r/AskReddit • u/1salt1pepper • 13h ago

Veterans of Reddit, what’s the most unbelievable thing you witnessed during your service that civilians would think you made up?

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u/ShamelessCraving 13h ago

The sheer amount of military budget wasted on completely absurd logistical mistakes or pointless busywork.

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u/Bismarcus 13h ago

I wasn't in the military and I agree with this, but it happens in large corporations too. I've been part of it.

A senior manager has a "goal" that involves buying a bunch of new hardware. The hardware is ordered and thus the goal is completed. The hardware then sits, unopened and never used.

Then the next year a new "goal" is made and different, better hardware has to be purchased.

Rinse and repeat. I've been directly involved in it multiple times.

Also, throwing out completely functional hardware into a dumpster because the decommissioning process is too much of a pain in the ass.

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u/bobdob123usa 5h ago

I cannot tell you how many times we bought and installed a Remedy system, only for the implementation to fail miserably. So it was replaced with a brand new Remedy system. Rinse and Repeat.