im unhealthily reviewing my old posts and realizing that my job in the military was/is an incredibly fucked up work environment even just on the IT dustman things and in just a few weeks of working a "real" job (still military adjacent, but as a civilian) people outright lie so much less and actual real documentation that isn't post-it notes right on equipment is so much more available

it didn't come up at work as A Thing but the other day the solution to something was to look up an engineering document of a space. it was just in a cabinet, available, and I was assured that electronic copies exist and are "only" a year or two out of date. I spent several years on the ships struggling to get literally one drawing of one patch panel and only got it because I convinced the contractor working on replacing one that had failed to leave me his copy and print a new one for himself once he was done crimping things.