[Inyo-Mono]

Every time I thought outside the box at work, they told me “Don’t reinvent the wheel.”

[House Atreides]

Every time I thought outside the box at work, they told me “Don’t reinvent the wheel.”
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That’s because you needed to “GET ON THE SAME PAGE” with them.

[trebb]

When the military started enacting a policy to allow us to think outside the box and find better ways to do things, they put us in boxes with the "approved' functions to look at with rules about how we should go about it.

I had made a personalized tracking sheet for the shop I headed and some folks liked it so they decided to use it as an item to adapt for all the various shops - the officers in charge ignored that it was so effective (single sheet of paper in front of folks' training records) because it was tailored to my shop and came up with a 23 page version for "standardization"....