(IDK if you care, but you missed a (/em) or (/i) tag.)
>>He may never have had that problem. I had a badly ground set once, and the provider wouldn't replace them.<<
It's more the pervasive pattern of similar behavior than this specific incident that crosses the line from "mistake" to "utter incompetence".
>>The dynamics presented in the movies are pretty dysfunctional, often with disastrous results, but they are the best those people could come up with at the time.<<
I know. It frustrates me that things are often still very poor in this regard in most fics.
>>Rhodey is exasperated, but he's not stupid.<<
Heh.
>>There's a difference between things someone can't do at all and things they do poorly or can only do for a limited time; and between things they can never do well vs. things they might improve.<<
Yeah. I tend to overdo it when I try, which just makes things worse.
>>Clint is probably right in that Agent Morse wasn't deliberately aiming to hurt him<<
I figured.
>>The miss, and it's a serious one, is that neither of those things make it okay to do what she did<<
Yeah.
>>It is assigned by those in power to those with less or none. So the people in power don't have to care if it's upsetting to those below them.<<
It frustrates me that people don't care.
>>However, this does not actually solve the problem; if people hate the paperwork because it's miserable to do and/or poorly designed, then it will routinely be full of errors and omissions, or not get done on time or at all, and that does affect people higher up who rely on those records. That's laid out in some detail in "Byzantine Perplexities."<<
Yeah. I just... why would you want to make things worse. I don't get it. And designing good paperwork is fun. It's a pain because it's hard to figure out what people actually want, but it's like solving a logic puzzle. How can I get all these form fields on one sheet of paper and as large as possible? What's the exact limit of my printer's margins? How can I phrase this question so people will understand what it means? How many pages can I get away with before people stop donating because it's too much of a pain? How many details should really be required for this initial application? I run in to poorly designed paperwork at medical offices a lot. If I didn't hate insurance companies, I'd be emailing them and telling them to hire someone, preferably me, to fix their dire paperwork. I had to call and ask a question last week because the paperwork I had was ambiguous. I told the phone person to tell them to fix it.
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>>He may never have had that problem. I had a badly ground set once, and the provider wouldn't replace them.<<
It's more the pervasive pattern of similar behavior than this specific incident that crosses the line from "mistake" to "utter incompetence".
>>The dynamics presented in the movies are pretty dysfunctional, often with disastrous results, but they are the best those people could come up with at the time.<<
I know. It frustrates me that things are often still very poor in this regard in most fics.
>>Rhodey is exasperated, but he's not stupid.<<
Heh.
>>There's a difference between things someone can't do at all and things they do poorly or can only do for a limited time; and between things they can never do well vs. things they might improve.<<
Yeah. I tend to overdo it when I try, which just makes things worse.
>>Clint is probably right in that Agent Morse wasn't deliberately aiming to hurt him<<
I figured.
>>The miss, and it's a serious one, is that neither of those things make it okay to do what she did<<
Yeah.
>>It is assigned by those in power to those with less or none. So the people in power don't have to care if it's upsetting to those below them.<<
It frustrates me that people don't care.
>>However, this does not actually solve the problem; if people hate the paperwork because it's miserable to do and/or poorly designed, then it will routinely be full of errors and omissions, or not get done on time or at all, and that does affect people higher up who rely on those records. That's laid out in some detail in "Byzantine Perplexities."<<
Yeah. I just... why would you want to make things worse. I don't get it. And designing good paperwork is fun. It's a pain because it's hard to figure out what people actually want, but it's like solving a logic puzzle. How can I get all these form fields on one sheet of paper and as large as possible? What's the exact limit of my printer's margins? How can I phrase this question so people will understand what it means? How many pages can I get away with before people stop donating because it's too much of a pain? How many details should really be required for this initial application? I run in to poorly designed paperwork at medical offices a lot. If I didn't hate insurance companies, I'd be emailing them and telling them to hire someone, preferably me, to fix their dire paperwork. I had to call and ask a question last week because the paperwork I had was ambiguous. I told the phone person to tell them to fix it.