Your right the checklist is everywhere, it makes it feel like none of these people actually know anything about their profession. This is why I call them zombies, they follow the checklist but don't understand anything out of it, making them essentially brainless idiots. The checklist is even seen now in movies, a series, a book even video games.

I think it was in the 80s there were a few tv programs about fixing things and using tools, it was often seen that men would take fixing things as a hobby. Now there are only a few hidden spaces where it seems mostly men lurk who still enjoy fixing things on the cheap. I guess the companies don't like that, it means less profits for them. Down-town we used to have multiple shops that would fix things, I think the last one standing was one for fixing laptops. I'm sure that one closed down and one for fixing mobiles appeared but also closed.

Wow but of course he was not allowed one more year off the books, the greedy government wants it all, even those who were making a few bucks on ebay now have to report to the government.

Haha yes there are a few out there who will pass the dirty look if you are seen to be comparing prices, but I think over the years there is less of this since many more are also falling into the same boat with the extreme price hikes on food.

It's likely you cannot get a straight answer because they don't know themselves, they make these things complicated and difficult to understand so that some idiot somewhere can either flip a coin to make a decision or their own biased opinion on the day.

It's a good coping mechanism, there are a lot of things that should bother me but it doesn't, there are obviously still things that do.
The cat is happy because most animals have it down right, they do not care for the social mess that are humans, they just want some food and love.