[Failure] fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of material
fridge died in a heatwave and i lost three months of material, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair.
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Contemporaneous notes matter most in exactly the situations where people are least inclined to write them. Memory reorganises a bad fortnight into a tidier story with a clearer villain.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
What do you want from posting it — advice, or just to have it on the record?
Cosigning that going too fast is the most repeated regret on the whole site.
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Same. The thing that went wrong for me was procedural and boring and it cost me a lot.
Was there a point where the information was available and you did not look?
That was a hold rather than a loss, and it resolved. Updating rather than deleting.
What would have caught it earliest?
Small correction — the shop in that story has no independent testing on file at all, which is different from having a bad record.
What would have caught it earliest?
This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.
What would have caught it earliest?
Adding the thing that would have caught it earliest — buy small and test before committing.
Name removed. The rule holds here too: no individuals, no accusations without documents.
Name removed.
ledger_mod is right that it was procedural. The procedure was not written down anywhere for you to follow.
ledger_mod is right that it was procedural.
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.
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