RE: Nobody reviewed the manuals

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 A corporation is a device for maximizing profits and externalizing costs. 

Docs are a checklist item that wouldn't be included if they weren't 
required either by gov'mnt or by certain anal customers (often large 
corporations with strong gov'mnt connections, which is how they got 
in the habit of providing docs-to-meet-RFP-specs, and why they pass 
on such requirements in their own culture, when purchasing goods 
and services from other companies... like the ones we work for). 

"Don't be silly! Of course your documents get read. Why, we 
have two people on staff whose only job is to review the 
docs that come with proposals and sales pitches, and to 
demand at least 11 obscure changes every time. If you are 
lucky, you get reviewed by BOTH those folks and half of 
the changes they demand are contradictory! (That's code 
for 'we already selected the vendor and are just going 
through the motions'." 

 - Kevin

 (not a cynic - I just play one on TV)





> -----Original Message-----
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> techwr-l-bounces+kevin -dot- mclauchlan=safenet-inc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr
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> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:07 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Nobody reviewed the manuals
> 
> What's missing from this story is that BP explicitly ordered
> TransAmerica (rig owners) to not follow procedures (to save 
> money). And
> now the whole world knows how that worked out.
> 
> The documentation problems were just a symptom BP's general disregard
> for anything except profit.
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