Wow,
This kinda reminds of that scene in the Blues Brothers movie where a groveling John Belushi is blaming his jilting of Carrie Fischer (while she's holding an M-16) at the altar on everything from "had a flat tire" and "ran out of gas", to "locuuuusts!".
Looks like I made a big mistake over all those years spending time on shop floors getting to know the engineers on a first name basis, babysitting various aircraft through routine, pre-buy, and pre-sale inspections, signing work orders, reviewing job cards, taking advice etc. etc....why, it was all a big waste of time.
I didn't know it then, but what I've learned here, is if something were to have gone amiss with the work they performed, or they made assumptions about work they guessed had been performed....why....."it would all be management's fault because they didn't devise a system that lets me...a self-proclaimed professional...assume and guess!"
Which was the issue, after all.