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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/iObserve2 on 2025-07-15 01:44:57+00:00.

It’s a rhetorical question asked in this forum as a self-congratulatory fist pump. because we all know the answer. Carnage. It just happened again. Whenever I do a project, I file and hoard every piece of data. Every email, letter contract receipt, meeting note. Everything. I don’t use a document management system just a file naming convention and a logical folder hierarchy. ProjectA/Consultants/UI-Design/2025-01-23-Design meeting 1.pdf. This year there was trouble with a project as a result of a series of poor decisions made by one of the team leaders a few years back. However, when the trouble landed, it landed on me. Unfortunately for the finger pointer (who naturally was the one responsible) when the moment of accountability arrived, they were armed with a few lines from emails taken out of context in a single page and a totally credible narrative. I came armed with a dossier over an inch thick and didn’t have to say a word. It was not a battle it was slaughter. Keep everything, one day it will save your life. (or your job anyway)