Chaos and Confusion in the Workplace

Things are in chaos once more, over one of our newest contract manufacture products. The whole manufacture has been riddled with problems, right from the beginning. Media fills kept failing. Not enough people could be persuaded to take responsibility for writing and checking the batch manufacturing record. Chemicals were being tested at the last minute. When the BMR did get signed off, QC had to hide it to stop it from being stolen by Production before QC were ready to give it up.

And now, finally, it turns out that the formulation section had been changed (by the client, I understand) at the last minute, and the whole BMR has to be rewritten. The whole lot, apparently. Yes folks, you read that right. We are supposed to be preparing to manufacture this today, and we are frantically rewriting the BMR.

For once, it's QA getting the blame for holding up Production, rather than QC. Mistress Mouth looked rather bemused by that, but she hasn't had enough practice at being told she's to blame for holdups to Production to get angry at them for being blamed for other peoples' screwups.

I guess this sort of thing can't be helped from time to time. It's annoying, though. I'm going to have to reissue the BMR the moment it crosses my desk (which, personally speaking, is a minor annoyance rather than a major problem - especially given that I'm sitting here blogging about it rather than getting cross about having my work interrupted.).

You'd think that people would be well organised enough to stop this sort of nonsense from happening at all, wouldn't you? Especially in Medical Manufacturing.