IT Project and Team lead.
Protecting "my" engineers from the customers. :)
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LOL I mean I can probably say the same thing and I gotta tell you. It's amazing the people out there that want to:
- Control the narrative of the data
- Suppress the data
I'll use just a simple example of tracking incidents in your organization. It's so polarizing like people how do you expect to improve if you can't acknowledge your faults?
Extrapolate that to the current political climate.
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