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!!! 
