Friday, 27 February 2009

The Noobs are in town.

It's 4.25pm on a Friday Afternoon. Yesterday, the Leprechaun officially became Production Manager, temporarily replacing the Grand Visier, who is on maternity leave. On Monday, we are manufacturing a product of a type we have never made before. The batch record is not ready. It's not ready because the Leprechaun has, apparently, never written a batch document before in his entire life.

Nor have any of the R&D team, who originally wrote the thing. The batch record they originally came up with is shockingly awful. The one that will be issued to Production will also be shockingly awful. It isn't properly numbered. There are a couple of internal references that have been given ####'s. It never occurred to any of the people mentioned above that they had to include any steps in the process that went after formulation-related processing, until I, your humble Oracle, prompted them.

And I'm going to have to get the bloody thing formally authorised before I go home today. Ideally, I should have it issued by the end of the day, too, but I'm just plain not going to have time. First thing Monday morning will be fine.

It's 4.30pm, and I'm highly stressed and in a rush. I hate it when Fridays finish like this.

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