• Flax@feddit.uk
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    8 days ago

    Do militaries have insurance for shenanigans like this or do they just count their losses

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      Destroyed/malfunctioning equipment is one thing but lost/missing/potentially stolen things are technically the responsibility of the person/unit it was issued to

      Sometimes the unstoppable force of reality meeting the immovable object of bureaucracy leads to frustrating situations

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      Neither, inventory control is very, very poor and primitive, as in “Print out another blank Excel for me and hand me some pencils, Top says I need to find a plausible explanation for why 100,000 urinal cakes disappeared…”

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        Top says I need to find a plausible explanation for why 100,000 urinal cakes disappeared

        You covered for me right?

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          Was I supposed to? You still owe me from last time, when I covered for you and Flores so you didn’t have to go to the fuckin safety stand down.