People who write a whole novel about "google is your friend" and try to make you feel stupid for asking a question are the ultimate assholes.
You wrote 3 paragraphs just to bully a stranger on the internet when 1 sentence could have answered the question.
Thanks for being a royal knob head.
It's that one tool at your work that needs replacement, but management refuses to do more than clean and reapply a new layer of duct tape so long as it still gets the job done eventually, forcing workers to struggle with it until giving up and finding an alternative solution that doesn't rely on it.