Marcus, I find it hard to imagine anything more boring than some of the meetings I have attended on quality assurance (which is more like quality prevention the way my school does things), but if your health and safety courses really are more boring -- or even just half as boring, for that matter -- then you have my sympathy.
Virginia, a good thought, but probably futile. Lois would just tackle it as if it were an undercover assignment -- she'd play the role she needed to get the job done, but it wouldn't really be her, if you know what I mean.
Terry, I agree completely. This is just another example of upper management not knowing anything about the people under them or what they actually do. And I'm sure that if by some miracle Lois actually did start to play it safe (I know, I know -- It would never happen. Just humour me.), the paper's bottom line would plummet, since she wouldn't get the scoops necessary to sell the papers. To take a RL example of this, we are being required at work to spend so much time jumping through quality assurance hoops that we don't have the time we used to have to do the job right, and quality is suffering. And to add insult to injury, the QA exercises we are doing aren't even effective.
Yep. Writing this story was a bit cathartic for me.
Thank you all for taking the time to leave feedback.
Joy,
Lynn
