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Nobody fucking knows how anything works. Nobody knows who is supposed to know. Your boss pays $300/hr for a consulting firm to send another fresh-out-of-college-kid to tell you why the system you bought from a vendor who has produced exactly zero application guidance is malfunctioning, and that kid will spend the next two weeks learning how the damned thing works right alongside you.
This has been my life implementing the latest edition of RightAngle for the last two years. Just a stack of expensive third-party 20-somethings saying "Ah, fuck, never seen that before, let me get back with you in a week."
I feel like our society forgot that you're supposed to pass your knowledge down to the next generation, but boomers decided that it wasn't their job. Every man is an island instead of standing on the shoulders of giants like we are supposed to, and the result is everyone has to rediscover how to do anything themselves.
To be fair, why should a long-term employee spend months of their productive time training a short-term contractor who may not last the year?
Ignore for a moment how few to no actual "employees" are being hired, and thus everyone is a short-term temp.
It's just a consequence of wanting maximum gains for little to nothing, i.e. corporate greed i.e. late-stage capitalism.
Bonus points if managers who do spend time training contractors get removed and replaced by those more willing to get in line with the company vision, being more "productive" in the ways that those in charge (Bezos, Musk, Huffman, etc.) can understand and agree with.