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submitted 1 day ago by dantheclamman to c/wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I regularly run into this at work.

[–] NOT_RICK 9 points 1 day ago

Same. I now have the habit of asking “what problem are you trying to solve?” Instead of working on their idea of the solution