Oh god, I recently had a conflict about this. Records people are like, “we hear you have a room full of records, they are marked as past retention policy we are coming to shred them, please make sure someone is available to give us access”

We have one admin left and she fucking rules. She’s saved these from shredding before and she messages me panicked, saying they aren’t listening to her that they are still required etc. I’m getting ready to literally fite someone and my boss is like, “let’s just tell them we don’t have them anymore 🤷 I don’t feel like arguing with these people.” He rules.

I make people wait while I write things down and repeat it back. They can choose if they are more annoyed by that or by me not doing it 🤷‍♀️

This seems like a very bad idea! Can you share the reason for it?

I’d say a good 50% of the problems I am trying to solve at work are a direct result of the elimination/vast reduction of administrative positions in the technical fields. One of the main drivers was how computers made it “easier” to file things, but locally that also coincided with major recessions/austerity measures and 30 years later we’re seriously paying the price.

Great idea to get rid of the record keepers but not actually teach the technical people a digital version of the filing system/enforce the retention of buisness records including technical reports and decision logs. Not like there is a legal requirement to keep those or anything 🙄