Warning: This may contain traces of a rant.<\/p>\n
\t\tAs most of you may know, my job is mainly office based, with a little onsite (and abroad \ud83d\ude42 ) testing\/inspecting of jacks involved.<\/p>\n
\t\tIn my office mode (this is the one where I drink 10 cups of strong coffee a day and bounce off the walls to stay awake), I’m very anal<\/span> efficient with paperwork – I’ve tweaked all the different forms, reports, certificates etc. we do so they’re mostly controlled by The Database\u2122 (that reminds me – must go fetch a backup CD from home, it’s been a while since I took a copy offsite) – this is my baby, and something I do not trust in the hands of anyone else (no boss, you CAN’T have my admin password on that file).<\/p>\n \t\tAnyway, my paperwork is always up to scratch, if not better – this was proved when we had our recent ISO audit.<\/p>\n \t\tAnd so today Brian (our consultant for all things ISO\/H&S) came in waving a folder…<\/p>\n \t\t“Ah, Paul, just the man I wanted to see…” he said, before I had the time to shut my door and hide away.<\/p>\n \t\tAnd so it happened – he’s only gone and produced another stupid little form which will aid us with ‘traceability’ when we’re testing. Now bear in mind I had a discussion with the ISO auditor regarding traceability of test gauges used for testing at the time of the audit – he pointed out that I couldn’t PROVE <\/em>that a jack had been tested on a specific rig\/gauge. I countered with the fact that regardless of what we did – NOBODY <\/em>would ever be able to prove it (using his same logic, I’m correct with this).<\/p>\n \t\tBut no, now I’m expected to implement yet another form for the workshop monkeys to fill out – and I’m only just winning them over to the ‘just tick boxes’ jobsheet introduced about 4 years ago…<\/p>\n \t\tIt just makes you think “Is it all REALLY <\/em>worth it?”<\/p>\n \t\tAs I’m not going to Poland later this month, I’m starting to think I may pop to see my cousin in the south of France – it’s been at the back of my mind for a while now, but I’m seriously starting to think about moving to France and giving up the rat race to be a labourer or summat…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warning: This may contain traces of a rant. As most of you may know, my job is mainly office based, with a little onsite (and abroad \ud83d\ude42 ) testing\/inspecting of jacks involved. In my office mode (this is the one where I drink 10 cups of strong coffee a day and bounce off the walls to stay awake), I’m very anal efficient with paperwork – I’ve tweaked all the different forms, reports, certificates etc. we do so they’re mostly controlled by The Database\u2122 (that reminds me – must go fetch a backup CD from home, it’s been a while since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,285,405],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-backup","tag-iso","tag-paperwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}