Ever wonder how some stupid audit or international standard thingy like the ISO ends up giving you tons of extra paperwork that's pretty useless and eats into your precious work time and renders you less productive?
Since my organisation set its beady li'l eyes on some international gold standard thingy, we've been like ants on a hot plate, running to and fro getting paperwork done, doing ridiculous little checks, counting and re-counting and re-re-counting stocks, etc... It's generally making our lives a royal pain in the unmentionables.
Worse, it does not make us any more efficient and definitely not productive... the work process ends up having more bottlenecks because I attribute this to having folks in the upper echelons who know all about making processes look good on paper but when it comes to practicality, they know zilch. Nice, flowery papers and all... but it is not realistic and when put into application in real-life situations, it crumbles into a sorry heap.
AAaaaaaAAaaargh!!!

OK, deep breaths... think, 'Beach resort vacation soon!!' ... deep breaths... ommmmmmm!!!
