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> There are clearly lots of ways to avoid this kind of waste, but all of them go back for years, and were not done. What waste? The offices? Filling them doesn
by alabastervlog 2y ago
> There are clearly lots of ways to avoid this kind of waste, but all of them go back for years, and were not done.
What waste? The offices? Filling them doesn't reduce the waste.
No, the waste is lost hours of productivity, and chaos making these offices less efficient. You solve that by rolling this out very differently. The waste I'm talking about is entirely avoidable and 100% DOGE's fault.
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> where someone is actually discovering and fixing the underlying problem.
What underlying problem? This 1) didn't need to be done, and even if that weren't true, 2) was done in a hamfisted way that wasted money.
- timr 2y agoYou're focusing on the trees and missing the forest. Please go back and re-read my original comment. Small waste: the few hours/days of lost productivity while offices are re-opened. Big waste: the empty offices that were sitting there while nobody was using them, for years. Maybe they could have avoided the small waste by being more careful and methodical, or maybe that would have taken 10x longer. I don't know, and it's not worth arguing about.
- alabastervlog 2y ago> Big waste: the empty offices that were sitting there while nobody was using them, for years. Occupied offices cost more. [EDIT] Let me put it this way: I have two cars. I don't need two. I need one. I never use one of them. You're telling me I can make that wasted second car non-waste by towing it everywhere with the first one. No, that increases costs. Getting rid of the car would reduce waste.