…as I was walking past a cubicle:“I was trained to not believe root causes.”

That was one of my co-workers, on whom our employer relies, at least a little, for its continued existence, and as a result, my own continued employment relies, at least a little, on the guy who said that.

I’m hoping that he just chose his words poorly. I’m hoping that he meant something different, like, “I was taught to verify root causes,” or, “I don’t think it’s a good idea to blindly accept the first plausible cause as the root cause.”

I’m hoping that was just an ill-formed utterance, because this is supposed to be a place where a high degree of precision is required to do one’s job, so hearing that scares me, just a little.

I’ll leave all the sloppy parking I see every day for another rant.