Ngineer
I would be very wary of making blanket statements and assuming that what happens in your company is industry wide. For example in my last company it was a regular occurrence for me to arrive at the aircraft to sign off the fuel 15 minutes to departure and find the gear pins still fitted from the tow about 3 hours earlier - I actually preferred that as I ensured that, as the Engineer clearing the Tech Log entry, all pins were physically removed from the gear.