put back together properly, because no one knows the idiosyncrasies of the equipment. Every hour this plant is down costs tens of thousands of dollars. The millwright is starting to get called in as a consultant for three times his previous hourly wage.