I've been working on an editing project, and came across an old memory from my former life in Corporate Hell.
My job title was "Project/Process Consultant" for payroll purposes and "Quality Management Consultant" to the rest of my industry. This meant I spent my life auditing IT professionals about their compliance to our ISO 9000 Quality System and writing reports about said compliance. If you're guessing I was about as popular as the tax man, you'd be exactly right. People shunned me in the hallways.
In one interview, I asked a guy to produce evidence that he was doing whatever he just said he did. He pulled up a blank document. When I mentioned that, in fact, that was a blank document, he said (with a straight face!) that it was actually a white document using white text.
I knew I had to get out of that job when I started imagining me leaping over a desk and stabbing someone with my ball-point pen.
5 comments:
White document with white text! I LOVE it!! I've got to figure out a way to use that on my students.
That's better than the guy I use to work for who would take back his original scribblings, make changes to them and then swear I made mistakes on the transcription! I busted him by making copies before I gave a couple of things back to him. MWAAAHAAHAAA!! He got written up and eventually quit because they didn't think he was perfect anymore! What a jerk. LOL!
I worked for a guy that edited his own editing (of my specification) so many times, he was changing back and forth between the same two words (over and over and over). When I complained, I was accused of being too sensitive to constructive criticism.
A ball point pen stabbing would have been too good for him.
Ugh ! Who would have thought that there were so many crazy corporate stories!
Angela-I feel for you...and your co-workers! lol! You are a writer! You probably cringed at my writing...I'm sorry to put you through that!
I have never claimed to be a writer because I am horrible at grammar...but I love to write and I love your blog/help site. It is going to help me so much...thanks for commenting on my blog!
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