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» Professions I Hate
Quality Co-ordinators
The tossers with ISO9002 manuals who are ruining businesses in this country. I used to get their stupid updates which told me things like that the font for filling in change control forms had changed. Like anyone reading a change control form cares what font it's in, as long as you don't use Comic Sans or Wingdings.
I once produced a form and someone pointed out that the date on it wasn't in the right format. Conversation (I did lose it a bit):-
"It's supposed to say 23rd November 2008 and you've written it as 23/11/08"
"And?"
"well, for starters, the year is in ambiguous"
"what, someone might pick up this form and think that this program change had been made in 1908? That we'd written it on the previous, Edwardian version of the software"
"There's no need to be like that about it"
"Well, it's not ambiguous, is it?"
*pause* "And the date should be written so that people don't confuse month and day"
"But they can't because there aren't 23 months."
"Someone might think that 23 was the year"
*stares* "1923? Before the first transistor was even developed?"
*goes into a huff* "look, these are the rules about dates. You have to fill them in this way"
If you've got them in your company, find a way to fire them. They're parasites who don't make things go any better. They just exist to keep themselves in a job.
(Thu 27th May 2010, 16:44, More)
Quality Co-ordinators
The tossers with ISO9002 manuals who are ruining businesses in this country. I used to get their stupid updates which told me things like that the font for filling in change control forms had changed. Like anyone reading a change control form cares what font it's in, as long as you don't use Comic Sans or Wingdings.
I once produced a form and someone pointed out that the date on it wasn't in the right format. Conversation (I did lose it a bit):-
"It's supposed to say 23rd November 2008 and you've written it as 23/11/08"
"And?"
"well, for starters, the year is in ambiguous"
"what, someone might pick up this form and think that this program change had been made in 1908? That we'd written it on the previous, Edwardian version of the software"
"There's no need to be like that about it"
"Well, it's not ambiguous, is it?"
*pause* "And the date should be written so that people don't confuse month and day"
"But they can't because there aren't 23 months."
"Someone might think that 23 was the year"
*stares* "1923? Before the first transistor was even developed?"
*goes into a huff* "look, these are the rules about dates. You have to fill them in this way"
If you've got them in your company, find a way to fire them. They're parasites who don't make things go any better. They just exist to keep themselves in a job.
(Thu 27th May 2010, 16:44, More)
» Professions I Hate
SEO Consultants
Maybe there's some out there who are worth it, but every single one I've met is a charlatan who thinks that rewriting Matt Cutts' top 5 tips is worth £300/day.
(Thu 27th May 2010, 17:10, More)
SEO Consultants
Maybe there's some out there who are worth it, but every single one I've met is a charlatan who thinks that rewriting Matt Cutts' top 5 tips is worth £300/day.
(Thu 27th May 2010, 17:10, More)