Rou

Work is procedure oriented. So long as you follow all the documented processes, it's hard to go wrong.

The problem is the gray areas. Sometimes they are so rare that they have no documented procedures. Or they have multiple conflicting procedures depending upon personal perspective. Or finally, managerial oversight can supercede standard procedure.

The problem with being procedure oriented is that these gray areas are like trying to square pegs in round holes. Sometimes I can bash them into place and the audit gods are pleased. Other times, I shake the voodoo stick and wave the dead chicken over it all and still end up on the raw end of an audit review.

Now, to be fair, these reviews are mostly a series of emails back and forth with both sides covering their own ass for the good of the organization.

Sometimes though… I just wish this place was a bit more flexible in certain gray areas. If it’s not explicit you have to expect a little bit of imaginative flair for how we do things. Of course the flip side of this is that we have many many large binders worth of documents detailing every single procedure they could think of, which is annoying in its own right.

Ah well. In the grand scheme of things it’s not enough to drive me batty. Just occasionally annoying.