/sci/ - Science & Math

Very few people are capable of understanding all the intricacies of a complex system from top to bottom. E.g., the simulation software, how it works, how to code it better, how every single piece of equipment and control system works and how to improve it, why the process was designed a certain way and how to improve it. The chaos gets kind of maddening. But you have to manage hundreds of employees. Rather than let them think for themselves, it's much easier to say "Do exactly this and not in any other way." That way when there's a problem it's easier to find out who did what wrong. A lot of the world is just taking what works and not changing it. So engineers learn a lot of theory in school end up never applying that theory because their boss said "Don't get cute, just follow the standard. There's money on the line."