Conflicting stories

I'm hearing conflicting stories (well - sort of) about my documentation. One comes from the Office Gossip, who told me that he'd heard that the Overlords of Regulatory Darkness thought we had good documentation, but had noticed a rift between Production and Quality. The other comes from Majicke, who heard that the aforementioned Overlords were going to crack down on our documentation the next time they audit us.

Which is true? Well, to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if both tales were true. The documentation is good. But much of it (and mostly the simpler stuff, like chemical specifications and whatnot) is out of date.

The interesting thing is that both tales came out of the same social do, which raises an interesting point about the way different people hear different things coming out of the one conversation. Not that I'm going to devote any more space to that here. I'm more concerned about that backlog I mentioned above.

I'd rather like everybody to know about the Overlords cracking down on documentation - it might just make people stop shoving the documents to one side just because they've got a full load of things to do without it, and actually organise their time better so that it bloody well gets DONE!