It's all the Quality Director's fault. Or possibly his wife's.

We have this little problem with Quality Directors: they have a) a tendency to come from interstate and b) their families don't want to move to Canberra. Darth Chaos did this, and Anarchist Prime is doing it too (albeit from the opposite direction). As a result, they only last a couple of years before their families put their foot down and start threatening divorce if they don't stop this commuting malarkey. (Okay, so I'm basing this on our experiences with Darth Chaos, but any spouse who is strong enough to refuse to move to Canberra is bound to start threatening divorce sooner or later. And I don't blame them. I always thought that 'until death do us part' was the whole point behind marriage.) It's only a matter of time, really, before Anarchist Prime's missus starts making the same threat. It took Darth Chaos' husband two years - Anarchist Prime is 9 months into his reign.

Now, their commuting isn't my problem - not directly, at any rate. My problem is more with one particular side effect: documentation. Anarchist Prime did exactly the same thing that Darth Chaos did when she came to power: they both took one look at our quality system and said, "This has got to change! New headers, new footers, new layout, new everything!"

This would be fine and dandy if our Quality Directors were to stay for more than two years. If they put in a good, solid six years or so before they were hauled back to home and hearth by their lonely spouses, it would be great! Five or six years is probably about the right time period for a complete overhaul of a quality system. Two years? That's even less than our standard review period! (We go for a three year lifecycle, barring other required changes.)

Oh, well. At least this time I don't have to give the whole lot new numbers as well.