The worst defense of the MUTCD is "a lot of volunteers worked hard on it."
What matters is the final product and how it effects people. There is no A for effort. We're adults.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) May 17, 2021
That bothers me too, the whole “A lot of people worked really hard on this!”
WHO. GIVES. A. FUCK. This isn’t middle school. There is no participation badge. If it’s terrible, the only solution is to correct it, not tell me how many people worked so, so hard on it.
My old boss, who also believed the same, said this after some young gun who styled himself as being very clever royally fucked something up and cost a sister company a lot of money: “This isn’t high school and he doesn’t get any credit for how smart he is or how much he worked on this. He screwed it up and now there are consequences. That’s what being an adult is.”
Working hard isn’t enough. The solution also has to be good and appropriate for the situation.