Corporate IdiocyComedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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I can't claim to be able to verify this tale, but it's worryingly believableA large multinational company had a documents archive. Every design document that was written had to be produced as a pair, with one copy sent to the archive.
After several decades in the job, the archive warehouse manager was retiring. A keen young replacement was found, and sent down to learn the ropes. He was shown how the documents arrived, and how they were signed in.
"And now, son, I'm going to let you into a secret which will help you have a long, happy career. After I'd been doing this job for a few years, I noticed that no-one ever asked to see the documents once they'd got here. So, for the last twenty years or more, after they've been signed in, I've just chucked them in the bin. Every last one of them."
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(, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:35, 4 replies)
Old Bert says - "But see that pile of phone scanners over there?"
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Nuclear war?Apparently the new Trident nuclear missiles will be delayed because the Americans have lost the plans for a warhead component...
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