Neither, inventory control is very, very poor and primitive, as in “Print out another blank Excel for me and hand me some pencils, Top says I need to find a plausible explanation for why 100,000 urinal cakes disappeared…”

Destroyed/malfunctioning equipment is one thing but lost/missing/potentially stolen things are technically the responsibility of the person/unit it was issued to

Sometimes the unstoppable force of reality meeting the immovable object of bureaucracy leads to frustrating situations