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1. "Throw best practices out the window and do whatever the customer says, so long as the check clears"

Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:12 PM

16 hrs ago

is not a phenomenon limited to any one industry or trade, but it certainly was a predictable explanation of the bad work in this case.

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