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[-] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda similar. I work in HVAC-R. There are a ton of times where I'm working on a system where I would love to just spend a few more hours making part of it better and then another few hours streamlining things to make future work on it easier. But we charge $200 per hour so no customer wants me to spend 12 hours making their system perfect; they want me to spend 2 hours and just get it functional. If I didn't have to charge money for my time then not only would every system I touch run like a dream, but they would also be beautiful. As it is people more frequently wind up with duct taped functional travesties and then refuse any follow up work to fix it properly.

[-] pandakhan@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Not that I've had much luck with this, but I have tried to explain to customers/managers that the work is like to do is preventative.

Sure it's "expensive" now, but this reduces potential failures AND reduces maintenance time in the future.

This means we spend $ now, but save $$ later 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] Hexarei@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately there's never time to do it right and always time to do it twice

[-] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure

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