Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 30, 2022

The one watching cat videos is the best of the bunch.

No audit necessary.

I worked as a programmer for quite awhile. The Quality folks’ job was to find bugs. QED: Our job was to WRITE bugs for them to find!

This is that new “Quiet Quit” culture. Should be a Help Wanted sign out front

What I want to know is … which one is No. 5?

More like compromising to an agreed upon standard. Either that or quiet quitting defines that office’s culture.

They must all be in a union.

Ans where’s Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, curled up asleep in the corner?

I thought this was “agile.”

Quality Control is inspecting the goods after they have been made.

Quality Assurance is developing a system for producing the goods where it is easy to do it right and difficult to do it wrong.

Back in the 1980’s there was a thing known as TQM or Total Quality Management that concentrated on QA.

There was also Termite Quality Management or Taiwan Quality Management which is “If you make enough of them, some of them have to work.”

I’ll work at the Good Enough desk, I am not a perfectionist

All these folks are working from home now

I work for Close Enough Construction Company

Along with “close enough”, I can recall “ship it!” as a QC mantra…

Manually stamp and scribble initial every sheet… so you don’t have to click away from whatever bizarre Rabbit Hole you’ve found your way into. (More like directed to.)

how do those people get behind their desks? There’s no room to squeeze between the desk and the divider. maybe they are dropped into place with a crane on their first day on the job and then never leave.

Looked at a newly installed door frame and thought it was a bit off vertical. Asked the builder, who took a stance, studied it, then said it looked alright to him. Then I noticed his right leg was slightly shorter than his left.

Oxymoron (n): a combination of contradictory or incongruous words; broadly, something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.

Examples: jumbo shrimp, old news, deafening silence, quality control.

Sign on boss’ desk is ‘Fagetaboutit’.

This looks like the last DMV office I was in

Wiley forgot “supply chain issues” and “COVID”.

IBGYBG.

Welcome to the cubicles of “Lowest Bidder, International”. Your one stop shop for generations of government penny pinchers and petty tyrants. Where bang and buck are almost exactly equal. You get only what you pay for, and nothing more.

2021 Aug. 30 — last American troops leave Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war.

So bye, bye, Miss Afghanistan Pie

Drove a nation to desperation but the price was too high

And good ol’ boys are asking why did we fly

It’s cuz there never was a good day to die.

I worked in QA for 35 years and wish this weren’t true, but as the 737-MAX disaster has shown us, it is.

The 1969 movie Marooned depicts a desperate rocket launch to save 3 astronauts stranded in orbit before their oxygen runs out. The scene from that film that still sticks with me today is the launch director going over the safety checklist, crossing off lots of stuff so they could blast off in time to get there before their colleagues were all dead. The guy was probably also a big customer of lottery tickets at the local Kwikky Mart.

But no happy workers…

Like the woman in the 2nd row looking at a cat on her monitor!

There is no quality control, standard or otherwise. Control of quality was lost many years ago.

Cube farms…gotta love ’em!

ISO #whatsis

“Close enough for government work” / “Not my monkeys, not my circus.”

This must be an Importer specializing in products made in Communist countries…China, Indonesia, Malaysia, NorKor, Cuba, et al.

Today “quality” is anything that costs no money and takes no time.

The new office—boxes labeled “in”,“out” and “palm off on successor”

A sign my buddy had: If it don’t fit, force it. If it breaks it was bad to begin with.

I labeled my in box ‘Good Grief’ and my out box ‘Good Riddance’.

Quality Control: You must control the quality. If the quality is too high, folks will begin to expect that.

The biggest threat to consumers is value engineering: reducing the cost of production by using cheaper ingredients of lesser quality.

The combination of “quality” and “con” leaves me suspicious.

LOL………………….. really good one, Wiley!

I thought the one in the middle said Men at first.

No wonder companies send there manufacturing etc to China

All this talk about QA and QC reminds me of this:

6 PHASES OF A PROJECT

1. Enthusiasm

2. Disillusionment

3. Panic

4. Search for the Guilty

5. Punishment of the Innocent

6. Praise & Honors for the Nonparticipants

This was my job a year before I retired. They automated everything which caused LOTS of errors as opposed to us entering stuff by hand. The Higher Ups weren’t concerned at all, and said, “Just fix it when someone calls to complain.” Awful

Isn’t this normalization?

Some might say, “The writing team of Game of Thrones: Season 8?!!”

Are those all iMacs they’re working on?

Boss in foreground: “You’re all doing very well.”