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Monthly Aphorism: On Supplies
- Never put a part back in the supply cabinet
The Great Green, another excellent manager from my IBM days, mandated that very simple stockroom rule.
He knew, even if we didn’t, that the next engineer would spend two days figuring out that the part you returned was defective, costing far more in the long run than just tossing the part.
Of course, we never tossed the parts…